dear Spectrites,
A short message to inform you that because the issue sold out at the
publisher the editors of OPEN Cahier on Art and the Public Domain
have made all contributions to issue 11 on Hybrid Space available at
the website of the magazine. (excellent idea I would say!)
You can find all texts here:
http://www.skor.nl/article-2883-en.html
The issue itself might still be available at some bookshops, but
cannot be ordered from the publisher anymore.
I pasted the table of contents below - fyi.
best wishes,
Eric
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OPEN no. 11 Hybrid Space. How wireless media are mobilizing public space
http://www.skor.nl/article-2883-en.html
Contents OPEN 11 Hybrid Space:
The public domain is a place where people act and create a ‘communal
world full of differences’. This space has become ‘hybrid’ in nature:
a complex of concrete and virtual qualities, of static and mobile
domains, of public and private spheres, of global and local
interests. Last but not least, hybrid space is formed by wireless and
mobile media like GSM, GPS, Wi-Fi and RFID. These media are deployed
as control mechanisms, but also as alternative tools for increasing
and intensifying public agency. A select company of artists,
designers, architects and urban designers is investigating its
implications and possibilities and putting them to the test.
Overview OPEN
Jorinde Seijdel
Editorial
Online article
Eric Kluitenberg
The Network of Waves
Living and Acting in a Hybrid Space
The emergence of digital media has meant that in recent years the use
and significance of traditional public space has altered radically.
The newest developments in information technology make use of
apparatus which is less and less noticeable, so making a critical
attitude more difficult. Eric Kluitenberg, researcher in the field of
the significance of new technologies for society and guest editor of
the present issue, draws attention to a number of activist strategies
to encourage public and private action in a hybrid space.
Online article
Saskia Sassen
Public Interventions
The Shifting Meaning of the Urban Condition
Saskia Sassen, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago,
is specialized in the influence that globalization and digitization
processes have on the transformations of urban space. In this essay,
she looks at the possibilities of artistic practice to ‘make’ public
space that can produce unsettling stories and make visible that which
is local and has been silenced.
Online article
Howard Rheingold and Eric Kluitenberg
Mindful Disconnection
Counterpowering the Panopticon from the Inside
In this article, media experts Howard Rheingold and Eric Kluitenberg
ask us to consider if unquestioned connectivity – the drive to
connect everything to everything, and everyone to everyone by means
of electronic media – is necessarily a good thing. To stimulate
ideas, the authors propose a possible alternative: a practice of
‘mindful disconnection’, or rather the ‘art of selective
disconnectivity’.
Online article
Assia Kraan
To Act in Public through Geo-Annotation
Social Encounters through Locative Media Art
Locative media art makes artistic use of location-aware and time-
aware media to promote social encounters between users and locations.
The social contact is usually experienced via a PC. Assia Kraan
wonders whether the shared location is only the pretext or also the
location for social activity.
Online article
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer
RFID & Agency
The Cultural and Social Possibilities of RFID
RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) is rapidly finding new
applications and this is giving rise to concerns about threats to
privacy. It’s therefore worth thinking about how individuals can have
a say in which privacy they are willing to share with whom and when.
If citizens can acquire more access to particular RFID
implementations, then RFID can also become a support for other,
socially interesting value systems. Recent developments in online
culture provide exciting ideas for this.
Online article
Koen Brams and Dirk Pültau
‘Once It’s Gone, It’s Gone’
Interview with Jef Cornelis about the television films Mens en
agglomeratie (‘Man and conurbation’, 1966), Waarover men niet spreekt
(‘Things that aren’t mentioned’, 1968) and De straat (‘The street’,
1972)
Since the early 1960s the Flemish television producer Jef Cornelis
has explored the conditions of television as a public medium. A
number of his early films look at the changes that have occurred in
urban public space. Reason for Open to publish an interview with him
by Koen Brams and Dirk Pültau as part of a broader investigation of
Cornelis’ work.
Online article
Noortje Marres
Column
Online article
Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar
Soft Urbanism
Neighbours Network City (NNC) in the Ruhr region
Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of invOFFICE for architecture,
urbanism and design in Amsterdam are investigating the interaction
between the physical and the digital public domain in contemporary
urban networks. They are interested in the way that the built
environment relates to the space of mass media and communication
networks and how these influence each other. On the basis of the
project Neighbours Network City for the city of Essen in the Ruhr
region, they reveal how this design research is taking shape.
Online article
Marion Hamm
Reclaiming Virtual and Physical Spaces
Indymedia London at the Halloween Critical Mass
Using the Halloween Critical Mass bike ride as an example, Marion
Hamm analyses how cyberspace overlaps the physical space of a protest
demonstration on the street and how a construction of what she calls
‘geographies of protest’ is developing. Marion Hamm is affiliated
with Indymedia, a worldwide network of independent media centres.
Online article
Daniel van der Velden, Katja Gretzinger, Matthijs van Leeuwen, Matteo
Poli, Gon Zifroni
Hybridity of the Post-Public Space
Logo Parc and the Zuidas in Amsterdam
At the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, a research project is
underway, on the public space of the Zuidas business district in
Amsterdam. This project, entitled Logo Parc, looks into the value of
the Zuidas as a ‘symbol’. In addition, proposals are being developed
for a conception of the public space as a new type of space. The
present essay, along with its accompanying pictorial material, is one
of the results of the project.
Online article
Max Bruinsma
Play with Time and Space
Optionaltime by Susann Lekås and Joes Koppers
In Almere’s new city centre, Susann Lekås and Joes Koppers are
creating a work of art entitled Optionaltime, which plays a
fascinating game with time. The screen is literally a hybrid space
and mirrors both the real and the virtual surroundings. On screen,
they are mixed together.
Online article
Arie Altena
Publishing Everywhere and Anywhere
Droombeek in Enschede
In 2000, an explosion in a fireworks factory wiped out the entire
Roombeek district in the city of Enschede. Stichting Droombeek
(Droombeek Foundation) responded with a digital project that enables
individuals to call up memories of the area with the click of a mouse.
1 Using digital technology, residents add their own images and
stories to the website, which can then be accessed by visitors to the
digital district, who may in turn add their own experiences to the
mix. By linking the present to the past in this way, the website
becomes a ‘lived’ space.
Online article
Artists contributions
De Geuzen
Mobile Work/Travail Mobile
Online article
Kristina Andersen and Joanna Berzowska
Worn Technology
The Alteration of Social Space
Online article
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