Contents Welcome
“Progress is measured Welcome 5 First, welcome to FutureEverything We also want to challenge our by the speed at Conference 7 2016, we’re glad you could join us. thinking a little, by considering Events 27 what else could, or should, be which we destroy the Speakers 45 In our early conversations around considered as a resource. What conditions that sustain Map 56 this year’s theme, we came about intelligence? Or life? This life.” Venues 57 together as a team to figure out took us to interesting places. If we Partners 59 what urgent issues we may face, need to eat less meat, can we find Recommends 60 what concerned us or made us alternatives in the lab? George Monbiot Delegate Offers 61 excited, and what weak signals we Timetable 62 need to look out for. We’re also looking at uncertainty, where it can have value, and be Since then, significant events, a resource itself. Understanding such as the momentous COP21 and communicating uncertainty is climate summit last December essential in mapping our possible have caused not only us, but the futures. As a miniconference, world, to rethink what our future we’ve brought together a range might look like. A single number, of disciplines, from physics to 2 degrees, signals irreversible anthropology, economics to change for the lives of future climate science. And this year we generations. launch Project Ukko, a climate service that visualises future This led us to cut through our weather conditions, equipping many fascinations and arrive wind energy professionals to on the fundamental issue of manage future wind and climate resources. We want to look as a resource. beyond the question of simply what we need to reduce. Less So enjoy our festival, and give us is more, as the saying goes, but your response to our theme over resources do not need to be a on Twitter, using #futr16. zero sum game. So what about less and more? Drew Hemment Founder & Creative Director
4 5 Thursday 31 March - Friday 1 April The FutureEverything Conference Less and More: Manchester Town Hall
Taking the theme of ‘Less and More’, FutureEverything Rethinking 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 Resources 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 Claire Hemment Braithwaite 7 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 Nelly Ben Hayoun: ways to process the huge amounts of data we encounter, from Meet Nelly Ben Hayoun, director of the International Space Orchestra algorithms to artificial intelligence, how do we make sense of it? How Nelly’s talk at WIRED in 2014. do we react in times of disaster, and how can we use the wisdom of the http://bit.ly/22I7AyP crowd to make better decisions?
In this session we welcome creator and conductor of NASA’s Darius Kazemi: International Space Orchestra Nelly Ben Hayoun, the ‘Willy Wonka of Google’s DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in Design and Technology’, whose work has looked at disaster response, historic victory human experiences in space, and how to generate dark energy in your The Go battle of AI & human: Alphago, Google DeepMind vs. Lee kitchen sink. 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 Lydia Nicholas: everything in between (including the rather controversial Sorting Hat, Infectious Futures which riled up Harry Potter fans). 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.
Nelly Ben Darius Lydia Hayoun Kazemi Nicholas
8 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 Carlo Buontempo: profound rethink of the ways in which we manage the resources of the Carlo’s talk at FutureEverything 2013. planet. Can climate services help us in this process? How do we unite http://bit.ly/1MnN9mG 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? Alice Bell: In this session we welcome the Met Office’s Senior Climate Scientist Community solar can save money, save the planet, and build social Carlo Buontempo, whose projects have included an analysis of climate capital, all at the same time (City Metric) change on the River Nile. Carlo worked with FutureEverything to create http://bit.ly/1q4920o a groundbreaking climate service for wind forecast, Project Ukko, which launches at this year’s festival. Kirsty Lewis: Head of Campaigns at Climate Change charity 10:10, Alice Bell Introduction to ‘The impact of a global temperature rise of 4 °C has written and spoken extensively on science, technology and the (7 °F)’ map environment for the BBC, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Times. Kirsty’s video introducing the interactive 4 degree rise map. http://bit.ly/1RnCxkv 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-Armesto: City Resilience Profiling Tool (CRPT) Maíta Fernández-Arnesto from UN Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling CRPT, a tool developed to enable any city to assess their urban Programme (CRPP) which focuses on providing national and local resilience as part of CRPP (City Resilience Profiling Programme) aiming governments with tools for measuring and increasing resilience to to ensuring the sustainable development of cities, towns, and other potential hazards, including those associated with climate change. human settlements. http://bit.ly/22y1FQ2
