Virtual Futures 1996

May 5-6, 1996 | University of Warwick

Virtual Futures, now in its third year, has grown from a small conference in ’94 into a unique, international event.

Although Cyberculture and its theorists question the relevance of traditional disciplinary boundaries, VF is more than “interdisciplinary,” and goes beyond mere commentary: at VF the morphing of cultural space is accelerated by the head-on collision of science, theory, music, fiction, and multimedia.

Last year’s highlights included a live demonstration of computer controlled body parts, music and video-enhanced presentations from internationally renowned theorists, a series of films in Warwick University’s arts centre cinema, talks from leading authorities on new scientific paradigms of complexity and non-linearity, guided tours of LambadMu, and ‘a cheap, loud party’.

This year Virtual Futures brings together the UK’s most renowned commentators and theorists, as well as many international speakers and artists.

Presentations will be accompanied by films, music, slides, and digital graphics, every speaker offering new and exciting perspectives on what may await us in the near futures. Virtual Futures is, and has always been, a catalytic site for the meeting and cross-fertilisation of new ideas, new media and new technologies.

The entertainments planned over the weekend provide a complementary, unofficial programme containing the freshest products of cybernetically-enhanced breakbeat science; abstract, complex and loud, VF takes you into sonic meltdown.

Virtual Futures will be providing links to the ‘net, as well as broadcasting images live from the event itself.