Mobile culture in Japan and Denmark

Martin BrynskovResearcher Martin BrynskovMartin Brynskov, Digital Urban Living, has been interviewed in national television and radio, the programs “Horisont” on DR and “P1 Horisont“. Martins talks about the Japanese populations use of mobile phones and relates their usage to how danes will use phones in the near future.
See or read about the interviews (in danish):

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Tags: civic communication | japan | mobile

 
Facts About Digital Denmark

Here are some (very) brief digital facts about Denmark. It is slides from a presentation prepared for Tokyo University, so the comparison is Japan. E.g. broadband penetration (DK #1, Japan #17); facebook users, relative (DK #1, Japan <1%); mobile phone penetration (DK 120%, Japan 83%).
Read more: Facts About Digital Denmark (PDF, 2.2 MB)
See also: Æblet i det japanske mobil-paradis (an account of the mobile situation in Japan, in Danish)

Tags: civic communication | presentation | trends

 
The Five Obstructions and Other Tripwires in the Creative Process
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Center for Digital Urban Livning has in collaboration with CAVICAVI invited author and film director Jørgen LethJørgen Leth to talk about the creative processes in film production based on THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONSTHE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS, co-directed with Lars von Trier, Zentropa Film.

The talk will be in Danish.

Tuesday, April 28 @ 14.10
IT-Huset, store auditorium
Aabogade 15Aabogade 15
DK-8200 Aarhus N

Tags: creativity | industry | talk

 
Digital Art as a way to understand the contemporary
Søren Pold from Digital Urban Living talks about digital art at Aarhus Kunstbygning, Friday 24 April @ 16.00. The talk is in Danish. More herehere.
 
Networking. The Net as Artwork

Networking bookThe book Networking, The Net as Artwork by Tatiana Bazzichelli is a research part of the Digital Urban Living Research Centre and published by DARC, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (Aarhus University). You can find it online herehere and you can download it from this linkthis link (English | Pages: 336). You can buy the printed version here.

A reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy and of the Italian hacker community from the 1980s to date.

Networking means to create nets of relations, where the publisher and the reader, the artist and the audience, act on the same level. The book is a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of media and art projects which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the creation of Italian hacker communities.

Tags: books | digital aesthetics | interface aesthetics | net art | networking

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DUL prototype at Moesgård Museum

As part of Moesgård MuseumMoesgård Museum's new exhibition about runes, the DUL cultural heritage group has created a prototype installation that lets visitors create and decorate their own unique rune stones. The prototype explores user generated content in exhibition spaces and the potential interplay between visitors' everyday engagement and the knowledge presented in museum spaces. The exhibition can be experienced at Moesgård until August 2009.

Tags: cases | cultural heritage | museums

 
Talk by Saul Albert from The People Speak

thepschapelfield_of_dreams.jpg'Tools for the world to take over itself'.
Recursion: the ability of a word, phrase, or constitution - to modifyit's own meaning, is a core conceptual device in software design, geekhumour, legislative politics, and forms of participatory art and design.

Saul Albert, from the London-based art collective 'The People Speak' will discuss some of their techniques and technologies for enabling mobcreativity through convivial discussion and recursive decision-making.

Tags: aesthetics | digital aesthetics | intervention | people | talk | visits

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