<<Cybersalon Past Events>>

CYBERSALON IN ASSOCIATION WITH NMK & AIM @ THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE
IDESIGN: DESIGN FOR LIFE
Tuesday, 18th September, 9am-6pm
Purcell Room & Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX <www.southbankcentre.co.uk>
Cost & Booking: iDesign Conference £55, Creatively Digital exhibition FREE
Event and exhibition information: <www.idesign-london.com>
Tickets available from the Southbank Centre online ticket sales
Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

September 18th brings iDesign: Design for Life, a one day event providing the main digital focus for the London Design Festival. The conference and accompanying exhibition examines the impact of digital interactive media on all of our lives, and showcases some of the capitals most innnovative and exciting digital work. Bringing together some of the foremost practitioners and thinkers from online, mobile, film, games music and tv, the delegation will discuss how our collective digital future will pan out, and the importance of good design principles and practices for both social and economic benefit. iDesign: Design for Life is presented by dynamo London in association with NMK, AIG and Cybersalon, with support from the LDA.

As part of the iDesign public programme, Cybersalon presents Creatively Digital - a showcase of innovative, interactive work and emergent technology projects from a selection of small but perfectly formed design and media agencies - including Sennep, Troika and Someth;ng; fresh thinking from public broadcasters - including Channel 4's Big Art Project; and research and development initiatives - including Proboscis's DIFFUSION, Snout & StoryCubes projects and a range of work from Phd Researchers at the Digital Studios of Cambridge & Goldsmiths Universities.

While the iDesign conference programme requires a ticket - Creatively Digital is FREE and open to the general public. Everyone is welcome to participate in the talks, interact with the works and find out more about the diverse range of projects involved face-to-face.

During the conference lunch break and between 1.15-2.15pm, Martyn Ware presents Emergence - a showcase of innovation in interactivity and digital media...

Martyn is best known as a seminal 80s pop icon and co-founder of The Human League and Heaven 17. However, through the Illustrious Company - his recent creative venture with Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure - and his current Arts Council supported convergent art project, the Future Of Sound, Martyn has been working with and and showcasing some of the latest developments in convergent media and emergent technologies. For Creatively Digital he invites a selection of practitioners at the forefront of interactivity to share and discuss their work - guests include:
Jason Bruges - founder of the Jason Bruges Studio which creates installations, sculptures and environments that focus on interaction with the individual and the environment,
Ross Phillips - Head of Interactive at SHOWstudio - an online fashion broadcasting company committed to pioneering, live fashion media and led by photographer Nick Knight,
Fiddian Warman - Managing Director and a Soda founder who has steered the company's evolution in developing creative tools that help communities work, play and learn together.

Cybersonica is London’s annual festival of electronic music, sonic art and audiovisual fusion.

Now in its sixth year, the festival is a leading international event for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work. The festival brings together a vibrant community of sonic and audiovisual innovation, nurtures new talent and showcases the freshest and latest work in the field.

IMAGINARY FUTURES BOOK LAUNCH AFTER PARTY
Wedneday, 16th May 2007, 9pm–2am
Madame JoJos, 8-10 Brewer Street, London, W1F OSE <www.madamejojos.com>

Please RSVP to attend the book launch to Lisa Devaney, by Friday, 11 May. <lisa[AT]imaginaryfutures.net>

This spring the 'net community is buzzing about the soon-to-be released new book Imaginary Futures, by Dr. Richard Barbrook, author, University of Westminster lecturer and a founder of Cybersalon.

In his newest literary work, Barbrook traces the political history of the Internet and puts forth a call to action for the cyber-connected to take the world's most powerful political tool into their own hands to make a better future. Early critical reviews are describing it as a radical, well-researched look at 'net politics. Visit the Imaginary Futures website to learn more about the book at <http://www.imaginaryfutures.net>.

If you are based in London, please mark your calendar for 16 May, Richard invites the Cybersalon community to attend his celebratory book launch after party. Music will be provided by DJs Keith Franklin & DJ Ray Stanley <www.djkcc.co.uk> and late night entertainment will feature legendary Chicago House-style performer Robert Owens: http://www.myspace.com/robertjowens

If you can’t be in London for the book launch, Richard appreciates your support, and look for him on MySpace and YouTube, where he’ll be posting updates about book tours, speaking appearances and other news, and uploading v-logs to share with his audiences overseas. You can also subscribe to the Imaginary Futures newsletter by visiting: <www.imaginaryfutures.net>

CYBERSALON & NMK @ THE GLOBE THEATRE
XMAS SPECIAL: WHY DIDN'T I DO THAT?
Tuesday, 12th December 2006, 6-10pm
The Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9DT <www.shakespeares-globe.org>
Cost & Booking: £5. Places must be reserved in advance via the NMK website <www.nmk.co.uk>.
Nearest tubes: Southwark/London Bridge

Have you ever seen a piece of work and wish that you'd done it? Are there projects that you know about that make you want to weep at their brilliance?

