The Future Physical programme is designed and structured around four research strands:
Bio - technology, Wearable Computing, Responsive Environments & Eco - technology
These will feed into the four activity areas:
Events Programme, Web Site, Network Exchange Projects & Games Plan.
Activities that emerge within the programme across the next year - e.g. a web commission, a performance, an SMS text message project, an exhibition, a symposium, a market place, a youth dance project, - may well involve two or more of the research strands in their content.
Future Physical is designed to grow with the user.
The four research strands are the basic reference coding to help you navigate this site, enabling you to set up, activate and add in to the strands that you, the user of this site, are most into.
Whatever your interest in Future Physical, be it social, cultural, professional or educational: get involved.
Follow through the four research strands, check out the key words and questions under each one, register and state your interest in particular strands.
On 02022002 we will, using your input, activate interactive events within this site (debates and discussions, competitions and quizzes, clubs and games, news, resource access, more links, articles, interviews, quotes), enabling you to help us evolve the Future Physical programme by joining in.
Later in 2002 we aim, with the Network Exchange Projects, to bring people together physically in various locations in East England, to meet, talk, share and cross over beyond this virtual space and take this research forward.
Discussions
In modern life people commonly interact with technologies in their everyday life, so how does the use of the internet or mobile phone, for example, change our expectations when it comes to interacting with technology in an arts setting?
Can the modern user experience an interactive and perhaps esoteric technology? How is technology in an artistic context different?
Science and art both attempt to explain the world around us - can these explanations be complimentary or are the approaches too different? Does the use of digital tools enable artists and public alike to access and expand perceptions of reality, to evolve consciousness of identity and to enlarge the sense of embodiment?
Future Physical has been designed to facilitate the involvement of artists, science, industry and public in a cultural exploration of the human/digital interface.
The programme is based in connectivity, networking and a philosophy of access - 'We are all creative'. It is action based integrating research, production and documentation environments for public and professionals.
• Creative use of digital technologies in relationship to the human body
• Pushing visions of the future for human computer interfaces
Future Physical
announces an open call for creative works that fit within the theme of Future
Physical and its four research strands and activity areas.
Applicants are required to complete a simple, downloadable, proposal form &
also supply a maximum of 4 additional A4 sheets.
Click here to go straight to the proposal form....
Research Strands: Bio-Technology , Wearable Computing , Responsive Environments & Eco-Technology
Activity Areas: Events Programme , Web Site , Network Exchange Projects & Games Plan
From 1st December 2001. Deadline: 15th February 2002.
Range of awards from £500 - £15000. Amount in fund: £ 100,000
Future Physical welcomes proposals from creative professionals working in arts, culture, science and technology. Independents, organisations and institutions are invited to apply for:
• Research, development, commissions of new work, co-productions, presentations of completed work, reconstruction's and historical work
• Performances, installations, web based work, site specific work, community based, educational projects,documentation, archive, public art
• Using movement, sound, text and image or any mixed mediums
Future Physical is particularly interested in work which:
• crosses borders between artistic and technological sectors
• involves co-authored or inter authored creation processes from specialists from a number of different disciplines
• can be used in a number of forms / formats - such as live performance and web, radio and video, gallery and CD-Rom
• can be short - 1 - 3 minutes - such as sound, film and performances and pieces for the web
• can be made for public spaces such as clubs, youth centres, rural walks, town squares and other non arts placements
• involves targeted communities in the idea development such as young people and the over 60's
• can be based in telematics (remote real time connection between 2 or more spaces using audio visual internet transmission)
• is from multi cultural / intercultural groupings - locally or/and internationally
• involves industry partners
• allows the engagement of the public/audience as a creative user
Click here to download a copy of the Open Commission information, as above,
in MS Word .doc format.
Click here to download a copy of the
Open Commissions information, as above, in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.
TO APPLY FOR OPEN COMMISSION:
EITHER
Download the
proposal form and fill in the details requested.
MS Word .doc format.
Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.
To save the file to your hard drive, right click on the underlined text
above and select 'Save Target As'
You can return your completed form in the following ways:-
Via email (as an attachment) to: opencommissions@futurephysical.org
Via fax to: +44 (0) 207 3570825
Via post to:
Future Physical, Open Commissions, Bedale Street, London Bridge, London
SE1 9AL
OR
You can contact us via any of the methods above with a request for an Open Commission proposal form to be sent to you. Remember to provide contact details and your preferred method for the receipt of the form (email, fax, or post)