5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – C&T 2011 29 June – 2 July 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information [...]

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Esther Polak Is looking for people who are willing to be interviewed on the subject their use of TOMTOM and/or other satnav systems. The interview will be recorded, poetic and be a part of the ETAK project .    For more information on the project see the blog: http://etaksonglines.wordpress.com/ Contact Esther Polak if you are interested [...]

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Opening: Theo Deutinger (AT/NL), TD Architects Demonstrations: Selena Savic (SRB), Piet Zwart Institute | David Benque (FR), Royal College of Art | Michael Dotolo (US), Frank Mohr Institute | Renee Hulshoff (NL), Royal Art Academy | Gabriel Vanegas (CO), Academy of Media Arts Cologne | Oliver Goodhall (UK), Royal College of Art Performance: Joram Kroon, [...]

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On behalf of the Changzhou City government and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, I would like to cordially invite you to attend the ‘New Media City and High-Tech Industrialization Conference’ in Changzhou, China on the 23rdof this June. The main objectives of this event are to discuss international technology industrialization in China. The conference [...]

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A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community Projects and Symposium June 11 – 13, 2010 Hands-on community workshops June 19, 2010 City Centered is a free, three-day festival of locative media and urban community in San Francisco. The event includes demonstrations and installations in the Tenderloin district, a symposium in the Mission district and [...]

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+++++ Call for Papers +++++ Call for Papers, Architectural Concepts and Media Art & Design Projects MediaArchitecture, Urban Context and Social Practices 3rd international conference on the interaction of architecture, media and social phenomena Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, 29 to 31 October 2010 The 3rd MediaCity conference will investigate how new media re-define social settings and urban [...]

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Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-urban-screen-savers Thursday May 20 | 20:00 to 23:00 V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam Featuring: Michelle Teran, Ubermatic (CA) | Gunnar Green, TheGreenEyl (DE) | Matthias Oostrik (NL) | Toine Horvers and Paul Cox (NL) | Rui Guerra, I?TK (PT) A screen is a powerful medium in an artist’s hands, and public space [...]

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Here’s your ultimate chance to meet other developers, entrepreneurs, startups and technology companies to discuss the latest trends in mobile software. No frills, no strings attached, no marketing-speak, only folks like you who make the mobile world more interesting every day. Remember, this unconference is all about YOU! http://www.mobileunconference.com/

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De vierde Utrechtse Nieuwe Media Avond over Augmented Reality op de mobiel. Ook: de Utrechtse Social Ijsco man. De Berlijnse muur is weg, maar door het scherm van je mobiele telefoon is hij gewoon weer te zien, precies waar hij ooit stond. De techniek die het mogelijk maakt: Augmented Reality, en het is nu enorm [...]

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Registrations: May 4 – June 4, 2010 Dates of the event: June 7 – 23, 2010 With the participation of Platoniq, Douglas Repetto, and the working group formed by Andrés Burbano, Alejandro Araque, Alejandro Duque, and Alejandro Tamayo. Interactivos?’10 is a workshop which develops projects gathering and putting into action collaboration and local urban knowledge [...]

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First International Workshop on Mobile Social Signal Processing http://sspnet.eu/2010/03/mssp/ Lisbon – September 7th, 2010 In conjunction with Mobile HCI 2010 Mission Given their status as a preeminent form of social interaction, mobile phone conversations have been the subject of relatively limited investigation, in terms of social behavior. This leaves open a major gap when two important developments [...]

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Mediamatic brings together experts from all relevant fields on Augmented Reality and explore the practicalities of real world AR in a friendly, collaborative setting. On this day we have short talks, hands-on demos, ‘BarCamp’-style ad hoc initiatives and an open, inclusive perspective on what Augmented Reality can do for society, business, culture and politics. when: [...]

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The Mobile City takes part in this workshop on game desgin in the ‘digital city’ Hoe ziet de digitale stad er uit door de ogen van een game ontwikkelaar en architect? Kom 14 april naar de workshop GPS games en routes maken met Martijn de Waal (The Mobile City) en Kars Alfrink (Hubbub). Zij delen [...]

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Wednesday | 07 April 2010 | De Verdieping @ TrouwAmsterdam | Wibautstraat 127 | start 20:00 | Entrance 2,50 ———————————————————————— Guests: Kars Alfrink (Hubbub), Michiel de Lange (The Mobile City) and James Burke (VURB) The widespread employment and adoption of ubiquitous computing, sensor networks and mobile media into the urban environment have unforeseen implications for [...]

