one here
the other one here
octopus drawings by Chris McConnell and José Carneiro
more soon.
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futureplaces e-flyers now available
August 3rd, 2010 by
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Download the festival e-flyer here.
Downloadable poster + various communication materials to follow.
radiofutura e-flyer here.
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Marc Behrens 2009 opening concert now available for your listening pleasure
July 21st, 2010 by
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A downmix of a four-channel live performance at Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, October 14, 2009, as opening performance of futureplaces 2009. Available at Overlap.
Marc Behrens works on several cerebral and physical levels. His works mainly consist of concrete electronic music, installations, the occasional photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest, founding an incorporated company as a social art work, and staging a rite of passage for an investment banker.
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Blaine L. Reininger confirmed @ futureplaces 2010
July 19th, 2010 by
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We are pleased to confirm multi-instrumentalist Blaine L. Reininger will be an active part of futureplaces in October. Blaine will be delivering a talk, join workshops, and conduct concerts. Stay tuned for more info.
Blaine L. Reininger was born July 10, 1953 in Pueblo, Colorado, and founded Tuxedomoon with Steven Brown in San Francisco in 1977, in association with experimental multimedia theater group The Angels of Light. Blaine was the first member of Tuxedomoon to record a solo album, with Broken Fingers appearing in 1982. After leaving the band early in 1983, Blaine collaborated with Sleepers guitarist and occasional TM member Michael Belfer on Night Air. Produced by Blaine with Gareth Jones, this masterful part-vocal, part-instrumental album proved a significant critical and commercial success on release on 1984.
After fruitful collaborations with Mikel Rouse and Vini Reilly of the Durutti Column (featured on the accomplished Instrumentals CD), Blaine released the powerful in-concert set Live in Brussels in 1986, followed by a string of further studio albums, including Byzantium, Book of Hours, Songs From the Rain Palace and The More I Learn the Less I Know. His film and theatre soundtracks include Radio Moscow, Manic Man and most recently Elektra.
Blaine also continues his long-standing duo work with Steven Brown, which has included several film, theatre and ballet soundtracks, as well as superlative piano/violin recitals of the kind preserved on the Live in Lisbon CD.
Currently Blaine L. Reininger resides in Athens, and pursues parallel careers as a solo artist, actor and Tuxedomoon member.
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radiofutura calling!
July 16th, 2010 by
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CALL FOR RADIO SHOWS
RADIOFUTURA
91.5 FM Porto & futureplaces.org
The official FuturePlaces radio station
October 12-16, 2010
Digital media and local cultures intersect at FuturePlaces in Porto, bringing discussion and pratice to a common table. RadioFutura will be the place to find this intersection in the radio space, directly on your receiver at 91.5MHz in Porto or listening online.
This is a call for works to be streamed and broadcasted on RadioFutura under the motto “Digital media and local cultures”. We believe the future of radio is Local. Come and participate!
We´re looking for pre-recorded programs of 30 min. to one hour or, if you’re brave enough, live broadcast through streaming or from our temporary studios in the city of Porto.
You can submit any kind of program, as long as it is connected to radio digital culture and/or local cultures in any way.
SONGS.
RANTS.
FIELD RECORDINGS.
SOUND POETRY.
MUSIC.
EXPERIMENTAL.
HOT TOPICS.
PURE WEIRDNESS.
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSALS TO: radiofutura @ radiozero.pt
Deadline for submitting your proposals is: August 31, 2010
Send your proposals as mp3 files (or links), with a brief description. If you want to do it live, by webstream or in Porto, please send it has proposal/rough draft and technical rider.
Radio Futura is a joint venture between FuturePlaces and Rádio Zero.
FuturePlaces 2010 is an international digital media festival focusing on the potential of digital media to change local cultures and societies. It does so by exploring digital culture in its many forms: from concerts to exhibitions and competitions, from workshops to parties, from conferences to film screenings.