Carlo Alice Bell Kirsty Lewis Maíta Buontempo Fernández- Armesto 10 11 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 David Benque: scratch, we can imagine new realities with revolutionary materials taking The New Weathermen shape in laboratories. As news reaches us that scientists have been The project is by a fictional group of activists who embrace Synthetic granted permissions for gene-editing, where could, should, or will this Biology to push for radical environmental change through prototypes be used in medicine? such as Wind Propagation Tunnel and Palm oil press & glycerol tester. http://bit.ly/1SjulUB 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 Abi Aspen Glencross: Unknown looked at how synthetic biology comes into contact with Getting to Know: Abi Glencross (New Harvest) economics, politics and human beliefs. An interview with the research body Abi works for to create lab grown meat, New Harvest. Cellular Agriculturalist for post-animal bioeconomy charity New Harvest http://bit.ly/22y1RPl 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, Andy Miah: why not? The Rise of Biocultural Capital Andy’s talk about how our future will change when science and Chair in Science Communication & Future Media at the University emerging technology, that already support us medically, have become a of Salford, Andy Miah explores new forms of human enhancement, part of our life. How should we react to it, not only to our way of life but ethics and the values we hold around them. Who are the pioneers of also ethically? human enhancement, and where does doping in sport come into the http://bit.ly/1pK4QD6 conversation?
David Benque Abi Aspen Andy Miah Matthew Glencross Cobb
12 13 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 Assemble (Mathew Leung): have, and how can we have ownership over our urban environment? Granby Four Streets What future environments will we see as automation takes over aspects Assemble’s work, Granby Four Streets (Liverpool housing regeneration of society? Do we need less dystopia, and more optimism in imagining project) in 2015. our future lives together? http://bit.ly/1RnD6L4
In 2015 architecture collective Assemble controversially won the Turner Prize, turning the art world on its head. Their socially-engaged work Madeline Ashby: seeks to address the typical disconnection between the public and Want to write convincing futures? Work in retail. how places are made, calling into conversation what art might mean to An article on writing ‘gritty futures’ is important in understanding who is communities in the future. left out of potential scenarios. http://bit.ly/1SjuAzc 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, Sarah Kember: with her novel vN named as ‘the most messed up book about robot Predict & Command: Cities of Smart Control consciousness ever’ by io9. 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 Sarah Kember is an author and academic who has written experimental City?’ texts on life on Mars, a feminist Futurist Manifesto, and set up http://bit.ly/1S8QzpT 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 Madeline Sarah Dan Vernon (Mathew Ashby Kember Leung) 14 15 Thursday / Friday Gazelle Twin, Chris Turner & Tash Tung Fireside Chats Friday 1 April, 12:00-12:45 Room 2 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, A series of intimate, exploratory conversations with Tung and Gazelle Twin will be exploring their latest work together, internationally renowned artists, designers and thinkers Kingdom Come: An audiovisual performance for two vocalists. Hear from across the FutureEverything programme. as the creators explore feralness, displacement and the uncanny in the contemporary British, urban landscape, as portrayed in this new collaboration. Moritz Stefaner & Ben Still Thursday 31 March, 11:45-12:45 Stefanie Posavec & Hannah Redler One of the highlights of this year’s festival is the launch of Project Ukko, Friday 1 April, 14:15-15:00 a climate service that visualises future weather conditions. Hear Ukko’s Artist Stefanie Posavec and curator Hannah Redler will discuss data interface designer, Moritz Stefaner, in conversation with physicist Ben visualisation, art and some of the issues surrounding representation, Still talking about the challenges facing scientific data and the best way information, and identity. Looking at Stefanie’s most recent award- to make sense of it. winning work with collaborator Giorgia Lupi, Dear Data, and Hannah Redler’s work as Associate Curator at the ODI and Institute of Physics, Ed Carter & David Cranmer both will explore how their practises help to make data more tangible. Thursday 31 March, 15:00-15:45 Hosted by Joeli Brearley with artist Ed Carter and technologist See page 46 for all speaker profiles. 