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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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