Future Places Festival

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Calendar Event: October 7, 2008 - October 19, 2008

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FUTURE PLACES is a meeting of people with one question in mind: if digital media can do so much for global communication, knowledge and creativity, how can it contribute to local cultural development? October 2008 marks the start of this challenge. The first edition of FUTURE PLACES will survey current successful projects from very diverse backgrounds and fields of knowledge, and it takes place in Porto, Portugal, where these challenges and this potential are very evident. Join us for thirteen days of exhibitions, films, performances, concerts, lectures, parties and workshops - and bring your ideas and your stories!

Workshops: October 7-8
Conference and competition: October 9-11

Exhibition: October 10-19

Speakers will include:

Philip Dean, Director of the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design Helsinki
Steven Devleminck, Director of the Transmedia program of Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels
Caroline Frick, founder of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image and assistant professor at the School of Information and Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin
Mike Harding, the U.K. Ambassador to the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (http://www.elgaland-vargaland.org), an international online art project, and co-publisher of Touch, an audio-visual publishing house based in the U.K.
Ana Nassar of the Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person), Brazil (appearing in videoconference)
BJNilsen, sound and recording artist, also performing at the Future Places festival welcome party on October 9

more info: http://futureplaces.org