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’ Thursday practises and approaches to data art. Care and Share Economy Workshops Room 4, Workshop One - 10:30-11:30, Workshop Two - 12:15-13:15, Addie Wagenknecht & Maral Pourkazemi Panel Discussion - 16:00 Friday 1 April, 11:00-11:50 Members of cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab, artist Addie Wagenknecht is in conversation with designer Maral Pourkazemi, Care and Share Economy, the winning concept from FutureEverything exploring issues facing contemporary digital culture. Deep Lab is Singapore Innovation Lab, will be showcased at the festival, including an organisation of cyberfeminist researchers, initiated by Addie workshops, project presentations and a panel discussion. Workshops Wagenknecht to examine how the themes of privacy, security, held at the Town Hall will look at themes explored by Care and Share surveillance, anonymity, and large-scale data aggregation are explored Economy, including Gifting and Sharing economies, communities in the arts, culture and society. and trust, building an alternate economy and the possibilities of disconnecting it from monetary economies, led by Hirsch&Mann.
16 17 Maral Pourkazemi: Recommended Reading List 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 Ed Carter: data visualisation Barographic http://bit.ly/1RzFQUI 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. Gazelle Twin, Chris Turner & Tash Tung: http://bit.ly/1MnNQfB Anti Body From Gazelle Twin’s latest album UNFLESH, with Chris Turner (Director) and Tash Tung (Art Director). David Cranmer: http://bit.ly/1UnkMIe Weather Machine A site specific musical sound installation that generates a live composition from real-time weather data collaborated with a composer Stefanie Posavec: and a producer. Dear Data http://bit.ly/1pK59h3 About Dear Data by Stefanie Posavec and Georgia Lupi. http://bit.ly/1ZwOcCP
Moritz Stefaner: New challenges for Data Design Hannah Redler: An interview with Moritz on “New challenges for Data Design”. Data as Culture http://bit.ly/1UK4DMw 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
18 19 Friday Collective intelligence researcher Lydia Nicholas works in places Thriving in Uncertainty where data, identities, bodies and biotechnologies meet, focusing on Room 4, 10:30-16:00, Morning hosted by Carlo Buontempo, futures and networks, often using speculative fiction as a research and Afternoon hosted by Richard Stanton communication tool. Looking at the journey of health and medical data, Lydia examines how we shouldn’t trust certainty.
This year’s conference-within-a-conference will explore the need Reporter and researcher Charlie Winter is concerned with the to reassess an important element of knowledge: Uncertainty. From uncertainty around jihadist movements, radicalism and subsequent climate modelling to financial services, from counterterrorism to particle portrayals in the media. His work assessing Islamic State’s outreach physics, uncertainty is increasingly being recognized as a tool and strategy and their use of the world’s media has caught the attention of a resource. Uncertainty has a bad press, but this transdisciplinary the Guardian, CNN and BBC News. gathering of professionals and researchers that deal with it every day, will look at how we can turn uncertainty into a fertile, productive Ruth Garcia-Gavilanes’s work as a computer social scientist at the condition. Oxford Institute of the Internet asks us to examine our online collective memory. A previous researcher at Yahoo Labs and Telefonica R&D in Opening this session is Thriving in Uncertainty’s guest co-curator Carlo Barcelona, Ruth’s research asks questions such as; How does social Buontempo, senior climate scientist at the Met Office, whose work media make us remember an event across the world, and is the data looks at how people and places adapt to the effects and consequences actually as accurate as we think it is? of climate change.
