FutureEverything presents a day of contemporary craft, digital hacking, interactivities and DIY culture on Saturday 19 May, co-hosted by Victoria Baths.
Handmade is FutureEverything’s interactive craft fair exploring the intersection between craft and digital technology – a forum for crafters, hackers and innovators to share ideas and practice with the maker community and the public.
Handmade brings the dialogue around the intersection of craft and digital culture to life, in one of Manchester’s prime heritage locations. Artists working in the areas of craft and digital technology display their work in an interactive craft fair designed to encourage visitors to create their own DIY artworks.
Saturday 19 May 2012, 10am-5pm
Victoria Baths, Hathersage Rd, Manchester
£2. Free to conference ticket holders.
Digital Craft Fair
Varied artists working in the field of craft and digital technology (ceramicists, jewellers, sculptors) exhibit work in the main hall. Many of the exhibits will be in some way interactive – e.g. the public might be able to get involved in the making process. Exhibitors included textile artists, sound artists, jewellers, and sculptors from around the Manchester area and beyond.
Workshops
Manchester Craft and Design Centre will be running a creative workshop for visitors to the event. The workshop will be run by Manchester Craft and Design Centre artists Julia Roy Williams and Nell Smith.
Fab* Manchester
This summit of European Fabrication Laboratories will take place at different venues throughout the festival. (Thursday at Manchester FabLab, and Victoria Baths on the Saturday). At Handmade Fab* Manchester offers visitors a chance to experience Fab Lab technology, meet international experts in digital craft and manufacturing, and take part in hands-on workshops and open space discussions.
~Flow: Owl Project and Ed Carter
The ~Flow project is part of Artists taking the lead, one of twelve extraordinary public art commissions funded by the Arts Council for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad to help celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The installation at Victoria Baths contains speaker horns from the project, synched with the BALTIC display to convey sounds from the River Tyne at Victoria Baths.
Fanzine Convention
Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention runs throughout the day and looks at how the virtual world is allowing networks of self-publishers to share publications, news and experiences all over the world.
Sharing the building with Handmade, the Fanzine Convention takes over first floor of this historic building with stalls, talks, a film screening, food, an exhibition and workshops, spreading out across the balcony spaces around the main and female pools and the former superintendent’s flat.
Artists and Designers at Handmade
Artists and designers involved with Handmade include: Andrew Back / Laura Jane Blake / Stuart Childs and Full Circle Arts / Mike Cook / Lucy Crowder / Stuart Dunbar / Lawrence Epps / Ed Carter and the Owl Project / Hacking the Body / HAC:Manchester / Lucinda Hankin / Kaky / Knitter Feed / Lynne MacLachlan / Manchester Craft and Design Centre / Manchester Jewellers Network / Jim McArthur / Hanna Nielsen / Noisy Toys / Tom Norwood: Wall of Art / Open Design Research Group / Uniform / Caroline White / Eliot White
Date: Saturday 19th May 2012