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Please note - deadline for abstracts 18th December 2007
CONFERENCE THEME & CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
THE SOCIAL - ONLINE, MOBILE AND UNPLUGGED SOCIAL NETWORKING
Futuresonic 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas
1-4 May, Manchester, UK
The Futuresonic international conference and the Social Technologies
Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session
themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction are
encouraged.
The conference theme is The Social - Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social
Networking.
The Futuresonic conference is a place where important international
discussions take place. The conference will bring together leading
figures to unpick the hype around the latest technological zeitgeist,
broaden the debate, and propose and explore a critical understanding of
social technologies.
Deadline for conference submissions -- 5pm 18th December 2007
http://www.futuresonic.com/submissions-conference
See also -- A GBP 5000 commission plus many other opportunities are
available
in the Futuresonic 2008 Art, Music & EVNTS calls for submissions.
http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved
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THE CONFERENCE
Futuresonic brings 500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists,
technologists and scientists from the digital culture, music and art
communities to Manchester for four days of seminars, workshops and
events.
At the heart of the festival is the internationally-acclaimed
Futuresonic conference, and its focal point the Social Technologies
Summit.
http://www.futuresonic.com/submissions-conference
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CONFERENCE THEME
THE SOCIAL - ONLINE, MOBILE AND UNPLUGGED SOCIAL NETWORKING
The 2008 conference will explore the theme of The Social - Online,
Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking. The conference will bring
together leading figures to broaden the debate, and propose and explore
a critical understanding of social technologies.
Submissions are invited that explore the new social spaces and the
social implications of technologies for the many different kinds of
people who make, use and are affected by them.
Computers have become social interfaces for sharing digital media and
collaborating to build online communities and folksonomies. Social
technologies create an extension of social space, and new ways for
people to find the stuff that interests them, link up with others, and
share. They include tools and applications that enable people to
connect, share and interact, such as blogs, instant messenger, social
software such as Flickr, FaceBook and Jaiku, and even the internet
itself. 'Social technologies' can also refer to technologies created and
maintained by social networks, such as communities of developers and
users working collaboratively with open source tools.
What distinguishes social technologies is that they are bottom up and
many-to-many instead of one-to-one or one-to-many. They can be seen as a
part of a major cultural and social shift. And yet at the same time we
also see how electronic communication can isolate us, as more and more
people drown in a deluge of email that generates stress, even reducing
IQ - puncturing the rose-tinted view that life is simply 'more social.'
Additionally, 'online communities' are based upon an artificial
equivalence between 'users' which obscures power relationships and
issues of ownership.
Presentations might look at the implications of specific technologies,
or address broader themes.
In all parts of the globe people are seeking to open up or hold onto
places to meet and communicate freely, online and offline. In India we
see emergent kinds of community media, in South Korea new social uses of
the mobile internet, and in Brazil the spread of 'cultural hotspots'.
The conference will also mark 40 years since people took to the streets
of Paris in 1968 calling for society to be abolished, and will assess
the claims of todays digital culture as a potential catalyst of radical
change amidst wider currents of radicalism.
The theme of Futuresonic 2008's Art strand is 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.
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)
Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in isolation but
in groups, placing the relations between people first. Beyond the hype
lies ever greater isolation and conformity. Join us as we go in search
of the social.
http://www.futuresonic.com/submissions-conference
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CALL FOR CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS
Futuresonic now invites submissions to the Futuresonic conference and
the Social Technologies Summit.
Proposals for talks, presentations and workshops plus also session
themes are invited. Submissions of innovative formats for social
interaction are encouraged.
Deadline for conference submissions -- 5pm 18th December 2007
For details on submitting to the conference visit
http://www.futuresonic.com/submissions-conference
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BOOKING INFORMATION
-- If you want to meet the creative thinkers, artists, programmers,
digital media experts, scientists, industry specialists, hardware and
software developers, marketers, political thinkers and activists
-- If you want to find out about new technologies and their impact on
tomorrow's society
-- If you are looking for new and exciting ways to create, do business
and interact
Then sign up early to the Futuresonic conference and the Social
Technologies Summit.
Email Your Name, Address and Contact Details to
[log in to unmask] to receive full conference details and
priority booking options.
CONFERENCE PASS
Early Bird Delegate Pass
GBP 60 (must be bought by February 1 2008)
Advance Delegate Pass
GBP 100
Delegate Pass (on the door)
GBP 150
Students/Concessions
GBP 30
Further discounts available for group bookings.
A limited number of pay-what-you-can Day Passes will be available on
each day of the conference.
The Conference Pass includes access to all festival events.
Email your name, address and contact details to
[log in to unmask] and we will send you full details on
Futuresonic Conference 2008 as well as priority booking options.
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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.
The Futuresonic festival theme is Social Networking Unplugged.
Join us as we go in search of the social today.
http://www.futuresonic.com
Futuresonic is supported by Arts Council England North West and
presented in association with Imagination at Lancaster.
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