Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, in collaboration with the Local Tourism Agency of Reception and Promotion of Biella (Italy) , the Regional Agency of the Promotion of Tourism, and with the contribution of the Piedmont Region is organising the 1st edition of the International Festival of VideoTales for the Promotion of the Territory that will take place in Biella between February the 29th and March the 2nd 2008. The aim is to activate a circuit for the production and distribution of artworks that tell and promote a territory presenting it through video-narration of life-stories and personal experiences.

This festival invite Italian and foreign video makers, directors, documentary film makers, artist and all creative people to participate. For more information see festival del videoracontto website

Futuresonic has been commissioned by Manchester International Festival as one of the seven ‘Manchester Firsts’ highlighting the creative cutting edge in Manchester.

A major international conference during Futuresonic 2007 will be social technologies summit. That looks at how we can make technology more social and explores “a whole new way of doing things in the air”.

Highlights Include:

ENVIRONMENT 2.0 – Network meeting for a new international initiative in which two worlds collide. When the environment is mapped, tagged and digitised it becomes navigable, computable and manipulable.

FREE-MEDIA – Exploring inspiration and resources in our built and natural environment. Free-media uses public domain Free and Open Source Software, and recycles freely available old equipment and junk (FOSS).

IMAGINATION@LANCASTER – A one day event presented by a major new innovative research institute in England’s North West.

DORKBOT – Manchester’s first Dorkbot, an open event for people doing strange things with technology, with a special focus on alternative computer interfaces.

For more information visit

http://www.futuresonic.com/