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Los Angeles-based EV startup Faraday Future on Wednesday announced that the annual 919 Futurist Day will be held on September 19. Participants in the event consist of FF employees and their friends and family members, charity project participants, investors, media, paid reservation holders, and potential users who actively participate in FF co-creation projects.

The FF executive team will update 919 visitors on the latest developments at the firm, especially highlighting positive progress on the FF 91 models production and delivery targets.

The companys Futurist value chain co-creation and sharing is the core concept of FFs user operations. Through deep participation in the startups entire value chain business, including product design, research, development, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing communication, sales, services and operations, users create and share value together with FF.

FF is also partnering with a non-profit organization called The Purist Group to support a joint FF Toy Drive which benefits underprivileged and less fortunate children and families in Southern California communities. 919 participants are encouraged to bring an unwrapped toy to the 919 event valued at $25 or more. All items will be donated to local charities through The Purist Group.

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The EV firms recent SPAC transaction through which the companys shares were listed on the Nasdaq raised capital to finance the release of the FF 91. The FF 91 Futurist Alliance Edition and FF 91 Futurist models have an industry-leading 1050 horsepower, a 130kWh battery pack with immersive liquid cooling technology and 0-60 mph performance in 2.4 seconds. In addition, both employ tri-motor torque vectoring and independently driven rear wheels controlled by dual rear motors.

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919 Futurist Day, to be held on September 19th, 2021, at FFs Los Angeles HQ, will showcase a unique and exceptional day to celebrate FFs successes, products, technologies, people, innovation, and user-centric philosophy

919 Futurist Day is an important platform for FF to co-create its products and services with its users, and this year will include FF 91 product and technology demos as well as important business updates on FF 91 progress from FF management

FF will also use this special day to partner with the non-profit organization "The Purist Group," to support a joint FF Toy Drive which benefits underprivileged and less fortunate children and families in Southern California communities

LOS ANGELES, September 09, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. ("FF") (NASDAQ: FFIE), a California-based global shared intelligent mobility ecosystem company, today announced that the annual 919 Futurist Day will be an all-day co-creation festival at the FF HQ in Los Angeles, Calif. on September 19th. Participants at the event consist of FF employees and their friends and family members, charity project participants, investors, media, paid reservation holders, and potential users who actively participate in FF co-creation projects.

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Faraday Future 919 Futurist Day (Graphic: Business Wire)

"Were incredibly excited to be hosting this annual FF event where all the participants will be able to experience the FF culture, co-creation projects, and the FF 91," said Global CEO Carsten Breitfeld. "From cars, technology, and user-focused activities to FF 91 delivery related updates throughout the day, this 919 day is an exciting annual event for our company."

FF Futurist value chain co-creation and sharing is the core concept of FF user operations. Through deep participation in FF's entire value chain business including product design, research, development, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing communication, sales, service and operation, users create value and share value together with FF.

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FF offers an unparalleled experience through an interactive exchange between users and the FF products. The 919 event brings that idea to life, with activities from Cars & Coffee to letting kids co-create with FFs top designers and engineers. The FF executive team will update 919 visitors on the latest developments at FF, especially highlighting positive progress on the FF 91 production and delivery targets.

FF is also partnering with the non-profit organization The Purist Group to support a joint FF Toy Drive which benefits underprivileged and less fortunate children and families in Southern California communities and gives kids an early Christmas. 919 participants are encouraged to bring an unwrapped toy to the 919-event valued at $25 or more. All items will be donated to local charities through The Purist Group. As a global company born and rooted in Southern California, Faraday Future and The Purist Group are united in supporting the local communities and families.

Faraday Futures recent SPAC transaction through which the companys shares were listed on NASDAQ (ticker symbol: FFIE) raised capital to finance the release of the companys ultimate intelligent techluxury flagship vehicle, the FF 91. The FF 91 Futurist Alliance Edition and FF 91 Futurist models represent the next generation of intelligent techluxury EVs. They are high-performance EVs, all-in-one all ability cars, and ultimate robotic vehicles that allow users to experience the third internet living space. The models also encompass extreme technology, an ultimate user experience and a complete ecosystem.

