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Bodily networking sensation
Quote from we make money not art: Daily walks between home, work and leisure are recompiled into a “pain-map” which is fetched from GoogleMaps servers with automated scripts. The map keeps tracks of the wireless networks along the route, but also of the wearer’s détours when entering a very dense network place.The technique, which the…
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Architecture 2.0 symposium Rotterdam
Bit of a cynical post on Panzerfaust (in Dutch…) about the Architectuur 2.0 symposium last friday November 9. Another post (again in Dutch) on Architectenwerk. Although I wasn’t there so cannot really judge, questioning the role of new technologies on the practice and discipline of architecture and urban planning appears to have been absent. Which…
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Post on locative media and architecture
Guest writer Colin Kloecker on The Where Blog has an interesting post about the interaction between virtual and urban environments, which bears an uncanny resemblance to our proposal for The Mobile City conference. I guess we’re on the right track..:-). He concludes by asking: So all of this speculation begs the question: in this media-rich…
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Another interesting publication upcoming
This appears to be a very interesting publication www.spacetimeplay.org. The richly illustrated texts in “Space Time Play” cover a wide range of gamespaces: from milestone video and computer games to virtual metropolises to digitally-overlaid physical spaces. As a comprehensive and interdisciplinary compendium, “Space Time Play” explores the architectural history of computer games and the future…
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Sharing versus claiming public space
Please let me introduce myself: My name is Tijmen Schep, I am a student of New Media and Digital Culture at Utrecht University, as well as a member of the NetNiet.org Foundation. which promotes wireless media art in public space. I have been asked to join this blog, and so I gratefully have. Thanks for…
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Chinese cities and Web 2.0
Many hi-tech corporations like Intel and Microsoft have been opening up research labs in China over the last few years. So it should be no surprise that this conference about Web 2.0 takes place in Beijing and is organized by Orange Labs, in cooperation with the Dynamic City Foundation (with whom I once cooperated in…
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Surveillance City
Trampoline is a Nottingham (uk) based platform for new media art. Like many others they have picked up on the important theme of the privatization of the public sphere. Both physical – as in the emergence of semi-public regenerated down-town shopping experience-zones – as well as in the virtual realm: As developers buy up our…
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Situated Technologies Pamphlet series
The architectural league in New York is setting up a series of very promising lectures on Situated Technologies. This fall the League launches a nine-part publication series–co-edited by Mark Shepard, Omar Khan, and Trebor Scholz–to be published over the next two years, exploring the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture. Born out of the three-day…
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The social web and the public sphere
Trebor Scholz is an interesting thinker and cultural critic on all things web 2.0. He is currently teaching a class on The Social Web, which addresses issues such as social networks and the public sphere. Although it is mainly about life online, many of the issues are also very relevant for scholars of the mobile…
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Date set at 27th and 28th of february
We have set the date