Some of the capitals hottest home grown and exported new media talent are coming together for this unique celebration of outstanding work. Four accomplished digeratti will be discussing not their own work - but great work that they admire, they marvel at, and that they wish they'd done.

Chaired by digital design pioneer Malcolm Garrett speakers include Jason Bruges (Jason Bruges Studio), Andy Cameron (Fabrica), Sankey (All of us) and Simon Waterfall (Poke).

The event, in association with NMK, launches dynamolondon, an online showcase for the best of Londons digital design, which is set to become an indispensable information source for the new media industry.

London occupies a world-leading position in the digital design industry, with a track record of creative communications combined with technical innovation and commercial success. The purpose of dynamolondon is to showcase the projects, companies and creators who have achieved commercial and professional success with their creative solutions, and continue to influence the way the industry develops.

Are you involved in new media in London, and have you got an opinion about whats hot or not?

Have you got something to say? If so, come and join some seriously talented, opinionated peers, and get involved in dynamolondon from the outset of this exciting new venture.

Following the discussion there will be a drinks reception and social and networking audiovisual lounge hosted by Cybersalon and featuring The Illustrious Compay's <www.illustriouscompany.co.uk> 3D audioscape facility introduced by Heaven 17 founder Martyn Ware with live visuals from body>data>space <www.bodydataspace.net>.

The project is funded by the London Development Agency, the Mayors agency for business and jobs in the capital.

CYBERSALON & SELECT PARKS @ THE DANA CENTRE
ARTFUL GAMING FORUM
Thursday, 5th October 2006, 1-10pm
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost & Booking: £5. Places must be reserved in advance by emailing <bookings[AT]cybersalon.org>. Payment details will be forwarded by return. The £5 booking fee includes a £4 voucher for use at the Dana Centre d.cafe that is open from 10am-7pm for food and refreshments.
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

ARTFUL GAMING EXHIBITION
Monday, 2nd - Friday, 6th October 2006, 10am-6pm
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost & Booking: This event is FREE and no booking is required - but call the Dana Centre on 020 7942 4040 to confirm details.
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

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As part of the London Games Festival Fringe <www.londongamesfringe.com >, Cybersalon and Select Parks host Artful Gaming at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre - a one-day forum and week-long exhibition that spotlights innovation and platforms new work, new developments and new thinking in gaming culture.

Through an exhibition of key works, artistic and technical 'knowledge sharing' workshops, panel discussions, artist talks and playful interactions Artful Gaming will explore a series of key questions at the frontiers of gaming innovation:

The programme showcases artists and developer groups and small pioneering agencies developing alternative gaming experiences – be it devising new interactive interfaces; exploring non-traditional gaming environments; modifying existing game engines; using innovative R&D and production methods; or distributing their work via new networks.

The sharing of expertise, technical or otherwise, formed the original 'grass roots' of game development, as we know it today. Artful Gaming aims to foster this tradition by bringing the underground art games community into contact and dialogue with small, independent commercial gaming agencies and make them more visible to the commercial gaming sector and to game enthusiasts, London's digital art community and the general public. Artful Gaming will make the case that art games are to the game industry what short films are to the film industry; that you don't have to work in the industry to experiment with game design/development; and that gaming should be reclaimed as a medium for any use, not only 'entertainment'.

Contributors, speakers and works include: Myfanwy Ashmore - Mario Battle No. 1, Ed Cookson of The Sancho Plan - The Sancho Plan, Toshi Endo - Chit Chat National Park, Adam and Aaron Fothergill, Strange Flavour Ltd, Richard Gutleber of Susigames - EdgeBomber, Alex Jeremovic of igloo - Summerbranch,Tanya Krzywinska, Reader in Film and TV Studies, Brunel University, Fijuu - Fijuu2, Anthony Rowe of squidsoup - Ghosts and others to be confirmed.

A full programme for the forum will be announced shortly on the Artful Gaming micro site. Check back here for detaiis.

Cybersalon gratefully acknowledges support from the Science Museum's Dana Centre, UK Online/Sky Broadband and Creative London.

