[spectre] Interactionfield NEWS (Modified by Geert Lovink) [u]

Sat Dec 17 17:05:05 CET 2005

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NEWS by http://www.interactionfield.de
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1. Deadline reminder for submissions
2. Conferences and exhibitions
3. Installations/ research projects
4. Book recomendation
5. Editorial news

1. DEADLINE REMINDER  
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Open / Call for submissions for a website archive
SOUNDSLIKEPUBLICSPACE An internet archive of projects focused on the  
sound
of public spaces and projects intended to be heard in public spaces:
writings, recordings, gallery pieces, performances, public sound
installations, audio walks...
http://www.soundslikepublicspace.net

20. Dec. 05 / Extended deadline, Call for Proposals
15. Jan. 06 / Call for papers
ISEA 2006 - Interactive City
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ISEA2006/
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/calls.html

20. Dec. 05 / Deadline, Call for Works
VORFAHRT
In Mai 2006 the Stuttgarter Birkenwald street is transfgormed into an  
Art
Zone made of Garden-, Garage-, Balcony-, Window-, Fence- or Facade-space
provided by residents. Artists of al disciplines are invited to submitt
works. Topic: The contradictory context of private and Public sphere.
http://www.vorfahrt-2006.de (only German so far)
More: info at vorfahrt-2006.de

31. Dec. 05 / Closing date for applications
IAS-STS Fellowship Programme 2006-2007, Graz, Austria
Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society
The IAS-STS promotes the interdisciplinary investigation of the links  
and
interactions between science, technology and society, technology  
assessment,
as well as research on the development and implementation of socially  
and
environmentally sound technologies. For this the IAS-STS invites  
researchers
to apply for a stay between 1 October 2006 and 30 June 2007 as
http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/index_en.php/article/articleview/88/1/48

16. Jan. 06 / Deadline call for artworks and conference papers
ParticipART will be an exhibition on participative and electronic art  
at the
MART, Trento, Italy in connection with the Participatory Design  
Conference
(PDC), theme: "Expanding Boundaries in Design"
http://www.participart.org
http://www.unitn.it/events/pdc/ 

31. Jan 31 06 / Deadline Grant on Research and Experimentation  in
Art+Science+Technology
This program offers grants to individuals who contribute to the
crossroads of art, science, technology and the environment.
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/programmes/ind/menu.html

31. Jan. 06 / Deadline for Presentation Proposals
9th SUBTEL TECHNOLOGIES Festival/Symposium investigates Architecture and
Responsiveness in June 2006, Toronto
http://www.subtletechnologies.com/submissions

1. Feb. 06 / Deadline call for submission, electronic artworks
CHAMP LIBRE presents its 7th edition of the Manifestation Internationale
Vidéo et Art Électronique, Montreal taking place in an urban site  
currently
under transformation: in and around Quebec’s national library.
Theme: INVISIBLE CITY
http://www.champlibre.com/citeinvisible

5 Feb. 06 / Deadline call for proposals and artistic interventions
INTERFERENCIA is a public art event in Barcelona in July 2006 within the
frame of GREC FESTIVAL. It aims to promotes public participation,  
arouses
social issues and question the usual meaning of public space.
http://www.arteven.com/pdf_docs/INTERFERENCIAeng.doc (English call)
http://www.interferencia.info

2. CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS  
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18 Dec. 2005, 15.00-17.00, Rotterdam
LAUNCH EVENT of beingthere.v2.r'dam.05 during the
finissage weekend of INFRActures
Bus tour Beginning and end point: V2_Eendrachtsstraat 10, Admission:  
5,00
a bus tour that will create a synthesis with the surrounding urban
environment and heighten an awareness of the city's identity. An onboard
experimental documentary of local architects and a tour to public
interventions
http://www.movinginplace.net/beingthereinfo/
http://www.v2.nl/portal2004/events/channel/channel.sxml?uri=urn:v2: 
portal200
4:rss:events.rss

1 - 31th Dec. 2005, Toronto
TRANSMEDIA :29:59 
exhibition on the pedestrian level video billboard at Yonge-Dundas  
Square
http://www.year01.com/transmedia2959
Gwen MacGregor's '3 months - New York, Toronto' is a one minute  
animation
that is the first in a series using GPS technology. David  
Crawford's 'Stop
Motion Studies' looks at the subway as a stage upon which social  
dynamics
and individual behavior are increasingly mediated by digital technology.

