Quoted: Shadows are being used by Japanese researchers as an non-intrusive way for friends to stay in touch.

Quoted: More and more people are transforming themselves from media consumers to producers - using the new tools, software and technologies now at their disposal. From the expanding realm of free and open source software (FLOSS), to peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution and 'pervasive' mobile and locative technologies, the possibilities exist as never before to create and disseminate our opinions and experiences through our own media. TAKEAWAY, the Festival of do it yourself Media, will help you to understand what it's all about and how to take part in the revolution.

Quoted: This isn’t just about giving a catchy label to work already being done. Thinking of the creation of futures media and related experiences as a structured process will simply lead to better results—media that engages a broader audience in discussion about trends shaping our shared future, and experiences that engage this audience in far more personal ways than a wordy report ever could. This ability to present forecasts and future visions in media beyond text--and not just by Hollywood--is an exciting development, and couldn’t come at a better time. Popular engagement in the future is particularly crucial now when so many of the important challenges facing the human species can be influenced—perhaps only solved—by the cooperation and involvement of everyone, not limited to people and organizations that have traditionally held power.

A free symposium presented by Turbulence.org

Quoted: PixelACHE is an annual festival of electronic art and subcultures, involving experimental projects by artists, engineers, designers, researchers and architects.

Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies. An emerging generation of media producers is sampling and remixing existing materials as core ingredients in their own work. Readers are actively reshaping media content as they personalize it for their own use or customize it for the needs of grassroots and online communities. Of course, the idea that artists build on earlier traditions or that new texts speak to and about earlier texts is scarcely a new idea. This fifth Media in Transition conference aims to generate a conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with contemporary media practices.

Created by media artist Ben Rubin along with statistician Mark Hansen, “Listening Post” takes chat and messages from bulletin boards -- thousands and thousands of messages in real time -- and displays them on a suspended arc of 231 small text screens. In addition, voices from a text to speech synthesizer can be heard in the speakers that surround the exhibit.

Quoted: Don Ritter is a new media artist and a writer on aesthetics. Since 1986, his interactive video-sound installations and performances have been exhibited at festivals and museums throughout Europe, North America and Asia

Mixed media with monitors, cameras, motors, aluminum, ink jet prints and collectibles