FutureEverything Art
Presenting the most innovative contemporary art and design, from urban interventions by leading figures in visual culture to inspirational approaches to visualising data, an art exhibition of mobile apps, the Fab Lab Art Challenge, and a live augmented remix of the UK Election.
Serendipity City
Our main exhibition, featuring architecture-inspired art, city-drifting iPhone apps, jaw-dropping data visualisations and a selection of Award nominees.
Urban Interventions
Artists transform spaces across Manchester in playful and provocative ways: a cutting edge collective hit a secret warehouse while erudite Modernists map the sprawl.
PlayEverything
Artists and geeks, create with unlimited bandwidth, join an urban game sandpit, rock a controllerism performance, and experience an unconference.
Share Me
FutureEverything presents its own version of swap shop with three artist projects inviting you to exchange objects and stories.
Partner Exhibitions
Great exhibitions from our friends, exploring urban spaces and spanning Manchester, Shanghai, Baghdad, and cities yet to be built.
Art
The FutureEverything 2010 art programme continues FutureEverything's pioneering approach to contemporary art and the digital world. It features inspirational approaches to visualising data, urban interventions by leading figures in visual culture, and light sculptures toying with architectural form. All FutureEverything 2010 art exhibitions and events are FREE to attend. Read curatorial statement here.
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Art Launch
Continuing FutureEverything's pioneering approach to the digital world, this year's art programme considers urban interventions, the way we see the city, and expansive methods of visualising data....12 May 2010 5pm - 9pmThe HiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Agents of Change 0.3
VENUE REVEALED!! Fresh from transforming an abandoned village, the contemporary art collective Agents of Change hit Manchester with spray cans, paint and perception-altering art on their minds....10 May 2010 10am - 6pmSecret venue, to be revealedArt Themes: Urban Interventions -
Prime Numerics
A live audiovisual remix of the 2010 UK election TV debate by FutureEverything Award nominated USA design group....29 April 2010 7.30pm - 11pmPeople's History MuseumArt Themes: Art Expanded -
The Feast of Trimalchio
A multiple projection experience, that updates and abstracts the story of the Roman plutocrat Trimalchio from Petronius’ Satyricon, transposing the orgies of masters and servants to the setting of a...12 May 2010 10am - 9pmPalace Hotel FoyerArt Themes: Urban Interventions -
Social Game Sandpit
Join the action in a day of social games and playful experiences. Choose a few games to play and then sneak, run, betray, discover, act or puzzle your way to...15 May 2010 5.30pm - 10pmContactArt Themes: PlayEverything -
Comixed: Remixing the Conversation
Three inspirational speakers will offer a vision of the future. Listen, contribute and join the video remix workshop to reinterpret and mash-up this vision and make it your own....15 May 2010 12:30ContactArt Themes: PlayEverything -
OUT and ABOUT, and ALWAYS ON
A project illustrating how to get creative with *ubiquitous* infinite bandwidth. Groups in Manchester and New York will roam the city streets, capturing and sharing the sights and sounds around...15 May 2010 3pm - 5pmContact & City WideArt Themes: PlayEverything -
Call & Response (Unlimited Connectivity)
Vocalists and performers in Manchester and New York get creative with unlimited bandwidth, starting a series of regular performance events between the cities using telepresence and remote connections....15 May 2010 5pm - 6pmContactArt Themes: PlayEverything -
Remember Me
RememberMe is a collaborative project with the Oxfam shop, near Contact Theatre. Leading up to FutureEverything, artists will be based in the shop, recording brief stories about the donated objects....12 May 2010 10am - 5:30pmOxfamArt Themes: Share Me -
No. 207
No.207 is rooted in the artist's observation of the urban milieu, the aesthetic possibilities of the city and the implications of architectural modernism....12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Google Street Views
Artist Jon Rafman has built a collection of extraordinary pictures taken by the nine-eyed cameras of Google Street View. The scenes provide moments of humour, crime, and beauty, which...12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Elsewhereness
The Elsewhereness series deals with questions of site specificity, juxtaposing the nomadic with the place-bound. Early site specific artworks in the 1960s – 70s were often massive in form and...12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
A Journey
“A Journey” is an interactive light installation that aims to offer people a dream-like world inside an old medicine case....12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Serendipity Apps: Apps for Networked Cities & Citizens
