[spectre] Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art, and the City

[Andreas Broeckmann]

[is New York finally waking up? -a ;-]

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:09:43 -0400
From: "Wayne Ashley" <washley at lmcc.net>

Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art, and the City

October 1 - 3 from 12 - 4 PM, City Hall Park

Spectropolis is a three-day event (October 1-3, 2004) in Lower 
Manhattan that highlights the diverse ways artists, technical 
innovators and activists are using communication technologies to 
generate urban experiences and public voice. The increasing presence 
of mobile communication technologies is transforming the ways we 
live, construct and move through our built environment. The 
participants of Spectropolis make obvious or play with this shift, 
creating new urban perceptions and social interactions with cell 
phones, laptops, wireless internet, satellite navigation technology, 
PDAs and radio. Don't forget to bring your Wi-Fi enabled laptop, 
radio, headphones, or PDA  for an added encounter!

Spectropolis Artists: Julian Bleecker, Jonah Brucker-Cohen and 
Katherine Moriwaki,The DSP Music Syndicate (Ethan Bordeaux, Ben 
Recht, Noah Vawter, and Brian Whitman),Elizabeth Goodman and Eric 
Paulos, Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena, Joshua Kinberg, Jeff Knowlton and 
Naomi Spellman, Karen Lee, Akitsugu Maebayashi, free103point9 
transmission artists (Damian Catera, Matt Mikas, Michelle Nagai, and 
Tom Roe), and Trebor Scholz

Spectropolis is curated by Wayne Ashley, LMCC's curator of New Media 
and public programs, and artists Yury Gitman and Brooke Singer. 
Spectropolis is produced by Dana Spiegel, Director of NYCwireless, 
Jordan Silbert, and Jordan Schuster; and co-sponsored by the Downtown 
Alliance, NYCwireless, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

                                                                                                                                                               

Spectropolis is organized in collaboration with NYCwireless, the 
Alliance for Downtown New York, Pace University, and the Vera List 
Center for Art and Politics at the New School University.



WWW.SPECTROPOLIS.INFO



Spectropolis Panels:



"Hot Enough? Art, Activism and Wireless Technology During the 
Republican National Convention"
Monday, September 27, 7:00 PM. The New School's Lang Center, 55 West 
13th Street; Admission: $8.
Webcast and online discussion: www.dialnsa.edu

The Republican National Convention (RNC) in late August gave rise to 
a wave of artistic projects employing wireless technology to make 
specific political statements. Unexpectedly, the RNC thus provided a 
common focus and purpose to diverse and divergent initiatives and, in 
hindsight, enables us to assess the efficiency of the new technology. 
This panel examines how artists employ wireless technology to reach 
unprecedented masses, to recast the concept of "collaboration," to 
redefine and politicize the urban environment, and to achieve 
unparalleled levels of immediacy.

Organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New 
School, on occasion of Spectropolis. Co-sponsored by the Design and 
Technology Department, Parsons School of Design, and the Department 
of Communication, The New School.

Participants: Yury Gitman (MagicBike); Natalie Jeremijenko (Clear 
Skies; Bitradio; Antiterror Line); Joshua Kinberg (Bikes Against 
Bush); neuroTransmitter (Re-Inventing Radio); and Tad Hirsch 
(Institute for Applied Autonomy).

Moderator: Jonah Peretti, Director of Research and Design, Eyebeam.

"The Victory of the Commons: The Case for a Public Airwaves Movement"
Wednesday, September 29, 7:00 PM. Multipurpose Room at Pace 
University, 3 Spruce Street. Admission is $5; free for Pace Students. 
To order tickets in advance, call 212-346-1715.

Participants evaluate the case for a widespread social movement 
advocating open spectrum policies led by community wireless groups. 
Panelists will present the successes and failures of earlier media 
and technology movements including media reform, low-power FM, public 
access television, and open source software.
Participants: Chris Anderson (Indymedia New York) Dharma Dailey 
(Prometheus Radio) Anthony Townsend (NYCwireless) and others, 
Moderated by Laura Forlano, Columbia University.
Organized by NYCwireless.

"Downtown Dialogue with Spectropolis Artists"
Monday, October 4, 7:00 PM. The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts 
at Pace University, 3 Spruce Street. Admission is $5; free for Pace 
students. To order tickets in advance, call 212-346-1715.

How do new media and information technologies continue to influence 
the form, processes, experience and ideas of urban life? Mobile 
phones, the internet, Personal Digital Assistants, Geographical 
Information Systems, Global Positioning Systems, and Virtual Reality 
are only some of the technologies that continue to effect the ways we 
navigate through, understand, and act upon the city. In combination 
with existing media, these tools are giving rise to new forms of 
electronic culture within the urban landscape. In this panel, 
Spectropolis artists discuss these trends through a discussion of 
their individual projects

Participants: Julian Bleecker, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine 
Moriwaki and Trebor Scholz
Moderator: Anthony Townsend, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU



Spectropolis Workshops:



Spectropolis workshops offer hands-on wireless communication play and 
participation. The workshops aim to educate a non-technical public 
and demystify a range of technologies through engaging presentations.


GPS Drawings with Jeremy Wood

Saturday, October 2 and Sunday October 3; 12 pm and 2 pm
Begin at City Hall Park

Building a Community Hotspot with John Geraci and Dana Spiegel

Saturday, October 2 and Sunday October 3; 2 pm
The Computer Lab-Rm 206 at Pace University, enter at One Pace Plaza


Zapped! with Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte and Brooke Singer

Saturday October 3; 3 pm

The Multipurpose Room at Pace University, enter at One Pace Plaza



   The Brooklyn Museum, Pace University and the New School University 
are generously hosting Spectropolis events.



Spectropolis thanks these organization for their help: Bway.net, 
Wiselephant, Justin T. Molloy and jtmdsgn, B Squared Design, 
Starworks, and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

                                                                                   

Spectropolis is presented as a program of Downtown Digital Futures, a 
multi-year initiative presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural 
Council, and made possible with support from Pace University; the May 
and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; the New York State Council on the 
Arts Electronic Media and Film Program, a state agency; the New York 
City Department of Cultural Affairs; City Council Speaker Gifford 
Miller; the Asian Cultural Council; Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; 
the Experimental Television Center's Media Arts Technical Assistance 
Program, and the Cowles Charitable Trust. The Alliance for Downtown 
New York is our marketing partner. Special thanks to Hughes Hubbard & 
Reed LLP.