Baba Israel, Artistic Director at Contact introduces the next Comixed event happening this Saturday 4th December 2010. Check out Baba’s intro vid to find out how to get involved in exploring ‘Identities’. This time conversations and stories will be remixed live by Contact Playback, DJ Jomo and VJ Richard Ramchurn of Albinomosquito.

Comixed Playback: Identities is part of Play Space, a free day where art & technology collide plus Unconference, Art, Music, Dance, Games and more. Play Space is organised by Contact in partnership with Manchester Digital Development Agency, Manchester City Council, BBC Connect & Create, Manchester Beacon, MadLab and G-Kut.

The day runs from at 11.30h til 23.00h. For full schedule and registration go here.

See you there… and in the meantime feel free to leave comments and tweet your thoughts using the hashtag #cmxd.

Get involved ahead of the live event at the Identity Remixed Installation led by Richard Ramchurn of Albinomosquito which kicks off 14.00h til 16.00h to have your say. Content from the Installation will feed into the live Comixed Playback performance 17.30 – 19.30h.

This is a live blog of the COMIXED: A NETWORKED CONVERSATION event at the Zion Arts Centre, Manchester.

Comixed is a “Networked Conversation” on a number of pressing issues affecting all of us:

Climate Change / The Digital Economy / Ageing / Food Security / Synthetic Biology.

Please read the ‘provocations’ we posted earlier on Climate Change, The Digital Economy, Ageing, Food Security and Synthetic Biology to find out what people thought about these issues before the event.

Please contribute by commenting below, especially if you were there and spot any inaccuracies or inconsistencies!

We want you to get involved.  You can follow us on Twitter and/or contribute using the #cmxd hashtag.  We are @ComixedMcr on Twitter, perhaps follow us? (more…)

Prof. Jon Whittle, Chair of Software Engineering, Lancaster University offers this provocation on the Digital Economy:

Twitter, Bebo, Facebook, mash-ups, web 3.0, delicious…. where does it all end? Are all these new technologies really improving our lives? Or are they just a drain on our time and resources, keeping us away from the things that really matter….?

The time is ripe for developments in technology to change society for the better.  There are unprecedented opportunities to solve some of society’s most complex challenges through the appropriate use of technology. But we must be careful to focus on substance not fads.

Unless we understand the impact of technologies on society, we may never fully realise their potential.

Wise words indeed.  How can we start understanding the impact of technologies like Facebook on society?  Where does one start?

Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.

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