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UPDATE: The Mobile City conference : 27 & 28 Feb 2008 NAi Rotterdam - Final
Program Released*
The Mobile City conference | 27 & 28 February 2008 | NAi (Netherlands
Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands**
http://www.themobilecity.nl*
*The Mobile City* is a two-day conference about locative & mobile
technologies, urban culture and identity. The Mobile City brings academics,
architects, urban professionals and media designers together to address the
question: what happens to urban culture when physical and digital spaces
merge? Keynote speakers are *Stephen Graham *(Professor of Human Geography,
Durham University), *Tim Cresswell *(Professor of Geography, University of
London), *Malcolm McCullough* (Associate Professor University of Michigan )
and *Christian Nold *(Independent artist and lecturer based in London).
*Program Main Conference Thursday Feb 28th*
During the main conference on February 28th, Keynote speeches will be
alternated with short* *project presentations about the application of
locative and mobile media. These will be:
* *Esther Polak* (independent artist) - Amsterdam RealTime and locative
media art.
* *James Stewart* (School of Art Culture and Environment, Edinburgh UK) -
Branded Meeting Places, Ubiquitous technologies, and the design of places
for meaningful human encounter.
* *Ronald Lenz* (Waag Society Amsterdam) - Location-based Learning in the
Games Atelier.
* *Laurence Claeys* (Bell Labs-Alcatel-Lucent Antwerp) - "Let the Homo
Ludens conquer the city": the touch-paradigm in designing new technologies.
* *Thomas Engel* (The Saints Amsterdam) - NavBall, a locative multiplayer
game.
** Martin Rieser* (media artist and theorist UK) - Starshed: mapping stories
onto the city of Bristol, UK.
* *Dick de Ruijter* (Hootchie Cootchie Media Collective Rotterdam) -
Afrikaander Tapes: city walk in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
* *Robin De Witte* (I-city Hasselt and City Live) - a wireless city in
Hasselt, Belgium.
* *Karen Lancel* *&* *Hermen Maat* (independent artists in collaboration
with V2 Rotterdam) - Stalkshow: an interactive billboard in public space.
* *Jeroen van Schaick* *& Ina Klaasen* (Delft University of Technology,
Faculty of Architecture – Department Urbanism) - Urbanism on Track: studying
activity patterns in the Network City.
* *Willem Velthoven* (Mediamatic Amsterdam) – Social RFID.
A discussion panel will be held with participation of: *Nicolas Nova* (user
experience & foresight researcher, Media and Design Lab, Swiss Institute of
Technology, Lausanne), *Rob van Kranenburg* (Waag Society Amsterdam), *Nanna
Verhoeff* (University of Utrecht), *Marc Schuilenburg* (Free University
Amsterdam; Studio Popcorn), *Joris van Hoytema* (BBVH Architects, Baas op
Zuid).
*Background & questions*
The physical, geographical city with its piazza's, its neighbourhoods and
crossings intersects with the 'virtual space' of electronic communication-,
information- and observation-networks of GSM, GPS, CCTV, UMTS, WIFI, RFID,
etc. At the same time, the domain of digital space is increasingly becoming
physical, an "internet of things" is emerging. Another example is the rise
of 'pervasive games', digital games with a physical component in urban
space. Is it still useful or even possible to talk about the city as being
only physical? Or about the digital world as purely 'virtual' (in the sense
of 'not real' or immaterial)? The physical city and the spaces of digital
technologies merge into a new "hybrid space". Hybrid spaces are shaped by
the social processes that concurrently take place in digital and physical
spaces. What is the influence of these developments on the ideas we have of
time, space and place, citizenship and identity?
Locative and mobile media can be understood as interfaces between the
digital domain and the city, as bridges between the social processes that
formerly took place in more separated domains (digital/physical) but are now
spilling over into each other. The Mobile City will pose the following
questions:
• From a theoretical point of view, what are useful concepts to talk about
the blurring/merging of physical and digital spaces?
• From a critical perspective, what does the emergence of locative and
mobile media mean for urban culture, citizenship, and identities?
• From a professional point of view, what does this mean for the work of
urban professionals (architects, designers, planners), media designers, and
academics?
The full program text is available at www.themobilecity.nl/background.
*Workshops on Feb 27 [full]*
On February 27th two small scale intensive workshops will be held. The first
session is "New Media and Urban Culture" (with Stephen Graham and Christian
Nold), the second session is "Mobile Media, Mobility, and Identity" (with
Tim Cresswell and Malcolm McCullough).
*Practical*
The Mobile City takes place 27 and 28 February 2008 in the Netherlands
Architecture Institute (NAi). Address: Museumpark 25, Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
February 27th: Small scale in-depth workshops (full)
February 28th: Main conference (still a few places left
The fee for the main day may be composed of: € 20 (day program only) + € 5
(evening lecture Graham) + € 15 (dinner).
Registration: www.themobilecity.nl/register.
*Organization*
The Mobile City is organized by:
* 'New Media, Public Sphere, Urban Culture' project at Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen (RUG).
* 'Playful Identities' project at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and
University Utrecht (UU).
* Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam (NAi).
Conference organizers: Martijn de Waal (RUG), Michiel de Lange (EUR), Oene
Dijk (NAi)
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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*Sponsors*
The conference is sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research through the NWO-research program Transformations in Art and
Culture.
The Mobile City is kindly sponsored by Dienst Kunst en Cultuur, gemeente
Rotterdam.
The conference organization wishes to thank the Vereniging Trustfonds
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam for their kind financial guarantee.
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