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Event: Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu (Manchester)
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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MIT HTC Forum 2009 “architectural criticism in an age of digital networks”, April 7 2009, MIT Cambridge MA
(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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CFP: IEEE Consumer Games Conference, London UK, Aug 25-28 2009
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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PhD position @LSE (London) “Mobility and ubiquitous computing”
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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Call for papers:Intelligent Environments 09 @ Barcelona, July 20-21, Technical University of Catalonia
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 (14/2-22/3, Casco Utrecht)
‘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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Special issue Artnodes: “Locative media and artistic practice”
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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Geotales Workshop (23-27 feb 2009, Brussels)
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 Workshop (June 24, Penn State University)
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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Call for Papers International Symposium on Wearable Computers
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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Radiator Festival 2009 Exploits in the Wireless City
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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Call for submissions: Exploits in the Wireless City, Radiator Festival & Symposium Nottingham 13th -18th of January 2009
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.…