http://www.comixed.org.uk 12pm - 2pm, Sat 15th May. Contact Theatre, Manchester Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:06:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let the conversation begin During the FutureEverything Festival on the 15th May 2010. Comixed: Enhanced took place at the Contact Theatre as part of the PlayEverything event. A cyber-scientist, a cosmologist and a futurologist all put forward provocations to stimulate the audience into a conversation around issues revolving around the enhancement of ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/28/comixedenhanced-may-2010-contact-theatre-manchester Comixed: Enhanced - The Remix from Manchester Beacon on Vimeo. Artists Richard Ramchurn and Mauro Camel ran video remix workshops with people who had been participated in Comixed: Enhanced. The object of the workshops were for people to re-interpret, mash-up and reconfigure the content that was captured through the Comixed: Enhanced ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/28/comixed-enhanced-the-remix As part of Comixed: Enhanced we ran an afternoon of video remix and mashup workshops to enable people who had been in the day?s earlier debate to create videos from the footage shot and material provided. The workshops were ably run by Comixed: Enhanced video artists Richard Ramchurn and Mauro ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/24/comixed-remixed-videos Following on from Conway Mothobi's provocation found here. We publish the transcript of Conway's provocation looking at the future of space travel. Transcript Ok folks, can you all hear me? When I was told about this I thought 'How fantastic, this talk is about human advancement and enrichment, and that picture there ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/24/the-future-is-looking-good-the-conversation Following on from Dr Mike Ryan's provocation found here. We publish the transcript of the debate that looked into the rewards and challenges that a change to a non-linear, bite-sized, lifelong learning environment will bring. Transcript Mike Ryan My job for many companies is to look at the future and how the world ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/24/learning-is-going-to-change-the-conversation [caption id="attachment_371" align="aligncenter" width="449" caption=""][/caption] Following on from Dr Mark Gasson's provocation found here. We publish the transcript of the debate that looked into issues of the social and moral impact of this technology. The Transcript: Mark Gasson Right Well, I think the failure of technology that we have just witnessed there probably ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/19/could-we-all-be-implanted-with-technology-the-conversation Welcome to Comixed - Natalie Ireland from Manchester Beacon on Vimeo. The second instalment of Comixed ties in with the PlayEverything day that is part of the FutureEverythingFestival. It is being delivered in association with Manchester Science Festival, FutureEverything and Contact Theatre. Whilst essentially taking on the same form as the first Comixed, this ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/14/comixed-enhanced Mike Ryan - Learning is Going to Change from Manchester Beacon on Vimeo. How will learning change in the Future. Mike suggests that were are learning in a 20th Century Way and we will learn in bit-sized chunks using technologies such as phones or social networks. We will learn how ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/14/provocation-learning-is-going-to-change The future is looking good. Upcoming developments in body enhancement and body enrichment will provide us with sophisticated cyborg humano-tools. For example with advances in stem cell research will be able to clone very little people (25mm ie 1 inch tall and 4 gm in weight * you would need 5 little people to match ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/14/provocation-the-future-is-looking-good-conway-mothobi Mark Gasson - Should we all be implanted with technology? from Manchester Beacon on Vimeo. In our first provocation, Cyberologist, Mark Gasson asks about the implications of implanting technology into our bodies. Mark Gasson has a RFID Tag embedded into his hand. It enables the building where he works to know where ... http://www.comixed.org.uk/2010/05/13/provocation-could-we-all-be-implanted-with-technology