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transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW!

Much of 20th century society strove to depict 2010 as a shining example of a future framed by technological progress and social harmony. But as 2010 arrived it was clear that global society was neither the utopia nor the dystopia traditionally presented. FUTURITY NOW! invited for the creation of new templates for the future and asked not what the future has in store for us, but what it is that we have in store for the future.

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transmediale.10 Conference – Future Observatory

Have we caught up with our notions of futures? From 5 to 7 February 2010 these and other important questions are at the centre of the transmediale.10 Symposium Future Observatory at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. International scientists, artists, bloggers, economic avantgardists and thinkers will discuss the technological, aesthetic and political implications of the future. With keynotes by Richard Barbrook (Imaginary Futures), Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram | Alpha) and Bruce Sterling (Atemporality!). (...more)

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The Futurity Long Conversation

Fri 05.02.2010 - 13:00

The conference will open on 5 February 2010 with a nonstop 9-hour Futurity Long Conversation. 21 guests will discuss projects, ideas, technologies and utopias that are already determining our future. Introduced with a keynote by Richard Barbrook.

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Ideologies and Futures of the Internet

Sat 06.02.2010 - 12:30
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New media technologies change the ways in which knowledge is produced and communicated. Having arrived in the technological future we are facing the responsibility to redefine its social and cultural application. How this could be done will not only be discussed by Conrad Wolfram in his keynote lecture but moreover during the panel that follows.

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Atemporality - A Cultural Speed Control?

Sat 06.02.2010 - 16:30
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If progress is to go beyond the banal indulgences that give rise to a never-ending array of car shell designs then we need to analyse our present time with regard to its aesthetics and its media. The second conference session will be introduced with Bruce Sterling's Keynote on Atemporality, followed by a  discussion of how the structure of the future and our sense of time have changed. How does this impact the way we do or are to act in the world?

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Liquid Democracies

Sun 07.02.2010 - 17:00
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In relation to recent events social networking sites have replaced traditional news coverage. Sociology professor Tiziana Terranova moderates this third conference session examining the 'radical' roles of tools like Twitter and Facebook as 'revolutionary' media. Are we dealing with a new force, a new social mechanism for the exchange of information, a new truth? Or is it just another case of 'the emperor's new clothes'?

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