FutureEverything - winner of the Lever Prize 2010

PlayEverything - FREE

A special free all-day event bringing together the artists and geeks, and introducing you to the wonders of the digital space. Take part in fun and surprising workshops, join a conversation about today's digital culture, and build your own instrument to star in a music performance.

Unconference

A day of open, participatory workshop and conversation events, whose content is provided by the participants. Exploring subjects as diverse as the people who propose them, the Unconference is a chance for people to pitch up and share knowledge about the things they are passionate about within digital culture. If you are interested in 'mashing up' data, creating new forms of music or hacking together devices from redundant technology, the UnConference is the place to tell people about it.

If you want to run a session at the Unconference, come along on Saturday 15th May and put your name and session down on the PlayEverything Unconference board. You can do as little or as much as you want but remember that to get the most out of the event it is all about sharing skills, knowledge and ideas.

Comixed: Remixing the Conversation
Three inspirational speakers will offer a vision of the future. Listen, contribute and join the video remix workshops to reinterpret and mash-up this vision and make it your own.

Hide & Seek: 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 victory.

Moldover: 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.

Hive Collective:
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 as we experience them. Immediate, esoteric and transient, digital representations actually mirror the fleeting nature of memory itself, becoming confused, misappropriated, anachronistic and ultimately forgotten. For this interactive performance culminating in a unique performance from TVO, the Hive Collective invites you to trade a copy of your digital memories either in person or by uploading to the Hive website. In return, invited electronic audiovisual artists will take these as their starting point, creating an immediate immersive environment in which your recollections are replayed, re-presented, confused and ultimately erased.

TVO: performance with Hive Collective
One of the regular rotating hosts of Glasgow's infamous 'Numbers' club, Ruaridh Law just may well be one of UK's more varied and talented producers. His wide ranging multitude of aliases and projects stretches from dancefloor oriented techno as TVO through to considered and serious drones and ambience as Accrual and The Village Orchestra. Consistently inventive, Ruaridh takes inspiration from many literary and esoteric sources beyond the usual sound and music palletes, often times creating his own software or embarking on audacious sound recording trips to achieve a specific sound. www.ruaridh.marciablaine.com

Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Stefan Agamanolis:
OUT and ABOUT, and ALWAYS ON
(Unlimited Connectivity)
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 in real time sights and sounds around the two cities. (Start from Contact, Oxford Road)

Culturehub & Contact: 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.

Dirty Electronics: 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. Register for this event here.

Contact, Oxford Road
12 noon - 12 midnight
15 May 2010

Produced by FutureEverything and Contact. Supported by Manchester Beacon, Manchester Science Festival, British Computing Society, Manchester Cultural Partnership