FUTURE WIRELESS: PRACTICAL.DISCOURSE.CREATIVE

CYBERSALON @ THE SCIENCE MUSEUM'S DANA CENTRE

The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: £5. Book online using our secure credit/debit card system HERE.
The £5 registration fee includes a £4 voucher for use at the Dana Centre d.cafe which is open from 10am-7pm for food and refreshments.
Nearest tubes:South Kensington/Gloucester Road

Although limited places for Future Wireless may be available on the day WE STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU BOOK YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE. Preference will be given to 'all day' bookings.

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Cybersalon scans the horizon of wireless communications and explores its emerging landscape and ecology to present an investigation into Future Wireless.

Through three parallel strands of programming – practical, discourse and creative – Cybersalon hosts a day of presentation, demonstration, practical workshop, artistic intervention and debate to demonstrate and probe the nature, impact and potential of the wireless Internet, mobile telecommunications and other radio-based technologies.

Complemented by the Dana Centre's state of the art technological resources, we assemble an international group of cultural commentators, researchers, artists, free wireless network activists and commercial developers to share their insights and speculate on the nature of a ‘wireless future’.

Contributors include: Dooeun Choi, curator Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea; Peter Cochrane, co-founder ConceptLabs (former CTO of BT); Barry Eaton - Anglesey Connected; Daniel Heery - Alston Cybermoor; Robert Horvitz, co-ordinator Open Spectrum Foundation Prague; Adam Hyde, new media artist from New Zealand, with a special interest in streaming media, in both visual and audio contexts; Giles Lane - founder of Proboscis; Tapio Mäkelä – researcher and media artist, USED project in collaboration with m-cult centre for new media culture, Helsinki, Finland and HIIT; Francis McKee - research fellow at Glasgow School of Art and part-time Head of Digital Arts and New Media at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow; Ian Robinson - BT, Head of Emerging Internet Access products and Wimax expert; and Marc Tuters, researcher in new media, University of Southern California's Annenberg Centre. The programme also features artistic interventions from SOMETH;NG supporting work from MA students at Ravensbourne College, Taxi_onomy and Troika and media and technology projects including Alexei Blinov - Hive Networks, Steve Symons' - aura, the MAzine at Ravensbourne College, Martin Mairinger - Used Clothing and PORTA2030 by TAKE2030.

The following questions provide some initial triggers:

* The Cybernetic wireless dream? How are wireless technologies changing our personal and social spaces – or how are our personal and social spaces shaping wireless technologies?
* Wireless utopia or dystopia? Has wireless technology liberated communication or revealed a darker, more dysfunctional side to our natures?
* Broadcast or “narrowcast”? Are we moving towards a telco-centric or a user-centric world of mobile wireless communications? Can we realise the promise of the Internet as the great agora - the conversation of the many-to-many – and create an open future of decentralized communication systems and user-generated content?
* Broadband - DIFM or DIY? (do-it-for-me or do-it-yourself?) Why should you build your own free wireless network and how do you do it?
* The Invisible Wealth of Nations? Should the radio spectrum be seen as a “market commodity” or a “national resource” and what is the future of wireless communications and the strategic prospects for utilising the radio spectrum?

Complete with a wired café-bar connecting it to people all around the world, the Dana Centre brings exciting, informative and lively discussion to people who want to talk about challenging and cutting edge topics in science, the arts and culture. The evening panel debate will be web cast live from the Dana Centre, enabling a worldwide audience to engage and interact with the event.

Cybersalon gratefully acknowledges funding and resource support from the Science Museum, Arts Council, British Council, NODE.London and Wireless London.