FutureEverything 2016: Less and More by FutureEverything

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“Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.” George Monbiot

Welcome Conference Events Speakers Map Venues Partners Recommends Delegate Offers Timetable

Welcome

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First, welcome to FutureEverything 2016, we’re glad you could join us. In our early conversations around this year’s theme, we came together as a team to figure out what urgent issues we may face, what concerned us or made us excited, and what weak signals we need to look out for. Since then, significant events, such as the momentous COP21 climate summit last December have caused not only us, but the world, to rethink what our future might look like. A single number, 2 degrees, signals irreversible change for the lives of future generations. This led us to cut through our many fascinations and arrive on the fundamental issue of resources. We want to look beyond the question of simply what we need to reduce. Less is more, as the saying goes, but resources do not need to be a zero sum game. So what about less and more?

We also want to challenge our thinking a little, by considering what else could, or should, be considered as a resource. What about intelligence? Or life? This took us to interesting places. If we need to eat less meat, can we find alternatives in the lab? We’re also looking at uncertainty, where it can have value, and be a resource itself. Understanding and communicating uncertainty is essential in mapping our possible futures. As a miniconference, we’ve brought together a range of disciplines, from physics to anthropology, economics to climate science. And this year we launch Project Ukko, a climate service that visualises future weather conditions, equipping wind energy professionals to manage future wind and climate as a resource. So enjoy our festival, and give us your response to our theme over on Twitter, using #futr16. Drew Hemment Founder & Creative Director

Less and More: Rethinking Resources

Thursday 31 March - Friday 1 April

The FutureEverything Conference Manchester Town Hall

Taking the theme of ‘Less and More’, FutureEverything 2016’s conference will explore how we can rethink resources. Human actions have shaped a new geological age and brought the world to a point of crisis. We need to find new ways to gather, and manage, the resources of Earth to overcome the dependencies of the industrial age. Whether it’s our antibiotics and food sources running out, or the world’s fossil fuels, the first thing that we look for is potential alternatives, and ask where they can be found. This year’s conference takes a range of experts to task, spanning biology and physics, to artificial intelligence and climate change. We’ll be discussing how life, intelligence, the Earth, community and uncertainty can be used as resources, often in unexpected ways. Thursday Morning

Opening the Conference Room 1, The Great Hall, 10:00-10:30 Drew Hemment, Founder and Creative Director of FutureEverything, and Claire Braithwaite, Tech Advisor for Manchester Growth Company, will open the conference.

Drew Hemment

Claire Braithwaite

Thursday Morning

Intelligence

Recommended Reading List

Room 1, The Great Hall, 10:30-12:45 With a vast amount of information at our fingertips and with so many ways to process the huge amounts of data we encounter, from algorithms to artificial intelligence, how do we make sense of it? How do we react in times of disaster, and how can we use the wisdom of the crowd to make better decisions?

Nelly Ben Hayoun: Meet Nelly Ben Hayoun, director of the International Space Orchestra Nelly’s talk at WIRED in 2014. http://bit.ly/22I7AyP

In this session we welcome creator and conductor of NASA’s International Space Orchestra Nelly Ben Hayoun, the ‘Willy Wonka of Design and Technology’, whose work has looked at disaster response, human experiences in space, and how to generate dark energy in your kitchen sink.

Darius Kazemi: Google’s DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory The Go battle of AI & human: Alphago, Google DeepMind vs. Lee se-dol. http://bit.ly/1Rjw3GI

Award-winning artist and bot-maker Darius Kazemi is known for making ‘weird internet stuff’ such as bots that generate random Amazon purchases, surreal metaphors, rap battle lyrics, pickup lines, and everything in between (including the rather controversial Sorting Hat, which riled up Harry Potter fans).

Lydia Nicholas: Infectious Futures Six stories of a post-antibiotic future published on Nesta in 2015. http://bit.ly/1pK4mwH

Senior Researcher in collective intelligence and anthropologist at Nesta Lydia Nicholas uses speculative design and science fiction to make sense of health and medical futures. In 2015, Lydia curated and contributed to Infectious Futures, a publication which tasked science and speculative fiction writers to imagine a world without antibiotics.

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Darius Kazemi

Lydia Nicholas 9

Thursday Afternoon

Earth

Recommended Reading List

Room 1, The Great Hall, 14:15-17:00 Climate change poses a challenge to our society, and calls for a profound rethink of the ways in which we manage the resources of the planet. Can climate services help us in this process? How do we unite to find the best solution? How do we design cities to be more resilient to climate uncertainties, and how do we secure our food for the future? In this session we welcome the Met Office’s Senior Climate Scientist Carlo Buontempo, whose projects have included an analysis of climate change on the River Nile. Carlo worked with FutureEverything to create a groundbreaking climate service for wind forecast, Project Ukko, which launches at this year’s festival. Head of Campaigns at Climate Change charity 10:10, Alice Bell has written and spoken extensively on science, technology and the environment for the BBC, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Times. Kirsty Lewis leads research into climate change and security at the Met Office, delivering advice on the impacts of climate change to government. Maíta Fernández-Arnesto from UN Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling Programme (CRPP) which focuses on providing national and local governments with tools for measuring and increasing resilience to potential hazards, including those associated with climate change.

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Alice Bell

Kirsty Lewis

Maíta FernándezArmesto

Carlo Buontempo: Carlo’s talk at FutureEverything 2013. http://bit.ly/1MnN9mG Alice Bell: Community solar can save money, save the planet, and build social capital, all at the same time (City Metric) http://bit.ly/1q4920o Kirsty Lewis: Introduction to ‘The impact of a global temperature rise of 4 °C (7 °F)’ map Kirsty’s video introducing the interactive 4 degree rise map. http://bit.ly/1RnCxkv Maíta Fernández-Armesto: City Resilience Profiling Tool (CRPT) CRPT, a tool developed to enable any city to assess their urban resilience as part of CRPP (City Resilience Profiling Programme) aiming to ensuring the sustainable development of cities, towns, and other human settlements. http://bit.ly/22y1FQ2

Friday Morning

Life

Recommended Reading List

Room 1, The Great Hall, 10:00-12:15, Hosted by Matthew Cobb Is life itself a resource? Now that we can design microorganisms from scratch, we can imagine new realities with revolutionary materials taking shape in laboratories. As news reaches us that scientists have been granted permissions for gene-editing, where could, should, or will this be used in medicine? Designer and researcher David Benque joins us from the RCA’s Design Interactions department, with his work focusing on synthetic biology and environments. His recent curatorial project Blueprints for the Unknown looked at how synthetic biology comes into contact with economics, politics and human beliefs. Cellular Agriculturalist for post-animal bioeconomy charity New Harvest and King’s College London, Abi Aspen Glencross’s work centres on the creation of cultured meat, and looking at the public reaction and responses from agriculture. Would you eat lab-grown steak, and if not, why not? Chair in Science Communication & Future Media at the University of Salford, Andy Miah explores new forms of human enhancement, ethics and the values we hold around them. Who are the pioneers of human enhancement, and where does doping in sport come into the conversation?

