Futurity Long Conversation

The Futurity Long Conversation, a relay of one-to-one conversations , brings 22 leading artists, designers, theorists, journalists and media interventionists together to discuss, contextualiseand explore the abstract and qualitative elements defining what we conceive of the future today. The format of the Futurity Long Conversation was developed in conjunction with the UK arts organisation Artangel and the Longplayer Trust, and inspired by the work of The Long Now Foundation, an international organisation crafting ways with which to perceive time and durational process inradically different and perhaps media technologically appropriate ways. In their approach, we are in a period which redefines the ‘now’ within a timespan of 10.000 years, altering our notions of future and the acceleration of progress and development. The event questions the predominant way in which ‘future’ finds its cultural roots at a point in history where the convergence of mediatechnologies, communications mobility and means of simultaneity eclipse the 20th century rhetoric of the future.

Fri 05.02.2010 Find the complete daily transmediale program and more information here .