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 50th anniversary of British children’s classic, Thunderbirds. Carlo Ben Still Angela Izabella Izabella Kaminska is a journalist and reporter for the Financial Times Buontempo Cassidy Kaminska 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 Lydia Charlie Ruth Garcia- Radio Four, Angela looks at the ‘unknown knowns’ in contemporary Nicholas Winter Gavilanes science and how we make sense of them. 20 21 Ruth Garcia-Gavilanes: Recommended Reading List 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 Ben Still: frame the assessment of new situations, our actions and value systems Particle physics with Dr. Ben Still as a collective memory. Jigglingatoms science lecture series for artists. http://bit.ly/1MEvQZk http://bit.ly/1UOyQZH
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
22 23 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, 11:45- 12:45. 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).
25 Friday Closing Keynote: Lemn Sissay Room 1, 16:15-16:30
Closing this year’s festival is the inimitable Lemn Sissay MBE, official Thursday 31 March - Saturday 2 April poet for the London Olympics, associate artist of the Southbank Centre Events Programme and Chancellor of University of Manchester. Various venues
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, FutureEverything’s city-wide art, live music and ambassador for The Children’s Reading Fund, trustee of Forward Arts performance programme will present work from Foundation and inaugural trustee of World Book Night and an honorary doctor of Letters. across the spectrum of contemporary electronic and experimental music, audio visual and data art. A poet first and foremost, his Landmark Poems are installed throughout Manchester and London, including venues such as the Royal Festival All venues have limited capacity. 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 Entry is free to all events for FE 2016 Full Festival Pass holders pub, Hardy’s Well. (subject to capacity).
26 27 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 About ArtsAPI International Anthony Burgess Foundation, on the hour, every hour between 10:00-16:00 with live performances daily at 18:00, FREE In November 2014 we launched an open call for artists to create new work that explores the themes of networks, relationships, intermediaries Please note that the work emits smoke and is in a darkened room. and their impact on arts organisations. The artists chosen were to be Although the space is ventilated, viewing of the work may not suitable given access to the prototype ArtsAPI tool and the data derived from for those with respiratory problems. Children must be accompanied by the Social Network Analysis process that has so far been completed an adult. with seven leading arts organisations – Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Culture24, Red Eye, Blast Theory, Forma, FutureEverything, and Islington Mill. 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 The inspiration behind ArtsAPI is the hypothesis that many arts needed. organisations can generate, but can not effectively articulate or evidence, significant value through the relationships they create and World premiere of a FutureEverything commission, Smoke Signals, sustain. With this commission, ArtsAPI steps beyond data visualisation, by Ed Carter and David Cranmer, takes data beyond the confines of reports and infographics, towards work that explores the tangible the screen to visualise digital interaction. Turning the data of seven presence of data. arts organisations into a visual and sonic experience, Smoke Signals 28 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
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. Thu 31 March Gazelle Twin: Kingdom Come - An audiovisual Chris Turner is a commercial music video and film director. He has performance for two vocalists worked with clients as diverse as Jaguar Adidas and Sony as well as as Manchester Art Gallery, 19:30, FREE, booking required 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 “These days even reality has to look artificial.” Gold and D&AD awards. J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come Tash Tung is an up-and-coming music video director and Making its debut at FutureEverything 2016, British artist Gazelle photographer, having cut her teeth behind the scenes collaborating with Twin presents Kingdom Come, a new audio visual performance Gazelle Twin and Chris Turner, as well as many other notable feature in collaboration with Chris Turner and Tash Tung, premiering at film and short-form directors. She studied at Chelsea College of Art and Manchester Art Gallery. London College of Communication, exhibiting photographically under an alias at the Tate Britain, and has since curated two Coming-Of-Age World premiere of a FutureEverything commission, this conceptual seasons at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. 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 31 “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.
To complement The Corridor, blueSCI and Seed Studios are creating a workshop on Thursday 31st March at Manchester Central Library, which Thu 31 March - Sat 2 April promise to be an open-environment, sonic playground of digital audio The Corridor workstations and sample triggering devices. Manchester Central Library, 09:00-17:00 and Online 24/7 Collect a map from the info point at Manchester Central Library or online at FREE, booking required for the workshop seedstudios.org/the-corridor Workshop: Thursday 31 March, 13:00-17:00, Manchester Central Library, Performance Space. Sign up at futureeverything.org Ever wanted to curate the sounds of Manchester?