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Abi Aspen Glencross

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David Benque: The New Weathermen The project is by a fictional group of activists who embrace Synthetic Biology to push for radical environmental change through prototypes such as Wind Propagation Tunnel and Palm oil press & glycerol tester. http://bit.ly/1SjulUB Abi Aspen Glencross: Getting to Know: Abi Glencross (New Harvest) An interview with the research body Abi works for to create lab grown meat, New Harvest. http://bit.ly/22y1RPl Andy Miah: The Rise of Biocultural Capital Andy’s talk about how our future will change when science and emerging technology, that already support us medically, have become a part of our life. How should we react to it, not only to our way of life but also ethically? http://bit.ly/1pK4QD6

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Friday Afternoon

Community

Recommended Reading List

Room 1, The Great Hall, 14:00-17:00, Hosted by Dan Vernon In a globalised society, how do communities evaluate the resources we have, and how can we have ownership over our urban environment? What future environments will we see as automation takes over aspects of society? Do we need less dystopia, and more optimism in imagining our future lives together? In 2015 architecture collective Assemble controversially won the Turner Prize, turning the art world on its head. Their socially-engaged work seeks to address the typical disconnection between the public and how places are made, calling into conversation what art might mean to communities in the future. Science fiction writer and futurist Madeline Ashby creates narratives that look at the underbelly of our potential future. Madeline has written for the likes of Intel, the Institute for the Future, and Nesta, with her novel vN named as ‘the most messed up book about robot consciousness ever’ by io9. Sarah Kember is an author and academic who has written experimental texts on life on Mars, a feminist Futurist Manifesto, and set up Goldsmiths first University Press. Her most recent work on futures and smart cities has seen her ask; with all these futuristic visions of smart technology, why do women always end up in the kitchen?

Assemble (Mathew Leung)

Madeline Ashby

Sarah Kember

Assemble (Mathew Leung): Granby Four Streets Assemble’s work, Granby Four Streets (Liverpool housing regeneration project) in 2015. http://bit.ly/1RnD6L4 Madeline Ashby: Want to write convincing futures? Work in retail. An article on writing ‘gritty futures’ is important in understanding who is left out of potential scenarios. http://bit.ly/1SjuAzc Sarah Kember: Predict & Command: Cities of Smart Control Sarah’s talk on ‘What situations and relations of control over self, work, leisure and everyday life are emerging in the paradigm of the Smart City?’ http://bit.ly/1S8QzpT

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Thursday / Friday

Fireside Chats Room 2

A series of intimate, exploratory conversations with internationally renowned artists, designers and thinkers from across the FutureEverything programme. Moritz Stefaner & Ben Still Thursday 31 March, 11:45-12:45 One of the highlights of this year’s festival is the launch of Project Ukko, a climate service that visualises future weather conditions. Hear Ukko’s interface designer, Moritz Stefaner, in conversation with physicist Ben Still talking about the challenges facing scientific data and the best way to make sense of it.

Ed Carter & David Cranmer Thursday 31 March, 15:00-15:45 Hosted by Joeli Brearley with artist Ed Carter and technologist David Cranmer, we’ll explore their latest work, Smoke Signals, a FutureEverything commission taking data beyond the confines of the screen to visualise digital interaction, and learn more about each artists’ practises and approaches to data art.

Addie Wagenknecht & Maral Pourkazemi Friday 1 April, 11:00-11:50 Members of cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab, artist Addie Wagenknecht is in conversation with designer Maral Pourkazemi, exploring issues facing contemporary digital culture. Deep Lab is an organisation of cyberfeminist researchers, initiated by Addie Wagenknecht to examine how the themes of privacy, security, surveillance, anonymity, and large-scale data aggregation are explored in the arts, culture and society.

Gazelle Twin, Chris Turner & Tash Tung Friday 1 April, 12:00-12:45 Acclaimed artist Gazelle Twin, filmmakers Chris Turner and Tash Tung speak on their long-term collaboration creating Gazelle Twin’s unique identity, including previous films Anti Body and Exorcise (2014), Turner, Tung and Gazelle Twin will be exploring their latest work together, Kingdom Come: An audiovisual performance for two vocalists. Hear as the creators explore feralness, displacement and the uncanny in the contemporary British, urban landscape, as portrayed in this new collaboration.

Stefanie Posavec & Hannah Redler Friday 1 April, 14:15-15:00 Artist Stefanie Posavec and curator Hannah Redler will discuss data visualisation, art and some of the issues surrounding representation, information, and identity. Looking at Stefanie’s most recent awardwinning work with collaborator Giorgia Lupi, Dear Data, and Hannah Redler’s work as Associate Curator at the ODI and Institute of Physics, both will explore how their practises help to make data more tangible. See page 46 for all speaker profiles. Thursday

Care and Share Economy Workshops Room 4, Workshop One - 10:30-11:30, Workshop Two - 12:15-13:15, Panel Discussion - 16:00

Care and Share Economy, the winning concept from FutureEverything Singapore Innovation Lab, will be showcased at the festival, including workshops, project presentations and a panel discussion. Workshops held at the Town Hall will look at themes explored by Care and Share Economy, including Gifting and Sharing economies, communities and trust, building an alternate economy and the possibilities of disconnecting it from monetary economies, led by Hirsch&Mann.

Recommended Reading List

Ed Carter: Barographic A site-specific composition which creates graphic scores from atmospheric pressure data, and uses the architectural form of the venue as an animated 3D sequencer. http://bit.ly/1MnNQfB David Cranmer: Weather Machine A site specific musical sound installation that generates a live composition from real-time weather data collaborated with a composer and a producer. http://bit.ly/1pK59h3 Moritz Stefaner: New challenges for Data Design An interview with Moritz on “New challenges for Data Design”. http://bit.ly/1UK4DMw

Maral Pourkazemi: Why Aren’t There More Leading Women in the Data Visualization Community? Maral’s key takeaways from a panel with Gaia Scagnetti, Lev Manovich, Sarah Groff-Palermo and Zach Lieberman about gender diversity in data visualisation http://bit.ly/1RzFQUI Gazelle Twin, Chris Turner & Tash Tung: Anti Body From Gazelle Twin’s latest album UNFLESH, with Chris Turner (Director) and Tash Tung (Art Director). http://bit.ly/1UnkMIe Stefanie Posavec: Dear Data About Dear Data by Stefanie Posavec and Georgia Lupi. http://bit.ly/1ZwOcCP Hannah Redler: Data as Culture An article about data, as a currency of cultural expression. http://bit.ly/1pAeqb0