Rádio Zero is a university radio in Lisbon, Portugal, streaming 24/7 on the web and promoting free access to broadcasting. It instigates and promotes unorthodox or exploratory uses of radio, as content, form or technology and is one of the founding partners of Radia. Every two years if makes an Internacional Radio Art Festival in Lisboa, RadiaLx.
See/hear you in Porto (and in the ether) in October !
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brainstorming with ± on what his piece for futureplaces might be:
July 14th, 2010 by
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radiofutura is back this year
July 9th, 2010 by
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radiofutura, the official radio station of futureplaces 2009, will be back this year throughout the whole festival in October. The outstanding team of Rádio Zero will broadcast the entire festival, lead workshops and talks, interview participants and audiences, organize concerts and connect live with other radio stations around the world. Stay tuned, this will be good.
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MSCHarding and Jana Winderen to open futureplaces 2010
July 6th, 2010 by
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Glimmer
Jana Winderen – sound
Mike Harding – narration
In not too long, the surface of the earth may be uninhabitable. Food may not be grown on the surface; the air is thick with toxins. The plankton, basis for all life in the oceans, is diminished, the ice caps have melted and most dry land has disappeared under water…
Many humans will survive, of course; there are too many of us. The elite will, perhaps, take to the skies, and search other planets; but there will also a development of underneath the water and above water habitats who will need to establish a new social order, communications and structures in their communities.
And of course it is from the seas that humanity came millions of years ago… but will anything remain of the human endeavour apart from our detritus? The world is much much older that we thought… and in time it will repair itself.
This fictional sound and text piece conjects this tableau. Radio, for example, could become some kind of spyglass on the old world. The atmosphere will be thick with pressure and the sense of within and underwater-ness will pervade all thought and memory.
Mike Harding reads text and uses radio to describe aspects of this state of communal existence from the perspective of an old man who has lived in both worlds.
Jana Winderen uses her underwater and other field recordings to describe the sense of otherness in this community.
Glimmer
Jana Winderen – sound
Mike Harding – narration
In not too long, the surface of the earth may be uninhabitable. Food may not be grown on the surface; the air is thick with toxins. The plankton, basis for all life in the oceans, is diminished, the ice caps have melted and most dry land has disappeared under water…
Many humans will survive, of course; there are too many of us. The elite will, perhaps, take to the skies, and search other planets; but there will also a development of underneath the water and above water habitats who will need to establish a new social order, communications and structures in their communities.
And of course it is from the seas that humanity came millions of years ago… but will anything remain of the human endeavour apart from our detritus? The world is much much older that we thought… and in time it will repair itself.
This fictional sound and text piece conjects this tableau. Radio, for example, could become some kind of spyglass on the old world. The atmosphere will be thick with pressure and the sense of within and underwater-ness will pervade all thought and memory.
Mike Harding reads text and uses radio to describe aspects of this state of communal existence from the perspective of an old man who has lived in both worlds.
Jana Winderen uses her underwater and other field recordings to describe the sense of otherness in this community.
[Photo by Sohrab]
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Siva Vaidhyanathan confirmed @ futureplaces 2010
June 21st, 2010 by
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Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia. He is awaiting the publication of The Googlization of Everything from the University of California Press. He has written two previous books: Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). He also co-edited (with Carolyn de la Pena) the collection,Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com,openDemocracy.net, Columbia Journalism Review, BookForum, and The Nation. After five years as a professional journalist, he earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Vaidhyanathan has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Columbia University, New York University, and is now a professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia. He is also a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanitiesand the Institute for the Future of the Book.
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Congrats to ESCOITAR + NAOMI KALY & ALYSSA CASEY
June 21st, 2010 by
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Congratulations to Naomi Kaly & Alyssa Casey for their new installation Lisbon–San Francisco Bridge, opening at Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, June 22. The installation will be viewable until July 14. Naomi and Alyssa received an honorable mention at futureplaces 2009 for their piece Porto-Brooklyn Bridge.
And congratulations to Escoitar for their interactive installation, displayed at Sonar A Coruña. Escoitar joined futureplaces 2009 with a presentation on their ongoing sound mapping of Galicia.
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