Future Places. Porto, Portugal, October 2010

Rudolfo Quintas prepares his performance, Burning the Sound. A video will be shared soon.

The Festival mini-showcase at Ciência Viva.
Join us today, Saturday, between 5pm and 7pm:
Showreel of submitted films.
Air Stick, a performance by Ivan Franco.

Images from the Future Places area at the Lisbon technology fair: open until Sunday, November 23rd. The exhibition was visited by the Prime-Minister and the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Learning during the opening ceremony last Tuesday. 
In addition, you can join us for the time-based showcase:
Friday, Nov 21, 6pm: Burning The Sound, performance by [...]

By invitation of the Secretary of State in Science, Technology and Higher Learning, FUTURE PLACES will be present at Portugal Tecnológico and Forum Ciência Viva, events taking place at the International Lisbon Fair. The Festival will hold a showcase of awarded installations and performances and will present the documentary video of its first edition.

“Portugal Tecnológico [...]

Following their generous input during the Future Places festival, the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University hosts ARTECH, 4th International Conference on Digital Arts. In Porto this weekend. The debate around the contributions of Digital Media to local cultures continues. Full info here.

An outcomes document from the Interface Design for Mobile Devices workshop is now available [5.7 MB PDF].
Teams developed projects in user interface design and information structures for using mobile devices to explore a physical location, the Serralves Foundation in Porto. The workshop was held October 7-9 at Serralves as part of the Future Places festival.
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Marking the closing of the exhibition, the Future Places 2008 exhibition catalog is now online. It is a wiki, meaning applicants are themselves responsible for the content of their own pages. We are still awaiting a few contributions, and the jury will insert comments soon. So check often.

goodbye portuguese friends (and one fin),
i had a wonderful time thanks to you all.
for those of you who didn’t have a chance to see my presentation at SHiFT, here is a secret link to a scene (a work in progress of a scene actually) from my upcoming film MARS…i did show some newer bits at [...]

The three pieces awarded the Future Places 2008 prizes. Photography by Luís Barbosa.
Filipe Pais – installation – Living Room Plankton:

Shlomit Lehavi – installation – Time Sifter:

Rudolfo Quintas – performace – Burning the Sound:

We are now going through big amounts of audio, photo and video coverage of the festival that attendants were kind enough to provide. These will be added to the pool, and shaped into various forms – audio editions, DVDs, publications. Here is some excellent photographic material that recently made its way to us!
BJNilsen photo by [...]

Stephan Baumann has been raving about his Future Places experience on his blog. It is good to see how the Festival can begin branching into very diverse scientific and creative areas – away from territorial defensiveness yet avoiding the trap of the melting pot for the sake of the melting pot.
Come attend Stephan´s lecture at [...]