[spectre] Final Call: Art Commission - Futuresonic 2008

[Inke Arns]

From: Drew Hemment <drew at futuresonic.com>
Subject: Final Call: Art Commission - Futuresonic 2008
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:04:08 +0000


REMINDER: CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

18th December 2007, 5pm - Art Commission deadline



FUTURESONIC 2008 ART AWARD
1-4 May, Manchester, UK

A commission valued at GBP 5000 is available to 
create a new artwork, plus Futuresonic can 
support a limited number of other projects, and 
invites submissions of projects that do not 
require funding from the festival.

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and 
makers to submit proposals and join us for one of 
the biggest Social's of the year.

THE SOCIAL - SOCIAL NETWORKING UNPLUGGED

The Futuresonic 2008 theme is The Social - Social Networking Unplugged.
It will be "unplugged" in a number of ways. There 
will be artworks involving offline
(or unplugged) collaborative social experience 
and face to face social interaction.
Other projects will look at who is excluded and 
left out of the loop of Web 2.0, and
so "unplugged" in another way. Also there is the 
sense of pulling out the plug in
order to take the new social spaces apart, see how they work, and put them
together in new ways.

Art Submissions deadline -- 5pm, 18th December 2007

See also -- the Futuresonic 2008 Conference, 
Music & EVNTS calls for submissions.

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved


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FUTURESONIC ART - SUBMIT NOW

Transforming the city into a space of 
experimentation, making it come alive. 
Futuresonic's art strand focuses on social and 
participatory artworks which re-imagine the city.

The exhibition will feature a wide range of 
artforms, and projects that respond to The Social 
theme in different ways. It will include projects 
that envision social futures, ambient 
performances that play with social expectations 
in public places, and artworks that explore 
virtual spaces and online social networking.

It will feature web based work, installation, 
software projects, performance and other formats. 
Projects can involve online, mobile or offline 
social networking. They can enable people to 
experiment collaboratively with different kinds 
of social experience and social interaction. Or 
they can intervene in the forces, inequities and 
inequalities that shape society.

Today we can occupy many different social spaces 
at once. How can we make visible the unspoken 
rules and etiquette that guide what we do in 
public places, online and offline? Who are the 
social revolutionaries? The misfits? The 
conformists? Who has been left outside?

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved


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FUTURESONIC COMMISSIONS & PROJECTS

Futuresonic supports the creation of new work and 
seeks to enable artists to develop work at a 
larger scale. Futuresonic has an influence that 
extends beyond the festival: it supports artists' 
creative development, produces artworks which 
then tour internationally, and develops projects 
outside the festival period.

In 2007 Futuresonic commissioned new artworks for 
the Futuresonic 2007 festival and for the 
inaugural Manchester International Festival, 
presented a showcase at the Sonar festival in 
Barcelona, plus co-produced the worldwide launch 
of the amazing TENORI-ON by Yamaha and Toshio 
Iwai.

The audience for the 2007 festival was 76,600. 
There were only two news items on regional TV on 
the opening days of the exhibition, the 
resignation of Tony Blair and the exhibition, 
which was watched by a TV audience of 4 million.

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved


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FUTURESONIC 2008 TICKETS


CONFERENCE PASS AVAILABLE NOW

A Delegate Registration Form can be downloaded 
from www.futuresonic.com/tickets/register.zip or 
by visiting www.futuresonic.com/tickets

Alternatively, email Your Name, Address and 
Contact Details to ideas2008 at futuresonic.com to 
receive full conference details and priority 
booking options.


OTHER FESTIVAL TICKETS

Details of Weekender Wristbands and Events Tickets available soon.

http://www.futuresonic.com


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FUTURESONIC 2008

Futuresonic has 4 strands: Art, Music, Ideas and 
EVNTS. Currently in its 12th year, the festival 
occupies the orbits of both music and digital 
culture.

A focus in recent years has been presenting 
artworks in unexpected city spaces, and on social 
art and social technologies.

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and 
makers to get social and present new types of 
collaborative social experience at Futuresonic 
2008.

This is a time when we see how electronic 
communication can isolate us, as more and more 
people drown in a deluge of email that generates 
stress, even reducing IQ; and it is 40 years 
since people took to the streets of Paris in 1968 
calling for society to be abolished.

Join us as we go in search of the social today.

Web 2.0...
I take part
you take part
he takes part
we take part
you all take part
they profit.
(Slogan from Paris '68, remixed)

http://www.futuresonic.com

Futuresonic is supported by Arts Council England North West and
presented in association with ImaginationLancaster.




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