Visionary thinker Adam Greenfield suggests the joy of cities is found in unexpected culture clashes. In Serendipity Apps he curates a collection of iPhone and Android apps which support surprise...12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
New York New York
New York, New York imagines a second mirror-image version of NYC built next to the original....12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
The Fab Lab Art Challenge
Fab Lab’s contain cutting-edge machinery such as laser cutters, etchers, robotic routers and 3-dimensional printers. FutureEverything have challenged 18 artists to create new work in 8 hours....12 May 2010Fab LabArt Themes: Art Expanded -
Fab Lab Artist in Residence
Originating at MIT, the Manchester Fab Lab is the first open access rapid prototyping lab of its kind in the UK and FutureEverything has placed Rob Bailey as the inaugural...6 April 2010Fab LabArt Themes: Art Expanded -
The Eyewriter
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS, and other degenerative neuromuscular diseases, with creative technologies....12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Open_Sailing
Open_Sailing is an international community trying to develop the International_Ocean_Station as an open-source project, developing hardware and software to enable intelligent human activities at sea....12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Slurb
The animated, carnivalesque tailgate party of Slurb loops and stutters like a vinyl record stuck in a groove. Slurb – a word that collapses “slum” and “suburb” – encapsulates a...12 May 2010 10am - 6pmThe HiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Bicycle Built for Two Thousand
Comprised of 2,088 voice recordings of the song “Daisy Bell” collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves...12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe)
A Planetary Order is a terrestrial globe showing clouds from one single moment in time, thereby subtly highlighting the fragility and interdependence of the Earth’s environmental systems....12 May 2010HiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Poly
Poly is the latest project from the R&D lab at Digit. The team have been investigating new modes of data visualization; bringing online feeds to life in a physical and...12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Guide To Free Farming
'the guide to free farming' reveals the unsuspecting resources hidden in our towns. Recipes include street flower salad and grilled rat, along with instructions for plucking a pigeon, and using...12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Things Happen Fanzine: The City Experiment
Design LAB, the multi-disciplinary design group based at Manchester Metropolitan University present a fanzine concerned with critiquing and remaking the city. Pick up a copy at the FutureEverything Hubs....12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Manchester Kiosks
The Manchester Modernist Society present Manchester Kiosks, a new artist commission to reclaim and reconnect the five remaining iconic k6 red telephone kiosks in Manchester...12 May 2010 10am - 5pmMuseum of Science and Industry (MOSI)Art Themes: Urban Interventions -
Manchester Modernist Society Walks
To complement the Kiosks project, the Manchester Modernist Society present a walking tour. Meet by the steps of the Central Library and discover the remaining kiosks and many Modernist...13 May 2010 2pm - 4pmCentral Library stepsArt Themes: Urban Interventions -
Manchester Modernist Map
The Manchester Modernist Society, in partnership with Taylor Young Architects, introduces an interactive online map of 20th century Manchester architectural landmarks....12 May 2010 10am - 6pmHiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Larkin' About
Larkin' About is an on-going collaboration between theatre practitioners, digital artists, map makers, live artists and game players. Pick up a map and instructions and explore FutureEverything from our playful...15 May 2010 2pm - 7pmKro2Art Themes: Urban Interventions -
FriiSpray
FriiSpray is a guerilla infrared graffiti installation using a custom infra-red spray can, a projector, a Nintendo WiiMote, and open source software. Come create digital graffiti on the windows of...12 May 2010 9pm - 11pmKro2Art Themes: Urban Interventions -
Moments of Breathing with You
Cornerhouse in collaboration with FutureEverything is pleased to host artist-in-residence Hafsah Naib, who will respond to current exhibition Contemporary Art Iraq....12 May 2010 12pm - 8pmCornerhouseArt Themes: Share Me -
13 May 2010 10am - 6pmContactArt Themes: Share Me -
Cu Exhibition Reception
Cu explores the thin veneer between two states or media. Curatorial collective Contents May Vary raise questions and instigate dialogues, asking what can be defined as the connections or disconnections...13 May 2010 6pm - 9pmCopperface JacksArt Themes: Art Expanded -