Both models have an industry-leading 1050 horsepower, a 130kWh battery pack with immersive liquid cooling technology and 0-60 mph performance in 2.4 seconds. In addition, both employ tri-motor torque vectoring and rear wheels independently driven and controlled by dual rear motors. Both models are also equipped with the industry's only super access point for internet connection at "light speed", video streaming on the passenger information display, a rear intelligent internet system, an in-car video conferencing system, intelligent seamless entry, FFID face recognition, multi-touch eyes-free control, and zero gravity rear seats with the industrys largest seating angle of 150 degrees.

Users can reserve an FF 91 Futurist model now via the FF intelligent APP or FF.com at: https://www.ff.com/us/reserve.

Download the new FF intelligent APP at: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1454187098 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faradayfuture.online.

ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE

Established in May 2014, FF is a global shared intelligent mobility ecosystem company, headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since its inception, FF has implemented numerous innovations relating to its products, technology, business model, profit model, user ecosystem, and governance structure. On July 22, 2021, FF was listed on NASDAQ with the new company name "Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.", and the ticker symbols "FFIE" for its Class A common stock and "FFIEW" for its warrants. FF aims to perpetually improve the way people move by creating a forward-thinking mobility ecosystem that integrates clean energy, AI, the Internet and new usership models. With the ultimate intelligent techluxury brand positioning, FFs first flagship product FF 91 Futurist is equipped with unbeatable product power. It is not just a high-performance EV, an all-ability car, and an ultimate robotic vehicle, but also the third internet living space.

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I hope what the section does is show the complex nature of how each of us might envision the future, says Wassan Al-Khudhairi, the curator of the Focus section at this years Armory Show. The works are informed more by the idea of looking into the future as a place to start rather than making work about the future. Works are often interdisciplinary, the curator says, and engage in notions of cross-cultural collaboration, environmental stewardship, mutualism, care and the power of communities coming together. Al-Khudhairi says she wants to create a space that captures the ideas of a group of artists that consider the future in the context of our current conditions. For example, a solo presentation by the Crow Nation artist Wendy Red Star entitled A Float for the Future, with the New York gallery Sargents Daughters, draws on the traditional Crow Fair Parade, held in Montana since 1904, creating a continuity between the Native American tribes past and future. Likewise, Carla Jay Harriss series Celestial Bodies (2018-ongoing) at the Los Angeles gallery Luis De Jesus depicts ancient gods inhabiting the spaces where heaven meets earth, in the guise of peaceful and empowered Black characters.

Kajahl, Ocean Guardian (2021) Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

The present moment, it seems, is all about the future, and the Armory Show is not the only organisation tapping into it. Over at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, preparations are underway for the unveiling of Before Yesterday We Could Fly, an Afrofuturist period room slated to open on 5 November. Unlike other such displays at the museum, which recreate the domestic aesthetics of a specific point in time or a decorative movement, this iteration seeks to embrace the interconnected nature of the past, present and future of the African diaspora and Black communities. But such a different take on the period room also required a new curatorial and organisational approach.

The collaborative curatorial process has been integral to the realisation of this project, say Ian Alteveer and Sarah Lawrence, curators at the Met, who partnered with Hannah Beachler, the production designer on Marvels Black Panther, and Michelle Commander, an expert on the history of the Transatlantic slave trade, on the project. Alteveer and Lawrence say they also engaged with a range of creative practitionersceramicists, graphic novelists, film-makers, artists and designerswho variously understand Afrofuturism in terms of their particular medium, their distinctive culture.

In January 2020, they sought to further disrupt the usual hierarchy within the Mets own community by holding a staff-wide conversation to share the project and its process with colleagues. [We invited] not only our curatorial colleagues, but every single person employed at the museum, the curators say. This is something that had never been done at the Met, and the response was extraordinary.

