From Art to Digital Innovation - FutureEverything

Drew HemmentFutureEverything - http://futureeverything.org ImaginationLancaster - http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk

twitter: @toodrew @FuturEverything @ImaginationLanc tag: #futr

http://futureeverything.org

http://futureeverything.org

http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk


未来を提示 twitter: @toodrew @FuturEverything @ImaginationLanc tag: #futr

Art & Digital Innovation

How did FutureEverything grow from art to digital innovation?

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FutureEverything FestivalBringing the future into the present. Established 1995.

フューチャー･エブリティング・フェスティバル英国のメディアアートフェスティバル未来を提示


FutureEverything AwardCelebrating the creative imagination that will shape our future

フューチャー･エブリシング･アワードデジタル･イノベーション＆アーツ賞未来を形作るクリエイティブなアイデアに贈る


FutureEverything LabsDigital Innovation: prototyping the future through art & innovation

フューチャー・エブリティング・ラボデジタルイノベーション - アートとイノベーションが提示する未来像


ImaginationLancasterA creative reseach lab spanning design, management & computing.

Lancaster University




The FutureEverything Festival Cultural Tourism

• 50,000 audience• 300 artists• 40 venues• 15% of delegates from outside UK• 660,000 online visitors

Award Winning

Won awards from arts, technology and business

• Winner, Lever Prize 2010 • Big Chip International Award for Innovation 2010 • Shortlisted, Arts & Business Award 2010 • Runner Up, Lever Prize 2009 • Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2008

Artistic and curatorial debatesInfluencing understandings of media art and digital culture.

Innovation in artistic mediaFor 17 years, FutureEverything has explored new artforms, new kinds of art object, unimagined forms of dissemination, wholly different configurations of art, artist and audience, new opportunities for audience experience, and previously unseen forms of content creation in a connected world.

Locative ArtsMobile Connections, 2003-5

New ways of seeing, sensing and representingRadar, sonar, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular, GIS, etc

Seeking an art of mobile communications:Are there any forms of expression that are intrinsic or unique to mobile and wireless media?


Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation is the successful implementation of new ideas exploiting the technical, cultural and commercial possibilities of digital technology.

Environment 2.0

GloNet with British CouncilGlobal festival of art, music & ideas

Open Data Cities (2009-11)New Mobilities (2009-11)Distant Collaboration (2009-10)The City Experiment (2010)Environment 2.0 (2006-9)Social Networking Unplugged (2007-8)Art For Shopping Centres (2007)Futurevisual (2007)Off The Map (2006)Instrument (2006)

Low Grade (2005)Mobile Connections (2003-5)FutureDJ (2004)Turntable Re:mix (2004)Migrations (2002-3)Blacktronica (2002)Sensurround (2001-2)BrokenChannel (2001)Audiovisions (2000)SenseSonic (1999)The first Futuresonic (1996)

Past FutureEverything Labs

The City Debate


Art & Digital Innovation

How did FutureEverything grow from art to digital innovation?

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Japan & Media Art

In Japan 'media art' includes Japanese video game culture, manga, and anime.

Device Art

Toshio Iwai & Yamaha, TENORI-ONWorld-wide launch in UK following Futuresonic


Europe & Media Art

In Europe, the media art tradition emerged out of video art, and explores relations between art, society and technology.

Art & Activism


From Media Art to Digital Innovation

For FutureEverything, a focus on digital innovation evolved organically from a focus on social activism in our artistic programmes.


Digital Innovation

Developing into a national framework for art and digital innovation, at the heart of the UKʼs innovation ecology.


Elegant Partnerships

Pioneered a new relationship for a festival with its partners and host city ("elegant partnerships")


Intermediary and ideas catalyst

An intermediary between the public, policymakers, industry and practitioners including grassroots communities of developers and users.


Community is king

Community is king, so build up your social capital, get connected, and let new smart ecosystems evolve.


Open sourcing the festival

Shift from curating and producing art in a conventional way to developing and distributing kits and platforms.


Routes to impact

Can we focus on impact and artist merit at the same time?


New creative ideas and inspirations

• Art and urban interface• Art and open data• Prototypes as art• Living labs as curatorial method

Open Data Arts

OurCityEnable thousands of people to have their voice heard and to shape the future of their city.

Olympics 2012 Data Visualisation


But is it Art?

Intense experimentation 'outwith' art.It is both outside traditional art, and it is taking art outside of itself, on a voyage.Postpone the question 'is this art', while we wait for art to catch up.


What are the challenges?

What are the new opportunities challenges created by digital technologies, for art practice, and art institutions?


What are the challenges?

Not one size fits all - digital innovation is not right for everyoneUneasy relation with the art worldPreserving artistic autonomyAgility, speed of change, breaking silo-thinkingNew models of training and evaluationChallenging cherished concepts and institutions

A collaborative project, join us!

Design

From Art to Digital Innovation - FutureEverything