Ben Still: Particle physics with Dr. Ben Still Jigglingatoms science lecture series for artists. http://bit.ly/1UOyQZH Addie Wagenknecht: Deep Lab Introduction Deep Lab. http://bit.ly/25nBY3z

Friday

Thriving in Uncertainty Room 4, 10:30-16:00, Morning hosted by Carlo Buontempo, Afternoon hosted by Richard Stanton This year’s conference-within-a-conference will explore the need to reassess an important element of knowledge: Uncertainty. From climate modelling to financial services, from counterterrorism to particle physics, uncertainty is increasingly being recognized as a tool and a resource. Uncertainty has a bad press, but this transdisciplinary gathering of professionals and researchers that deal with it every day, will look at how we can turn uncertainty into a fertile, productive condition. Opening this session is Thriving in Uncertainty’s guest co-curator Carlo Buontempo, senior climate scientist at the Met Office, whose work looks at how people and places adapt to the effects and consequences of climate change.

Collective intelligence researcher Lydia Nicholas works in places where data, identities, bodies and biotechnologies meet, focusing on futures and networks, often using speculative fiction as a research and communication tool. Looking at the journey of health and medical data, Lydia examines how we shouldn’t trust certainty. Reporter and researcher Charlie Winter is concerned with the uncertainty around jihadist movements, radicalism and subsequent portrayals in the media. His work assessing Islamic State’s outreach strategy and their use of the world’s media has caught the attention of the Guardian, CNN and BBC News. Ruth Garcia-Gavilanes’s work as a computer social scientist at the Oxford Institute of the Internet asks us to examine our online collective memory. A previous researcher at Yahoo Labs and Telefonica R&D in Barcelona, Ruth’s research asks questions such as; How does social media make us remember an event across the world, and is the data actually as accurate as we think it is?

Winner of the Institute for Physics Physics Communicator prize, and QMUL’s Science in Society prize, Ben Still knows how to talk about some of science’s most difficult concepts. Ben regularly works with artists to communicate work in physics, uses LEGO to build universes, and most recently wrote a book on quantum physics for the 50 th anniversary of British children’s classic, Thunderbirds. Izabella Kaminska is a journalist and reporter for the Financial Times interested in connecting the dots between all the stuff that nobody really thinks is related, and seeing where and how risk is seen in finance. Where are we allowed to fail? How did a computer processor cause the 2008 banking crisis? What are our expectations around science and how does the media stoke our uncertainty about scientific progress? Angela Cassidy is a Wellcome Trust fellow, and one of the country’s leading researchers into bovine TB and badger culling. Regularly asked her opinion by BBC Radio Four, Angela looks at the ‘unknown knowns’ in contemporary science and how we make sense of them. 20

Carlo Buontempo

Ben Still

Angela Cassidy

Lydia Nicholas

Charlie Winter

Ruth GarciaGavilanes

Izabella Kaminska

Recommended Reading List

Ben Still: Particle physics with Dr. Ben Still Jigglingatoms science lecture series for artists. http://bit.ly/1UOyQZH

Ruth Garcia-Gavilanes: What triggers human remembering of events? A large-scale analysis of catalysts for collective memory in Wikipedia A journal article about catalysts for reviving memories by looking at people’s behaviours in Wikipedia, as a new phenomenon of how people frame the assessment of new situations, our actions and value systems as a collective memory. http://bit.ly/1MEvQZk

Izabella Kaminska: On artificial intelligence and finance (FT) In conversation with colleague Cardiff Garcia about algorithms, HFT, robots and our near future. http://bit.ly/21IZDaa Angela Cassidy: Badgers: Splitting public opinion for more than 200 years Angela’s BBC article about the debate around badgers whether it’s pest or pet and how it has been influenced by portrayals in tales and songs as well as scientific research. http://bbc.in/1q4aIH5 Lydia Nicholas: Infectious Futures Six stories of a post-antibiotic future published on Nesta in 2015. http://bit.ly/1pK4mwH Charlie Winter: Isis has a strategy. Let’s not be part of it. Short video about Isis’s strategy explained on the Guardian. http://bit.ly/1VJw48H

Thursday/Friday

Project Launch: Ukko Room 3, 09:00-17:00 One of the highlights of this year’s festival is the launch of Project Ukko, a climate service that visualises future weather conditions. Project Ukko is a FutureEverything and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre project for EUPORIAS with visualisation design by Moritz Stefaner, combining cutting edge climate science and data design to communicate forecasts not over the coming days, but over months. Understanding future wind conditions can become a crucial enabler for clean energy and climate change resilience, so Project Ukko is an expert tool for wind energy professionals and a major contribution towards Europe’s flagship project supporting the uptake of climate forecast services, EUPORIAS. Presented within the conference programme, visit our Project Ukko showcase in our Project Space and hear from the designer Moritz Stefaner in his Fireside Chat on Room 2, Thursday 31 March, 11:4512:45. We’ll also be exploring one of the most crucial elements in understanding climate science and other disciplines, uncertainty, in our Thriving in Uncertainty mini-conference on Friday 1 April.

A FutureEverything and BSC project for EUPORIAS. Data visualisation by Moritz Stefaner. Based on ECMWF seasonal predictions by RESILIENCE. EUPORIAS is funded by EC FP7 (GA 308291).

Friday

Closing Keynote: Lemn Sissay Room 1, 16:15-16:30

Closing this year’s festival is the inimitable Lemn Sissay MBE, official poet for the London Olympics, associate artist of the Southbank Centre and Chancellor of University of Manchester. Adding to his rather impressive CV, Sissay is the official poet for the FA Cup Final, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, ambassador for The Children’s Reading Fund, trustee of Forward Arts Foundation and inaugural trustee of World Book Night and an honorary doctor of Letters. A poet first and foremost, his Landmark Poems are installed throughout Manchester and London, including venues such as the Royal Festival Hall and the Olympic Park in London. In Manchester, Lemn’s verse can be found embedded on walls in Shudehill, Tib Street and a Rusholme pub, Hardy’s Well.

