Partners and sponsors

The conference is a partnership between the Exhibition Road Cultural Group (ERCG) and the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts- EU (SLSA–EU).

The Exhibition Road Cultural Group (ERCG) represents 21 world-class cultural, educational and commercial organisations that collectively make the South Kensington area Britain’s most popular tourism destination and London’s cultural heartland. Together with its two local authority members, ERCG organises, facilitates and oversees joint projects (including the £25m Exhibition Road redevelopment completed in 2012), runs joint events in the shared public space of Exhibition Road and within the organisations and encourages greater partnership working between the iconic institutions in the area. It also plays a lead role in the London Cultural Quarters forum, working with other cultural quarters to develop city-wide cultural offers (physical and digital) that challenge, excite and cross-fertilise audiences between geographical areas and disciplines. ERCG is funded by contributions from:

Members

Associate members

Partners

European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

The European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSAeu), set up in 2008, fosters the inter-and trans-disciplinary exchange between the arts, sciences, medicine and technology. The Society welcomes practitioners from the arts, including curatorial studies, sciences, the humanities and social sciences.

www.litsci.org

Media partners

The Wire

The Wire – which celebrates its 30th anniversary in London’s Olympic and Paralympic year –  is an independent, award-winning media organisation specialising in editorial coverage of alternative and underground sound and music. It is joining forces with ERCG to support and promote Supersonix, an international celebration of the art and science of sound that runs from January to June 2012.

www.thewire.co.uk

Resonance104.4fm

Resonance104.4fm is the world’s first radio art station, established by London Musicians’ Collective. It started broadcasting on May 1st 2002 with a brief to provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting. Resonance 104.4 fm features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scenes, with regular weekly contributions from nearly two hundred musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists and instigators; plus numerous unique broadcasts by artists on the weekday “Clear Spot”. It’s a radio station like no other. A radio station that makes public those artworks that have no place in traditional broadcasting. A radio station that is an archive of the new, the undiscovered, the forgotten, the impossible. An invisible gallery, a virtual arts centre whose location is at once local, global and timeless. And that is itself a work of art. A radio station that responds rapidly to new initiatives, has time to draw breath and reflect. A laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators. All this and more, Resonance104.4fm aims to make London’s airwaves available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary art.

resonancefm.com

Sponsors

PRS for Music Foundation

PRS for Music Foundation has been supporting new music since 2000 and is the UK’s leading funder of new music across all genres. Its mission is to stimulate and support the creation and performance of new music throughout the UK and to ensure it is enjoyed by a wide audience. Since March 2000 it has supported more than 4,000 new music initiatives to the tune of over £14m. It does this through open grant schemes which are available to musicians and organisations four times per year, and partnership programmes which it leads in response to specific needs and gaps in funding. Because of its specialist knowledge of the music sector, its support is seen as an indication of quality and innovation. PRS for Music Foundation became an independent charitable foundation in 1999 and now receives £1.5m per year from music rights agency the PRS for Music.

www.prsformusicfoundation.com