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THE HYBRID CITY AT INTERFACE<BR>
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A YASMIN discussion JULY/SEPTEMBER 2010<BR>
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The discussion will be moderated by Dimitris Charitos and Prof. Martin<BR>
Rieser, along with Daphne Dragona, Haris Rizopoulos and Iouiliani<BR>
Theona as Invited respondents. All YASMINERS invited to participate.<BR>
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Dimitris Charitos, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication<BR>
and Media Studies, University of Athens<BR>
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"The hybrid city as an interface"<BR>
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In the beginning of the 21st century, urban environments, within which<BR>
social life evolves, are radically being reordered by technological<BR>
systems and networks. Mobile telephony has restructured the way people<BR>
socialize within urban space (Plant, 2001). Multi-user virtual<BR>
environments redefine the meaning of mediated communication by<BR>
immersing communicating participants into a synthetic spatial context.<BR>
ICTs and new media may also be used for augmenting physical<BR>
environments in order to communicate meaning. The contemporary urban<BR>
environment already incorporates various kinds of representations of<BR>
reality, communicated to us all via various<BR>
media and appropriate display systems (most of these representations<BR>
are visual, i.e. billboards, video projections, wall paintings, closed<BR>
circuit<BR>
TV, touch screens, etc). These environments may also incorporate<BR>
systems that capture visual, auditory, and other types of information<BR>
regarding human activity and, consequently, utilize this input to<BR>
affect the process of generating digital representations. The most<BR>
advanced form of such systems is pervasive and ubiquitous computing<BR>
systems (Weiser, 1991). It could then be suggested (Charitos, 2005)<BR>
that the incorporation of information and communication technology<BR>
(ICT) systems results in an electronic enhancement of the everyday<BR>
urban environment and that communication with these environments and<BR>
with other citizens who exist and act within them is mediated by these<BR>
systems.<BR>
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Whose city exactly? Reconsidering spatial production processes<BR>
through ludic, user inter-actions within the urban context. Which side<BR>
are you on (on the threshold)? Outlining the relations between the<BR>
virtual and physical experience of the city, as well as the new social<BR>
dynamics of this hybrid urban context for everyday life.<BR>
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFO of DISCUSSION RESPONDENTS<BR>
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Dimitrios Charitos is an assistant professor at the Faculty of<BR>
Communication and Media Studies of the University of Athens. He<BR>
teaches "Human-Computer Communication", "Art & Technology", "Visual<BR>
Communication", "Mediated Environments" (www.media.uoa.gr/~charitos)<BR>
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Professor M. Rieser is a Media Artist and Theorist based in Bristol.<BR>
Professor of Digital Creativity at De Montfort University. 2000-7<BR>
Professor of Digital Arts and Senior Teaching Fellow Bath Spa<BR>
University , was Principal Lecturer in Digital Media at Napier<BR>
University in Edinburgh at the Department of Photography, Film, and<BR>
Television 1997-2000. and in post as Senior Lecturer in Electronic<BR>
Media at UWE Bristol between 1986 - 1998.<BR>
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Daphne Dragona is a media arts curator based in Athens. Her<BR>
exhibitions and events the last few years have focused on the notion<BR>
of play and its merging with art as a form of networking and<BR>
resistance. She has worked with Fournos Center for Digital Culture<BR>
(Greece) , LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre (Spain), Alta<BR>
Tegnologia Andina (Peru) and with the National Museum of Contemporary<BR>
Art in Athens.<BR>
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Charalampos Rizopoulos is a researcher at the Department of<BR>
Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian<BR>
University of Athens. After graduating from the aforementioned<BR>
department in 2003, he obtained a MSc in Interactive Multimedia<BR>
Production from the University of Huddersfield, UK.<BR>
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Iouliani Theona is a practising architect and a researcher. She<BR>
studied at the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of<BR>
Thessaloniki and later obtained a Degree from the Inter-Departmental<BR>
Postgraduate Programme: Architectural Design - Space - Culture, in the<BR>
School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens.<BR>
She is currently a PhD Candidate in the aforementioned institution,<BR>
focusing on subjects such as pervasive games and spatial perception.<BR>
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