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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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Esther Polak’s Nomadic Milk: Is GPS-tracking like ‘photography with a very long shuttertime?’
A GPS recorder is like a camera in the sky with a very long shutter time. That at least was what Cassion Harrison, the director from Britain from Above claimed at the AnyMedia workshop at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam last November. It’s a metaphor that I’ve been playing with ever since, and especially now…
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BBC radio: computer generated building design
The BBC has a 5-minute radio item about computer generated architecture. Architect Thomas Witzke (?) at Zaha Hadid‘s office talks about paralel computer modeling in building design. He says computer programs originally used for the animation industry and car design and ship building are now used by architects. So projects are now entirely conceived in…
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Towards a Myspace urbanism?
In 1938 Chicago School Scholar Louis Wirth wrote the now famous article ‘Urbanism as a way of Life’. According to Wirth, the modern metropolises that had emerged in the preceding half-century or so, weren’t only striking for their until then unparalleled sizes and shapes. The social and economic clusterings of the industrial city had also…
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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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Locative media and the situationists
During the last museumnight in Amsterdam the Amsterdam architecture institute Arcam decided to have an evening about the situationists. Apparently the Dutch situationist Constant had (co-)written a pamphlet fifty years earlier about his ideal city. The pamphet, it was revealed, could just as easily be interpreted as a joke instead of as an actual serious…
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3rd Situated Technologies pamphlet out: Situated Advocacy
Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy A special double issue featuring the essays: Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy – Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces – Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko Download a free PDF here, or buy a printed copy from Lulu.com Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf…
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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.…
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Urban Play: designing the urban landscape
Saturday November 1 2008 I attended the closing debate of the Urban Play project that took place during ExperimentaDesign 2008 themed “Space and Place: design for the urban landscape”. The event explored the role of designers in shaping the urban landscape, and the Urban Play project – organized by Droog Design – specifically focused on…
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Native Land, Paris Nov 21 March 15
The Fondation Cartier (in Paris) is putting up an interesting exhibition later this month, curated by photographer /filmmaker Raymond Depardon and philosopher Paul Virilio. The title is Native Land Stop Eject or Terre Natale in French. In a videoclip, Paul Virilio summarizes the main themes of the exhibit: ‘ Our identity is our place of…
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ImageRadio 2008, Eindhoven 30 October – 2 November
Image Radio is a yearly festival in Eindhoven, consisting of an Art Show, Symposium, Live Cinema concerts, Artist Talks and an Expert Meeting. The festival is also an experiment, critical reflection, and preview of how new media in public space impact our cultural, social and physical surroundings. The increase of display devices, data clouds, sensor…