Thursday 31 March - Saturday 2 April

Events Programme Various venues

FutureEverything’s city-wide art, live music and performance programme will present work from across the spectrum of contemporary electronic and experimental music, audio visual and data art. All venues have limited capacity. Entry is free to all events for FE 2016 Full Festival Pass holders (subject to capacity).

invokes a physical presence of data streams, with each signal and sound indicating the movements of data within the contemporary online network. Twelve smoke-ring cannons create a transient sculptural form inspired by the Polybius Square cypher. The sub-sonic frequencies used to create the rings are part of a broader evolving sound piece, with each tone and smoke ring relating to the communication activities of the ArtsAPI contributors. Using abstracted email archives as the dataset, a single central speaker affects the smoke rings where their paths cross, reflecting the activities of the contributing partners. As such, turbulence affecting the smoke rings represents online interactions, resulting in a constantly evolving visual and sonic experience. Performances: Thu 31 March, 18:00 Jo Dudderidge & Harry Fausing Smith Fri 1 April, 18:00 Jon Hering Sat 2 April, 18:00 Sara Lowes Thu 31 March - Sat 2 April

Smoke Signals: Ed Carter & David Cranmer International Anthony Burgess Foundation, on the hour, every hour between 10:00-16:00 with live performances daily at 18:00, FREE Please note that the work emits smoke and is in a darkened room. Although the space is ventilated, viewing of the work may not suitable for those with respiratory problems. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

In a world overloaded with data, it is difficult to make sense of the noise, and as arts organisations generate more data, new ways of seeing are needed. World premiere of a FutureEverything commission, Smoke Signals, by Ed Carter and David Cranmer, takes data beyond the confines of the screen to visualise digital interaction. Turning the data of seven arts organisations into a visual and sonic experience, Smoke Signals 28

About ArtsAPI In November 2014 we launched an open call for artists to create new work that explores the themes of networks, relationships, intermediaries and their impact on arts organisations. The artists chosen were to be given access to the prototype ArtsAPI tool and the data derived from the Social Network Analysis process that has so far been completed with seven leading arts organisations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Culture24, Red Eye, Blast Theory, Forma, FutureEverything, and Islington Mill. The inspiration behind ArtsAPI is the hypothesis that many arts organisations can generate, but can not effectively articulate or evidence, significant value through the relationships they create and sustain. With this commission, ArtsAPI steps beyond data visualisation, reports and infographics, towards work that explores the tangible presence of data. 29

With the piece set on treadmills against a manic, illusory landscape, Kingdom Come places heightening physical demands on the performers, resulting in an exhausting, otherworldly climax. Taking its title from J. G Ballard’s final novel, Kingdom Come will play with notions of feralness, displacement and the uncanny in the contemporary British, urban landscape.

About the Artists

Thu 31 March

Gazelle Twin: Kingdom Come - An audiovisual performance for two vocalists Manchester Art Gallery, 19:30, FREE, booking required

“These days even reality has to look artificial.” J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come Making its debut at FutureEverything 2016, British artist Gazelle Twin presents Kingdom Come, a new audio visual performance in collaboration with Chris Turner and Tash Tung, premiering at Manchester Art Gallery. World premiere of a FutureEverything commission, this conceptual performance for two vocalists will be staged in six chapters, incorporating electronics, film, and a brand new soundtrack from Gazelle Twin, created from samples and live vocal manipulation. 30

Gazelle Twin is the invention of UK performance artist, composer and producer Elizabeth Bernholz. Her high-concept works are often infused with dark imagery, challenging themes and a stark, unconventional performance style. Her most recent release – UNFLESH (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray/Last Gang Records, 2014) – was a visceral depiction of puberty and phobia, told through a spectrum of voices, from choral to spoken word, against distorted, unrelenting electronic pop, and was The Quietus’ Album of the Year 2014, and was included in the top albums of 2014 by The Guardian, Uncut, NPR, The New York Times and many more. Chris Turner is a commercial music video and film director. He has worked with clients as diverse as Jaguar Adidas and Sony as well as as artists such as Jay-z and Scanner. Chris has collaborated extensively with Gazelle Twin in the past 18 months, creating the striking films for her AntiBody and Exorcise tracks. His work has won both One Show Gold and D&AD awards. Tash Tung is an up-and-coming music video director and photographer, having cut her teeth behind the scenes collaborating with Gazelle Twin and Chris Turner, as well as many other notable feature film and short-form directors. She studied at Chelsea College of Art and London College of Communication, exhibiting photographically under an alias at the Tate Britain, and has since curated two Coming-Of-Age seasons at the Prince Charles Cinema in London.

“People will experience the spaces while listening to the sound poems, they will see the space as it is, and hear the sounds that were collected in the recent past.” Andrew Hodson Why not start by listening to some sounds from the city’s Central Library, and explore more places on the Corridor? An aspiring audio producer or artist? Take the experience further by making your own collages with the sample packs available for download for use with Ableton. Share your works with us via wetransfer, or upload them to your favourite online profile and let us know on #futrCorridor, we’re curious to find out what you make from the sounds of the city! Join us at our information point in Manchester Central Library to find out how to listen on your phone, get involved, or ask any questions.

Thu 31 March - Sat 2 April

The Corridor Manchester Central Library, 09:00-17:00 and Online 24/7 FREE, booking required for the workshop

Ever wanted to curate the sounds of Manchester?

To complement The Corridor, blueSCI and Seed Studios are creating a workshop on Thursday 31st March at Manchester Central Library, which promise to be an open-environment, sonic playground of digital audio workstations and sample triggering devices. Collect a map from the info point at Manchester Central Library or online at seedstudios.org/the-corridor Workshop: Thursday 31 March, 13:00-17:00, Manchester Central Library, Performance Space. Sign up at futureeverything.org

Presented at FutureEverything 2016, The Corridor by Andrew Hodson will be a series of audio works relating to site specific areas in Manchester. Centering around Oxford Road, named ‘The Corridor‘, this historic area has served as the main inspiration behind this project. Working with local people from Trafford, artist Andrew Hodson has made field recordings of the sounds along the Corridor in Manchester. This collaboration will create a new series of ‘sound poems’, using only this found audio for the public to listen to on their mobile device.

