Abandon Normal Devices – they don’t seem to work

Abstract

This institutional presentation of recent FACT programs including Human Futures. Climate for Change and Abandon Normal Devices (AND Festival), new forms of Cultural Leadership will be explored. This will also be an opportunity to outline plans for the next Re Conference, Re:Wire, which is being proposed for Liverpool in 2011, asking questions such as: How can lessons learned from tactics in converged new media be shared in building strategies of cultural leadership ? How can we prove the importance of media art and new media histories in relation to a contemporary explosion within digital and networked economies and society ? How can these histories be positioned to re-claim their significance along with pioneering practices and practicioners?