Alpha-ville Symposium // Friday 23rd Sep
Estela
Alpha-ville 2011
1st London Symposium on Post-Digital Culture
Dates: 23rd September 2011
Venue: Rich
Mix Top Floor<
Part of Alpha-ville
Festival of Post-Digital Culture, “Zeitgeist, from digital
to
post-digital”
Programme highlights and new additions, including SCOTT SNIBBE // TOM UGLOW // FILIP VISNJIC // BILL THOMPSON // OLIVIA SOLON // DREW HEMMENT // CHARLES BECKETT // RONALD CARPENTIER // PATRICK HUSSEY // MORITZ STEFANER // KATY BEALE // BEN STEVENSON // KEIICHI MATSUDA // MAN BARTLETT //
Alpha-ville 2011 has announced that as part of this year’s festival it will host the first London Symposium on Post-digital Culture. The one-day event addresses the transition from a digital to a post-digital culture and aims to provide a forum to exchange knowledge and inspire discussions about the future of the digital culture.
In an age where digital is part of every day life, the symposium will look beyond technology at how human behaviours such as collaboration, participation and interaction have redefined the creative practice and society itself, and at how the physical boundaries between reality and online are being blurred.
The event brings together a panel of influential creatives, thinkers and digital professionals to debate a series of topics such us the humanisation of digital technology, augmented reality the use of public spaces, digital innovation in arts and culture, post-digital creativity and experimentation, data and social innovation, the future of the web and more.
The symposium joins the discourse about post-digital initiated in 1998 by visionary, thinker and founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte who pushed the edges of information to predict the future of our culture.
Post-digital Culture Symposium Speakers
Scott Snibbe- media artist, filmmaker, and creative
director of Björk’s Biophilia app
Tom Uglow - director of Creative Labs Europe,
Google
Filip Visnjic - founder of Creative Applications
Network
Drew Hemment - director
& founder of FutureEverything and Associate Director of
Imagination Lancaster
Bill Thompson - BBC technology writer
Charles Beckett - relationship manager, Digital
and
Creative Economy, Arts Council London
Olivia Solon - associate editor at Wired
Ronald Carpentier - VP marketing &
operations,
Layar/Sticktu
Patrick Hussey - digital manager at Arts &
Business
Katy Beale - director at Caper & lead
producer at
Culture Hack
Ben Stevenson - founder of Augmented Reality
Cinema
Moritz Stefaner - Information Designer
Keiichi Matsuda - designer and film-maker
Man Bartlett - artist
Founded in 2009 Alpha-ville is a London based
non-profit
arts organisation exploring the intersection between arts,
technology
and culture.
The 2011 edition of the festival provides an online and live platform to explore, test and disseminate new ideas, emerging trends, collaborations and groundbreaking works. Running from 22-25 September the programme presents social media and interactive art, open labs, meet-ups, talks, workshops and screenings alongside with live music, visual performances and parties.
Info:
Tickets available from
http://www.alpha-ville.co.uk/tickets
Tickets - Festival Pass £55/£85
Symposium Tickets: £40/£30 concessions
Calendar
available at http://www.alpha-ville.co.uk/calendar
iPhone App
downloadable from the Apple Store very soon or fromhttp://www.alpha-ville.co.uk/mobile-app
Twitter info:
symposium hashtag please use #ldnpostdigi
@alphavillefest and #avf11
Symposium Exhibitors:
OECD - The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change. We measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment.
Invest in Hackney - Invest in Hackney provides a free service offering advice and support to businesses looking to locate in Hackney. The service is integrated across the Regeneration teams within Hackney Council and is designed to provide specialist and targeted advice to investors.