Betreff: Interactionfield NEWS Datum: Dienstag, 21. Juni 2005 20:30 Uhr Von: Mirjam Struppek An: Mirjam Struppek ************************************** NEWS by http://www.interactionfield.de ************************************** 1. Urban Screens 05 - extended to 2 days - Updated Website 2. Deadline reminder for submissions 3. Events and conferences 4. Installations/projects 5. New books 6. Editorial news 1. URBAN SCREENS 05_________________________________________________________ ************************************************************** URBAN SCREENS 2005 Discovering the Potential of Outdoor Screens for Urban Society ************************************************************** TIME: Friday, 23/24 Sept. 2005 LOCATION: Amsterdam, the Netherlands CONTACT: Mirjam Struppek, urbanscreens@networkcultures.org INFO: http://culturebase.org/home/struppek/Homepage/urbanscreens.html We are still looking for large scale images of Urban Screens for the Image Loop! 2. DEADLINE REMINDER________________________________________________________ 1. July / E-City: EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIPS FOR TRAINING IN URBAN STUDIES http://www.urbanfuture.net 1. July / Social Tapestries Public Forum / London Places are still available to attend the Social Tapestries Public Forum on Friday July 1st, 1.30pm to 5.30pm at the Stanhope Centre for Communication Policy Research: http://socialtapestries.net/outcomes/forum_July2005.html The event will bring together practitioners from the arts, industry, government, civil society organisations and academia to review the work underway for Social Tapestries and stimulate public debate on the issues. For more information on Social Tapestries, please visit: http://socialtapestries.net 1. July / Radiator / Festival for New Technology Art / Nottingham, UK ARTISTS' COMMISSIONS and JOBS http://www.radiator-festival.org Call for Artists focussing on live elements within new media art exploring new forms of interaction between artist, viewer and technology. As digital media becomes seamlessly integrated in our living environments, we are experiencing a shift towards a 'mixed reality' made up of the physical world we live in and the 'data-layer' found in networks, wireless frequencies, software and hardware intrinsically interwoven with our culture. 18th July / Children, Play and Locative Media / Bristol, UK A one-day seminar on childrenÕs use of mobile and locative media in their outdoor environment http://jasonnolan.net/words/archives/2005/06/children_play_a.html Purpose of the day: To bring together those working or interested in projects working with children and locative media, to share experiences and discuss future directions & issues. This seminar will include presentations on existing projects (A New Sense of Place? & Mudlarking) as well as opportunities for discussion and networking. 3. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS___________________________________________________ 20-25 June / Die Woche der Berlinliebhaber - Loving Berlin / Berlin, Germany http://www.lovingberlin.de/ Loving Berlin is an international urban arts festival, featuring works by Stadtblind, UnionDocs, Knifeandfork, Posttourismus BŸro, Glowlab, Yellow Arrow and A Rip Around the Block that animate the particularities of this great city in new ways. June 21 Ð July 11 / Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition In the Line of Flight - Transcending Urbanscapes http://www.newmediabeijing.org Chinese modernization is, to much extent, a process of urbanization. Like in many other Asian countries, nascent urban centers in China are increasingly permeated by the latest communication and distribution infrastructures, swiftly becoming global high tech nodes in ways never seen before. In an ever-expanding technological urban culture cell phones, television, internet, radio, cinema and photography mediate and construct our everyday experiences. They affect the very foundation of social, cultural, economical, scientific and political constructs in contemporary urban life. 24. June - 16. July / Hartware MedienKunstVerein / Dortmund, Germany Special Videoprogramm: Verstreute Momente der Konzentration. Urbane und digitale RŠume http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_events/ Real and virtual, urban and digital spaces are growing increasingly closer together. When walking or driving through the city we are at the same time moving through digital data spaces, which lie like immaterial structures over physically constructed spaces. A selected video program takes place during the exhibiton "Verstreute Momente der Konzentration" on the weekends (24./25.Jun 1./2.JulÊ 8./9.JulÊ 15./16.Jul) at 8 p.m. 07 Ð 15 July / Exhibition - The City of Milan Award / Melbourne, Australia http://www.melb-milan.com/ The Australian designers, invited for the competition, were asked to create an Ôimmersion kitÕ which will open the city to visitors and to make it more welcoming by offering them the opportunity to participate in MilanÕs social and cultural life. Summer 2005 / Troia / Stuttgart, Manchester, Budapest http://www.bbm.de/troia/troia_e.html The TROIA project comprises the development and production of an urban mobile theatre platform. The architectural structure is a travelling citizens forum, a hybrid info-box with a spectacular architectural presence. Public performances are scheduled from July 2005 with the world premiere taking place at the festival "Theater der Welt" in Stuttgart through summer 2005 with venues in the cities of Manchester/UK and Budapest/HU and a final presentation at the festival "Wiener Festwochen" in May 2006. 