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.
32 33 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 foundation’s Creative Producer; Rachel Rayns, and Education Developer Advocate; Ben Nuttall.
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Presented by FutureEverything and Raspberry Pi
35 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 cut- ups 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.
Purveyor of the Death of Rave and Boomkat Editions label, Crono Fri 1 April Hotmas’ selections have drawn attention from all corners with his FutureEverything Party revered sets touching everywhere from house, techno and UK funky Islington Mill, 21:00-06:00 to hardcore, Belgian new beat and speed core. Your favourite DJ’s £10 in adv. / £13 on door favourite DJ.
Following Acre’s destructive debut EP, the Manchester upstart has FutureEverything’s Friday night party is hosted by a bloc of moved from strength to strength, with a split release with Filter Dread Manchester’s forward and outward looking music promoters; Fiktion, on PAN x CODES and his debut album ‘Better Stangers’ on Tectonic P13, High Bank and Annex Agency. both dropping in 2015, receiving widespread acclaim.
Hotly-tipped new producer/DJs, Nidia Minaj and Nkisi, showcase Exploring sounds from all over the globe, Croww is the third of our respective solo sets alongside a slot by revered sound designer and Manchester cohort. Founder of Mcr based club night High Bank, 2016 selector, Errorsmith, and support from some of the city’s most crucial will see the release of his debut EP. Expect a freeform set blending resident DJs – Croww, Acre, and Crono Hotmas. broken rave, rap, metal and hybrid fwd club sounds.
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 37 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 39 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 Jeans- Houghton. Co-ordinated by Clare Gomez.
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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.
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45 Abi Aspen Glencross | @abiaspen Andy Miah | @andymiah
Abi Aspen Glencross is a PhD student studying Andy Miah is Chair in Science Communication & cellular agriculture in the Tissue Engineering & Future Media, in the School of Environment & Life Biphotonics department at King’s College. Her Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester. He is a specific research focuses on creating thick muscle leading figure in debates about ethics and emerging Life tissue to produce a steak. Her research is funded technology. Working across disciplines, Miahs’s Life Fri 10:45 by the US charity New Harvest which supports research focuses addresses social, ethical, and legal Fri 11:15 cellular agricultural projects around the world. Abi questions concerning the use of technology, from graduated with a MEng Chemical Engineering from biotechnology to digital innovation. the University of Bath in 2014.
Addie Wagenknecht | @wheresaddie Angela Cassidy | @ange_cass
Addie investigates the cultural connection between Angela Cassidy is a Wellcome Trust Research technology and social interaction. Constructing Fellow in the Department of History, King’s College installations, interventions, paintings and sculpture, London, where she is investigating the history of she engineers reality, building a space in between bovine TB in the UK since the late 1960s, including Fireside Chat sculpture and lived experience. Exhibited at public controversies over badger culling. She works Thriving in Fri 11:00 MuseumsQuartier Vienna; La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; across the history and social studies of science, Uncertainty Istanbul Modern; and Whitechapel Gallery, among technology and medicine, with specialist interests in Fri 11:45 others, Wagenknecht is founder of Deep Lab and public scientific controversies, science and policy, Chair of the Open Hardware Summit. She co- interdisciplinarity, and the histories of humans, produced the open source laser cutter Lasersaur. animals and environments.
