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FutureEverything is an art and digital innovation organization based in Manchester, England, founded (as Futuresonic) in 1995 around an annual festival of art, music and digital culture. The organization runs year-round digital innovation labs on themes such as open data, remote collaboration, urban interface and environmental mass observation. FutureEverything presents an international art and innovation award, The FutureEverything Award, introduced in 2010. The FutureEverything festival each year presents the work of 300 artists across its art, music and conference strands, and is conceived as a 'living lab' for participatory experiments on art, society and technology. FutureEverything was Winner of the Lever Prize 2010. The founder and Artistic Director of FutureEverything is the English artist, curator and researcher Drew Hemment.

Award

FutureEverything launched an international art and innovation award in 2010, The FutureEverything Award. The FutureEverything Award recognises outstanding achievement for innovation in art, society & technology. It celebrates creative projects in any medium that offer a new and unique way to experience or see the world and help to bring the future into the present. The winner receives a £10,000 cash prize and the FutureEverything Trophy. The inaugural winner in 2010 was The Eyewriter.

Festival

The FutureEverything Festival (formerly Futuresonic) is an annual festival of art, music and digital culture in Manchester, England. It has four main strands, Art, Music, Conference and Showcase. It features 300 artists across 30 venues and is attended by 50,000 people. FutureEverything was established in 1995 with the first major festival in September 1996. It has since presented projects in Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Europe.

Featured musicians include 4hero, Actress, Andy Votel, Anti-Pop Consortium, AntiVJ, Apparat (musician), Ariel Pink, Bass Clef, Battles, Christian Fennesz, Cristian Vogel, Crystal Antlers, Daedelus, Daniele Baldelli, Def Jux ft. RJD2, Demdike Stare, Denis Jones, DiY Soundsystem, DJ Woody, Electric Wizard, Extra Life, Faust, Graham Massey, Graham Massey, Hudson Mohawke, Icy Demons, James Holroyd, Jamie Lidell, Johann Johannsson, Kaffe Matthews, King Britt, King Midas Sound, Kode 9, Konono No.1, Ladytron, Lee Ranaldo, Mark Ernestus & Paul St. Hilaire, Marnie Stern, Matthew Herbert, Merzbow, Mika Vainio, Mouse On Mars, Murcof, Omar Souleyman, Philip Glass, Plaid, Rhythm n' Sound, Ryoji Ikeda, RZA, Semiconductor, Shy Child, Skream, Sleeparchive, Soap&Skin, Tim Exile, Times New Viking, Toddla T, Ultre, Wolfgang Flur, Xela, Zomby.

Art and digital culture participants include Aaron Koblin, Access Space, Ackroyd & Harvey, AES+F, Agents of Change, Akitsugu Maebayashi, Alexei Shulgin, Alfie Dennon, Amy Balkin, Andrea Polli, Augustine Leudar, Blast Theory, Christa Sommerer, Christian Nold, Cory Arcangel, Digit, Elin Wikstrom, Evan Roth, Fujiko Nakaya, Graham Harwood, Harun Farocki, HeHe, Hide & Seek, Janine Randerson, Jon Cohrs, Jon Rafman, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Kim Abeles, Light Surgeons, LoVid, Marina Zurkow, Marko Peljhan, Masaki Fujihata, Olia Lialina, onedotzero, Owl Project, Prayas Abhinav, Sadie Plant, Scenocosme, Shu Lea Cheang, Sosolimited, The Owl Project, Toshio Iwai, Usman Haque, Yara El-Sherbini, Yuri Suzuki, Zachary Lieberman.

Conference

The FutureEverything Conference (est. 1995) is a meeting ground for the digital media, technology and art communities. It is focused on the social impact of the trends and innovations in the digital sphere. It combines keynotes, critical debates, demos and experiences with open space and participatory sessions.

Past speakers include Adam Greenfield, Adrian Woolard, Aleks Krotoski, Andi Studer, Barry Miles, Ben Cerveny, Chris Heathcote, Claudio Prado, Dame Wendy Hall, Darren Wershler, David Eaves, Ele Carpenter, Eric Paulos, Felipe Fonseca, Geoff Cox, Geraldine Juarez, Gerd Leonhard, Guilherme Wisnik, Jamais Cascio, James Marriott, James Wallbank, Jonas Woost, Katie Lips & Patrick Fox, Keri Facer, Lee Bryant, Mark Shepard, Matt Jones, Matt Locke, Mike Ryan, Monika Buscher, Nigel Shadbolt, Paul Coulton, Paul Domenet, Rachel O'Connell, Ravikant Shama, Scott Cohen, Stefan Agamanolis, Stowe Boyd, Tom Ilube.

Innovation Labs

FutureEverything runs year-round digital innovation labs, collaborative projects lasting between 9-36 months aiming to implement new ways to work, learn, play and create in a computerised, networked and collaborative world.

Digital Innovation labs have been developed in collaboration with local government, universities, private sector companies and contemporary cultural industries. The long running partnership with the ImaginationLancaster creative lab at Lancaster University was nominated for an Arts & Business Award in 2010.

Past innovation labs include Mobile & Locative Media (2003-6), Social Technologies (2006-8), Environment 2.0 (2006-9), Open Data Cities (2009-11) and FutureEverything Data Arts (2010-11). Open Data Cities led to the establishment of DataGM, the Greater Manchester Datastore, in partnership with a Greater Manchester local authority, Trafford Borough Council, in 2011.

The labs can interface with the FutureEverything Festival, which acts as a living lab and a global dissemination platform. The collaborative method has been published in the form of the Festival As Lab Toolkit (FALT).

Organiser

FutureEverything CIC is a non-profit creative 'community interest company'. It is registered with Companies House UK and regulated by the CIC Regulator. FutureEverything is a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) of Arts Council England, and is supported by Manchester City Council, Lancaster University and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

References

Hemment, D (2010). 'Environment 2.0: Participatory Mass Observation'. Leonardo, Vol. 43, No. 2, p. 104, 2010 (Editorial Statement)

Hemment, D (2011). 'Environment 2.0'. Leonardo, Vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 61-69, 2011 (Special Section)

External links

• http://futureeverything.org