[spectre] Hybrid City II //Subtle rEvolutions //Call for papers

[Daphne Dragona]

The HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutionsConference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events23-25 May 2013University of Athens, Athens, Greece http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc2/

Hybrid
 City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the 
emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of
 the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information
 and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the 
urban physical context. After the successful homonymous symposium of 
2011, the second edition of Hybrid City has grown into a peer reviewed 
conference, aiming to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among 
experts drawn from academia, as well as artists, designers, researchers,
 advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in 
addressing questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban
 activity and experience.Hybrid
 City Conference 2013, in Athens, Greece, will consist of three days of 
paper presentations, panel discussions, workshops and satellite events, 
under the theme “Subtle rEvolutions”. The events are organized by the 
University Research Institute of Applied Communication (URIAC) and will 
be hosted by the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, of the 
University of Athens, in collaboration with the New Technologies 
Laboratory of the faculty. The main venue of the conference is the 
central, historic building of the University of Athens, while workshops,
 projects’ presentations and parallel events will take place in other 
University venues and collaborating centers and institutions, in the 
center of Athens.Theme – Subtle rEvolutionsICTs,
 whether mobile, wireless or embedded in persistent architectural forms,
 facilitate the collection and dissemination of data, infusing the 
physical expression of the city with digital layers of content, 
contributing thus to the emergence of new hybridized spatial logics and 
novel forms of social interaction. These systems and the hybrid spatial 
experience they afford, encourage encounters among users; both embodied 
and mediated, and influence community dynamics, giving rise to networks 
around common interests and collectives of affect. Sometimes, such 
groups, irrespective of how ephemeral, unstable and dispersed they may 
be, negotiate a new kind of engagement with the urban environment and 
civic life, suggesting thus an organizational paradigm that manages to 
surpass traditional vertical hierarchies of space and consequently of 
power and control. Such configurations among communities, locations, 
contexts and intentions were manifested intensely in the interlinking of
 protest events around the world since 2011, the Arab Spring uprisings, 
the Occupy movement and anti-austerity demonstrations in Southern 
Europe, but they also gradually permeate everyday life in the 
contemporary metropolis.As
 sharing and collaborative tactics migrate from online culture to the 
urban realm and ICTs become increasingly open and personalized, rich 
opportunities for new forms of participation in civic life arise. 
Citizens may be enabled to access information about the city and also to
 become involved in the production, collection and distribution of data 
related to urban matters. The Hybrid City Conference considers a further
 investigation of such processes of crucial importance, so as to gain a 
deeper understanding of the effect they have on the urban experience and
 to explore their contribution in shaping the future cities. In this 
respect, Hybrid City cordially invites papers that present concepts, 
case studies, research projects, works of art and best practices and 
promote the discussion on the theme, at a theoretical or a more 
practical, applied level.  Emphasizing the inherently interdisciplinary 
nature of technologically mediated urban activity, we welcome proposals 
which examine, but are not limited to, the following topics:
•       Open cities, open urban data. 
•       Environmental sensing and the Internet of things.•       Urban data visualization.•       Environmental perception, cognition, immersion and presence in the context of hybrid urban spaces.•       Citizen science and peer production of knowledge. 
•       Psychosocial perspectives into the impact of locative and pervasive media use.•       Placemaking, place attachment and place identity in the hybrid city.•       Cartography of hybrid spaces. 
•       Mobile commons and wireless practices.•       Public spaces and mediated presence. 
•       Gamifying the urban space: playful engagement and game-like citizenship.•       Hybrid spaces of conflict: forms of power and counterpower in the networked city.•       Tactical media practices in the urban context.•       From open data to data commons.•       Open source models of policy and governance.•       Emerging currencies and values.•       Issues of data ownership and copyrights in hybrid urban contexts.

The
 Hybrid City Conference welcomes submissions discussing concepts or 
documenting projects which are rEvolutionary, in the sense that through 
originality and innovation they contribute to shaping the future of the 
hybrid city, bringing forth change, perhaps subtle or gradual, but 
radical nonetheless. Contributions may also maintain a critical 
perspective in examining issues relevant to the hybridization process. 
Potential topics for further investigation could be:

Openness
 vs. privacy. How much openness do we really need? Is there a danger in 
too much openness actually leading to transparency?Whose data is open data? Who has access to them and who could potentially make a profit out of them?How
 do citizens become motivated to contribute?  How do they remain 
actively involved? Who benefits from such collective contributions?Are there any dangers when cities become too smart? Which are potential tactics of disruption when facing such an emergence? 

Keynote speakers confirmed so far:Roger Malina,
 Distinguished Professor of Arts and Technology, University of Texas, 
Dallas, Co Chair Art-Science Program, Mediterranean Institute of 
Advanced Studies, Marseille.Steve Benford,
 Professor of Collaborative Computing and Head of the School of Computer
 Science at The University of Nottingham, member of the Mixed Reality 
Laboratory and of Horizon, author of ‘Performing Mixed Reality’ (with 
Gabriella Giannachi), MIT Press. 
Eric Kluitenberg,
 independent theorist and writer on culture, media, and technology, 
editor in chief of Tactical Media Files, an online documentation 
resource of Tactical Media practices worldwide.
Stephen Kovats, media and digital culture researcher, 'r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation', #OSJUBA project initiator.

Submission of papers:
Submissions should include:
*       Extended abstract of 750 - 1000 words, (including references).
*       Biographical statement of no more than 250 words.

Submissions should be in a Word or PDF format and not exceed 10 Mb in size. Please upload submitted files at:  http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc2/.

Selected
 authors will be asked to submit a full paper (8 pages), or short paper 
(4 pages) to be included in the printed conference proceedings. Further 
details will be announced right after the notification of acceptance.Important Dates:All
 abstracts will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted abstracts will be 
notified before the 20th of December 2012. Final submission of full 
papers will be expected no later than the 20th of February 2013.Deadline of Abstract Submission:  20 October 2012.Notification of Acceptance: 20 December 2012.Deadline of Full Paper Submission: 20 February 2013.Conference Dates: 23-25 May 2013.The
 “Hybrid City” events are realized in the context of the “City as a 
Hybrid Interface – HYBRI-C” project of the EACEA Culture programme 
2007-2013 (partners of URIAC in the project are: BIS – Body Process Arts
 Association, Istanbul, CIANT, Prague and Fearless, Marseille). For more
 information on the project visit: http://hybri-city-project.eu/.
For any queries or further info please contact us at: hybridcityathens [at] gmail [dot] com
 		 	   		  
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