IAM Weekend

There aren’t many international conferences that grab you by the cortex and plunge you brain-first into a boiling sea of world-changing ideas, but IAM Weekend is most definitely one of them. Both a celebration and interrogation of internet cultures and its impact on human society, the three-day event in Barcelona brings together a diverse selection of the sharpest minds from the frontiers of digital thinking to explore what the internet says about us as a species and the effect it might have on the futures of media, learning, design, politics and the arts.

For the 2018 edition on 27–29 April, IAM founders Andrés Colmenares and Lucy Rojas have chosen ‘The Subversion of Paradoxes’ as the theme. 20+ speakers including Taiwan’s digital minister Audrey Tang, BBC user experience head Jane Murison, CGI artist Alan Warburton, Afrotopia founder and former Detroit mayoral candidate Ingrid Lafleur, and avatar artist and curator LaTurbo Avedon are on the programme. Between them, they’ll explore issues such as the relationship between algorithms and identity, the futures of sex, the consolidation of corporate power on the internet. It’s going to be one hell of a ride.

In its scope, energy, impact and content, IAM Weekend is unlike any event we’ve encountered before. We’re supporting IAM’s publicity outreach and helping bring awareness of this extraordinary event to the UK audience and beyond – because, seriously, people need to know.

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