[spectre] Public Interfaces

[geoff cox]

Public Interfaces
http://darc.imv.au.dk/publicinterfaces/
Conference and PhD workshops, 12-14 January 2011, Aarhus University, 
Denmark.

The conference and Ph.D. workshop brings together researchers from 
Aarhus University, University of Plymouth, and guests to address the 
broad theme of Public Interfaces. It is organised by the Centre for 
Digital Urban Living (DUL), Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (DARC), 
and Dept. of Aesthetic Studies, Aarhus University.

Emerging from DUL and DARC's ongoing research around interface 
criticism, the aim is to broaden issues to encompass the development of 
urban interfaces, and the changing concept of the 'public'.

The following questions act as points of departure:
Whilst experimentation and developments in the culture of free software 
reflects emergent and self-organizing public actions, how does this 
modify our understanding of public interfaces? Can the public interface 
be used as a useful concept for understanding changing relations between 
public and private realms within other fields? Does the public interface 
offer a way of further examining relational aesthetics, the cultural 
regeneration agenda and public art? Does the public interface provide 
new understandings of the relationship between creative production and 
the free market sphere? How does the possible dissolution of the public 
and private spheres relate to bio politics and contemporary forms of 
power? Does the public interface suggest new borders or even the 
dissolution of borders between the public and private, humans and 
machines, the centre and periphery?

The conference and workshop are organised into three thematic strands:
Art as public interface; The public interfaces of urban space; The 
public interface and capital.

Speakers:
Merete Carlson (DK), Phil Ellis (UK), Christian Rhein (DE), Nina 
Valkanova (BG/ES), Tobias Ebsen (DK), Kevin Carter (UK), Thomas 
Bjørnsten Kristensen (DK), Andrew Prior (UK), Morten Riis (DK), Nina 
Gram (DK), Lars Bo Løfgreen (DK), Robert Jackson (UK), Magda 
Tyzlik-Carver (UK/PL), Tatiana Bazzichielli (IT/DK), Jacob Lund (DK), 
Malcolm Miles (UK), Morten Breinbjerg (DK), Brett Bloom (US/DK), Rui 
Guerra (NL/PT), Jørgen Bang (DK), Martin Brynskov (DK), Robert Brown 
(UK/US), Lone Koefoed Hansen (DK), Zoran Poposki (Rep. of Macedonia), 
Christian Ulrik Andersen (DK), Søren Pold (DK), Joasia Krysa (PL/UK), 
Geoff Cox (UK/DK), Mikkel Bolt (DK)

Organisers:
Jacob Lund (DK), Geoff Cox (UK/DK), Christian Ulrik Andersen (DK)

http://darc.imv.au.dk/publicinterfaces/