The Manchester Beacon designed Comixed to shape and share knowledge collaboratively through live events, conversations, social media and artistic expression.

Each event is themed – e.g. Human enhancement or Identities – and speakers are invited to provide challenging and creative provocations around the theme to stimulate audience conversation and inspire artists (illustrators, VJs, DJs, actors…) to capture, re-mix and re-present the conversations back to the audience and provocateurs.

Comixed helps make underlying themes explicit, enables the implications and impact of new knowledge and research on society and provides the opportunity to re-imagine the future possibilities.

The lead up to a Comixed event begins a week to two weeks ahead of the live event as the theme is announced and provocations are shared online through various social media channels including this blog, the video channel and twitter @comixedmcr

Before, during and after the live event, participants are encouraged to create and tag their own content with the Comixed tag #cmxd e.g. on twitter #cmxd

Podcasts, remixes and photos are posted to various social media channels after the event to spread the co-created content widely through online networks.

The Manchester Beacon collaborates with Cultural Festivals, venues, artist collectives, producers and freelance artists to deliver and document Comixed.

See: Speakers, Artists & Partners for details of the people and organisations that we have had great fun working with.

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