experience

Besides inspiring talks and workshops, one of Lift Conference's special treats is the Lift Experience. Think of a huge space where new media artists and interaction designers are invited to display pieces that address the conference topics in a different way. Meet other attendees and get inspired by a series of projects aimed to provoke a dialogue between people with different backgrounds and cultures from all over the world.

You can read more about all the projects to be presented here.

This year's program is piloted by Design the Future Now in partnership with:

- Nod-A
- Marseille 2013.org
- M2F Créations
- Le Carrefour des Possibles
- Studio Lentigo

You can buy your ticket for Lift France 11 here to join in the fun...

Besides inspiring talks and workshop, one of Lift Conference's special treats is the Lift Experience. Think of a relaxing space where new media artists and interaction designers are invited to display pieces that address the conference topics in a different way. Learn more about the projects & artists present at LIft France here

Besides inspiring talks and workshop, one of Lift Conference's special treats is the Lift Experience. This year, our artistic partner is the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD-Geneva). Under the title Mode-Démo and based on the conference theme, this exhibit offers a comment rather than an illustration of the Lift10 theme. Leading up to the conference, we'll be filling you in on the 16 projects that will be presented at Lift10. Here is the final update on the selected projects...

The pursuit of happiness: Visualisation of dialogues on Facebook - by Matthieu Cherubini (HEAD–Geneva/Media Design) attempts to explore what people are really seeking through a service like Facebook. The experiments presented exploit the network's access flaws and show some of the content and the main features of the dialogues which appear on this platform.

Besides inspiring talks and workshop, one of Lift Conference's special treats is the Lift Experience. This year, our artistic partner is the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD-Geneva). Under the title Mode-Démo and based on the conference theme, this exhibit offers a comment rather than an illustration of the Lift10 theme. Leading up to the conference, we'll be filling you in on the 16 projects that will be presented at Lift10. Here is the third update on the selected projects...

Les Editions Volumiques: interactive books - by Etienne Mineur and Bertrand Duplat.
Interactivity, particularly the video game, leads to a new conception of narration and of the role of the reader. How can one introduce the practices and user experience of digital media into the printed book to update it, to extend its field and to engage the reader in a new way? More info here.

One of the big change from last year's Lift is the fact that we invited the HEAD - Geneva to design the Lift Experience space. Here is what they have been preparing, and where our participants will network next week:

For a preview of the works to be presented at the Lift10 experience next week, we offer two distinct formats: our website or a PDF download (in French).

Lift experience on the web (EN)

PDF version (FR)

Besides inspiring talks and workshop, one of Lift Conference's special treats is the Lift Experience. This year, our artistic partner is the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD-Geneva). Under the title Mode-Démo and based on the conference theme, this exhibit offers a comment rather than an illustration of the Lift10 theme. Leading up to the conference, we'll be filling you in on the 16 projects that will be presented at Lift10. Here are the second four that have been selected...

Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots - by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau explores new ways of thinking about robots, through the medium of speculative design proposals. The Mousetrap Coffee Table Robot and the UV Fly Killer Parasite Robot will be presented. More info here.

RR. headbanging simulator by Antonin Fourneau.
RR is a set of wigs used to simulate headbanging while playing music. The goal is simply to wear a wig and violently move your head up and down to pump up the volume of hard rock sound. More info here.

Do you remember Fontself? The project of Franz Hoffman and Marc Escher has gone a long way since its presentation at the Lift07 experience, under the supervision of Cristiana Bolli and an early implementation by Nicholas Wolff.

Check these guys out and give it a go on fontself.com.

The program of the Lift Asia 09 experience is now known, and Art Center Nabi is again bringing top artists and creators to Lift! This year the experience format will evolve, with each session opening with a performance by one of the following:

I am really looking forward to the see the Surveillance dramas, a series of short movies using CCTV cameras to revive scenes of Kill Bill and Star Wars :)

During the conference, Laurent Bolli and his team from Bread and butter published four editions of a magazine printed live from the conference content! Lifters could then get their hands on the ideas and photos made during the conference, a nice way to materialize the experience that Lift provides. Here are the PDFs of the magazined that have been printed:

Edition 1: What happened to my flying car?
Edition 2: Where is my robot friend?
Edition 3: Why an overwhelming number of designs fail?
Edition 4: Who is in charge of the present?