Durham, NC, [December 6, 2017] – Today, Moogfest unveils a festival lineup led by female, non-binary, and transgender artists, including a keynote conversation with privacy rights and political transparency activist Chelsea Manning on The Future of Creativity. The announcement is celebrated by ‘Always On’, a 50-hour livestream presented in partnership with Tom Tom Magazine from Today at 12:00 pm ET to 2:00pm ET on December 8, 2017.
Chelsea
Manning’s keynote conversation will explore how technology enables
radical disruption in the personal and political spheres, framing the
technological future as a new creative landscape. Since its introduction
in 2014, the Moogfest keynote has unearthed new perspectives on the
future of creativity – tackling questions about how creativity will
evolve and what tools will shape creative expression in the future. Like
the festival’s namesake, Dr. Bob Moog, these world-renowned thinkers
and futurists bring to life the tools and ideas that deepen our
existence. Manning follows in the footsteps of other groundbreaking
thinkers; past Moogfest keynote speakers include: transhumanist Dr.
Martine Rothblatt, VR pioneer Jaron Lanier, Dr. Kate Shaw from the CERN
Large Hadron Collider, Harvard’s Dr. Joe Davis, and philosopher Nick
Bostrum.
