[spectre] Collaborative Projects at Futuresonic 2006

[Drew Hemment]

FUTURESONIC 2006
Urban Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
Manchester, 20-23 July

Futuresonic 2006 explores new forms of collaborative culture,  
showcasing social and artistic practices that encapsulate an  
independence based upon cooperation and collaboration. Highlights  
include Mapchester, a test-case collaborative mapping project, and  
Social Technologies Summit, a major new conference exploring social  
technologies and the ways they enable people to live and work in  
increasingly decentralised, collaborative ways.
http://www.futuresonic.com


COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

In keeping with the collaborative spirit, a range of artistic groups  
at Futuresonic 2006 are working together on a series of collaborative  
projects - collaborating with the other artists and organisations,  
with visitors to the festival, and with the citizens of Manchester,  
breaking out of the festival venues to hit the streets and waterways  
of the city.


SHARE

Share NYC end the tyranny of the lone laptop musicians monopolising  
the input sockets, presenting an open jam session in collaboration  
with the UK's SoundNetwork, inviting you to improvise on each others'  
signal. Audio Jam: Bring you noise-maker of choice and an XLR,  
quarter-inch or RCA cable to join in. Video Jam: Multi-user live  
video synthesis. bring your clips, camera or laptop / Amiga and VGA,  
S-Video, or RCA cables to join in. http://share.dj
Museum of Science and Industry
12-5pm, Sunday 23 July


FAST AND SLOW NETWORKS, INTERVAL

Join Interval as they set out on a barge journey along Manchester's  
canal network, in a collision of technologies of the information age  
and older, slower networks of the industrial past. Interval host a  
project by Bandung Center For New Media Arts aboard this 'mobile  
media' space, and live work created aboard the boat will be streamed  
over a custom-built wireless network, linking to a collaborative  
project inside a shipping container located at the Museum of Science  
and Industry. www.interval.org.uk
21-24 July 10am - 4pm, Slate Wharf, Bridgewater Canal & Museum of  
Science and Industry
(Barge sailings start on Friday 21st, and embark from Slate Wharf  
approximately every 11/2 hrs, 4x daily, and are free.)


URBAN INTERVENTION MACHINE, MIMOSA

mimoSa have been mapping Brazilian cities since 2005 through 'urban  
interventions'. Using these special machines built by local people  
from found objects and makeshift electronics, mimoSa re-appropriate  
technology to reveal places, people and their tales in a new light.  
They bring their project to the UK for the first time, and will  
collaborate with local group UHC to build their Manchester 'urban  
intervention and information correction machine' and take part in an  
intervention in the city. http://turbulence.org/Works/mimoSa
Various times and locations
Artist Meeting: Midday 21 July,
Auditorium, Museum of Science and Industry


LUNCHEON ON THE BARGE, BANDUNG CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA ARTS

Organised in collaboration with Interval, Fast and Slow Networks,  
Gustaff Iskandar from Bandung, Indonesia will take participants on a  
journey of casual discovery, exploring the experiences of city life  
in Manchester and Bandung Indonesia. Steering away from structured  
formality and concept, Luncheon on the Barge uses informal discussion  
and learning to critically confront layers of urban situations in  
Bandung and Manchester in a comparative study of these city  
environments. http://commonroom.info/bcfnma/futuresonic2006/index.html
Barge trip, 21 July 2006, 2-5pm
Slate Wharf, Bridgewater Canal


MANCHESTER : PERIPHERAL; ALASTAIR DANT, TOM DAVIS & DAVID GUNN.

Featured in the Off The Map strand of Futuresonic, Manchester :  
Peripheral is driven by collaborative creativity. With extensive  
community engagement via local groups and their informal social  
networks, the artists empower local residents to create their own  
audio portrait of the area. These sounds are then used as part of an  
online SoundMap tool where visitors remix these sounds to create  
their own compositions. Visitors are also encouraged to save and  
share their mixes and to submit their own sounds for inclusion on the  
site. In this way, the artists seek to create an ongoing relationship  
of collaborative creativity with the wider community. http:// 
www.futuresonic.com/peripheral


SOUNDNETWORK

The container installed for Interval's Fast and Slow Networks will  
become a project space collaboratively programmed between  
SoundNetwork and Interval. The result, NetworkContainer, will feature  
a collaboration between 3 Interval artists and 3 SoundNetwork  
artists, interacting with audio and video feeds, including sound from  
hydrophones trailed from barge, and playing with the difference in  
speed of communication between the barge journeys and the wireless  
network. http://soundnetwork.omweb.org
Museum of Science and Industry
21-23 July, 10am - 5pm


UHC ART COLLECTIVE

Manchester's art / activist collective collaborate with mimoSa in  
building an 'urban intervention machine', plus work with Gustaff H.  
Iskandar as he navigates Manchester's alternative and outsider urban  
cultures. In 2003 UHC Art Collective erected a full sized replica of  
Camp X-Ray in the centre of Manchester UK, supported by Arts Council  
England. The camp was staffed by volunteer "prisoners" and "guards"  
and ran for 9 days. http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk
Talk and Workshop: Midday 21 July,
Auditorium, Museum of Science and Industry


EVERYTHING ON EVERYONE EVERYWHERE
http://www.futuresonic.com

DELEGATE PASS: 45 GBP
http://10.futuresonic.com/tickets