Thu 31 March

Young Creative Technologists Teach the Teachers Room 1, The Whitworth, FREE, booking required Workshop 1 - 14:00-15:15, Workshop 2 - 15:15-16:30

Featuring as part of the Curious Minds cultural education expo, FutureEverything is pleased to announce an opportunity to meet the current Young Creative Technologists from Raspberry Pi, and experience an introductory workshop to the visual programming tool, Scratch. Learn how technology can inform your creative curriculum and cultural education programme, from those who really know. In each 75 minute workshop, you will learn from young people who are due to achieve Arts Award Gold using technology based learning methods. The skills gained will help you experiment with low cost computing platforms, ask detailed questions to young people who know the existing landscape, and are building for the future. This workshop is for educators, those involved with cultural organisations, and anyone interested in bringing creative coding into the classroom. Suitable for attendees without any prior coding experience, this workshop is intended as a primer in making the crossover between creative, cultural, and technology based teaching methods. In addition to the Creative Technologists, the event will be attended by Raspberry Pi foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Creative Producer; Rachel Rayns, and Education Developer Advocate; Ben Nuttall. Sign up at futureeverything.org Presented by FutureEverything and Raspberry Pi

shares a rude, playful intensity with the UK’s own grime and house scene, so expect to sweat. Nkisi is a member of London’s Endless crew and co-founder of NON, a collective of African artists and diaspora who aim to use sound as their primary means to oppose contemporary canons. Her sets uniquely weave Congolese rhythms with a palette of mutant electronic and new, hardcore sounds. Errorsmith is an innovative producer and connoisseur of rhythms who’s probably best known for his collaborations like the classic disco cutups with MMM and Smith N Hack or last year’s Protogravity EP with Mark Fell. As a DJ he juggles up-to-the-second Jamaican music with Chicago house, outernational and UK bass trax. Residents will complement the guests with a Manchester flex repping the city’s discerning and upfront club sounds – Crono Hotmas, Acre & Croww.

Islington Mill, 21:00-06:00 £10 in adv. / £13 on door

Purveyor of the Death of Rave and Boomkat Editions label, Crono Hotmas’ selections have drawn attention from all corners with his revered sets touching everywhere from house, techno and UK funky to hardcore, Belgian new beat and speed core. Your favourite DJ’s favourite DJ.

FutureEverything’s Friday night party is hosted by a bloc of Manchester’s forward and outward looking music promoters; Fiktion, P13, High Bank and Annex Agency.

Following Acre’s destructive debut EP, the Manchester upstart has moved from strength to strength, with a split release with Filter Dread on PAN x CODES and his debut album ‘Better Stangers’ on Tectonic both dropping in 2015, receiving widespread acclaim.

Hotly-tipped new producer/DJs, Nidia Minaj and Nkisi, showcase respective solo sets alongside a slot by revered sound designer and selector, Errorsmith, and support from some of the city’s most crucial resident DJs – Croww, Acre, and Crono Hotmas.

Exploring sounds from all over the globe, Croww is the third of our Manchester cohort. Founder of Mcr based club night High Bank, 2016 will see the release of his debut EP. Expect a freeform set blending broken rave, rap, metal and hybrid fwd club sounds.

Fri 1 April

FutureEverything Party

Bordeaux-based Nidia Minaj plays a key role in Lisbon’s world renowned Afro-Portuguese dance scene hingeing around the Principe label which released her debut 12” Danger to praise from all corners in summer 2015. Nidia’s take on the kuduro, batida and tarraxhina sounds 36

Heather Leigh operates out of Glasgow via West Virginia and has similarly played and recorded with a kaleidoscope of alt-rock and improv luminaries, notably Charalambides,Scorces (a duo with Christina Carter), Dream Aktion Unit (with Thurston Moore, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, Matt Heyner), Annihilating Light (with Stefan Jaworzyn), Robbie Yeats (the Dead C), John Olson (Wolf Eyes) and many more. The List magazine describes her as a “Pedal steel guitar player from hell. Not for the faint-hearted.” Her new solo album on Stephen O’Malley‘s Ideologic Organ imprint, I Abused Animal, is winning widespread acclaim and bringing an avalanche of new attention to Heather’s music and this duo brings something new and profoundly impactful from both Brotzmann and Leigh. Promoted in collaboration with Fat Out, Tombed Visions & Cusp Editions

Thu 31 March

Peter Brotzmann & Heather Leigh Islington Mill, 19:30-23:30 £12 in adv. / £15 on door

The duo of Peter Brotzmann and Heather Leigh first came together in Glasgow in 2015 and created such blistering results that further exploration of their explosive possibilities have been scheduled. Neither musician requires much introduction. Brotzmann emerged in the politically tumultuous late 1960s and caught attention with his large groups featuring Evan Parker,Derek Bailey, Han Bennink and more, blowing holes in the listener’s consciousness with recordings such as Fuck De Boere and Nipples. Since then he’s been a major name in European free jazz across the decades, an incendiary live performer who’s appeared on over 100 albums and collaborated with an utter Who’s Who of improvised music from all sides of the globe. 38

Sat 2 April

Babble Islington Mill Workshop: 15:00-18:00 FREE, booking required Performance & Afterparty: 19:00-01:00 FREE entry, no ticket required

Babble is an experimental event series co-organised by Breeze Creatives and The Occasion Collective exploring inter-disciplinary performance, utilising text, movement, sound, voice and live visuals. Bringing together practitioners from various backgrounds, artists work through an improvisational process. This results in playful, intimate and refined performances that draw on traditions of contemporary dance, spoken-word, human-computer interaction, live coding, electronic music and live visuals. Examining transformation and change, the performances acknowledge and borrow from one another, leaving traces and echoes to plot a narrative arc throughout the course of the evening. Babble will host one 3-hour workshop at the Islington Mill, exploring and sharing the artistic processes of some of the performers. The workshop will be concerned with the development of interdisciplinary work, using improvisation and play as a means of creation. Artists: Adam Goodwin, Jamie Cook, Sean Cotterill, James Unsworth & Roo Carpenter, Charlie Dearnley, Lizzie Klotz, and Ben JeansHoughton. Co-ordinated by Clare Gomez. Sign up at futureeverything.org

Sat 2 April

Closing Party: Northern Electronics Showcase Soup Kitchen, 22:00-04:00 £12 in adv. / £15 on door

Join FutureEverything and meandyou for our Saturday night closing party at Soup Kitchen, featuring Abdulla Rashim and Varg. Sweden’s Abdulla Rashim and Varg have emerged as two key figures in a new wave of techno DJ’s and producers that have spearheaded the scene over the course of the last three years. Northern Electronics, the label operated by Rashim, takes cues from bleak and mysterious aesthetics of Scandinavia’s Black Metal music – releasing a palette of experimental drones and electronics but predominately dark and minimalist techno. He has assembled a closely bound collective of artists based in Stockholm including Acronym, Korridor, SARS and Varg that have come to define the hypnotic and minimalist style of techno that is defining the region. Surfacing in 2011, Abdulla Rashim has become prominent around the world as both a DJ and a producer, creating a sound through a series of releases on his own self-titled label, Semantica, Prologue and a collaborative project with Varg using the moniker of Ulwhednar. His DJ sets fall inline with his production output; following a dark linear path that builds subtly. Jonas Rönnberg’s Varg project has emerged as one of the most prolific and interesting alias’ of the collective – fusing sounds that draw from genres such as ambient, dubstep, drone and techno. In 2015 he released one of the stand out LP’s of 2015 in Ursviken, showcasing his talents as a producer.

