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