20. Jan. 2006, London
Mindplay
Conference on digital media theory, culture, practice and play, London
The conference will focus on our experience of both mindful and playful
human-digital relationships, and explore our interaction and engagement  
with
new digital media environments including those involving mobile and
ubiquitous media, new cinema, gameplay, wired spaces, and networked
communities.
at London Metropolitan University, 35 Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8AA
http://www.mindplay.org.uk/

3. INSTALLATIONS / RESEARCH PROJECTS ___________________________________

blubox + fotobox
Research exploring public art as a wireless network.
systems-based art projects, enabling the public to network together via
bluetooth to play with various designed mobile applications in a  
coordinated
city environment.
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/001740.html

Silence of the Lands (SOL)
Location: University of Colorado, Boulder
http://www.thesilence.org
Annotate and map the soundscape of urban and natural environments:  
record
and collect ambient sounds, create and share individual and collective
cartographies, and use them as conversation pieces of a social dialogue  
on
the preservation and enjoyment of natural quiet.
Elisas comment: "I look forward to your feedback and suggestions
(communication issues, research topics, potential grants, potential
collaboration)."

33 QUESTIONS PER MINUTE IN BERLIN
Installation at Postdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
13 December 2005 to 8 January 2006
http://www.realities-united.de
A matrix of 1,800 fluorescent lamps cover an eleven storey-high
building in Berlin, a creation of architects realities:united. On this
facade will be displayed 55 billion unique and grammatically correct
Questions. People will be able to input their own questions by typing
them in at an outdoor kiosk.

Not really outdoors but interesting:
A one night event held on Thursday 27 October 2005 at San Francisco  
Museum
of Modern Art
"RFID is used for tracking people during an opening event party. RFID  
tags
and a range of antennas each corresponding to a particular behavioral  
zone.
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Experiments/Testing/

Pac-Lan
An other Pacman version for Mobilephones and outdoor gaming:
"The first game in the world to use mobile phones equipped with RFID  
Tags"
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/?article_id=149

A beautiful animated map of a courier service in London. You can follow  
the
movement over a period of three days and seeing the changing activity  
in the
city of London. Who needs deliveries in the middle of the night! (In
collaboration with open streetmap)
http://www.ecourier.co.uk/media/eCourier_GPS.mpeg
http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Whether/Weather
An "irreverent messaging system that explores the romantic and poetic
possibilities of communication and chance discovery through illuminated
aerial beacons launched into the sky." Helium-powered balloons with LED
blinkers and messages... The website tries to track and create  
communication
between finder and sender...  (ballons are not yet equiped with tracking
technology...)
http://www.sodacity.net/whether/
http://www.glowlab.com/lab2/issue.php?project_id=111&issue_name=5
Other Projects of the Glowlab psychogeography festival:
http://www.glowlab.com/lab2/

mimosa
"Since october 2005 mimoSa maps different brazilian cities by urban
interventions that aim to interfere at the current brazilian mediascape,
reapropriating technology to reveal places, people and their tales."
http://turbulence.org/Works/mimoSa/

Shoot me if you can
A Korean game making use of the widespread cellular phones equipped  
with a
digital camera. Shooting a picture of the opponent and sending it via  
sms to
him... "This work is a commentary on abundance of digital image  in our
culture, desire to photograph and violence of surveillance  camera."
http://www.shootmeifyoucan.net/

And another location based role playing game
http://shroudgame.com/

4. BOOK RECOMMENDATION _________________________________________________

Placing Words
Symbols, Space, and the City
By William J. Mitchell

Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the
spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an
age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling
to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA.
September 2005  ISBN 0-262-63322-1  $16.95/£10.95 (PAPER)
Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=10599&mlid=518
(thanks Geert)

Proboscis announce the publication of new eBooks, downloadable at:
http://diffusion.org.uk/quick_diffusion.html
http://proboscis.org.uk

Liquid Geography Series
Hayden Lorimer & Kate Foster – Cross-bills
Joyce Majiski – Confluences, Influences, Passages
Louise K Wilson – Aerial Stories: notes about gravity, bodies and the
view out the window

Species of Spaces Series
Raoul Bunschoten – Stirring Still, The city soul and its metaspaces
Nina Czegledy – On Spatial Perception
Scott deLahunta – Separate Spaces: some cognitive dimensions of movement
Minna Tarkka – Labours of Location: acting in the pervasive media space

5. EDITORIAL NEWS  
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