Speakers A-Z

Life Fri 10:45

Fireside Chat Fri 11:00

Earth Thu 14:30

Abi Aspen Glencross | @abiaspen

Andy Miah | @andymiah

Abi Aspen Glencross is a PhD student studying cellular agriculture in the Tissue Engineering & Biphotonics department at King’s College. Her specific research focuses on creating thick muscle tissue to produce a steak. Her research is funded by the US charity New Harvest which supports cellular agricultural projects around the world. Abi graduated with a MEng Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath in 2014.

Andy Miah is Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, in the School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester. He is a leading figure in debates about ethics and emerging technology. Working across disciplines, Miahs’s research focuses addresses social, ethical, and legal questions concerning the use of technology, from biotechnology to digital innovation.

Addie Wagenknecht | @wheresaddie

Angela Cassidy | @ange_cass

Addie investigates the cultural connection between technology and social interaction. Constructing installations, interventions, paintings and sculpture, she engineers reality, building a space in between sculpture and lived experience. Exhibited at MuseumsQuartier Vienna; La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Istanbul Modern; and Whitechapel Gallery, among others, Wagenknecht is founder of Deep Lab and Chair of the Open Hardware Summit. She coproduced the open source laser cutter Lasersaur.

Angela Cassidy is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History, King’s College London, where she is investigating the history of bovine TB in the UK since the late 1960s, including public controversies over badger culling. She works across the history and social studies of science, technology and medicine, with specialist interests in public scientific controversies, science and policy, interdisciplinarity, and the histories of humans, animals and environments.

Alice Bell | @alicebell

Assemble (Mathew Leung)

Alice is Head of Campaign Communications at the climate change charity, 10:10. As an academic, Alice was Head of Public Engagement at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, and Course Director for an interdisciplinary course on climate change at Imperial College London, where she also lectured in science communication. As a journalist, she launched How We Get to Next as editor, as well as writing for the Road to Paris blog, Open Democracy, the BBC, the Guardian, the Observer, Times, and Al Jazeera.

Assemble are a collective based in London who work across the fields of art, architecture and design. Founded in 2010, Assemble are comprised of 18 members. Assemble’s working practice seeks to address the typical disconnection between the public and the process by which places are made. Assemble seek to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator in the on-going realization of the work. In 2015, Assemble won the Turner Prize for Granby Four Streets.

Life Fri 11:15

Thriving in Uncertainty Fri 11:45

Community Fri 15:00

Fireside Chat Thu 11:45 Thriving in Uncertainty Fri 10:45

Earth Thu 14:15 Thriving in Uncertainty Friday Morning Host

Thriving in Uncertainty Fri 14:00

Ben Still | @benstill

Chris Turner | @favcolblk

Ben is a multi-award winning science communicator and physicist. Ben has a PhD in particle physics, and is currently Honorary Research Fellow at QMUL, with over 8 years of experience researching in the field of neutrino particle physics; developing particle detectors and statistical methods. Ben has worked with artists, designers, and illustrators to convey complex physics research in innovative and accessible ways. A published popular science author, he also writes science journalism.

Chris Turner is a commercial music video and film director. He has worked with clients as diverse as Jaguar Adidas and Sony as well as artists such as Jay-z and Scanner. Chris has collaborated extensively with Gazelle Twin in the past 18 months, creating the striking films for her AntiBody and Exorcise tracks. His work has won both One Show Gold and D&AD awards.

Carlo Buontempo | @carlo_tuitter

Claire Braithwaite | @clairebrai

Carlo Buontempo is a senior climate scientist at Met Office where he leads the climate service development team. Carlo has spent the last 15 years working on the interface between climate modelling and the end-users, leading a number of international projects involving the use of climate information to inform decisions and policies at regional, national and international levels. Carlo is the science coordinator of EUPORIAS a project funded by the European Commission.

Claire Braithwaite is Tech Advisor to the Manchester Growth Company. The Manchester Growth Company has been established to achieve a transformation of the Greater Manchester economy. Previously Claire was the first Head of Tech North, a government initiative delivered by Tech City UK, to accelerate the growth of Northern England’s digital economy, launching in September 2015. In 2006 she founded LoveLula.com, a niche online retail platform to promote and market sustainable beauty brands.

Charlie Winter | @charliewinter

Darius Kazemi | @tinysubversions

Charlie Winter is a Senior Research Associate at Georgia State University’s Transcultural Conflict and Violence Initiative, where his research focuses on transnational jihadist movements and insurgency. Charlie Winter regularly consults with governments on policy options/alternatives vis å vis Islamist militant groups in the MENA region. His work has been published by the Legatum Institute, Brookings Institution, Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, and Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, as well as Jihadology, CNN, and BBC News.

Darius Kazemi is an internet artist under the moniker Tiny Subversions. His best known works are the Random Shopper (a program that bought random stuff from Amazon each month) and Content, Forever (a tool to generate rambling think pieces of arbitrary length). He founded Bot Summit, a yearly gathering of people who make art bots. He cofounded Feel Train, a creative technology cooperative. Most recently, Darius won Conference Talk of The Year at the 2015 netAwards.

Fireside Chat Fri 12:00

Opening Thu 10:00

Intelligence Thu 11:30

Life Fri 10:15

Fireside Chat Thu 15:00

David Benque | @davidbenque

Gazelle Twin | @gazelletwin

David is a designer and researcher working in London, UK. He is currently a PhD candidate in Design Interactions Research at the Royal College of Art and holds a BA in graphic design from the Royal Academy in the Hague, the Netherlands, and an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London, UK. He has spoken and exhibited at the V&A, Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin and Paris Design Week.

Gazelle Twin is the invention of UK performance artist, composer and producer Elizabeth Bernholz. Her high-concept works are often infused with dark imagery, challenging themes and a stark, unconventional performance style. UNFLESH was a visceral depiction of puberty and phobia, told through a spectrum of voices. It was The Quietus’ Album of the Year 2014, and included in the top albums of 2014 by The Guardian, Uncut, NPR, The New York Times and many more.

David Cranmer

Hannah Redler | @hannah_redler

David Cranmer has been creating electronic and mechanical sculptures since 1998. He has produced installations for events including Southbank Ether Festival, Kinetica Art Fair, Frieze Art Fair and HKW Worldtronics Berlin. Time spent in the special effects industry has fine tuned his love of dangerous machinery and dramatic engineering, and a keen interest in experimental audio has led to many sculptures taking the form of unusual musical instruments.

Hannah Redler is an art curator and museum professional who works with international artists and ambitious organisations on projects that bring together art, science, technology, new media and photography. She is currently Associate Curator in Residence at the ODI and Consultant Art Curator at the Institute of Physics. She combines these roles with teaching and other independent projects. From 2005-2014 Hannah was Head of Science Museum Arts Programme.

