The FutureEverything Awards and FutureEverything Launch Events

FutureEverything is proud to announce a major new international venture, The FutureEverything Awards, to be publicly launched at a series of international gatherings during September 2009. Alongside this in October 2009, will be a series of big bang launch events leading up to the inaug ural FutureEverything festival in May 2010. The new FutureEverything name reflects the greater scope and ambition of the festival previously known for 15 years as Futuresonic.

The FutureEverything Awards are designed to recognize outstanding achievement for innovation in the arts, music, society and technology. They celebrate creative projects in any medium, which offer a new and unique way to experience or see the world and help to bring the future into the present. The Awards promote world-class innovation and introduce the leading practitioners to stakeholders and the wider public, helping to promote and foster innovation culture in the UK and around the world. Open to anyone internationally to nominate a project or to submit their own project, the winners receive the new FutureEverything Trophy, a cash prize, and the opportunity to present their project at the Awards Ceremony and within the FutureEverything catalogue and website. FutureEverything is inviting submissions and nominations now for the FutureEverything Art Award 2010. To find out more about the Awards and how to make a submission please visit: http://awards.futureeverything.org.

Join us during October 2009 at a series of launch events for each strand of the festival, to celebrate the inaugural FutureEverything festival on 12-15 May 2010.

Launching FutureEverything's Art strand is an exhibition featuring international artists Ackroyd & Harvey, HeHe, Amy Balkin, Eva Meyer-Keller and Aaron Koblin (LICA/Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster, 7-31 Oct 2009).

The Music launch is headlined by the genre-bending ZU alongside support from one of Manchester's hottest bands, Kong (Islington Mill, Manchester, 3 Oct 2009).

The Ideas, or Conference launch is TEDxManchester with an array of outstanding speakers presented in partnership with the BBC and Codeworks (BBC Broadcasting House, Manchester, 2 Oct 2009).

The EVNTS launch event brings people working in creative events and music together to meet, spark new ideas and collaborate. EVNTS inaugurates a new industry support network in partnership with FutureEverything and North West Vision And Media (Event details TBC).

Group & Early Bird Discount info on 2010 Festival Passes: www.futureeverything.org/register
Listings and ticket info on October launch events: www.futureeverything.org/news/octoberlaunch

Drew Hemment, FutureEverything's Festival Director, says:
"We are still reeling from the stunning success of the award winning Futuresonic 2009. It is thrilling to be in the middle of a quantum leap, and such an incredible year has given us huge momentum leading into 2010."

"We are excited to be launching the FutureEverything Awards and the inaugural Fu tureEverything 2010 festival. The Awards will allow us to reward world's most inspirational creative figures and the kind of visionary projects we have been showcasing at the festival for 15 years."

Yoko Ono says: "Thank you for thinking of a very important way of bringing change to the consciousness of the world."

Contact:

Kate Houlton, Communications Assistant
E: kate@futureeverything.org
W: www.futureeverything.org
T: +44 (0) 161 834 1300

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Notes to editor:

FutureEverything 2010 is a festival of art, music and ideas, est. 1995 as Futuresonic. It is a truly global event with an equal focus on art, music and digital culture, involving a city-wide programme of live events, exhibitions, workshops and talks.

The 2009 edition of the award winning festival drew an attendance of 75,000 and a huge range of incredible artistic projects including Philip Glass in a special, intimate concert; world-first, playful mass participation climate projects; John Lennon's 'atheist anthem' Imagine ringing out on the bells of Liverpool Cathedral; and a world-first collaboration with the Jodrell Bank observatory.

FutureEverything is presented by the non-profit creative organisation FutureEverything CIC.

FutureEverything was nominated for the prestigious Lever Prize for the last two years consecutively, and the Festival Director awarded an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica 2 008.

A Pillar Event of Manchester City Council and an RFO (Regularly Funded Organisation) of Arts Council England.

FutureEverything projects are presented in association with ImaginationLancaster at Lancaster University, rated among the top 3 universities for research in art and design http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk.

FutureEverything has a proud history of presenting pioneering, world-first projects in digital culture and contemporary art. It was responsible for the world's first major exhibitions on mobile media, digital mapping and social networking.

In 2008, Futuresonic co-presented the worldwide launch of TENORI-ON, a brand new and visually stunning performance instrument incorporating revolutionary technology, designed for Yamaha by leading artist Toshio Iwai.