20. August / SoundWalk / Long Beach, California Group show of sound installations in public http://soundwalk.org/ 18.19 Sep. / Workshop on Location-Awareness and Community / Paris, France http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/laac05/ Several real-world tracking and positioning technologies, such as GPS, 802.11, Bluetooth and RFID tags, have become mature enough to be widely adopted and employed in systems linking information and communication to geographic places and people. The challenge is to better understand what can be presented to users in a useful and unobtrusive way. 14-15 October / RE:activism / Budapest Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in a new media environment. See esp. pannel: New media activism and the urban fabric http://www.re-activism.net/ 4. NEW INSTALLATIONS / PROJECTS_____________________________________________ re:site montrŽal Felix S. Huber et Florian WŸst ao9@buffalo.edu http://www.oboro.tv/resitemontreal Location: MontrŽal, Canada - 8 Mai au 26 June 2005 This media arts project broadcasts two live video streams through the internet from CarrŽ Saint-Louis, a public parc near OBORO. The images are automatically mixed with prefabricated recordings and enacted scenes that match with and expand upon the actual site. This constantly changing audio-visual collage is played back on monitors and speakers in the project's structure in CarrŽ Saint-Louis. Messages entered on the website will appear in real time underneath the images. re:site montrŽal creates a stage with the cameras' gaze and a public platform for text exchanges. Invisible post-its http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp?sdc_p=cfi1241433lmn1176440o1241433ps5uz1& Siemens is adopting the idea of tagging spaces: "Digital messages can be attached to pictures of a local sight to provide information about the building. The radius in which the message can be received can be selected by the writer of the message. Buildings visible from far off - the Acropolis in Athen, for instance - can be given a larger radius of a few miles enabling tourists to read the graffito as well from a long way away." See also : socialight Socialight provides tools that let you place media you create - your stories - around the world. http://socialight.net/ Pacman http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4607449.stm A human version of the classic arcade game Pacman, superimposing the virtual 3D game world on to city streets and buildings, is being developed by researchers in Singapore. FREQUENCY 1550 http://www.waag.org/freq1550/index.html Waag Society A 'mobile learning game' pilot together with IVKO, part of the Montessori comprehensive school in Amsterdam. It's a citygame using mobile phones and GPS-technology for students in the age of 11-12 (so called HAVO+MAVO basic curriculum). It is a research pilot examining whether it's possible to provide a technology supported educational location-based experience. Gridlockd http://www.gridlockd.net/index.php GridLockd! is a large urban game where four teams compete to capture as many grid positions within a half hour on a city-based game board. Loosely based on Othello, which is a two player game of tiles, these four teams must be the first to photograph as many unique semacodes placed in 36 city intersections. One Free Minute http://www.onefreeminute.net/ One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. Location33 http://www.location33.net/ Location33 is a location-based sci-folk album that the player listens to by walking around downtown Culver City. Nodes scattered around the area contain musical fragments that when linked together, form a song. Paths are therefore songs. The fragments players hear at each location change depending on the day of the week and the time of day the player is at that location. FallenFruit http://www.fallenfruit.org An artist's project about mapping of all the 'public fruit' planted on private property that overhangs public space. This project encourages people to harvest, plant and share public fruit. The project is a response to accelerating urbanization, as well as issues of grassroots community activism and social responsibility. The mission of this web project is to expand our community fruit maps, photos and essays to create an online global public fruit resource. mapamp http://tone.hu/mapamp.html The user with a special vest (while walking on the streets) navigates through different sound data fields. these virtual spaces differ from the geographic city scape. altering the position, the visitor controls the timeline of spatial organized sounds. 5. NEW BOOKS ____________________________________________________ Ruairi Glynn - Dissertation: Interactive Architecture - Building Spaces between the Physical and Virtual http://www.ruairiglynn.co.uk/medialabarts/dissertation/ Bernd Streich (2005): "Stadtplanung in der Wissensgesellschaft - Ein Handbuch", VS-Verlag Wiesbaden. http://www.urban-is.de Bullivant, Lucy (ed.) (2005): 4dspace - Interactive Architecture, Architectural Design, Chichester: Wiley 6. 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