Ed Carter | @edcarter_

Izabella Kaminska | @izakaminska

Ed Carter devises and creates interdisciplinary projects that are context-specific, with a focus on sound, collaboration, process and technology. He takes patterns, associations, rhythms and chronology, and uses these to form the structures of new site-specific projects. 40,000 people visited Ed Carter’s 2012 project ‘~Flow‘, commissioned as part of Artists Taking the Lead, a series of largescale public art commissions funded by the UK Arts Councils celebrating the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Izabella Kaminska is a writer, commentator and blogger for the Financial Times and its blog FT Alphaville. She’s always been a journalist, whether for Reuters, CNBC or the Warsaw Business Journal. She’s interested in connecting the dots between all the stuff that nobody really thinks is related. After university she spent some time messing about in the Post Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia, trying to cut her teeth as an adventurer/reporter.

Fireside Chat Fri 12:00

Fireside Chat Fri 14:15

Thriving in Uncertainty Fri 11:15

Earth Thu 15:00

Closing Fri 16:15

Intelligence Thu 12:00 Thriving in Uncertainty Fri 15:00

Kirsty Lewis | @metoffice

Madeline Ashby | @madelineashby

Kirsty Lewis leads the Climate Security Team at the Met Office Hadley Centre. The team is responsible for the delivery of climate advice and research support on all aspects of climate change related to security; in particular human security and food systems. Kirsty specialises in research into climate impacts and integration of climate science for policy planning, with particular emphasis on interpreting climate model output in the context of the sensitivity of complex systems.

Madeline is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, and immigrant living in Toronto. She has written narrative scenarios and science fiction prototypes for organizations like Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, and others. Her short fiction has appeared in Nature, FLURB, Tesseracts, Imaginarium, and Escape Pod. Her other essays and criticism have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, Creators Project, Arcfinity, and Tor.com.

Lemn Sissay | @lemnsissay

Maíta Fernández-Armesto (CRPP)

Lemn Sissay MBE is the author of several books of poetry alongside articles, records, public art, and plays. He was an official poet for the London Olympics. His Landmark Poems are installed throughout Manchester and London, in venues such as The Royal Festival Hall and The Olympic Park. Sissay is associate artist at Southbank Centre, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, and inaugural trustee of World Book Night.

Maíta is the Senior Coordinator of the City Resilience Profiling Programme. She is in charge of the Program Planning, Coordination and Supervision, and also Institutional Coordination, Fund Raising and Representation. Maíta has worked for the City Council of Barcelona for more than 10 years, first as an Architect and then as the responsible for Resilience Projects in the Urban Habitat Management Department.

Lydia Nicholas | @lydianicholas

Maral Pourkazemi | @maralllo

Lydia Nicholas is an anthropologist focusing on futures and networks, often using speculative fiction as a research and communication tool. In recent years she researched antibiotic resistance for the Longitude Prize and worked with the UK Cabinet Office and the Science Museum. She currently works as a Senior Researcher in Collective Intelligence at Nesta, exploring how people use new digital platforms to collaborate and the ethics and regulation of using machine learning systems in government decisions.

Maral is an information designer with a background in classic graphic design. Design is her conviction and religion. Maral works with data and information to make important and relevant problems accessible and easier to understand, and when she’s not designing she manages projects, direct teams and co-create visualization conferences and workshops. Maral started the design and consultancy studio monoment, and is a member of Deep Lab.

Community Fri 14:30

Earth Thu 15:30

Fireside Chat Fri 11:00

Fireside Chat Thu 11:45

Intelligence Thu 10:30

Thriving in Uncertainty Fri 14:30

Moritz Stefaner | @moritz_stefaner

Sarah Kember

Moritz works as a “truth and beauty operator” on the crossroads of data visualization, information aesthetics and user interface design. He has worked with the OECD, the World Economic Forum, FIFA, and Max Planck Research Society, and has exhibited at Venice Biennale of Architecture, and SIGGRAPH, ars electronica. He is part of the advisory boards at Prix Ars Electronica, and a reviewing expert for the Future and Emerging Technologies programme of the European Commission.

Sarah is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths. Publications include a novel The Optical Effects of Lightning (Wild Wolf Publishing, 2011) and a monograph Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (The MIT Press, 2012). Current research includes a feminist critique of smart media, iMedia: The gendering of objects, environments and smart materials (Palgrave, 2015), and an affiliated novel, provisionally entitled A Day In The Life Of Janet Smart.

Nelly Ben Hayoun | @nellybenhayoun

Stefanie Posavec | @stefpos

Dubbed the ‘Willy Wonka of Design and Science’, Nelly is an award w inning explorer and director, a fearless and passionate provocateur. Designer of Experiences at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, Head of Experiences at We Transfer, a Wired Innovation fellow, a member of the International astronautical federation, founder of the International Space Orchestra, and in 2013 Icon Magazine touted Ben Hayoun as one of the 50 international designers “shaping the future”.

Stefanie Posavec is a designer for whom data is her favoured material. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA, New York; Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; the V&A, Southbank Centre, and Somerset House, London. She recently completed a drawing project with Giorgia Lupi, ‘Dear Data’, deemed the ‘Best Dataviz Project’ and ‘Most Beautiful’ at the 2015 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, and has been acquired by Particular Books to be published in September 2016.

Ruth García-Gavilanes | @ruthygarcia

Tash Tung | @holyschmokes

Ruth García-Gavilanes is a member of the Computational Social Science group at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University). She is interested in understanding online footprints, utilizing/ developing computational human behavior from methods and leveraging big data. Currently, her main interests are centred in studying collective memory based on the information seeking patterns of large number of individuals on the web.

Tash Tung is an up-and-coming music video director and photographer, having cut her teeth behind the scenes collaborating with Gazelle Twin and Chris Turner, as well as many other notable feature film and short-form directors. She studied at Chelsea College of Art and London College of Communication, exhibiting photographically under an alias at the Tate Britain, and has since curated two Coming-Of-Age seasons at the Prince Charles Cinema in London.

