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The inaugural May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology took place in Cardiff in October 2005. Following its success, the festival partners bloc: Creative Technology Wales and Chapter, are planning the next Festival for October 2009.

May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology 2009 will continue to focus on the presentation of innovative work in and around Cardiff over a two-day period. Included will be a conference, new commissions, residencies, screenings, and artists’ projects in public sites across the city. To keep up-to-date with programme developments please register your details on the festival home page - www.mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org.uk

With the advent of technology firmly placed in everyday life, the theme for May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology 2009, will explore "accessibility and social media".

Participation is now the driving force behind much digital content. Not only has computing led the way for experienced programmers to develop reliable open-source systems and products readily available to the masses; now, individuals and small groups can work together towards what is termed "collaborative knowledge development".

Mass-technology has enabled communities and groups to transmit, become connected and share information technologically. Developed in relation to Cardiff, the festival will focus on works that draw on available technology and existing social spaces and networks utilised on a day-to-day basis within the city or establish links with the same elsewhere in Wales and internationally. The festival will offer new insight in to the implications of developing mass communication with information technologies. It is planned that a number of the commissions will establish links elsewhere within Wales and internationally.

As with 2005's festival, works will be developed and showcased beyond "traditional" viewing spaces in order to bring about activity and exchange beyond the gallery.

Through the festival's commissioning programme, artists are invited to investigate "inclusive, collaborative and interdisciplinary" in relation to technology where "user-generated" or "open-source" are used as conceptual or actual models for the production of work.

This festival will bring together a broad range of creatives taking a critical look at a society that is increasingly determined by technology.

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With the advent of technology firmly placed in everyday life, (the theme for DELETE ) May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology 2009, will explore "accessibility and social media".

Participation is now the driving force behind much digital content. Not only has computing led the way for experienced programmers to develop reliable open-source systems and products readily available to the masses; now, individuals and small groups can work together towards what is termed "collaborative knowledge development".

Mass-technology has enabled communities and groups to transmit, become connected and share information technologically. Developed in relation to Cardiff, the festival will focus on works that draw on available technology and existing social spaces and networks utilised on a day-to-day basis within the city or establish links with the same elsewhere in Wales and internationally. The festival will offer new insight in to the implications of developing mass communication with information technologies. It is planned that a number of the commissions will establish links elsewhere within Wales and internationally.

As with 2005's festival, works will be developed and showcased beyond "traditional" viewing spaces in order to bring about activity and exchange beyond the gallery.

Through the festival's commissioning programme, artists are invited to investigate "inclusive, collaborative and interdisciplinary" in relation to technology where "user-generated" or "open-source" are used as conceptual or actual models for the production of work.

This festival will bring together a broad range of creatives taking a critical look at a society that is increasingly determined by technology.