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From March 27 through April 18, traveling artist Hans Kalliwoda camps out in a high-tech mobile house (The World in a Shell) on the property of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam’s Museumpark. The World in a Shell can be converted into a museum, movie theatre or laboratory. For five years, Kalliwoda and Delft [...]

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http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/eric_gordon_book_interview_urban_spectator_american_concept_cities_kodak/ In The Urban Spectator, I look at how practices of media spectatorship, from the handheld camera to radio and television and the digital computer, have influenced the way Americans have experienced and ultimately designed their cities. Taking photographs, viewing movies, listening to radio, using a computer, doing a Google search on a mobile phone, [...]

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2nd Open Ubiquitous City Seminar http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/2nd-Open-Ubiquitous-City-Seminar 31 May 2010 Oulu, Finland This high profile seminar features many distinguished international experts addressing various aspects of ubiquitous and urban computing. The seminar is open and free to the general public. Location: City Library, Kaarlenväylä 3, Pakkala Hall Time: 9-16 Speakers: Professor Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA: [...]

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The Network Architecture Lab continues “Discussions on Networked Publics,” a series of panels examining how technology and social changes are transforming the public realm, held at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s [GSAPP's] Studio-X Soho Facility, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York City. The second panel, on “place” will occur on March 25 at [...]

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Situated Technologies Pamphlet 6: MicroPublicPlaces Spring 2010 Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei In response to two strong global vectors: the rise of pervasive information technologies and the privatization of the public sphere, Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei propose hybrid architectural programs called Micro Public Places (MMPs). MPPs combine insights from ambient intelligence, human computing, architecture, [...]

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International Festival for Sustainable Immobility http://www.ElectroSmogFestival.net http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=365624342173 http://www.DeBalie.nl/live March 18 – 20, 2010 Concept ElectroSmog is a new festival that revolves around the concept Sustainable Immobility. The festival will introduce and explore this concept in theory and practice. With Sustainable Immobility we refer to a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and [...]

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Wednesday March 17, 20:50 Teleac + VPRO (two Dutch public television stations) will broadcast the program Labyrint about the internet of things. Guest speakers are Christian van ’t Hof (Rathenau instituut), Rob van Kranenburg, Bart Jacobs (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Jaap-Henk Hoepman (TNO), Melanie Rieback (VU). More info here [in Dutch] >>

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Our friend down under Larissa Hjorth forwarded this Call for Papers for a special issue of Convergence Journal about mobile gaming and convergent mobile media. Convergence Special Issue Distractedly engaged: mobile gaming and convergent mobile media Deadline for full and final submissions: 31 July 2010 From casual games on the mobile phone to fully-fledged networked, [...]

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The Dutch chapter of Mobile Monday will organize a meeting about “Internet of Things and Beyond”. From their announcement: Why does a superpower like China focus on the internet of things? Did you know Gartner reported that by year end 2012, physical sensors will create 20% of the non-video internet traffic? In the March edition of the McKinsey [...]

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From March 22 – April 3, the Netherlands Media Art Institute and Time Frame will host ‘The Media City’ workshop, dedicated to the exploration of narrative architecture and social interaction on public spaces. The Media City is a specialized project development workshop for urban projections in Amsterdam. From March 22 to April 3, eight top [...]

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This is a call for art projects that fit the topic of ‘the City as Interface’. Impakt Online invites artists, architects, urban planners, researchers, programmers and the like to submit their proposals for online projects that consider the city as interface, buildings as responsive surfaces, mobile phones as tools for playing and mapping, and technological [...]

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The widespread employment and adoption of ubiquitous computing, sensor networks and mobile media into the urban environment have unforeseen implications for how our cultures might come to use networked digital resources to change the way we understand, build, and inhabit cities. Visible Cities presents a revolving programme on how emerging technologies are changing the cities [...]

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[In Dutch] Met de toenemende digitalisering van de openbare ruimte, gaat de informatiesamenleving een nieuwe fase in. Een invasie van informatietechnologie neemt bezit van deze ruimte: van de OV-chipkaart en betaalmobieltjes tot genetwerkte auto’s en het real time web. Tezamen vormen ze een gigantisch net waarvan overheden, bedrijven maar ook burgers zelf gebruik maken om [...]

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The world-wide mobility explosion is an enormous challenge for designers. How can we convince people that current forms of continuous mobility are no longer ecologically sustainable? Should mobility simply be made unaffordably expensive? Or can we design viable alternatives As a prelude to the ElectroSmog festival De Balie in Amsterdam will present a showcase of [...]

