greetings all, i would like to share with the list my new status, as doctorate candidate of the medialab, university of art and design helsinki (http://mlab.uiah.fi)...this is the news of last week for me.
...and declare my occupied state of mind for the following years, with the hope of having dialogue with interested persons on the ambit network. From the posts recently i appreciate there are crossded paths among at least a few. i will continue to use the 'agryfp' hotmail presence for lists including ambit, but for those who either keep in contact already, or wish to directly, please update your address book to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i will be back in scotland & uk in november, but plan to move to helsinki in december, starting the research fulltime in january 2003. For anyone who has similar ambitions of post grad research (in any subject) i recommend checking out the leverhulme trust study abroad studentship (deadline january each year, notice posted in october) http://www.leverhulme.org.uk/sas.html this trust fund has support my research plan for 24 months fulltime, and it is most agreeable. i welcome any comments in regards to the abstract below etc., and can provide more for anyone who cares. The proposal has been developed over 8 months now, and is quite detailed, but of course there is always room for criticism, expansion and comment. all 'ra best, hope you's get some summer in scotland soon. andrew +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Andrew Paterson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doctorate Research Plan, MediaLab UIAH, Helsinki 2002-06. <title> DEVELOPING NOTIONS OF PERSONAL & SOCIAL PLACE WITH LOCATION-AWARE, MULTIMEDIA MOBILE-DEVICES. <abstract> The concept of 'place' is being contested and re-valued in a changing social and technological environment, particularly as a result of developments in personal telecommunications. A mobile information society has evolved which has allowed communication between persons, and also computers, to be 'exchanged' regardless, or in spite, of location. Latest technology in mobile devices will potentially allow an increasing proportion of people to augment media - image and audio - to everyday locations, creating a dynamic personal and collective information space. This doctorate research aims to explore the creative potential of forthcoming technologies in mobile and handheld devices - namely multimedia messaging services (MMS) and accurate location- aware positioning - to construct personal and social 'augmented' places. It will engage with discourses of 'place' from fields such as archaeology, social geography, architecture, politics, and media theory to assist in constructing a framework of application and interpretation of multimedia - and particularly audio - augmented everyday locations, both urban and natural landscape. Such a practice would allow everyday device users to develop personal relationships with certain locations for mnemonic, creative, social or critical purposes. A prototype system will be developed, in conjunction with other parties, for the purpose of sending and receiving location (context)-aware media using MMS, via mobile or web-based interfaces. The conceptual focus of the system will be directed to facilitate person-place and place-person data exchange. The system will then be tested and developed to support public art development workshops. Active workshops with a variety of groups, raising awareness of creative and poetic usage, will conclude the research period and form the basis of an evaluation process. <keywords> PLACE; PERSONAL; SOCIAL; AUDIO-AUGMENTED ENVIRONMENTS; MOBILE DEVICES; MULTIMEDIA MOBILE MESSAGING; MMS; LOCATION-AWARE SERVICES; ARTIST PROJECT AS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH; PUBLIC-ART DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS; _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