Alice Bell | @alicebell Assemble (Mathew Leung)
Alice is Head of Campaign Communications at the Assemble are a collective based in London who climate change charity, 10:10. As an academic, Alice work across the fields of art, architecture and was Head of Public Engagement at the Science design. Founded in 2010, Assemble are comprised Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, and of 18 members. Assemble’s working practice seeks Earth Course Director for an interdisciplinary course on to address the typical disconnection between the Community Thu 14:30 climate change at Imperial College London, where public and the process by which places are made. Fri 15:00 she also lectured in science communication. As a Assemble seek to actively involve the public as journalist, she launched How We Get to Next as both participant and collaborator in the on-going editor, as well as writing for the Road to Paris blog, realization of the work. In 2015, Assemble won the Open Democracy, the BBC, the Guardian, the Turner Prize for Granby Four Streets. Observer, Times, and Al Jazeera. 46 47 Ben Still | @benstill Chris Turner | @favcolblk
Ben is a multi-award winning science communicator Chris Turner is a commercial music video and film and physicist. Ben has a PhD in particle physics, director. He has worked with clients as diverse as and is currently Honorary Research Fellow at Jaguar Adidas and Sony as well as artists such QMUL, with over 8 years of experience researching as Jay-z and Scanner. Chris has collaborated Fireside Chat in the field of neutrino particle physics; developing extensively with Gazelle Twin in the past 18 months, Fireside Chat Thu 11:45 particle detectors and statistical methods. Ben creating the striking films for her AntiBody and Fri 12:00 Thriving in has worked with artists, designers, and illustrators Exorcise tracks. His work has won both One Show Uncertainty to convey complex physics research in innovative Gold and D&AD awards. Fri 10:45 and accessible ways. A published popular science author, he also writes science journalism.
Carlo Buontempo | @carlo_tuitter Claire Braithwaite | @clairebrai
Carlo Buontempo is a senior climate scientist at Claire Braithwaite is Tech Advisor to the Manchester Met Office where he leads the climate service Growth Company. The Manchester Growth development team. Carlo has spent the last 15 years Company has been established to achieve a working on the interface between climate modelling transformation of the Greater Manchester economy. Earth and the end-users, leading a number of international Previously Claire was the first Head of Tech North, a Opening Thu 14:15 projects involving the use of climate information to government initiative delivered by Tech City UK, to Thu 10:00 Thriving in inform decisions and policies at regional, national accelerate the growth of Northern England’s digital Uncertainty and international levels. Carlo is the science economy, launching in September 2015. In 2006 she Friday Morning coordinator of EUPORIAS a project funded by the founded LoveLula.com, a niche online retail platform Host European Commission. to promote and market sustainable beauty brands.
Charlie Winter | @charliewinter Darius Kazemi | @tinysubversions
Charlie Winter is a Senior Research Associate at Darius Kazemi is an internet artist under the moniker Georgia State University’s Transcultural Conflict and Tiny Subversions. His best known works are the Violence Initiative, where his research focuses on Random Shopper (a program that bought random transnational jihadist movements and insurgency. stuff from Amazon each month) and Content, Thriving in Charlie Winter regularly consults with governments Forever (a tool to generate rambling think pieces Intelligence Uncertainty on policy options/alternatives vis å vis Islamist of arbitrary length). He founded Bot Summit, a Thu 11:30 Fri 14:00 militant groups in the MENA region. His work has yearly gathering of people who make art bots. been published by the Legatum Institute, Brookings He cofounded Feel Train, a creative technology Institution, Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, and cooperative. Most recently, Darius won Conference Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Talk of The Year at the 2015 netAwards. as well as Jihadology, CNN, and BBC News. 48 49 David Benque | @davidbenque Gazelle Twin | @gazelletwin
David is a designer and researcher working in Gazelle Twin is the invention of UK performance London, UK. He is currently a PhD candidate in artist, composer and producer Elizabeth Bernholz. Design Interactions Research at the Royal College of Her high-concept works are often infused with Art and holds a BA in graphic design from the Royal dark imagery, challenging themes and a stark, Life Academy in the Hague, the Netherlands, and an MA unconventional performance style. UNFLESH was Fireside Chat Fri 10:15 in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art a visceral depiction of puberty and phobia, told Fri 12:00 in London, UK. He has spoken and exhibited at the through a spectrum of voices. It was The Quietus’ V&A, Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin and Album of the Year 2014, and included in the top Paris Design Week. 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 Hannah Redler is an art curator and museum mechanical sculptures since 1998. He has produced professional who works with international artists installations for events including Southbank Ether and ambitious organisations on projects that bring Festival, Kinetica Art Fair, Frieze Art Fair and HKW together art, science, technology, new media and Fireside Chat Worldtronics Berlin. Time spent in the special photography. She is currently Associate Curator in Fireside Chat Thu 15:00 effects industry has fine tuned his love of dangerous Residence at the ODI and Consultant Art Curator at Fri 14:15 machinery and dramatic engineering, and a keen the Institute of Physics. She combines these roles interest in experimental audio has led to many with teaching and other independent projects. From sculptures taking the form of unusual musical 2005-2014 Hannah was Head of Science Museum instruments. Arts Programme.