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Call for projects on digital facades: Open Up Deadline: December 10, 2009 Dates of the workshop: February 9 through 23, 2010 Venue: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain). Worskhop tutors: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña. Directed and coordinated by Nerea Calvillo. Open Up is a workshop focused on the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado’s [...]

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Cultural Content on the Move: workshop with Blast Theory, 8 December 2009 Location: Virtueel Platform, Damrak 70, Amsterdam, Netherlands 9.30 am – 3pm Virtueel Platform (the Netherlands sector institute for electronic culture) and DISH conference partner will host a workshop on innovative new media applications for the heritage sector, with Matt Adams of internationally renowned group [...]

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mscapeFest is back: a two day conference for mediascape, pervasive, locative and interactive media enthusiasts, practitioners and facilitators. Taking into consideration the growth of the community and feedback from last year, we have decided to focus a little bit more on the interconnectedness of people by offering lots of discussion and networking time. There is [...]

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ElasticMapping October 6, 2009 Start 20.30 hours, Entrance free Please make reservations: info@nimk.nl At this evening session Esther Polak will do a public performance with the GPS drawing robot, based on the herders’ and truck drivers’ tracks collected in Nigeria. The performance will be followed by a talk on ElasticMapping: the possibilities of manipulating and [...]

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Seminar about urban screens and public space directed by architect Nerea Calvillo takes place on September 28, 29 and 30. With the participation of Mirjam Struppek (Interactionfield), Susa Pop (Public Art Lab), Jeffrey Huang (Media Design Lab), Kim Halskov (Digital Urban Living),  Jan Edler and Tim Edler (Realities United) and United Visual Artists (UVA). No [...]

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The Street Computing workshop, held in conjunction with OZCHI 2009, solicits papers discussing new research directions, early research results, works-in-progress and critical surveys of prior research work in the areas of ubiquitous computing and interaction design for urban environments. Urban spaces have unique characteristics. Typically, they are densely populated, buzzing with life twenty-four hours a [...]

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We are delighted to announce the performances selected for the 090909 UpStage Festival, which takes place online and at RL access nodes around the world on 9 September 2009. There will be eleven performances – six by artists who have previously created work in UpStage and five from artists who are new to the environment. [...]

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Like last year, The Mobile City will attend the 3-day PICNIC event which takes place 23-25 September 2009 in Amsterdam. The venue again is the beautiful Culture Park Westergasfabriek. What is PICNIC? In their own words: PICNIC is three inspiring days of ideas, fun and sensory stimulation in media, technology, entertainment, art and science. PICNIC [...]

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An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and urban space Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League September 17–November 7, 2009 www.sentientcity.net Opening reception Thurday, September 17, 2009 6:00–9:00 p.m. 457 Madison Avenue New York City About the Exhibition As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto [...]

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Glowlab Announces Festival Weekend Schedule of Events for the 6th Annual Conflux Festival in Partnership with NYU. Event Dates: September 17-20, 2009 Conflux Headquarters Location: New York University . Barney Building . 34 Stuyvesant St. . NYC Admission: $5 Suggested Donation * All events are open to the public. * Press Preview: Thursday, September 17, [...]

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PICNIC is a cross-discipline platform for creative conversation and collaboration. It’s a unique festival featuring a strategic conference, complimented by hands-on workshops and matchmaking sessions. ‘Mobile and Me’ is one of the themes of this years PicNic conference in Amsterdam: Mobile phones are the most personal devices in our lives. In certain parts of the [...]

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Mobile Life Conferences and Exhibitions will be held in Barcelona, during 2-4 September 2009 – Conferences on Mobile Government, Mobile Society and Mobile Development. mLIfe 2009 is supported by Barcelona City – , SPIDER – and mGCI Organizers are soliciting proposals for practice sessions. Practice sessions aim to cover real world applications, experiences or current [...]

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Group exhibition of the e-MobiLArt project in Thessaloniki 11 interactive installation artworks are going to be exhibited as the result of the collaboration amongst the 33 artists participating in the “e-MobiLArt” (European Mobile Lab for interactive media Artists) project. The group exhibition is taking place during 20 May – 10 June in the context of [...]

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The BEYOND MEDIA festival is one of the main events worldwide dedicated to the most current visions on contemporary architecture and on the outcomes of the intense relations which exist between architecture and the media. The ninth edition of the Florence festival is titled “VISIONS”. and will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, [...]

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World-Information City Paris 2009 is an international, two day conference focusing on four major themes within the wide field of new urban geographies: mobility, global flows and local dynamics, the remaking of urban spaces through new strategies of conflict and security, and new approaches to map distributed action in space. Mobility – of people, goods, [...]

