Future Sessions: Trust in invisible agents (launch party + conference)

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<H2>FutureEverything presents Future Sessions: Trust in invisible agents</H2>
As computing dissolves into the everyday, we find ourselves surrounded by millions of connected, intelligent objects. Scattered throughout the city, a bin, lamppost or coffee cup can be a computing device, a sensor or actuator. With our increasingly intelligent urban infrastructures, with the emergence of AI and embedded intelligence, computing has become ubiquitous and unseen. Invisible agents monitor and influence our lives, largely unexamined and unchecked. With this in mind, FutureEverything hosts future scenarios through new lenses for you to engage in, with artists, performers and panellists from the UK and beyond.
Future Sessions exposes the unseen currents of the Internet of Things through ideas, art, experiments and workshops.
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<H2>Future Sessions Launch Party</H2>
<H5>Wednesday 21st March 2018, 20:00 till late</H5>
<H5>Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, Manchester</H5>
Future Sessions will launch with an evening of audiovisual performances in the Whitworth Art Gallery's Grand Hall, featuring local and international artists curated by Sean Clarke of Test Card.
CASH BAR ONLY
Performances include:
<A HREF="https://vimeo.com/lucasgutierrezcom" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lucas Gutierrez</A>
<A HREF="https://vimeo.com/205869512" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Joe Beedles</A>
<A HREF="http://chromatv.tumblr.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chromatouch &amp; Coral</A>
<A HREF="https://soundcloud.com/sethscott-1/sets/cathedral-ruins-of-the-old-you" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Seth Scott + Guillaume Dujat</A> (with visuals by SPEKTRA)
 
 
<H2>Future Sessions: Trust in invisible agents - conference</H2>
<H5>Thursday 22nd March, 2018, 09:00 to 18:00 </H5>
<H5>Bright Building, Manchester Science Park</H5>
Future Sessions: Trust in invisible agents is a unique day of conference and art events created by FutureEverything, featuring discussions, presentations and workshops.
 
Confirmed speakers include:
<A HREF="http://designswarm.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino</A> (Design Swarm)
<A HREF="http://umbrellium.co.uk/about-us/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Usman Haque</A> (Umbrellium)
<A HREF="http://bvh.me/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Boris van Hoytema</A> (Foundation for Public Code)
<A HREF="https://marabales.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mara Balestrini</A> (Ideas for Change)
John Davies (BT)
<A HREF="http://www.tobiasrevell.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tobias Revell</A> (Strange Telemetry / LCC) 
 
Plus art commissions and in conversations with FAULT LINES artists Ling Tan and Kasia Molga.
 
 Taking place at the Bright Building, Manchester Science Park’s brand new state-of-the-art workplace, Future Sessions is the culmination of Every Thing is Connected, a three-day ‘conference-as-lab’ which will share the findings from local and international Smart City projects through hands-on demonstrations, discussions, networking and art installations.
For further information on Future Sessions, please click <A HREF="http://futureeverything.org/events/future-sessions-trust-invisible-agents/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</A>.
 
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