INTERWEAVING TECHNOLOGIES - THE AESTHETICS OF DIGITAL URBAN LIVING

/ / / THE CONFERENCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE TRANSPORT PROBLEMS FOLLOWING THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN ICELAND / / /

The urban environment is increasingly formed by the development of digital and mobile media. Although these new technologies are generic in structure, they shape the environment differently, based on the context and site in which they are interwoven.

Latest information, programme etc.: http://darc.imv.au.dk/?page_id=450 Invited talks by:

• Michael Bull - "Remaking the Urban? The Audio-Visual Aesthetics of iPod Use."
• David Pinder -  "Straying with maps: guides to urban dis/orientation"
• Markus Kison - presentation of the art project “Touched Echo“

Workshops by:

• Aram Bartholl - "Neoanalogue Interventions"
• Gordan Savicic - "Wi-fi Cracking Workshop"
• Martin Howse - "Psychogeophysics Aarhus"
• Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Nina Gram & Morten Breinbjerg - "Urban/Sound/Interfaces"

Plus nine themed discussion panels: http://darc.imv.au.dk/?page_id=1094

Venue: Department of Aesthetic Studies and Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University http://darc.imv.au.dk/?page_id=864

AIM AND TOPIC

This conference is aimed at gathering researchers interested in the aesthetics and socio-cultural aspects of situated and ubiquitous technologies. The conference format will comprise invited keynotes and individual presentations of papers. A number of workshops aimed to facilitate further discussions of the conference topics through experimental group work will also be held. All workshops will have to produce an outcome that can be exhibited and presented at the closing reception (as posters or in a medium related to the workshop topic).

As part of the Nordic interdisciplinary research network “The Culture of Ubiquitous Information”,Digital Aesthetics Research Center proudly hosts this conference, which serves as the first out of four research seminars/conferences that the network will facilitate from 2010-2013. The conference is organized and curated by Lone Koefoed Hansen and Lars Bo Løfgreen, Aarhus University.

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