Tuesday November 16 2010 Michiel de Lange successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”. To download the dissertation, go here >>.

LIFT11 workshop submissions are open! At Lift11, workshops will take place on Thursday 3 February, and Friday 4 February 2011. Click here to submit a proposal. We’ve suggested some overall themes that we’d like to focus on in this edition – they tie in with our program and the plenary sessions and will enable Lifters…

5daysoff, Pervasive Media Studio, Kitchen Budapest and NIMk launch an open call for a cross-European residency programme. (original call: http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/shared_residency ) We’re looking for interesting artists seeking time and space to research, produce and present projects at the intersection of art, mobility and culture involving audience participation. The programme will support early stage ideas that utilise…

Chiara Camponeschi is a change-maker with over six years of experience in people-powered change. Her latest project, The Enabling City, consists of a Creative-Commons licensed publication, The Enabling City: Place-Based Creative Problem-Solving and the Power of the Everyday, and a web-platform by the same name. Guided by principles such as collaboration, innovation and participation, Camponeschi…

The Cities Seminar 2010-2011 Theme: New Directions in Urbanism The Cities Seminar meets monthly during the academic year, and features a combination of guest speakers and focused group readings and discussions. The theme for the 2010-2011 seminar is “New Directions in Urbanism”. Our concern will be not only to identify and think through the implications…

The last few months Michiel and I have spent most of our time on the organization of our The Mobile City Event 2010: ‘Designing the Hybrid City‘ – an expert meeting we organized in the context of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai together with Virtueel Platform. We are currently working on the proceedings of…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

+++++ 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…