CYBERSALON @ THE DANA CENTRE
CYBERSONICA 06
Friday, 19th May 2006, 11am-10pm - Saturday, 20th May 2006, 11am-8.30pm
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost & Bookings: Details on the Cybersonica 06 website <www.cybersonica.org>
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

Cybersonica <www.cybersonica.org> is London’s annual festival of electronic music, sonic art and audiovisual fusion. Now in its fifth year, it is a leading international event for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work. The festival brings together a vibrant community of sonic and audiovisual innovation, nurtures new talent and showcases the freshest and latest work in the field. Cybersonica is organised by Cybersalon, currently artists in residence at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.

Cybersonica 06 commissions and showcases both live, cutting edge audiovisual performance and sonic art works that contain the most exciting contemporary approaches to creative interactivity - moving beyond the screen, keyboard and mouse and responding to sound, kinetics, elapsed time and the surrounding environment.

Gathered through invitation, a commissioning programme and an ‘open call’ for existing artworks, Cybersonica 06 brings challenging new work to an international audience. It profiles the latest developments in music, sound and audiovisual fusion and showcase the latest work of some of the most innovative artists and practitioners in the field.

Cybersonica 06 is presented in association with the Science Museum’s Dana Centre <www.danacentre.org.uk> and in partnership with the Encompass Festival <www.encompass-london.com> - navigating the business and art of cutting edge music at Shoreditch Town Hall, EC1 and five East London club and performance venues, 11-13th May 2006 and b.TWEEN 06 <www.btween.co.uk> - the Festival of Future Entertainment, at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, 24-26 May 2006.

Collaborators and contributors to the Cybersonica 06 programme include Soundtoys.net <www.soundtoys.net>, Trampoline <www.trampolinesite.net>, Toplap <www.toplapsite.net>, Threshold <www.eventnetwork.org.uk/threshold/>, Umami <www.umami.tv> and many others. Cybersonica 06 is sponsored by the national ISP, UK Online and supported by Arts Council England.

Full details of the festival are available at the Cybersonica 06 website <www.cybersonica.org>.

CYBERSALON & THE DIGITAL RESEARCH UNIT @ THE DANA CENTRE
CREATIVE SOFTWARE
Thursday, 23rd March 2006, 1-10pm
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: Free. Email <bookings[AT]cybersalon.org> for details.
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

The day-time programme, 1-6pm, of the Creative Software event is now fully booked. Limited spaces are still available for the evening panel debate, 7-10pm, but please note that places MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCED.

Stanza's Global: Never the same again always different... Forever, is a real time web artifact - a 3D web sculpture transformed in real time with live data from CCTV and web cams around the world. <www.stanza.co.uk/global/>.

"The signature and aesthetics of artists who write their own source code manifest themselves both in the code itself and in its visual results."
Christianne Paul, Digital Art, (2003)

Creative Software is a one-day event featuring workshops, artist talks, an exhibition of selected works and an evening panel discussion involving leading practitioners, academics and curators in the field. The programme will investigate the relationship between art and technology and explore the history, context and approaches of artists who write their own software and/or author their own code to produce creative outputs.

Panelists and presenters include: Ed Burton - Research & Development Director, Soda; Tom Corby - researcher/artist, reconnoitre.net; Charlie Gere - Director of Research, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, Tom Holley - Creative Director, The Media Centre, Huddersfield; Alex McClean - programmer/musician/artist, state51/Slub/toplap; Hannah Redler - Head of Arts Programme, Science Museum; Andrew Shoben - artist, Greyworld; Alexei Shulgin - artist/curator, runme.org; and Stanza - artist/curator, Soundtoys.net.

Creative software is a rich, but hitherto marginalised area of art practice. Yet few areas of artistic endeavour better demonstrate the merging of art and technology and the blurring of the roles of artist and developer.

Cybersalon and the Digital Research Unit (DRU), Hudderfield are collaborating to help realise the hidden potential of the area by proposing the founding a Creative Software Forum. We envisage that this network will: operate as a crucial research and advocacy group; work proactively to source and engage with creative software showcases, curators and commissioners, established and emerging creative software artists/artist groups and their work; assemble event programmes that are diverse, accessible, exciting and contemporary; and ensure the strategic development of these events are informed by expertise in the field.

The Creative Software event is part of a process of public dialogue as a precursor to submitting a funding proposal to found the Creative Software Forum. We hope to draw together a community of practitioners, artists, academics, students, theorists, other curators and an interested general public to discuss, scope and explore the potential and remit of a forum that could champion and advocate for this work in an ongoing way. It's an open call to all interested parties to express their interest and to contribute to the discussion.