FutureEverything are excited to be collaborating with the BBC to establish an alliance of Technology events in the North of England. FutureEverything are also working in partnership with a wide range of other important organisations, such as Manchester Digital, North West Vision and Media, The National Media Museum and Jodrell Bank.

Previous Futuresonic/FutureEverything festivals have featured:

MUSIC:
Philip Glass (US), The RZA (US), Lee Renaldo (SonicYouth/US), Murcof (Mexico), Johann Johannsson (Iceland), Venetian Snares (UK), Flying Lotus (US), Ariel Pink (US), Anti-Pop Consortium (US), Kode 9 (UK), Jamie Lidell (UK), Battles (US), Dirty Projectors (US), Shy Child (US), Faust (DE), Fennesz (AT), 4hero (UK), Coldcut (UK), Andrew Weatherall (UK), Luke Vibert (UK), Ladytron (UK), Mouse On Mars (DE), Matthew Herbert (UK), Apparat (DE), Black Devil Disco Club (IT), TTC, DJ Orgasmic, Kode 9, Tramp! DJs, The Chap, Transforma , Sleeparchive, Made, Naive Melody, Wolfgang Flur (Kraftwerk), Clark, Alexander Robotnick, Hoppy (Ufo Club), Jack Henry Moore (Ufo Club), Ceephax Acid Crew, Cylob, Legowelt, Ultre, Computer Controlled, The Matinee Orchestra, Olly Farshi, Rhythmk, Chrome Hoof, Rolo Tomassi, Claro Intelecto, The Chap, MIT, Allez-Allez, Gay Against You, Agaskodo Teliverek, Bogdan Raczynski, Tim Exile, Mike Paradinas, N>E>D, Skeletons and The Kings of All Cities.

ART:
Toshio Iwai (JP), Ackroyd and Harvey (UK), Fujiko Nakaya (JP), Cory Arcangel (US), Amy Balkin (US), HeHe (UK/DE), Masaki Fujihata (JP), Zachary Lieberman (US), Andrea Polli (US), Eva Meyer-Keller (DE), James Marriott (UK), Jonah Brucker Cohen (US), Marko Peljhan (SLO/US), Shu Lea Chang (US), Thomson & Craighead (UK), Prayas Abhinav (IN), Christian Nold (UK), Alexei Shulgin (RA), Olia Lialina (RA), AntiVJ (FR/UK), plan b (UK), Grennan & Sperandio (US), Simon Yuill (UK), Aram Bartholl (DE), Graham Harwood (UK), MediaShed (UK), Katherine Moriwaki (US), Simon Pope (UK), Michelle Teran (CA), Jen Southern (UK), Pete Gomes (UK), Open Music Archive (UK), Owl Project (UK), Pete Hindle (UK), Julian Priest (UK), Sven Koenig (DE), Victor Gama (US), mimoSa (US), Bandung Center for New Media Arts, Max Eastley (UK), Akitsugu Maebayashi (JP), squidsoup (UK), Light Surgeons (UK), Consume (UK), the-phone-book Limited (UK). Plus major collaborations with the Met Office, Natural History Museum, BBC, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Royal College of Art & Yamaha.

CONFERENCE/IDEAS:
Gerd Leonhard (US), Rachel O'Connell (UK), Richard Stallman (US), Linda Doyle (IRE), Stowe Boyd (US), Tom Ilube (UK), Nina Wakeford (UK), Sadie Plant (UK), Jonas Woost (UK), Matt Jones (UK), Aleks Krotoski (UK), Geraldine Juarez (US), Chris Heathcote (UK), Scott Cohen (US), Matt Locke (UK), Rob Van Kranenburg (NL), Ben Russell (UK), Steve Coast (UK), Claudio Prado (BR), Steve Dietz (US), Kristina Anderson (NL), Eric Paulos (US), Giles Lane (UK), Laura Watts (UK), Matt Adams (UK), Ravikant Shama (IN), Felipe Fonseca (BR), Adrian Woolard (UK), Justin Hall (US), James Wallbank (UK), Paul Coulton (UK), Katie Lips (UK), Mark Shepherd (US), Pedro Zaz (BR), Shaun Fensom (UK), Stef van Dongen (NL), Steve Connor (UK), Steve Dietz (US), Matthew Edmonson (UK), Michael Connor (US), Paul Domenet (UK), Alan Dix (UK), Barry Miles (UK), Drew Hemment (UK), BBC, 4iP, Saatchi & Saatchi, Forum Nokia, Bebo (AOL), NESTA.

For more information about FutureEverything 2010 or to find out about one of the many events coming up please visit www.futureeverything.org.

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