Community Fri 14:00

Fireside Chat Fri 14:15

Fireside Chat Fri 12:00

Thursday 31 March - Friday 1 April

Map

The FutureEverything Conference Venues Manchester Town Hall Manchester Town Hall Albert Square Manchester M60 2LA

Soup Kitchen 31-33 Spear St Manchester M1 1DF

Manchester Central Library St Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Square Manchester M2 5PD

Islington Mill 1 James St Salford Lancashire M3 5HW

Manchester Art Gallery Mosley St Manchester M2 3JL

The Whitworth The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M15 6ER

International Anthony Burgess Foundation Engine House Chorlton Mill 3 Cambridge St Manchester M1 5BY

FutureEverything Team

Partners

Drew Hemment, Founder & Creative Director Tom Higham, Executive Director Jose Luis de Vicente, Curator Tom Rowlands, Programme Manager Sarah Southworth, Finance Manager Mark Carlin, Senior Producer Naomi Burgess, Producer Catherine Waddington, Festival Campaign Manager Natalie Kane, Communications & Programme Officer Chloe Eunsung Kim, Communications Assistant Sarah Unwin, Production Assistant Michael Duffield, Projects Assistant Callum Kirkwood, Executive PA Isla Brown, Volunteer Coordinator Elly Langlois, Volunteer Coordinator David Bailey, Branding Supanaught, Design Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ravenous, Web Development Ladbury and SKV Communications, PR

This project has received funding from the European Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seventh Framework Programme for technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement 308291 58

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Delegate Offers

The Imitation Game Manchester Art Gallery, Mon-Sun 10:00-17:00, Thu 10:00-21:00, open until 5 June

With a title inspired by Alan Turing’s Turing Test, devised to test a computer’s ability to imitate human thought, introduced in an article while he was working at The University of Manchester, The Imitation Game explores the theme of machines and the imitation of life. Image: TELESTEP (2015), James Capper | Collection of Sebastien and Caroline Mazella Di Bosco, courtesy the artist and Hannah Barry Gallery, London

AL and AL: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse

We’ve picked a few of our favourite eateries for you to grab a bite or just hang up your hat for a while. To gain discount show your festival pass.

HOME, Tue-Sat 12:00-20:00, Sun 12:00-18:00, open until 10 April

Common 39-41 Edge Street Northern Quarter Manchester M4 1HW

Bar, Eatery, Coffee Spot, Bakery 15% discount on food and beverages to delegate/festival pass holders

Kosmonaut 10 Tariff Street Northern Quarter Manchester M1 2FF

Bar, Eatery, Art exhibition, Ping-pong 20% discount on food and beverages to delegate/festival pass holders

A visionary new solo exhibition of film, drawing and installation conceived from AL and AL’s epic sci-fi odyssey. The exhibition is united by three journeys the artists have undertaken with groundbreaking scientists. Image: The Creator (2012), AL and AL

Ply 26 Lever Street Manchester M1 1DW

Pizzeria, Bar, Art exhibition 20% discount on food and beverages to delegate/festival pass holders

Soup Kitchen 31-33 Spear Street Manchester M1 1DF

Canteen, Bar, Music venue 10% discount on food only for delegate/ festival pass holders 61

Conference Timetable: Thursday 31 March Room 1

Room 2

10:00 Opening Drew Hemment Claire Braithwaite

Room 3

Conference Timetable: Friday 1 April Room 4

09:00 - 17:00 Project Ukko

10:30 Care and Share Economy Workshop #1

11:00 Q&A 11:10 Break

11:15 Andy Miah

11:30 Darius Kazemi 11:45 Moritz Stefaner Ben Still

12:30 Q&A

12:15 Care and Share Economy Workshop #2

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch

14:30 Madeline Ashby

14:30 Alice Bell

16:30 Outro Drew Hemment

11:00 Addie Wagenknecht Maral Pourkazemi 12:00 Gazelle Twin Chris Turner Tash Tung

11:15 Izabella Kaminska 11:45 Angela Cassidy 12:15 Panel Q&A

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 Sarah Kember

14:15 Carlo Buontempo

16:00 Q&A

10:45 Ben Still

Community

Earth

15:30 Maíta FernándezArmesto

11:45 Q&A

Room 4

10:30 Intro Carlo Buontempo

10:15 David Benque 10.45 Abi Aspen Glencross

Room 3 09:00 - 17:00 Project Ukko

Life

10:30 Nelly Ben Hayoun

15:00 Kirsty Lewis

Room 2

10:00 Opening Drew Hemment

Intelligence

12:00 Lydia Nicholas

Room 1

15:00 Mathew Leung

15:00 Ed Carter David Cranmer

15:30 Q&A 16:00 Care and Share Economy Panel Discussion

16:00 Outro Drew Hemment

14:15 Stefanie Posavec Hannah Redler

14:00 Charlie Winter 14:30 Ruth GarcíaGavilanes 15:00 Lydia Nicholas 15:30 Panel Q&A

16:15 Close Lemn Sissay

Events: Thursday 31 March - Saturday 2 April Thursday 31

10:00-16:00 Smoke Signals

Friday 1

Saturday 2

International Anthony Burgess Foundation

10:00-16:00 Smoke Signals International Anthony Burgess Foundation

09:00-17:00 The Corridor Manchester Central Library

13:00-17:00 Workshop 15:00-18:00 Babble: Workshop Islington Mill

14:00-16:30 Raspberry Pi The Whitworth

18:00-18:30 Smoke Signals Performance: Jo Dudderidge & Harry Fausing Smith IABF

18:00-18:30 Smoke Signals Performance: John Hering IABF

19:30-20:30 Gazelle Twin Manchester Art Gallery

19:30-23:30 Peter Brotzman & Heather Leigh Islington Mill

18:00-18:30 Smoke Signals Performance: Sara Lowes IABF

19:00-01:00 Babble: Performance & Afterparty Islington Mill

21:00-06:00 FutureEverything Party Islington Mill

Delegate Information

22:00-04:00 Closing Party Soup Kitchen

Registration Once registered at the first floor registration desk, feel free to ask the friendly team any questions about FutureEverything 2016. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also find info boards, and festival news on the digital screens here. For any last minute changes to the schdeule check the screens, visit futureeverything.org/timetable or #futr16. Access An access ramp is located by Lloyd Street entrance into the Town Hall. Elevator access can be found behind the Lloyd Street reception desk. Contact the FutureEverything registration desk, if you require any further assistance. Any questions? Ask one of our friendly volunteers in the bright green t-shirts or seek us out on twitter at @ futureverything and join the #futr16 conversation.

Cafe & Social space Visit the cafe and social space to meet other delegates whilst refuelling with some tasty hot and cold drinks, snacks and lunchtime menu including vegetarian and vegan options. As well as recycling facilities for paper cups, plastic bottles etc, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll notice there is a lanyard return point for your passes at the end of your time with us. Wifi Network: FE16 Password: lessandmore Reflect Take five minutes to fill in one of our festival surveys. You can be entered into a prize-draw to win a free festival pass for FutureEverything 2017! Missed out? Want to listen back to any of the talks? All talks will be available as downloadable transcripts and audio podcasts by mid April at futureeverything.org.