Please contact Lewis Sykes, Cybersalon Coordinator <lewis[AT]cybersalon.org> if you are interested in contributing to Creative Software.

CYBERSALON in association with the BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY, NORTH LONDON BRANCH
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
Wednesday 22nd February 2006, 6.15 for 6.30pm
BCS, 1st floor, 5 Southampton St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA
Cost: Admission is free and everyone is welcome. Bring your colleagues and friends interested in IT, but please register in advance, as soon as possible via the BCS North London Branch web-site: <www.nlondon.bcs.org>.
Nearest tubes: Charing Cross, Covent Garden

This lecture is a history of the future. It will show how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by a forty-year-old prophecy. During the Cold War, the rulers of America appropriated the ideas of Marshall McLuhan for the propaganda struggle against its Russian rival. The USA was building the next stage of human civilisation – the information society – and the rest of the world would have to follow its path into the networked future. As the owner of time, America controlled space. In 1968, the Vietnamese demonstrated the fallacies of this hi-tech ideology to the global TV audience. Yet, in 2006, we’re still being told that the Net is creating the information society – and America today is everywhere else tomorrow. If we don’t want the future to be what it used to be, we must invent our own future.

Join us at this special event with Dr. Richard Barbrook (Westminster University and Cybersalon), author of the book Imaginary Futures which can be found at <www.imaginaryfutures.net>. The main lecture will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

Further information about this and other BCS activities is available via the website, else via email to Branch Chairman Dalim Basu: <dalim1[AT]onetel.com>.

CYBERSALON & NMK @ THE DANA CENTRE
XMAS LECTURE 05: JAMES WOUDHUYSEN - THE FUTURE OF CREATIVITY & INNOVATION
Thursday 15th December 2005, 7.30-10pm
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: Free. Email <bookings[AT]cybersalon.org> for details.
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

THE D.STUDIO SPACE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED ALTHOUGH A LIMITED NUMBER OF SPACES TO VIEW THE LECTURE VIA THE D.CAFE SCREENS AND JOIN THE POST LECTURE SOCIAL ARE STILL AVAILABLE.

James Woudhuysen is Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. Join James for the Cybersalon & NMK annual Xmas Lecture to speculate about how media and communications technologies are interacting and impacting on society, economics, politics and culture.

CYBERSALON @ 01ZERO-ONE
LONDON/BRAZIL HOTSPOT
Wednesday 2nd November 2005, 7-9pm
01zero-one, Westminster Kingsway College, Peter Street, London W1F 0HS <www.01zero-one.co.uk>
Cost: Free
Nearest tubes: Leicester Square/Piccadilly Circus

Speaker:
Claudio Prado, Digital Policy Coordinator, Brazilian Ministry of Culture

At the 10th October Cybersalon, Gilberto Gil and his colleagues suggested that we should set up of one of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture’s digital media hotspots in London. You are invited to this meeting on 2nd November when Claudio Prado will lead a discussion on how we can turn this idea into reality.

CYBERSALON @ GUANABARA
BRAZILIAN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE & COPYLEFT
Monday 10th October 2005, 7pm - late
Guanabara, Parker Street, Nr. Drury Lane, London WC2
Cost: Free
Members of the press interested in attending or for further information, please contact Patsy Lima at Guanabara - patsy[AT]guanabara.co.uk
Nearest tubes: Covent Garden

VIEW THE LIVE WEBCAST FOR THE GILBERTO GIL BRAZILIAN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE & COPYLEFT EVENT AT GUANABARA HERE

Speakers:
Gilberto Gil - Minister of Culture, Brazil
Claudio Prado - Digital Policy Coordinator, Ministry of Culture, Brazil
Dr. Richard Barbrook - Cybersalon and University of Westminster

This Cybersalon will discuss the Brazilian government's open source software project and its support for copyleft at the forthcoming WSIS conference on 18-19th November in Tunis, Tunisia. WSIS is the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society: www.itu.int/wsis

6.00pm: British Council meet & greet (invite only)
6.30pm: Press reception
7.00-9.30pm: Cybersalon lectures and discussion (free entry)
10.00pm: Charity auction of football shirts signed by Pele and Brazilian team
10.30pm until late: DJ set

Ever since he became the Brazilian Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil has championed the democratic potential of new media. As one of his first moves on taking office, he created a Digital Culture department within the Ministry and appointed Claudio Prado to take charge of this initiative.

The work of the Digital Culture department is inspired by the realisation that the social impact of the digital technological revolution can only be understood from a cultural perspective - and that these new technologies can act as catalysts for totally new paradigms in every field of human behaviour.