Ed Carter | @edcarter_ Izabella Kaminska | @izakaminska
Ed Carter devises and creates interdisciplinary Izabella Kaminska is a writer, commentator and projects that are context-specific, with a focus on blogger for the Financial Times and its blog FT sound, collaboration, process and technology. Alphaville. She’s always been a journalist, whether He takes patterns, associations, rhythms and for Reuters, CNBC or the Warsaw Business Journal. Fireside Chat chronology, and uses these to form the structures She’s interested in connecting the dots between all Thriving in Thu 15:00 of new site-specific projects. 40,000 people visited the stuff that nobody really thinks is related. After Uncertainty Ed Carter’s 2012 project ‘~Flow‘, commissioned as university she spent some time messing about in Fri 11:15 part of Artists Taking the Lead, a series of large- the Post Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia, scale public art commissions funded by the UK Arts trying to cut her teeth as an adventurer/reporter. Councils celebrating the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 50 51 Kirsty Lewis | @metoffice Madeline Ashby | @madelineashby
Kirsty Lewis leads the Climate Security Team at the Madeline is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, Met Office Hadley Centre. The team is responsible and immigrant living in Toronto. She has written for the delivery of climate advice and research narrative scenarios and science fiction prototypes support on all aspects of climate change related for organizations like Intel Labs, the Institute for Earth to security; in particular human security and food the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, and Community Thu 15:00 systems. Kirsty specialises in research into climate others. Her short fiction has appeared in Nature, Fri 14:30 impacts and integration of climate science for policy FLURB, Tesseracts, Imaginarium, and Escape Pod. planning, with particular emphasis on interpreting Her other essays and criticism have appeared at climate model output in the context of the sensitivity BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, Creators Project, of complex systems. Arcfinity, and Tor.com.
Lemn Sissay | @lemnsissay Maíta Fernández-Armesto (CRPP)
Lemn Sissay MBE is the author of several books Maíta is the Senior Coordinator of the City Resilience of poetry alongside articles, records, public art, Profiling Programme. She is in charge of the and plays. He was an official poet for the London Program Planning, Coordination and Supervision, Olympics. His Landmark Poems are installed and also Institutional Coordination, Fund Raising Closing throughout Manchester and London, in venues and Representation. Maíta has worked for the Earth Fri 16:15 such as The Royal Festival Hall and The Olympic City Council of Barcelona for more than 10 years, Thu 15:30 Park. Sissay is associate artist at Southbank Centre, first as an Architect and then as the responsible patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader for Resilience Projects in the Urban Habitat Organisation, and inaugural trustee of Management Department. World Book Night.
