Drew Hemment
About:
Drew Hemment
FutureEverything / ImaginationLancaster
Director and founder of Futuresonic, Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster, a major new creative research lab at Lancaster University, and a member of the art group Loca. His work has been covered prominently by New York Times, BBC and NBC. He has curated numerous exhibitions on art and social technologies, was the first international curator on the Programming Group of the Sonar festival in Barcelona, and has served on many international Art Juries including the International Jury of UNESCO DigiArts Award. He was a key figure in the emergence of the field of Locative Media, involved in early UK electronic dance culture in the late 1980s including seminal parties said to be dance culture's equivalent of Woodstock, and completed a PhD in 1999. Drew Hemment conceived and curated the Futuresonic 2008 festival, including the Social Networking Unplugged art exhibition and the Conference.
Email drew@futuresonic.com (please email me, but dont be offended if response is slow)
imagination.lancs.ac.uk
www.futuresonic.com
Conference Director
Drew Hemment
FutureEverything / ImaginationLancaster
Director and founder of Futuresonic, Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster, a major new creative research lab at Lancaster University, and a member of the art group Loca. His work has been covered prominently by New York Times, BBC and NBC. He has curated numerous exhibitions on art and social technologies, was the first international curator on the Programming Group of the Sonar festival in Barcelona, and has served on many international Art Juries including the International Jury of UNESCO DigiArts Award. He was a key figure in the emergence of the field of Locative Media, involved in early UK electronic dance culture in the late 1980s including seminal parties said to be dance culture's equivalent of Woodstock, and completed a PhD in 1999. Drew Hemment conceived and curated the Futuresonic 2008 festival, including the Social Networking Unplugged art exhibition and the Conference.
Email drew@futuresonic.com (please email me, but dont be offended if response is slow)
imagination.lancs.ac.uk
www.futuresonic.com
Conference Director
Interests
Collaborative stuff, Free stuff, Social stuff
What topics are on your radar
Everyday creativity, Mobile, Cities, Urban sustainability, Games
What topics are you an expert in
Art, Social Technologies, Locative media, Participation, Open Source Culture
Most social moment
Telephone call from the Passport Office while in Second Life
Your organisation
Futuresonic, ImaginationLancaster, FutureEverything
Discussions
Hi all
--If you will be here on Wednesday, Paul Coulton is running a mobile workshop from midday, his stuff is amazing, then some of you guys are speaking a...
Starts today :)
--Paul Coulton's Nokia Mash Reality starts today at midday, thanks Paul for info. Manchester Digital have a great event with us today at 4pm, wit...
blogging
--Hi all Seeking people who would like to help blog the conference, we are setting up a wiki. Please dont reply to this post, will send more info...
sign up to artworks now!
--take a minute to sign up in advance to some of the artworks in Social Networking Unplugged http://www.futuresonic.com/updates/080429.html
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Matt Jones (mutual) fan |
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Tim Davies (mutual) want-to-meet |
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James Wallbank (mutual) fan, friend |
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Will Edmondes want-to-meet |
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Verena Kuni want-to-meet |
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Tristan Ferne (mutual) want-to-meet |
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Torsten Reimer (mutual) want-to-meet |
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Tapio Makela (mutual) fan, friend |
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Shannon Spanhake (mutual) want-to-meet, fan |
Comments
Jonas Woost:
Looking forward to seeing you this week!