First Workshop of the Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN)More details here.ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) London UK
Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd February 2005
10am-6pm (music 8pm-1am Tuesday only)
PLAN website: http://www.open-plan.org
A two day event bringing together leading international figures to review the emerging fields of locative and pervasive media.
Wireless and locative technologies are enabling people to break away from traditional computer interfaces. Mobile devices are mediating new kinds of social interaction and responding to physical location and context.
What kinds of creative, social, economic and political expression become possible when every device we carry, the fabric of the urban environment and even the contours of the Earth become a digital canvas?
The event launches a new international network (PLAN), bringing together artists, activists, hardware hackers, bloggers, game programmers, free network builders, semantic web philosophers, cartographers, economists, architects, and university and industry researchers.
Speakers include Duncan Campbell, Anne Galloway, Matthew Chalmers, Matt Adams, Bill Gaver, Eyal Weizman, Sally Jane Norman, Giles Lane, Usman Haque, Franz Wunschel, Richard Hull, Jo Walsh, Teri Rueb, Minna Tarkka, Tapio Makela, RIXC, Pete Gomes, Saul Albert, Susan Kennard, Michael Longford, Steve Benford, Drew Hemment, Ben Russell. Music in the bar from Xela (City Centre Offices, Type Records), XFM Flo-Motion DJ Nick Luscombe and Apachi61. [Full list of speakers below]
PLAN is supported by EPSRC and led by Nottingham's Mixed Reality Lab, with partners including Futuresonic (UK), Blast Theory (UK), Banff (Canada) and M-cult (Finland).
The event is open to the public. Event tickets are priced at ã1.50 per day or ã3 for two days to cover the ICA daily membership. Please book early to avoid disappointment. [See below for registration process.]