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Upcoming The Mobile City Event: Keynote with Mark Shepard Nov 5th 20:00 NAi Rotterdam
From the real-time city to read/write urbanism: on the architecture of contemporary urban topographies. Keynote lecture by Mark Shepard Nov 5th 2009 20:00 hrs NAi Auditorium Euro 3-5 Cities today are complex hybrids of both physical and informational space. Brought into being through common everyday techno-social practices, these hybrids rely on a wide range of…
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Reminder: registration for Sentient Rotterdam with Mark Shepard closes this weekend
See our call for details.
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Call for Participation: Sentient Rotterdam Workshop with Mark Shepard and The Mobile City on IABR – Nov 6th NAi Rotterdam
UPDATE Registration for this workshop has closed. It is no longer possible to register for the workshop. You are cordially invited to attend the public presentation of the workshop results and the opening of Mark Shepard’s Sentient City Survial Kit, Friday November 6th 17:00, Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam. —- On Friday Nov 6th The Mobile…
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Picnic 09 Report 2: The City as an Interaction Platform
At Picnic I attended an interesting session called The City as an Interaction Platform that took this theme as its point of departure: Cities have always been about providing frameworks of services to improve the quality of life for residents and businesses. How will social networks, mobile devices, reactive environments, and cloud-based data services transform…
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PICNIC ’09 report 1: augmented reality
This year’s PICNIC (September 23-25 2009 in Amsterdam) had some really great sessions and speakers. The Mobile City couldn’t possibly attend everything. Therefore I will zoom in on two sessions that were particularly interesting for our themes. One on Wednesday Sept. 23, about augmented reality. And the other on Friday Sept. 25, about eco-mapping. In…
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Lecture / Performance: Elastic Mapping by Esther Polak, 6 october 2009 – NIMK Amsterdam
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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Conference: Urban Screens and Public Space Seminar , Sep 28-30 2009 Medialab Prado -Madrid
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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CfP: Street Computing workshop at OZCHI 2009 Tue 24th Nov 2009, Melbourne
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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Event: 090909 UpStage Festival – 09 september 2009 online and IRL
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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The Mobile City @PICNIC 2009 + discount code for our readers
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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Exhibition: Toward the Sentient City – Sep 17 New York
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…