The Digital Culture department of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture is responsible for promoting debate about the key issues of the digital technological revolution inside government circles; among the universities; and within the wider society. During the last few years, Minister Gil has been making inspiring and passionate speeches about the social possibilities of new media to audiences in Brazil and across the world. Inspired by the hacker ethic, he argues that cyberspace is the most democratic public space in history – and that a more flexible interpretation of intellectual property is now needed for the creative industries.

Most importantly, the Digital Culture department is putting this hacker ethic into practice within Brazil. One of the most important projects of the Ministry of Culture is creating a network of free software multi-media studios which will give access to the Net to hundreds of communities across the country.

At the 10th October Cybersalon on Brazilian open source software and copyleft, Minister Gil will speak and discuss about these issues...

CYBERSALON @ THE SCIENCE MUSEUM'S DANA CENTRE
FUTURE WIRELESS: PRACTICAL.DISCOURSE.CREATIVE
Tuesday, 4th October 2005, 11.30am-10pm (Registration & Coffee from 10.30am)
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: £5. Book online using our secure credit/debit card system HERE.
The £5 registration fee includes a £4 voucher for use at the Dana Centre d.cafe which is open from 10am-7pm for food and refreshments.
Nearest tubes:South Kensington/Gloucester Road

Although limited places for Future Wireless may be available on the day WE STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU BOOK YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE. Preference will be given to 'all day' bookings.

Cybersalon scans the horizon of wireless communications and explores its emerging landscape and ecology to present an investigation into Future Wireless.

Through three parallel strands of programming – practical, discourse and creative – Cybersalon hosts a day of presentation, demonstration, practical workshop, artistic intervention and debate to demonstrate and probe the nature, impact and potential of the wireless Internet, mobile telecommunications and other radio-based technologies.

Complemented by the Dana Centre's state of the art technological resources, we assemble an international group of cultural commentators, researchers, artists, free wireless network activists and commercial developers to share their insights and speculate on the nature of a ‘wireless future’.

Contributors include: Dooeun Choi, curator Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea; Peter Cochrane, co-founder ConceptLabs (former CTO of BT); Barry Eaton - Anglesey Connected; Daniel Heery - Alston Cybermoor; Robert Horvitz, co-ordinator Open Spectrum Foundation Prague; Adam Hyde, new media artist from New Zealand, with a special interest in streaming media, in both visual and audio contexts; Giles Lane - founder of Proboscis; Tapio Mäkelä – researcher and media artist, USED project in collaboration with m-cult centre for new media culture, Helsinki, Finland and HIIT; Francis McKee - research fellow at Glasgow School of Art and part-time Head of Digital Arts and New Media at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow; Ian Robinson - BT, Head of Emerging Internet Access products and Wimax expert; and Marc Tuters, researcher in new media, University of Southern California's Annenberg Centre. The programme also features artistic interventions from SOMETH;NG supporting work from MA students at Ravensbourne College, Taxi_onomy and Troika and media and technology projects including Alexei Blinov - Hive Networks, Steve Symons' - aura, the MAzine at Ravensbourne College, Martin Mairinger - Used Clothing and PORTA2030 by TAKE2030.

Complete with a wired café-bar connecting it to people all around the world, the Dana Centre brings exciting, informative and lively discussion to people who want to talk about challenging and cutting edge topics in science, the arts and culture. The evening panel debate will be web cast live from the Dana Centre, enabling a worldwide audience to engage and interact with the event.

Cybersalon gratefully acknowledges funding and resource support from the Science Museum, Arts Council, British Council, NODE.London and Wireless London.

VENUS RISING with SMARTlab @ THE DANA CENTRE
VENUS RISING: MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 7-10pm
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: This event is free but places must be booked in advance by emailing <bookings[AT]venusrising.org.uk>.
Members of the press interested in attending or for further information, please contact Lauren Gildersleve at the Science Museum <lauren.gildersleve[AT]nmsi.ac.uk>
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

Where is mobile technology taking us in the 21st century?...And do we want to go there?

Cybersalon continues its Venus Rising series of panels in collaboration with the SMARTlab Centre to discuss where mobile technology is taking us this century. With over 75% of the UK population owning a mobile phone, women are a crucial sector of the mobile market. However, most technology is developed by men, so is the feminine perspective being taken into account? Are we considering how mobile technology could help shape the future in positive ways, not just for play and leisure but for social and economic growth, particularly in the developing world?

