-
CFP: ACM2009 “Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era” 30 Sept–2 Oct 2009 Tampere, Finland
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…
-
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…
-
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: a matter of ‘U-City’ or ‘U-Citizens?’
I just finished reading Marcus Foth’s Handbook of research on Urban Informatics. It’s an edited volume as thick as a fist, packed with essays that when taken altogether give a great overview of this exciting new interdisciplinary field of research and design practices. So what exactly is urban informatics? Roughly said, the field includes a…
-
Streetview NL is almost here
With the coming addition of the Dutch part of Google Streetview, my street won’t be the same. Well, that’s not true. Here in Holland these pictures-of-streets services have been in use for some time. But those pay-services were focused on official use, often being used by government agencies and businesses. But now, with Streetview, these…
-
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…
-
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…
-
On the design of geographic interfaces: verisimilitude -vs- subjective experiences
Last night I attended Michael Naimark’s interesting lecture at the Rotterdam Film festival. This year’s edition of the festival wants to broaden the discussion on ‘screen culture’, and Naimark took up on this theme by focusing on maps and globes as important elements of our contemporary screen culture. Naimark talked about two different directions that…
-
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)…
-
Film festival Rotterdam: What content makes Urban Screens interesting? Let’s move beyond the cinematic.
This week I visited the international filmfestival in Rotterdam. For this year’s edition the festival left the confinement of the city’s film theatres and expanded onto three urban screens erected in the city’s public space. During the festival three specially commissioned films are projected on landmark skyscrapers in the centre of Rotterdam to address the…
-
Review: “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities” by Mimi Ito et al.
Mimi Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Ken Anderson have an interesting chapter in the edited volume by Rich Ling & Scott Campbell (2009) “The reconstruction of space and time: mobile communication practices” which recently came out. The chapter is called “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places”. The authors explore how…
-
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…
