Begin forwarded message: > > ENVIRONMENT 2.0 > a Futuresonic 2007 festival special feature. > 10-12 May 2007 > > Futuresonic is taking steps to reduce the environmental impact of the > festival, starting with a pioneering study of the carbon footprint > of the > Futuresonic 2007 festival, undertaken in collaboration with the > Manchester-based Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and > Creative > Concern, and a series of projects which highlight social and > environmental > impact of future arts and technologies. > > The issues raised by this will be explored under the banner of > ENVIRONMENT > 2.0 within the SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT, the main conference > strand of the > Futuresonic festival. > > > SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT > *SPECIAL ADVANCE BOOKING RATE AVAILABLE TILL 31 DECEMBER* > £25 (Normally £45) > http://www.futuresonic.com/07/bookings.html > The Delegate Pass gives you access to all Futuresonic seminars and > talks, > the Social Technologies Summit, and entrance to Futuresonic Live > events over > the festival weekend. See below for details. > > A part of Futuresonic 2007 > http://www.futuresonic.com > > > SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT > http://www.socialtechsummit.org > The main conference strand of the Futuresonic festival, the Social > Technologies Summit, is a major international conference exploring the > creative and social potential and implications of new technologies, > bringing > together leading figures to explore "a whole new way of doing > things in the > air". > > > KEY THEMES FOR 2007: > > ENVIRONMENT 2.0 > In 2007 a focus of the Social Technologies Summit is ENVIRONMENT > 2.0, a new > international initiative in which two worlds collide: > o The world is waking up to realities of climate change, long > predicted but > until now too easy to ignore. > o The world is in love with smart environments, mobile communication, > pervasive media, wearable computing. > Can these two approaches to environment, each one iconic for our > times, be > reconciled? > > The Social Technologies Summit will host a network meeting for > ENVIRONMENT > 2.0, and present the findings of a pioneering study of the carbon > footprint > of the Futuresonic festival, undertaken in collaboration with > Manchester-based Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and > Creative > Concern. > > > FREE-MEDIA > A linked focus is FREE-MEDIA. Free-media is about finding > inspiration and > resources in our built and natural environment that were previously > dismissed as being without value or irrelevant. It doesn't cost > much because > it makes use of public domain Free and Open Source Software, and > recycles > freely available old equipment, waste materials and junk (FOSS). > Free-media > increases access to media technologies, especially to the people > who need it > most and can afford it the least, and lowers environmental impact > of the > media we produce and consume. > > > THE MAP DESIGNERS > The 2007 Summit will also play host to THE MAP DESIGNERS, an event > drawing > together map hackers, artists, cartographers, DIY technologists, > architects, > game programmers, bloggers and semantic web philosophers. Presented > by the > British Cartographic Society, the event will focus upon the interface > between cartography and cutting edge design. > > > FUTUREVISUAL > As the main conference strand of the Futuresonic festival, the Social > Technologies Summit will also host discussions of the festival's > artistic > themes. In 2007 this will involve a conference strand supporting > Futurevisual, a city wide celebration of future image and sound. It > will > mark the 40th anniversary of the first multimedia events of the > kind that we > would understand today, which took place in the halcyon year of > 1967, the > year that also saw the first crossover between avant garde and popular > music, and the introduction of the Moog synthesiser. The conference > will > feature seminal figures from the period, alongside contemporary > artists who > can connect with the energy and openness of 1967, and bring it bang > up to > date. > > > FUTURESONIC 2007 > Futuresonic, the urban festival of electronic arts and music, is > moving from > July to May, back to the Spring date it occupied in 2004. > Futuresonic 2007 will feature profile music events in Futuresonic > Live, and > art and technology events in Urban Play, a strand of the festival > introduced > in 2006 that has since been mirrored in other events in the UK and > Europe. > > > DELEGATE PASS > Advance Booking Rate > £25 (Normally £45) > Reserve your discounted Delegate Pass before December 31st 2006 and > make > payment by January 31st 2007 http://www.futuresonic.com/07/ > bookings.html > > The Delegate Pass gives you access to all Futuresonic seminars and > talks, > the Social Technologies Summit, and entrance to Futuresonic Live > events over > the festival weekend. You must reserve your discounted Delegate > Pass before > December 31st 2006 and make payment by January 31st 2007. To > reserve email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stating your name, address and contact > details. > You will be sent purchasing information from the festival box > office by > January 8th 2007. > > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply with the word > 'REMOVE' in > the subject field. > > ------ End of Forwarded Message > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TELECOM-CITIES Current searchable archives (Feb. 1, 2006 to present) at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Old searchble archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
