May You Live in Interesting times is a three-day, biennial Festival that is all about 'do-it-yourself' and features a programme that celebrates the latest intriguing uses of everyday technology and social innovation, enabled through shared ideas.
There's a fantastic range of commissions, exhibitions, a Maker Faire, discussions, workshops, screenings and participants-driven events. International research focusing on Africa to develop international participation in the festival has been supported by the British Council, Wales and Wales Arts International.
May You Live In Interesting Times festival in collaboration with the British Council will host a one day unConference at the newly revamped Chapter. The event will explore the future possibilities presented by do-it-yourself technologies for artists and creative entrepreneurs working across cultures and disciplines.
unConference is based on an established innovative format where participants will create and manage the agenda for the day in the spirit of the do-it-yourself festival theme. They will also be using social media technologies, please visit: http://wiki.mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org.uk/
Participants include representatives from Maker Faire Africa (supported by British Council), WAG, WAI, channel 4, 4iP, National Theatre Wales, UnLtd, Ffotogallery, i-shed (Bristol), Folly (Lancaster) as well as entrepreneurs, artists..... They will discuss the following
Technological tinkering, the next 10 years, here and beyond...
What is the future of do-it-yourself technologies for creative practice and enterprise?
What could WE do? What tools will WE need and what do WE have to offer?
May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology, is a partnership between bloc: Creative Technology Wales and Chapater. The 2009 Fsetival Programme has been developed in collaboration with the British Council, Ffotogallery, Safle and Wales Arts International.
The Festival has been further supported by: @Wales, Academi, Arts Council of Wales, Cyfle, Cardiff & Co, Cardiff Design Festival, ELFEN, G39/WARP, iShed, Make Faire, National Museum Wales, National Theatre Wales, University of Glamorgan, University of Wales, Newport, Wales Innovators Network, UnLtd and 4iP.
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