Lydia Nicholas | @lydianicholas Maral Pourkazemi | @maralllo
Lydia Nicholas is an anthropologist focusing on Maral is an information designer with a background futures and networks, often using speculative in classic graphic design. Design is her conviction fiction as a research and communication tool. In and religion. Maral works with data and information recent years she researched antibiotic resistance to make important and relevant problems accessible Intelligence for the Longitude Prize and worked with the UK and easier to understand, and when she’s not Fireside Chat Thu 12:00 Cabinet Office and the Science Museum. She designing she manages projects, direct teams and Fri 11:00 Thriving in currently works as a Senior Researcher in Collective co-create visualization conferences and workshops. Uncertainty Intelligence at Nesta, exploring how people use Maral started the design and consultancy studio Fri 15:00 new digital platforms to collaborate and the ethics monoment, and is a member of Deep Lab. and regulation of using machine learning systems in government decisions. 52 53 Moritz Stefaner | @moritz_stefaner Sarah Kember
Moritz works as a “truth and beauty operator” on Sarah is Professor of New Technologies of the crossroads of data visualization, information Communication at Goldsmiths. Publications include aesthetics and user interface design. He has worked a novel The Optical Effects of Lightning (Wild Wolf with the OECD, the World Economic Forum, FIFA, Publishing, 2011) and a monograph Life After New Fireside Chat and Max Planck Research Society, and has exhibited Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (The MIT Press, Community Thu 11:45 at Venice Biennale of Architecture, and SIGGRAPH, 2012). Current research includes a feminist critique Fri 14:00 ars electronica. He is part of the advisory boards at of smart media, iMedia: The gendering of objects, Prix Ars Electronica, and a reviewing expert for the environments and smart materials (Palgrave, 2015), Future and Emerging Technologies programme of and an affiliated novel, provisionally entitled A Day In the European Commission. The Life Of Janet Smart.
Nelly Ben Hayoun | @nellybenhayoun Stefanie Posavec | @stefpos
Dubbed the ‘Willy Wonka of Design and Science’, Stefanie Posavec is a designer for whom data is her Nelly is an award winning explorer and director, favoured material. Her work has been exhibited at a fearless and passionate provocateur. Designer MoMA, New York; Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, of Experiences at the Search for Extraterrestrial Rio de Janeiro; the V&A, Southbank Centre, and Intelligence Intelligence Institute, Head of Experiences at We Somerset House, London. She recently completed Fireside Chat Thu 10:30 Transfer, a Wired Innovation fellow, a member of a drawing project with Giorgia Lupi, ‘Dear Data’, Fri 14:15 the International astronautical federation, founder deemed the ‘Best Dataviz Project’ and ‘Most of the International Space Orchestra, and in 2013 Beautiful’ at the 2015 Kantar Information is Beautiful Icon Magazine touted Ben Hayoun as one of the 50 Awards, and has been acquired by Particular Books international designers “shaping the future”. to be published in September 2016.
Ruth García-Gavilanes | @ruthygarcia Tash Tung | @holyschmokes
Ruth García-Gavilanes is a member of the Tash Tung is an up-and-coming music video director Computational Social Science group at the Oxford and photographer, having cut her teeth behind the Internet Institute (Oxford University). She is interested scenes collaborating with Gazelle Twin and Chris in understanding online footprints, utilizing/ Turner, as well as many other notable feature film and Thriving in developing computational human behavior from short-form directors. She studied at Chelsea College Fireside Chat Uncertainty methods and leveraging big data. Currently, her main of Art and London College of Communication, Fri 12:00 Fri 14:30 interests are centred in studying collective memory exhibiting photographically under an alias at the Tate based on the information seeking patterns of large Britain, and has since curated two Coming-Of-Age number of individuals on the web. seasons at the Prince Charles Cinema in London.
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10:00 Opening 09:00 - 17:00 10:00 Opening 09:00 - 17:00 Drew Hemment Project Ukko Drew Hemment Project Ukko Claire Braithwaite Life Intelligence 10:30 Intro 10:15 Carlo Buontempo 10:30 10:30 David Benque Nelly Ben Hayoun Care and Share 10:45 Economy Workshop Ben Still 11:00 #1 10.45 Q&A Abi Aspen Glencross 11:15 11:10 Break 11:00 Addie Wagenknecht Izabella Kaminska 11:15 Maral Pourkazemi 11:30 Andy Miah 11:45 Darius Kazemi Angela Cassidy 12:00 11:45 11:45 Gazelle Twin 12:00 Moritz Stefaner Lydia Nicholas Q&A Chris Turner 12:15 Ben Still 12:15 Tash Tung Panel Q&A 12:30 Care and Share 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Q&A Economy Workshop #2 12:45 - 14:15 Lunch Community
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