Talk on art and digital innovation, and how art organisations can become active in this area, with a focus on FutureEverything. Presented at the Digital Creativity Conference organised by British Council (Tokyo, 12-13 Feb 2011) http://bc-dcc-e.tumblr.com/ Blog on my talk here http://futureeverything.org/blog/from-art-to-digital-innovation/

1. Drew Hemment
FutureEverything - http://futureeverything.org
ImaginationLancaster - http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk
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2. Art & Digital Innovation
How did FutureEverything grow
from art to digital innovation?
➧ ?
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3. FutureEverything Festival
Bringing the future into the present. Established 1995.
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4. FutureEverything Award
Celebrating the creative imagination that will shape our future
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5. FutureEverything Labs
Digital Innovation: prototyping the future through art & innovation
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6. ImaginationLancaster
A creative reseach lab spanning
design, management & computing.
Lancaster University
http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk

7. The FutureEverything Festival
Cultural Tourism
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50,000 audience
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300 artists
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40 venues
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15% of delegates from outside UK
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660,000 online visitors

8. Award Winning
Won awards from arts, technology and business
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Winner, Lever Prize 2010
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Big Chip International Award for Innovation 2010
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Shortlisted, Arts & Business Award 2010
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Runner Up, Lever Prize 2009
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Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2008

9. Artistic and curatorial debates
Influencing understandings of media art
and digital culture.

10. Innovation in artistic media
For 17 years, FutureEverything has explored new
artforms, new kinds of art object, unimagined
forms of dissemination, wholly different
configurations of art, artist and audience, new
opportunities for audience experience, and
previously unseen forms of content creation in a
connected world.

11. Locative Arts
Mobile Connections, 2003-5
New ways of seeing, sensing
and representing
Radar, sonar, GPS, WiFi,
Bluetooth, cellular, GIS, etc
Seeking an art of mobile
communications:
Are there any forms of expression
that are intrinsic or unique to mobile
and wireless media?

12. Digital Innovation
Digital Innovation is the successful implementation
of new ideas exploiting the technical, cultural and
commercial possibilities of digital technology.
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15. Environment 2.0

16. GloNet with British Council
Global festival of art, music & ideas

17. Past FutureEverything Labs
Open Data Cities (2009-11) Low Grade (2005)
New Mobilities (2009-11) Mobile Connections (2003-5)
Distant Collaboration (2009-10) FutureDJ (2004)
The City Experiment (2010) Turntable Re:mix (2004)
Environment 2.0 (2006-9) Migrations (2002-3)
Social Networking Unplugged Blacktronica (2002)
(2007-8) Sensurround (2001-2)
Art For Shopping Centres (2007) BrokenChannel (2001)
Futurevisual (2007) Audiovisions (2000)
Off The Map (2006) SenseSonic (1999)
Instrument (2006) The first Futuresonic (1996)

18. The City Debate

20. Art & Digital Innovation
How did FutureEverything grow
from art to digital innovation?
➧ ?
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21. Japan & Media Art
In Japan 'media art' includes Japanese video
game culture, manga, and anime.
Device Art
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22. Toshio Iwai & Yamaha, TENORI-ON
World-wide launch in UK following Futuresonic

23. Europe & Media Art
In Europe, the media art tradition emerged out
of video art, and explores relations between art,
society and technology.
Art & Activism
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24. From Media Art to Digital Innovation
For FutureEverything, a focus on digital innovation
evolved organically from a focus on social activism
in our artistic programmes.
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25. Digital Innovation
Developing into a national framework for art and digital
innovation, at the heart of the UKʼs innovation ecology.
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26. Elegant Partnerships
Pioneered a new relationship for a festival with its
partners and host city ("elegant partnerships")
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27. Intermediary and ideas catalyst
An intermediary between the public, policymakers,
industry and practitioners including grassroots
communities of developers and users.
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28. Community is king
Community is king, so build up your social capital, get
connected, and let new smart ecosystems evolve.
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29. Open sourcing the festival
Shift from curating and producing art in a conventional
way to developing and distributing kits and platforms.
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30. Routes to impact
Can we focus on impact and artist merit
at the same time?
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31. New creative ideas and inspirations
• Art and urban interface
• Art and open data
• Prototypes as art
• Living labs as curatorial method
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32. Open Data Arts

33. OurCity
Enable thousands of people to have their voice
heard and to shape the future of their city.

34. Olympics 2012 Data Visualisation

35. But is it Art?
Intense experimentation 'outwith' art.
It is both outside traditional art, and it is
taking art outside of itself, on a voyage.
Postpone the question 'is this art', while
we wait for art to catch up.
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36. What are the challenges?
What are the new opportunities challenges
created by digital technologies, for art practice,
and art institutions?
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37. What are the challenges?
Not one size fits all - digital innovation is not right
for everyone
Uneasy relation with the art world
Preserving artistic autonomy
Agility, speed of change, breaking silo-thinking
New models of training and evaluation
Challenging cherished concepts and institutions
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38. A collaborative project, join us!