Art & Media: Cu Exhibition
Cu is an exhibition on the thin veneer between two states or media, in which Manchester-based curatorial collective Contents May Vary respond to the context of FutureEverything 2010....13 May 2010 10am - 6pmCopperface JacksArt Themes: Art Expanded -
Art & Media Conversation Event
Bringing artists, gallerists and curators to the table, this series of short presentations and related open discussions explore the relationships and boundaries between media art and visual art....15 May 2010 2-5pmCastlefield GalleryConference Themes: Free Conference Events Art Themes: Art Expanded -
WOW Artist Residency
WOW is a visual design studio based in Tokyo, Sendai and Florence. As part of an exciting exchange between Sendai and Manchester, FutureEverything welcome WOW for a lively artist’s...12 May 2010Art Themes: Art Expanded -
Aaron Koblin - Data Visualisations
We live our lives surrounded by data, in a digitally mediated reality. Artist and designer Aaron Koblin has curated an eclectic selection of his favourite data visualisations...12 May 2010Serendipity City @ The HiveArt Themes: Serendipity City -
Controllerism Workshop
Step up to one of five different networked instruments, including Moldover's new multiplayer instrument, The SyncoMasher. Record samples, tweak loops, jam with other people and have fun....15 May 2010 12pm - 12amContactArt Themes: PlayEverything -
Finissage and Fab Lab Presentation
Following a series of artist residencies, we'll be presenting the results of the Fab Lab Art Challenge...15 May 2010 6 - 8pmPost Room, Palace HotelArt Themes: Art Expanded -
Dirty Electronics Workshop & Performance
Build from scratch a DIY electronic instrument you can take home with you for only £5. An alternative to mass produced digital Culture, followed by performance....15 May 2010 4pm - 8pmContactArt Themes: PlayEverything -
Memories are Brighter than our Digital Debris
Everyday digital archives have become ubiquitous through the use of mobile technologies such as smartphones. As a result, we're constantly archiving and recording our experiences, often at the same time...15 May 2010 12pm - 12amContactArt Themes: PlayEverything -
Film Screening: Manchester Architecture and Design Festival Student Screening
In collaboration with Lancaster University's Experimentality programme, students from the college of Continuity in Architecture will premiere short films exploring narrative approaches to architecture. Followed by an informal reception....13 May 2010 6pm - 9pmCUBEArt Themes: Art Expanded -
Film Screening: Bricks and Mortar
A selection of films that focus on urban architecture and planning and seek out hidden, shifting meanings sometimes by destructive means. Includes work by John Smith, Guy Sherwin, Karen Mirza...14 May 2010 7pm - 10pmCopperface JacksArt Themes: Art Expanded -
Film Screening: Slanted Cities & Slip Roads
A programme of short films that take inspiration from suburbs, industrial estates and the glimpses witnessed when traversing urban landscapes. Includes Jacques Peretti’s joyously deadpan Stepford Lives, a film...15 May 2010 7pm - 10pmCopperface JacksArt Themes: Art Expanded -
Partner Exhibition: Unbuilt
Almost a decade ago, undergraduates commenced architecture degrees amid a booming economic climate. As they graduate into a recession, Blank Media Collective offer an exciting opportunity to showcase unrealised work....7 May 2010EASA HQArt Themes: Partner Exhibitions -
Partner Exhibition: Manchester Architecture and Design Festival (MADF)
An exhibition of projects by members of the Manchester Society of Architects for the 2010 Design Awards, highlighting the important role played by architecture and design in enhancing the built...12 May 2010 10am - 6pmCUBEArt Themes: Partner Exhibitions -
Partner Exhibition: Lan Wei
Lan Wei is a photography exhibition, by acclaimed Hong Kong artist, Stanley Wong. Photographs of abandoned buildings capture the relics of a mad development ‘gold rush’ in Asia....16 April 2010 10am - 6pmChinese Arts CentreArt Themes: Partner Exhibitions -
Partner Exhibition: Contemporary Art Iraq
The first UK exhibition of contemporary art from Iraq since the first Gulf War, examining practices that are emerging with fresh perspectives from a culture marked by conflict and turmoil....16 April 2010 12pm - 8pmCornerhouseArt Themes: Partner Exhibitions -
The City Experiment Building
Due to a touch of the unforeseens, The City Experiment Building has been replaced with Thinking Inside The Box a Shipping Container in Piccadilly Gardens hosting conversations on the use...13 May 2010 10am - 6pmPublic SpaceArt Themes: Urban Interventions -
PlayEverything Unconference
A day of open, participatory workshop and conversation events, whose content is provided by participants....15 May 2010 12:00 - 24:00Contact TheatreConference Themes: Free Conference Events Art Themes: PlayEverything
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