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ABOUTCONFERENCES SALONS LogoLogoLogoLogoLogo PRESSDISCOVER CONNECT About Virtual Futures About The original Virtual Futures Conferences (1994, 1995, 1996) were often portrayed as technopositivist festivals of accelerationism towards a posthuman future – the “Glastonbury of cyberculture”, as the Guardian put it. However, hidden behind the brushed steel and silicon, the jargon, the charismatic prophets and the techno parties the mission was rather more sober and more urgent. They were an attempt to develop a new interdisciplinary approach to confronting the contemporary technologisation of first-world cultures. Conferences The Virtual Futures Conferences (1994, 1995 & 1996) saw groups of renegade philosophers lock horns with the future based on the provocations of evidence provided by the emergence of the Internet. Their predictions were wild, exerted creative licence and were unfaithful to every academic discipline. Soon these events evolved into a unique, international gathering where the morphing of cultural space was accelerated by the head-on collision of science, theory, music, fiction, and multimedia. Today the conferences continue to connect audiences with one of the most important intellectual and cultural developments of our times – the technological extension of the human condition. UPCOMINGPAST EVENTS Salons Virtual Futures Salons are a series of highly immersive event experiences that encourage and promote original thinking. They bring together artists, philosophers, cultural theorists, technologists and fiction writers to re-address the potential of looking at our future through a techno-philosophical lens. The Salon series completes Virtual Futures’ aim to, “bury the 20th century and begin work on the 21st. They will cast a critical eye over the phenomenal changes in how humans (and non-humans) engage with emerging scientific theory and technological development. UPCOMINGPAST EVENTS Press “What [Virtual Futures] is keen to play with, in terms of event format, is how to make content 'physically hyperlinked'. Creating a feel of something akin to having a number of browser tabs open at the same time.” Imperica Magazine “Virtual Futures [...], assembled some of the greatest philosophers, futurologists and seers from across the globe to discuss the implications of new and future technologies on society, politics and self-mutilation!” Internet and Comms Today Featured in: NewScientistViceWired MagazineTimes Higher EducationFuture of SexImperica Discover April 25, 2016 Make Me As You See Me Fiction / Salon 20160425_MakeMe February 16, 2016 Upgrade the Brain? Press / Salon 20160216_UpgradeBrain February 02, 2016 Everyday Stims Fiction / Salon 20160202_EverydayStims December 11, 2015 Sex Robots Will Help Human Sexuality Evolve Salon 20151011_SexRobots660 November 01, 2012 Semi-Artificial Imaginations Salon VFSalon_201210_SemiArtificialImagination660 October 24, 2012 The Future is Here Salon 20121024_FutureHere660 July 15, 2012 New edition of 0(rphan)d(rift>) Cyberpositive Uncategorised 20130715_OD660 June 29, 2011 Live Chat: Dr. Dan O’Hara on Understanding the Virtual Conference 20110619_DanOHara660 June 25, 2011 Stelarc: The Body and the Artist Conference 20110625_StelarcWeb660 June 24, 2011 Who will recognise Humanity 2.0 – And will it recognise us? Conference 20110624_SteveFuller660 June 24, 2011 There’s Nothing Virtual About the Future Conference 20110624_AndyMiah660 June 23, 2011 What Happened to our Future? Conference 20110623_PatCadigan660 June 23, 2011 How Living Technologies Could Reclaim Venice Conference 20110623_RachelArmstrong660 June 23, 2011 Stelarc: An Alternate Evolutionary Structure Conference / Press 20110623_Stelarc660 June 22, 2011 No Time Conference 20110622_MarkFisher660 June 22, 2011 Imaginary Futures Conference 20110622_RichardBarbrook660 June 21, 2011 Virtual Spaces and Online Identities Conference 20110621_SueThomas660 June 21, 2011 The Cyborg Experiments Conference 20110621_KevinWarwick660 June 20, 2011 The Future of Real Virtuality Conference 20110620_AlanChalmers660 June 20, 2011 Health Futures: Real or Virtual? Conference 20110620_JeremyWyatt660 June 19, 2011 How Did We Get Here? Conference 20110619_DanOHara660 April 21, 2011 Born Virtual: The Artwork of Virtual Futures 2011 Conference 20110521_DanSlavinsky660 January 12, 2007 On Virtual Futures 1994 Conference 20070112_HouseOfGod660 August 01, 1995 Virtual Futures ’95: Internet and Comms Today Conference / Press 199508_InternetComms June 16, 1995 Cyber seers Conference / Press 19950616_Cyberseers660 May 25, 1995 Wire up, jack in, and mutate Conference / Press 1995_Boar660 May 28, 1994 Charles Stivale’s Synopsis of VF 1994 Conference 19940528_CharlesStivale660 VIEW ALL POSTS Subscribe to our Newsletter Your first name Your last name Your email address SUBSCRIBE Search our website Search Here SEARCH CONNECT info@virtualfutures.co.uk © 2016 Virtual Futures. All rights reserved. Web Design by IAK Media Ltd. Artwork Copyright Dan Slavinsky.