[spectre] Social Technologies Summit - register before end of december

[Drew Hemment]

Please forward to your contacts, advance registration available till  
31 December.
Thank you.


SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT
http://www.socialtechsummit.org

Special Advance Booking Rate *Available till 31 December*
£25 (Normally £45)
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.
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/bookings.html

A part of Futuresonic 2007
http://www.futuresonic.com



SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT
The main conference strand of the Futuresonic festival, the Social  
Technologies Summit, is a major international conference exploring  
the creative and social potential of new technologies, bringing  
together leading figures to explore "a whole new way of doing things  
in the air".

The Social Technologies Summit promotes technology as social  
practice, and explores the social impact of technologies, in  
particular a new generation of network technologies that are  
increasingly embedded in the social sphere. It looks at how people  
collaborate to make or use technology, at the way in which certain  
technologies can create an extension of social space or support group  
interaction, and asks how we can make technology more social.


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 Creative Concern and Tyndall Centre for Climate  
Change Research.


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 tickets2007 at futuresonic.com  
stating your name, address and contact details. You will be sent  
purchasing information from the festival box office by January 8th 2007.




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