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Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul With over half of the entire global population living in cities we are facing an imminent and immense shift in how we live, work, and play. This is particularly so with the current and future development of cities as ubiquitous network environments. The city is connections, a technosocial [...]

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From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Call for Papers From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen – A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane, Australia June 19th, 2009     Workshop position papers [...]

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Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu (Manchester) The increasing ubiquity of digital technology, internet services and location-aware applications in our everyday lives allows for a seamless transitioning between the visible and the invisible infrastructure of cities: road systems, building complexes, information and communication technology and people networks create a buzzing environment that’s alive [...]

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(Via http://varnelis.net/blog/mit_htc_forum_2009) Javier Arbona, Mark Jarzombek, and Kazys Varnelis Blogitecture: Architecture on the Internet The state and influence of architectural criticism in an age of digital networks Tuesday, April 7 6:30 pm Room 3-133 “Has a blog actually had a significant impact on a building in the process of being designed or built? What was [...]

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The Mobile City participant Martin Rieser sent us the following announcement: EEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovation Conference The International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovations Conference 2009 (ICE-GIC 09) aims to be a platform for innovative research in games technologies and to make these technologies more accessible to academia and industry. The conference will [...]

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This open PhD position may be of interest to some of our readers: Mobility and ubiquitous computing The mobility@lse research unit (mobility.lse.ac.uk), led by Dr Carsten Sorensen (www.carstensorensen.com), has since 2001 studied organisational and societal implications of mobile and ubiquitous information technology. The research has over the years built up a large body of research [...]

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Three paralel conferences are organized in Barcelona Spain: 1) mSOCIETY 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Society 2) EURO mGOV 2009: The 4th European Conference on Mobile Government 3) mDEVELOPMENT 2009: The 1st Int. Conference on Mobile Development These conferences will be held during 2-3-4 September, 2009, in Barcelona, Spain as part of Mobile [...]

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Academic MindTrek 2009 Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from September 30th – 2nd October, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. Media to be discussed range from business, social and [...]

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This year the conference on Intelligent Environments 09 which will take place in Barcelona on July 20-21st at the Technical University of Catalonia. More info in: http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie09 I would like to invite those of you who are active in the field of Intelligent Environments and particularly on the design of intelligent spaces for supporting human [...]

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‘An Atlas of Radical Cartography’ 15 February – 22 March 2009 Opening & A Mapping Forum: Saturday 14 February 17:00-20:00 “…to make maps is to organize oneself, to generate new connections and to be able to transform the material and immaterial conditions in which we find ourselves immersed. It isn’t the territory but it definitely [...]

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The e-magazine Artnodes has a themed issue on “Locative media and artistic practice” . The term locative media refers generally to the communication technologies involving location; ie, those providing a link or information relating to a specific place via devices such as GPS, mobile telephones or PDAs, laptop computers or wireless networks. These media are [...]

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Registration is open for our workshop on Locative Media: GEOTALES, 23-27 FEB 2009 ! with Esther Polak (NL) GeoTales proposes a 5 days unique and creative experimentation workshop with mobile and location based technologies (GPS: Global PositioningSystem, Mobile networks and smart phones) under the direction of Esther Polak (NL) and her assistant Tijmen Schep (NL) [...]

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Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies Penn State, USA, 24 June 2009 April 16, 2009 Workshop position papers due May 18, 2009 Author notifications sent June 24, 2009 Workshop http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm 1 Theme Transport grids, building complexes, information and communication technology, social [...]

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Between September 4th and 7th 2009 the 13th International Symposium on Wearable Computers will be held in Linz, Austria, concurrently with the Ars Electronica Festival . ISWC is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC’09 will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, [...]

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From 13 to 24 January The Radiator Festival takes place in Nottingham, UK. There is – amongst others – an exhibition, an a Symposium (15-16 January) with an interesting line up of speakers: Saskia Sassen, Richard Barbrook, Jodi, Charlie Gere and others. As part of the 4th Radiator festival, the Radiator Symposium, “Exploits in the [...]

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Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy A special double issue featuring the essays: Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy – Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces – Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko Download a free PDF here, or buy a printed copy from Lulu.com Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf [...]

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OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Deadline 25th Nov 2008 Since the abundant proliferation of digital communication technology, our (living) space has been expanded, transformed, reshaped. In our everyday lives we increasingly connect to mediated interfaces, be it consciously or without knowing. Digital media is increasingly integrated seamlessly into all areas of everyday life and work. [...]

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