Locative Media Summer Conference

of the Research Center “Media Upheavals”
at the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen

                                                         

September 3 to 5, 2007

 

9/3/2007

 Monday

Greeting
13.00
Peter Gendolla (Siegen, D)

 Introduction
 13.15
Tristan Thielmann & Jochen Venus (Siegen, D)
 Locative Media:
A New Upheaval in Media Evolution?

 Section 1: Sociotechnical Space
 13.30
Christoph Rosol (Weimar, D)
From Radar to Reader. The Origin(s) of RFID
14.15
 Miya Yoshida (Berlin, D)
 Techniques of Mobility, Aesthetics of Flatness
 15.00
 Katharine S. Willis (Weimar, D):
Situating Encounters

 – coffee break –

 Section 2: Mapped Space
 16.15
Jeremy Crampton (Atlanta, USA)
 Can Peasants Map?
Map Mashups, the Geo-Spatial Web and the Future of Information
 17.00
Lev Manovich (San Diego, USA)
 New Spatial Media?

  

    Tuesday
9/4/2007

Section 3: Locative Media Design
 9.00
Mark Bilandzic (Munich, D) & 
Marcus Foth (Brisbane, AUS)
 CityFlocks: A Mobile System for Social Navigation in Urban Public Places
 9.45
Dimitrios Charitos (Athens, GR)
Towards a Conceptual Model for Supporting the Design of Location-based Systems for Social Interaction within Urban Public Space

 – coffee break –

 Section 4: Locative Media Art
 11.00
Patricio Davila, Geoffrey Shea &
Paula Gardner (Toronto, CA)
PORTAGE: Locative Media at the Intersection of Art, Design and Social Practice
 11.45
 Tina Bastajian &
Wanda Strauven (Amsterdam, NL)
 Geo-Genealogies and Coffee Deposits: Siting Maps in Cups

 – lunch –

 Section 5: Locative Media Activism
 14.00
Drew Hemment (Manchester, GB)
 Locative Arts and Locative Activism
 14.45
Mark Shepard (Buffalo, USA)
 Locative Media as Critical Urbanism

 – coffee break –
Section 6: Locative Media Aesthetics
16.00
Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster, GB)
 The Act of Locating Wirelessly
16.45
Marc Ries (Leipzig, D)
 Where Can I Become? Geoaesthetic Considerations on Locative Media

 – pause –

 Section 7: Locative Media Wanderer
 LAN615 Special Event
 19.30
Bernhard Hoëcker (Bonn, D)
Geocaching – Aufzeichnungen eines Schnitzeljägers

9/5/2007

 Wednesday

Section 8: Locative Media Urbanism
 9.00
 Viktor Bedö (Pécs, HU)
 Pattern of Locative Urban Knowledge
 9.45
Martijn de Waal (Groningen, NL)
 No more bowling alone? Locative Media and Urban Culture
– coffee break –

 Section 9: Locative Media Games
 11.00
Sophia Drakopoulou (London, GB)
 Collective Participation and Broadcast: How Data
Bound to Locality Re-appropriate Physical Space
 11.45
Britta Neitzel (Siegen, D)
Location-based Games and Appropriation of Places

End 13.00