Venus Rising is a forum that launched at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in April and held a panel on techno-semantics at the Institute of Contemporary Art in July. With this series of panels we pose the question, can we shift the cultural image and language of technology towards the feminine?

Dr Lizbeth Goodman, Director of the SMARTLab Centre at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design will chair the event featuring Lev Manovich and Emma Westecott.

Lev Manovich <www.manovich.net> is recognized as one of the leading figures in the field of new media culture worldwide and is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego. Emma Westecott achieved international recognition for working closely with Douglas Adams as producer for the best-selling CD-ROM Starship Titanic (1998, Simon & Schuster) and is currently based at the IFSW, University of Wales, Newport. We are asking the speakers to look through the lens of the feminine to where mobile technologies are taking society in the future.

This public debate is held at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre - the UK’s only venue for adults to discuss contemporary science.

Venus Rising gratefully acknowledges funding support from the Arts Council of England and the Science Museum.

VENUS RISING with SMARTlab @ THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
VENUS RISING PANEL: THE USES & MISUSES OF LANGUAGE IN TECHNOLOGY
Wednesday, 6th July 2005, 6.15–8.15pm
Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London SW1 <www.ica.org.uk>
Cost: £6 general admission/£5 (ICA members). To book tickets contact the ICA Box Office at +44 (0)20 7930 3647
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross

Toys for the boys? Bling for the girls? Does it really break down that neatly when it comes to gender and technology?

Cybersalon continues its Venus Rising series of panels in collaboration with SMARTlab Centre to engage the general public in discussions with technologists, designers, artists and scientists about the feminine in technology. Venus Rising is a forum that launched at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in April. With this series of panels we pose the question, can we shift the cultural image and language of technology towards the feminine?

Join us on 6 July for a debate at the Institute of Contemporary Art on the uses and misuses of language in technology. For this event, we have invited a group of speakers to each select their favourite (sic) used/misused word in technology--discussion will follow from there.

Diane Fox Hill (Semiotician and Project Manager/PDD) will be co-chairing the event with Lizbeth Goodman (Director, SMARTlab Centre).
Confirmed for the panel:
Brian Duffy (Eurecom, France)
Zann Gill (NASA)
Johnny Golding (Greenwich Digital Media)
Niki Gomez (RichMix)
Mukul (AmbientTV)
Eva Pascoe (Cybersalon/Wearables Group)
Katie Salen (Parsons-NY)

Sponsored by Cybersalon, Recollective, SMARTlab Centre, Surrey Institute of Art & Design

To get a report of of the Venus Rising launch at the Science Museum's Dana Centre this past April and for information on upcoming panels, please go to: <www.venusrising.org.uk>.

CYBERSALON & OPEN SPECTRUM UK @ THE DANA CENTRE
WIRELESS UTOPIAS O5
Thursday, 26th May 2005, 7-9pm
d.cafe, Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: This event is free but places must be booked in advance by emailing <bookings[AT]cybersalon.org>
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.”
Oscar Wilde

Cybersalon and Open Spectrum UK host the second event in their Wireless Utopias series - a unique debate on the future of wireless communications and the strategic prospects for utilising the radio spectrum. The context for the evening is the UK communications regulator Ofcom's Spectrum Framework Review. We explore "wireless utopias" from the Open Market to Open Spectrum. This event is a part of Wireless London <wirelesslondon.info>.

The evening includes

Experts Roundtable - a panel of distinguished international and UK experts explore the big issues of technology, regulation and society. This is a unique opportunity to learn about the experience, vision and strategy of our wireless technologists, pioneers, and policy-makers.

Panel:
Michael Marcus (former FCC; USA)
Dewayne Hendricks (Dandin Group; California, USA)
Onno Perbo (Indonesia)
Peter Bury (Ofcom)
William Webb (Ofcom)
Gordon Adgey (Broadband4Devon)
Peter Cochrane (Concept Labs)

Q&A - exploring the strategic agenda for wireless communications, locating spectrum reform in the UK within the wider international context.

Thursday, 28th April - Friday, 29th April 2005, 12-10pm
CYBERSONICA 05: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC, SOUND AND TECHNOLOGY <2005.cybersonica.org>
Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: Events are free but places must be booked by calling 020 7942 4040 or by emailing: <bookings[AT]cybersalon.org>
Nearest tube: South Kensington, Gloucester Road

Friday, 29th April - Sunday, 1st May 2005, 12-8pm
CYBERSONICA 05 @ Encompass: LONDON'S MUSIC CONFERENCE
The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 <www.encompass-london.com>
Cost: 3 Day ProPass £150*, 1 Day ProPass - £60, 3 Day CompPass £95, 1 Day CompPass £35
Nearest tube: Liverpool Street, Old Street, Aldgate East, Shoreditch

* Encompass is delighted to offer Cybersonica subscribers a 35% discount on ProPass tickets which gain you full access to the amazing array of label showcases plus the industry conference taking part during the day. The ProPass usually retails at £150 for a three day pass however with the 35% discount we are offering, the price is brought down to £97.50. Please email Alexandra Donald at Encompass - alex[AT]encompass-london.com - to receive your discount code quoting Cybersonica as the reference. You can then use this code to claim your discount when booking your ticket.

