2011 Program


WED 19 OCT

9:30AM – 6PM
TECH LABS
FBAUP. Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 265
Lab: Blender
Lab: Ghosts of Spaces

10AM – 5PM
CITIZEN LABS
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
Group presentation at 10AM
– Stories of Chairs (1-day lab, edition 1)
– Portugal Portefolio (2-day lab)
– Will You Marry Us? (2-day lab)
– Radiate Yourself (2-afternoon lab)
– Type the Future (2-day lab, will move to Praça dos Poveiros after presentation)

 


THU 20 OCT

9:30AM – 6PM
TECH LABS
FBAUP. Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 265
Lab: Blender (continued)
Lab: Ghosts of Spaces (continued)

10AM – 5PM
CITIZEN LABS
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
Group presentation at 10AM
– Stories of Chairs (1-day lab, edition 2)
– Portugal Portefolio (continued)
– Will You Marry Us? (continued)
– Radiate Yourself (continued)

10AM – 3PM
Lab: Type the Future
Praça dos Poveiros

3PM – 7PM
MM15
PASSOS MANUEL. Rua Passos Manuel 137
Celebrating 15 years of multimedia at U.Porto.
Audiovisual presentations and discussions

7PM
The Future is Back
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
Welcome drinks, a toast to multimedia

8PM
Will You Marry Us?
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
Opening of interactive exhibition based on futureplaces-Visible 2010 event It’s Raining Families

11PM
POSTSTOP
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
Live Remix concert and launch of futureplaces CD edition gathering compositions based on Neighborhood Science workshop held at C.C.Stop @ futureplaces 2010.

 


FRI 21 OCT

9:30 AM – 6PM
Digital Media Doctoral Symposium
FBAUP. Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 265
including opening address by Elizabeth Stark

6PM
Art and Design BA Degree Show
FBAUP. Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 265
Reception and catalog launch

10PM
Creative New Media in Portugal: a showcase
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
Exhibition opening and networking party

11PM
Cabaret of Complexity [slight return]
GARAGEM PASSOS MANUEL. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 3º
Radio meets cars meet musicians. Experimental, participatory concert in collaboration with the xtremetuning.org community.

 


SAT 22 OCT

11 AM – 12:30 PM
Copyright, Creativity, and Change
FBAUP. Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 265
Panelists from Portugal, Brazil and the US will address what current trends in intellectual property mean for working artists, from the shifting strategies of the content industry to emerging models of “free culture” such as Creative Commons and open source.
Sérgio Branco, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Teresa Nobre, Creative Commons Portugal
Gregg Perry, St. Edwards University, USA
Moderator: Sharon Strover, UT Austin

2:30PM – 4PM
The Politics of Piracy
FBAUP. Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 265
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and leading free culture activist and scholar Elizabeth Stark will discuss what the site has achieved, its lessons, and why it will not stop.

5PM – 8PM
Glimpses of the Future
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
Opening address: GANA (Bruno Aleixo)
Launch of new website and permanent participatory sites:
– Portugal Portefolio
– Will You Marry Us?
– Radiate Yourself
– Type the Future
– PostStop
– Stories of Chairs
(including presentation of Art on Chairs)
Closing address: Peter Principle (Tuxedomoon, Zero Gravity Thinkers)

8PM
Dinner
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
Food and Networking rarely fail!

10PM onwards
The futureplaces Impromptu All-Stars Orchestra
MAUS HÁBITOS. Rua Passos Manuel 178 – 4º
concert-jam session and closing party