Eddo Stearn: Tsunami (Cardiff Festival of Creative Technology)

MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES: FESTIVAL OF CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY, CARDIFF

THURSDAY 22 – SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER 2009

May You Live in Interesting  Times is a three-day, biennial Festival that is all about ‘do-it-yourself’ and features a programme that celebrates the latest intriguing uses of everyday technology and social innovation, enabled through shared ideas.

There’s a fantastic range of commissions, exhibitions, a Maker Faire, discussions, workshops, screenings and participant-driven events.

Highlights include:

May You Live in Interesting Times

- Alfred Sirleaf: Analogue Blogger, from Liberia

- Eddo Stern’s first solo exhibition in the UK

- Ghana Think Tank solving Wales’ problems

- a dynamic, participant driven game show featuring The People Speak

- an unConference that explores Technological Tinkering

- Wales’ first Maker Faire

- a range of new commissions from artists based in Wales.

For more information contact the Festival team on 029 2132 8082, 07531 486 886

email admin [at] mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org.uk

website: http://www.mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org.uk/ where you can view the programme in full, or download the Festival Diary PDF by clicking on ‘Timetable’.

For tickets to the unConference, Friday 23 October 9am-5pm http://www.chapter.org/17071.html

May you Live in Intersting Times

WHO WANTS TO BE…

We are very excited to announce that The People Speak will be hosting an audience participation game show called Who Wants to Be…?: a collaborative event on Friday 23 October 7pm – 10pm, where the audience writes a brief for a technology-based commission. The £10 ticket fee is your ‘buy in’ to voting – with the rest of the audience – on how to spend the money. The game show format offers everyone the chance to propose ideas, to discuss options (good, bad or just plain outrageous), and then to vote on the new commissioning opportunity that will absorb the entire evening’s box-office takings using an interactive voting system.

Don’t worry if you’re a technophobe, you don’t need any knowledge or experience of technology to participate, so come and be a part of something special and book your place now! http://www.chapter.org/17073.html

May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology, is a partnership between bloc: Creative Technology Wales and Chapter. The 2009 Festival programme has been developed in collaboration with the British Council, Ffotogallery, Safle and Wales Arts International.  The Festival has been further supported by: @Wales, Academi, Arts Council of Wales, Cyfle, Cardiff & Co, Cardiff Design Festival, ELFEN, G39/WARP, ished, Make Faire, National Museum Wales, National Theatre Wales, University of Glamorgan, University of Wales, Newport, Wales Innovators Network, UnLtd and 4iP.

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