Sunday, 1st May 2005, 7-12pm
CYBERSONICA 05 in step with XFM's FLO-MOTION and REMIX LIVE: A UNIQUE 5-HOUR LIVE SHOWCASE
The Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH <www.ica.org.uk>
Cost: £10 / £8 Concs, ICA Members and Encompass ticket holders; £3 for entry to the ICA Bar only. Call the ICA Box Office on 020 7930 3647 or email - <tickets[AT]ica.org.uk>
Nearest tube: Charring Cross, Piccadilly Circus

Cybersonica 05, London's leading international festival of music, sound and technology, invites you to a celebration of 'playful noise'.

In 1977, in a time before the iPod, Napster, 303s or even the Walkman, French theorist Jacques Attali described the imminent arrival of "an age of composition" – a period in which music would be liberated from the confines of pre-recorded media. We are transformed from being passive consumers of music into co-creators, co-authors and co-producers. Music begins to change each and every time we listen to it and indeed, becomes not so much something to be listened to, as played with.

Nearly 30 years later, Attali's ideas have never been more relevant. The future, it seems, is live. Through its programme at the Dana Centre and The Art at Encompass, Cybersonica 05 showcases a range of playful works that tease new and exciting sights and sounds out of the machine at every turn - creating aural environments and interactive audio-visual fusions in which people can begin to experience sight and sound as a living organism, responding to their presence and their behaviour.

Cybersonica 05 at the Dana Centre and Encompass includes a two-day symposium, keynote addresses, live performance, soundtoys.net exhibition and sonic installations, which explore how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, artists, DJs, VJs, and animators make and present their work. Cybersonica 05 brings together a whole community of sonic originality - from practitioners, theorists, developers and record labels to music, sound and technology lovers.

Festival contributors include: Golan Levin, Addictive TV, soundtoys.net, Cinefeel, VJs.net, the Digital Research Unit (organisers of the Ultrasound festival), Waveswarms, Type Records, Stanza, Toxi and Pelado, I Am The Mighty Jungulator, DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog, SOMETH;NG, Thomas Kitazawa, Studio Troika, Amjad Chaudry & Vikesh Bhatt, Anthony Elliott, Dave Lawrence & Joanna Hoffman.

On Sunday, 1st May Cybersonica 05 teams up with XFM and the ICA for a unique 5-hour live radio broadcast. DJs Nick Luscombe and Eddy Temple Morris bring their Flo-Motion and Remix shows out of the studio, DJing and broadcasting alongside live acts hand picked to provide a varied and exciting musical experience. Cybersonica and vjs.net present live visuals and audiovisual shorts plus a label showcase in the ICA Bar.

Live (Theatre)
Husky Rescue (Catskills)
Break Reform (Abstract Blue)
AMillionSons
Flat Pack

Full details of Cybersonica '05 can be found at the Cybersonica 05 website <www.cybersonica.org>

CYBERSALON @ THE DANA CENTRE
VENUS RISING LAUNCH
Tuesday, 19th April 2005, 7-9pm
d.studio, Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: This event is free but places are limited and must must be booked by contacting Monica Biagioli <monica[AT]cybersalon.org>
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

VENUS RISING PRESS RELEASE
London, 2 April 05.

More girls get gadgets, but are the ‘toys for the boys’ days really over?

According to a recent report in the Guardian, in 2003 women accounted for $55 billion of the $96 billion spent on electronics goods in America. In the UK, the equivalent figure for this year is 47%. With statistics such as these it is no surprise that business is starting to sit-up and take note of what women want from technology and how they use it.

But the debate is not just about spending power and habits. What about the development of technology? Its design and usage? Who are the female innovators? Who has access to technology and how can we encourage more women to use it as an expressive medium? What’s different about female-led technological development? What would technology – and the world - be like if it was shaped from a truly ‘feminine’ perspective? And how can technology, art, science and industry combine to create this new feminine paradigm?

