Alpha-ville Symposium on Post-Digital Culture

Time: 9:30am – 4:40pm

This year’s programme addresses the transition from a digital to a post-digital culture, that looks beyond technology at how human behaviours such as collaboration, participation and interaction have redefined the creative practice and society itself, and at how the physical boundaries between reality and online are being blurred.

This symposium joins the discourse about post-digital initiated in 1998 by visionary, thinker and founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte who pushed the edges of information to predict the future of our culture. The event aims to provide a forum to exchange knowledge and inspire discussions about the future of the digital culture.

09:30 – 10:00 | Registration and coffee

10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome & introduction by Alpha-ville director, Estela Oliva

10:10 – 10:40 | Opening talk

 Drew Hemment – director & founder of FutureEverything and Associate Director of Imagination Lancaster

10:45 – 11:15 | Session one || Data for social innovation ||

 Moritz Stefaner – Information Designer

11:20 – 12:30 | Session two || Post-digital creativity & experimentation ||

 Tom Uglow – director of Creative Labs Europe, Google

 Katy Beale – director at Caper & lead producer at Culture Hack

 Filip Visnjic – founder of Creative Applications Network

12:30 – 13:15 | Lunch Break

13:20 – 14:00 | Session three || From the open web to the app store ||

Bill Thompson – BBC technology writer

14:10 – 14:30 | Session four || Open Conversation with twitter backstage #digitalinnovation ||

 Patrick Hussey – digital manager at Arts & Business

 Charles Beckett – relationship manager, Digital and Creative Economy, Arts Council London

14:50 – 15:50 | Session five || Presentation and discussion || The Democratisation of public spaces with Augmented Reality ||

Olivia Solon (moderator), associate editor of Wired.co.uk

Keiichi Matsuda – designer and film-maker

Ronald Carpentier – VP marketing & operations, Layar/Stiktu

 Ben Stevenson – founder of Augmented Reality Cinema

 16:00 – 16:30 | Session six || Presentation + Q&A ||

Scott Snibbe – media artist, filmmaker, and creative director of Björk’s Biophilia app

16:30 – 16:40 | Closing remarks and end

Join the discussion on twitter

Festival hashtag is #avf11
Symposium hashtag #ldnpostdigi