[spectre] HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions // Call for projects

[Daphne Dragona]

The HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions
Conference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events

23-25 May 2013
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
www.media.uoa.gr/hybridcity


Call for projects

Hybrid
 City II, in collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art,
 Athens (EMST)  addresses a call for projects relevant to this year's 
conference theme, "Subtle rEvolutions".  Works will be presented as part
 of an online exhibition to be launched during the Hybrid City events 
and will also be on view at the Media Lounge of the Museum.
 


Theme

ICTs, 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. Hybrid City 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.
Topics of interest:

•       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.
Questions addressed:

•	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 can citizens become motivated to contribute?  How do they remain 
actively involved? Who benefits from such collective contributions?

•	Are there any dangers in the city becoming too smart? What are potential tactics of disruption of such an emergence? 
In
 this context, we welcome submissions of works that reflect the changes 
and
 dynamics of today’s cityscape and offer citizens new modes of 
information processing and understanding. We wish to present critical 
perspectives and initiatives 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. 
This can include, but is not limited to:

• online or downloadable digital tools,

• urban data visualizations,

• data flow mappings, digital cartographies,

• models for emerging alternatives,

• online documentation of innovative practices and tactics.




Projects do not need to be strictly net-based but they do need to provide sufficient information online. 
Projects
 which will not involve digital technology in their production and do 
not refer to the theme addressed in this call will not be considered.



Submissions should include:


• A 300 word description of the project.

• A 200 word biographical description of the creator/s.

• URL of the project and other related links.

• Technical specifications.




Deadline: 8 February 2013
Please submit your project online: www.media.uoa.gr/hybridcity

All projects will
 be reviewed and selected by curators from the “Hybrid City II” 
organization committee, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens 
and the partner institutions (BIS and CIANT).

Please note that creators 
wishing to have their work published as a paper and presented in the 
conference must have already submitted an abstract under the call for papers.



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 (the partners in the project are: URIAC, Athens,  BIS – Body Process Arts
 Association, İstanbul, 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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