Meanwhile, kicking off in February 2022 at Carnegie Hall, an Afrofuturism festival will involve a string of cultural organisations presenting multidisciplinary programming rooted in African and African-diasporic philosophies, speculative fiction, mythology, comics, quantum physics, cosmology, technology, and more. There will also be online film screenings, exhibitions and talks with leaders within this eclectic and growing cultural sphere.

Afrofuturism values humanity, the Earth and the universe at large, says Ytasha Womack, speaking on behalf of the Afrofuturism festivals curatorial team, which includes King Britt, Sheree Rene Thomas, Reynaldo Anderson and Louis Chude-Sokei, as well the designer Quentin VerCetty and the Carnegies director of festivals and special projects, Adriaan Fuchs. I dont see a great deal of hierarchy in how people approach the work, although hierarchies are often deconstructed within such works, Womack says. The narrative usually feels both of the times and in some way transcends it, stretching into futures and histories.

Carla Jay Harriss Ways of Gods (2020) shown by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles in the Focus section Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

The inclusive nature of Afrofuturism, and other kinds of non-European futurisms, creates a kind of open-source aesthetic with points of departure as well as attachment for creators of all stripes. Theres something about seeing oneself as part of a larger continuum and a universe that is empowering, Womack says.

Detroit ever was and always will be the city of tomorrow, and the Afrofuturist bedrock has given rise to new, expansive forms of POC futurism. Important figures now working in the city include the writer and activist Adrienne Maree Brown and her collectively produced science fiction book Octavias Brood; the artist and curator Ingrid LaFleur, who made a mayoral bid in 2017 and designs Afrofuturist experiences that have travelled worldwide; the writer Zig Zag Claybourne, whose experimental The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan and its sequel, Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe, inject beguiling narrative devices and campy colour commentary into the sci-fi convention circuit; and the poet and revisionist historian Casey Rocheteau, whose Masters studies at the New School included a thesis on the two Black Panther parties in New York City.

At a recent workshop in Detroit on Habibi Futurism, the organisers Levon Kafafian and Kaymelya Omayma Youssef led participants through an immersive pageant of futurist thought, including the writing of Zaina Alsous, Angela Davis, Sun Ra, Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler and Kyle Carrero Lopez, the art of Serge Mouange and Etel Adnan, and the films of Bong Joon Ho. Following the presentation, participants responded to writing prompts delivered in the form of a card game that shuffled jumping-off points to generate SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) and non-SWANA future visions. We want a more inclusive futurism, says Kafafian, who also characterises POC futurisms as inherently rhizomatic in structure: connecting people and practices through a web of related roots.

Because there tends to be a premium placed on tangible objects or results in the art industry, people sometimes miss the fact that artists are, on a very fundamental level, problem-solvers. The problems of artists may be variously esoteric, logistic, material, historic or existential, but the process of art making is about grappling with these problems and finding resolutionor at least critique. It is not so far-fetched, then, to believe that artists can offer valuable perspectiveand crucially, imagine what it is we need to do right now to get to any possible future.

Janet Biggs, Crew 181 (2017/21) Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York

As we emerge from a year of so much challenge, much of which is ongoing, I wanted to invite conversations about how we might look forward into the near or distant future, Al-Khudhairi says. My intention was to consider the future on a spectrumso it can be tomorrow or 100 years from today. I am interested in how artists can imagine ways to look at, think about, or desire futures. The urgency of whats next? was more about thinking of how to move forward in relation to all that has happened in the past year or so.

The current interest in artists future visions also seems to be in destabilising the march of time, whether by critiquing the institutional norms of the period room, flattening the distinction between past and future, or seizing on the present day. The future may be yet to come, but Afrofuturism is now, and there is no time like the present for art to forge new pathways through reality.

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Both the fire and smoke alarms were triggered early Thursday morning on board the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station, according to a report by Russian state-owned news agency RIA.

The crew reportedly noticed smoke and the smell of burnt plastic a terrifying prospect for anybody trapped inside a tiny outpost in the vastness of space. Its especially worrying considering that materials can combust at lower temperatures in microgravity, according to NASA research.