VENUS RISING is an initiative by Cybersalon which aims to bring these issues to the public agenda, through debate, research, artist residencies, creative labs and other collaboration. Its Campaign Group comprises 12 female practitioners working in fine art, design, new media and technology.

Cybersalonlaunches VENUS RISING to an invited audience of thought leaders and industry professionals at the Science Museum’s flagship events space The Dana Centre. Dr Elizabeth Goodman, director of Central and St Martin’s SMARTlab, received a lifetime achievement award for her work with safetyNET: a global cybercafe project that uses the power of new technologies to help stop violence against women and children. She will give a 10 minute keynote to kick off the debate, as will Andi Stamp, Director of Melt (to be launched in May) and founder of Shooting Live Artists and b.tv. As a male contributor, Andi’s topic will be ‘Gender: marketing art and genetic science’; a 10 minute presentation on the emerging parallels between marketing disciplines and genetic research. His contribution is very much in the spirit of VENUS RISING: it’s not about exclusion in any way - men are actively encouraged to take part in the debate. The panel will be chaired by Eva Pascoe – the founder of the world’s first internet cafe Cyberia. The launch is a brainstorm event as well as a performance/talk/debate platform, with interactive voting from the audience. The agenda – and the future shape and activities of VENUS RISING will be defined in real-time, not pre-set as a linear progression path. The event is sponsored by IBM, Recollective, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design.

Dr Lizbeth Goodman, Director of The Smartlab Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art Design. Dr Lizbeth Goodman is Director of the SMARTlab Centre for Site Specific Media, Performing and Digital Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the London Institute (connecting SMARTsystems & People).
Andi Stamp, Director of Melt, previously of b.tv and Shooting Live Artists.

The event is sponsored by IBM, Recollective, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design.

For further information or if you would like to attend the launch contact:
Monica Biagioli: monica[AT]cybersalon.org

CYBERSALON @ ARTSDEPOT
DOTVENUE: AN ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE
Friday, 17th - Sunday 19th April 2005
artsdepot, 5 Nether Street, North Finchley, London N12 0GA <www.artsdepot.co.uk>
Cost: All events are free - except the performance on Saturday evening - tickets £5. Call the artsdepot Box Office on 020 8369 5454 to book your ticket or reserve your place.
Getting There: artsdepot is situated between West Finchley, Finchley Central and Woodside Park tube stations on the Northern Line. West Finchley and Woodside Park are the closest stations, approximately half a mile away, but Finchley Central has the best bus link with frequent buses along Ballards Lane (approx 3 minute journey) - 125, 260, 82.
Cybersalon may provide a return coach from Euston on both Friday and Saturday evenings for a small charge if there is sufficient demand. If you would like to use this coach service email <dotvenue[AT]cybersalon.org> to express your interest and book a place.

Cybersalon joins forces with the new north London arts venue artsdepot <www.artsdepot.co.uk> to present dotvenue – a range of inspiring events featuring a cross section of innovative work from pioneering digital artists. dotvenue is a three-day showcase exploring responsive public art, generative digital works and ways in which digital technology is revolutionising live performance and short filmmaking.

I Am the Mighty Jungulator - Diesel U Music Award winning developers of the Jungulator - a novel audio engine that makes its own creative decisions in response to input from the band.

Francoise Lamy of Cinefeel - renowned music video curator and promoter of digital artists and new electronic music.

Rosemary Lee – respected choreographer, performer and director of pioneering dance, interactive, digital installation and short film.

Derek Richards of digital arts company HyperJAM - composer, musician and explorer of performance and interactive media – currently working in partnership with Albany Digital.

Andrew Shoben of installation art group Greyworld - whose latest installation The Source, unveiled at the Stock Exchange in 2004, is seen by millions each morning on breakfast TV.

Stanza - multimedia art specialist and creator of participatory and self-generating digital artworks.

Friday, 15th – Sunday, 17th April, 10am-11pm – public space & studio theatre
Greyworld – GreyTV
IATMJ - audiovisual self-players
Rosemary Lee - short films
Derek Richards – interactive audiovisual installation
Stanza – self-generative digital artworks

Friday, 15th April, 7-10pm - studio theatre
Rosemary Lee - short films
Derek Richards - workshop exploring interactive performance systems
Cinefeel – audiovisual shorts - reel 1

Saturday 16th April, 3-5pm - studio theatre
Artist workshops – IATMJ and Andrew Shoben of Greyworld

Saturday 16th April, 7-10.30pm - foyer & studio theatre
Stanza – live performance
Cinefeel – audiovisual shorts - reel 2
IATMJ – live performance