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[Drew Hemment]

Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN)
A new international network of practicing artists, technology developers 
and ethnographers working in pervasive and locative media.


PLAN_event
ICA. London
Tuesday 1st & Wednesday 2nd February 2005

The first PLAN event will take place at the ICA in London over two days, 
and will feature talks by leading figures, technical demonstrations, 
discussion sessions and live music. The aim of the event is to launch the 
network, review the state of the art, bring key players in the field 
together, and make initial contacts. The event will be open to the public.


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - deadline extended
Submissions are invited. Deadline for submissions has been extended to 
Friday 10th December. Guidelines for full submissions may be found below.


JOINING THE NETWORK
The network is open to individual artists or technology developers, 
university or industry research labs, and other institutions. Guidelines 
for joining this network may be found below.


PERVASIVE AND LOCATIVE ARTS NETWORK (PLAN)
A new international and interdisciplinary research network in pervasive 
media and locative media has been funded as part of the Engineering and 
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Culture & Creativity programme. 
The network will bring together practicing artists, technology developers 
and ethnographers with the aim of advancing interdisciplinary understanding 
and building consortia for future collaborative projects.

Focus
A new generation of pervasive technologies is enabling people to break away 
from traditional desktop PCs and games consoles and experience interactive 
media that are directly embedded into the world around them. And locative 
media, the combination of mobile devices with locative technologies, 
supports experiences and social interaction that respond to a participant's 
physical location and context. Together these convergent fields raise 
possibilities for new cultural experiences in areas as diverse as 
performance, installations, games, tourism, heritage, marketing and education.

Objectives
To support the formation of a new interdisciplinary research community to 
investigate how the convergent fields of pervasive media and locative media 
need to evolve in order to support future cultural and creative activities.
To catalogue interdisciplinary collaborations, and to review the research 
agenda, methods, and community.
To identify the key research issues that need to be addressed.
To seed future projects by bringing artists, scientists and industry 
together in a creative environment so that they can generate and 
practically explore new ideas, and also to provide a forum for publicly 
demonstrating some of these.
To produce online and offline resources to support researchers, artists, 
industry and to promote public understanding of this emerging field, 
including a public website, an online document repository for members and a 
newsletter and DVD.
To lobby for additional funding for this area.
To link international networks.

Activity
The network will stage three major gatherings. Each gathering will have a 
distinct form and focus: an initial workshop to launch the network and 
assess the state of the art; a technology summer camp for artists and 
technologists, including hands-on prototyping sessions using the facilities 
at Nottingham's Mixed reality Laboratory; and a major public conference and 
participatory exhibition as a central component of the Futuresonic 2006 
festival in Manchester; as well as a supporting web site and other resources.


INITIAL NETWORK
Steve Benford, University of Nottingham
Drew Hemment, University of Salford
Henk Muller, University of Bristol
Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow
Michael Sharples, University of Birmingham
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex
Christian Heath, Kings College
Jon Hindmarsh, Kings College
Ben Russell, Headmap/Locative Media Lab
Marc Tuters, Locative Media Lab
Dennis Del Favero, NSW iCinema
Steve Sayers, NESTA
Toby Barnes, EM Media
Richard Hull, HP Labs
Denny Plowman, City of Nottingham Council
Sara Diamond, Banff Centre, Canada
Andrew Caleya Chetty, Metapod
Amanda Oldroyd, BT Exact
Matt Adams, Blast Theory
Nick Southgate, Ricochet TV
Annika Waern, iPerG
Giles Lane, Proboscis
Minna Tarkka, m-cult, Finland
Carsten Sorensen, LSE
Chris Byrne, New Media Scotland
Paul Sermon, University of Salford
Nina Wakeford, INCITE, Surrey
Chengzhi Peng, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield
Lalya Gaye, Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Sweden
Michael Longford, Mobile Digital Commons Network, Canada
Gini Simpson, SPACE
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Sangwook Nam, art center Nabi, South Korea


JOINING THE NETWORK

The network is open to individuals, art companies and industry research 
labs as well as institutions.

To join the Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN) please write to 
stating the nature of your interest and why the network is of relevance to 
the kind of area you are working in. An email is adequate. (Please contact 
us for further details or a template letter.)

Please send to:
ben at open-plan.org

Or by post to the address below.


GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING TO FIRST EVENT

The first network event will be a two day public workshop with papers, 
demos and discussion sessions and will take place at the ICA in London on 
1st and 2nd February 2005.

Submissions of project outlines, position papers, technical demonstrations 
are invited. Note - The length of presentations shall be limited to create 
time for discussion and networking.

Of interest are:
  art projects
  cultural or community-based projects
  games projects
  tourism and heritage projects
  technology research projects
  technology demonstrations
  theoretical and social science position papers

If you are interested in submitting a proposal for inclusion in the first 
network event please make sure you include the following:
1. Title
2. Outline
3. Biography - single paragraph
4. Institutional affiliation (if appropriate)
5. Supporting material (as appropriate)
6. Contact details

Proposals should be no more than a single side of A4 or electronic equivalent

Please send to:
ben at open-plan.org

Or by post to:
Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN)
Mixed Reality Lab
University of Nottingham
Computer Science Building
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB

Deadline for full submissions is 10 December 2004

We request that participants seek support for travel and subsistence from 
their institutions. For participants without institutional affiliation the 
network shall support applications to funding councils and foundations, 
please contact us for further details.


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