According to RIA, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet and cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky first noticed an odor wafting in from the Russian segment around 5 am Moscow time (10 pm Eastern) and we still dont know what caused it.

Pesquet, however, has yet to note the incident on his relatively active Twitter account.

Fortunately, according to an update by Roscosmos, situation was contained, with air filters activated and crew being able to get back to bed last night.

All systems operate normally, the composition of the air on board the station corresponds to the standard parameters, the Roscosmos statement reads, as translated by CBS News reporter William Harwood.

The incident didnt even end up postponing a space walk scheduled for today, the agency claimed.

Its a serious incident thats bound to raise eyebrows especially considering Russias recently announced plans to abandon the station by 2025. Russias state news has also increasingly discussed the worrying state of the aging orbital outpost.

Just last week, Vladimir Solovyov, the chief engineer of the Russian space company Energia, warned that portions of the ISS may be beyond repair.

Literally a day after the [in-flight] systems are fully exhausted, irreparable failures may begin, Solovyov told Russian state media at the time, according to the BBC.

Its still too early to draw any conclusions, but the timing of Solovyovs comments certainly are at the least intriguing. We have yet to find the exact cause of the smoke, but if recent events are anything to go by, coming to a conclusion may take some time.

Russian authorities noted the existence of several cracks and air leaks causing air to slowly vent into open space but both Roscosmos and NASA have maintained that crews were never in any danger.

Superficial fissures have been found in some places on the Zarya module, Solovyov told state-owned news agency RIA late last month, as quoted by Reuters. This is bad and suggests that the fissures will begin to spread over time.

Russia certainly seems to be ready to look beyond the ISS. On the one hand, there is a real chance that the outpost is starting to show its age. On the other, Russias state news seems rather keen to paint the ISS as a foregone conclusion that isnt worth saving.

The country has its own plans to establish an entirely separate space station in the upcoming years.

All the while, NASA is still trying to come to an agreement with its international partners as to how to dispose of the station when its days are numbered within the next ten years.

Incidents like this certainly appear to show up more frequently as the ISS enters its 22nd year of continuous operations. What the future will hold for the outpost is anything but certain. All we can do is hope that its crews will never be in any serious danger.

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Chicago's longest running late-night show, The Neo-Futurists' The Infinite Wrench, kicks off the company's 2021-2022 Season of programming with a return to weekly in-person performances on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, 19 months after its live shows paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The signature production resumes its 33-year-long run and takes place every Saturday at 10:30 p.m. and every Sunday at 7 p.m. with enhanced health and safety measures. Tickets are $10 and are available at neofuturists.org.

"We are thrilled to bring our late-night, high-energy assemblage of sports, poetry and living newspaper back to the stage, where the audience determines the order of thirty plays written, directed and performed by the Neo-Futurist Ensemble," said Artistic Director KR Riiber. "And for our opening weekend, all thirty plays will be world premieres!"

The Infinite Wrench is The Neo-Futurists' ongoing and ever-changing attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes for a live audience. Each play offers something different, be it funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irreverent, terrifying or musical. All are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers.

The Infinite Wrench will also be refreshed for this return to the stage as the company welcomed four new ensemble members in 2020 making their Neo-Futurist debut during Infinite Wrench. Ensemble members performing during the reopening of The Infinite Wrench include Neil Bhandari, Ida Cuttler, Nick Hart, Cat Huck (2020), Joanna Jamerson, Abby Pajakowski (2020), Ale Ramirez (2020), KR Riiber, Annie Share (2020), and Connor Shioshita Pickett.

"We have taken this time to give our theatrical home some much needed care and we are excited to welcome a broader audience to a refreshed Neo-Futurist Theater," said Managing Director Jorge Silva. "The plays themselves will be created with conscientiousness with the health and safety of our audiences in mind, while maintaining that unconventional theatrical experience for which the Neo-Futurists are so famous."

During the performance of The Infinite Wrench, actors will be un-masked. For the safety of the actors and audience members, all audience members will be required to show proof of vaccination and will be required to wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status. More information about updated health and safety measures can be found at neofuturists.org/health-safety.

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