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Event: Conflux September 17-20 2009 New York
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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Event: PicNic Amsterdam 23-25 september 2009
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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review: Stephen Graham – The Cybercities Reader (2004)
In The Cybercities Reader (2004) Stephen Graham – at that time Professor of Urban Technology in Newcastle – bundles a great number of seminal texts about the intersections of digital media technologies and urban life. Some articles were written especially for this reader. Others were previously published. The book departs from the premisse that “[t]he…
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CFP & Event: Mobile Life Conferences and Exhibitions, Barcelona, 2-4 September 2009
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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Interview with Mark Shepard: ‘critical design’, architecture, urbanism and location based media
Mark Shepard is a media architect and researcher. His current research investigates the influence of mobile and pervasive media, communication and information technologies on architecture and urbanism. He is one of the organizers of the 2006 symposium on Architecture and Situated Technologies. This fall, for the Architectural League of New York, he curates the exhibition…
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Digital Cities 6: urban media / urban informatics and different notions of public space
I attended the Digital Cities 6 Workshop this week in State College Pennsylvania (put together by Marcus Foth, Laura Forlano and Hiromitsu Hattori, thanks for that!). The workshop started from the notion that with the advent of urban informatics, it is now possible to collect large collections of data about the behaviour of people within…
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Augmented reality on the mobile: MoMo Amsterdam #11
Mobile Monday #11 themed “Visions on Mobile” took place on June 1 2009 and had some great speakers: Alan More, Jamais Cascio, Andrew Grill, Joe Pine, Howard Rheingold, and Robert Rice – yes, all guys with visions in the mobile world 🙂 Photo by Anne Helmond As MoMo is a kind of trend-watching event, the…
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Storytelling with Locative Media: Michael Epstein’s take on ‘terratives’
A few weeks ago I attended a presentation at the MIT6-conference by Michael Epstein, the CEO of Untravel Media, a Boston-based company that produces location based storytelling media. Or as Epstein himself calls it: terratives – a combination of territory and narrative. Untravel’s portfolio includes terratives for the New England Aquarium and the MIT Campus…
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Exhibition: e-MobiLArt project @ Thessaloniki Biennale, May 24-September 27 2009 Thessaloniki Greece
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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Festival: Beyond Media – Visions on Architecture and Media, Florence July 9-17 2009
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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Event: World-Information City, Paris May 30-31, 2009
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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review: Kevin Lynch – The Image of the City
As part of a new effort of The Mobile City to compile an ever-expanding overview of literature relevant to our themes, I will review this oldie-goldie published in 1960: Kevin Lynch – The Image of the City. I particularly assess its enduring relevance for understanding the current relation between mobile & locative media and the…
