Art in Your Pocket

Art In Your Pocket – Panel Discussion

Rhizome’s New Silent Series

Friday September 21 7PM

New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY

The computer we carry in our pockets is also an emerging platform for interactive screen-based art. Art In Your Pocket takes its name from a series of texts Jonah Brucker-Cohen wrote for Rhizome on art made for smartphones. This panel will assemble leading media artists working with mobile devices and discuss current trends relating to this practice.

Moderated by Jason Eppink, Assistant Curator of Digital Media at the Museum of the Moving Image. Panelists include artist, programmer, and founder of iPhone app company SOFTOFT TECHECH, Paul Slocum; Mimi Sheller, leading theorist on mobilities research and Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University; LoVid, 2011 Rhizome commissioned artists for their location-specific art app project iParade #2: Unchanged When Exhumed; and Jonathan Vingiano, Co-founder of OKFocus.

Organized by Rhizome, the New Silent Series receives major support from The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

To purchase tickets please visit:

http://rhizome.org/events/art-in-your-pocket/

Grassroots Game Conference

The Grassroots Game Conference

Panel on Geo-Gaming

Saturday April 28th, 1-3PM

At the Gershwin Y, Broad & Pine St

A conversation about making games that rely on being in physical locations to advance gameplay.

Thanks to the presence of an active civic-hacking community and Azavea, a leader in applications employing geographic data, Philadelphia is a center for geo-data applications.  Opportunities for games in this area are enhanced by the Apps and Maps initiative in North Philadelphia.

Panelists:

• Mark Head, Developer Evangelist at Voxeo Labs, and an active advocate for open government data and civic hacking events.
• Tamara Manik-Perlman, GIS Analyst and Project Manager at Azavea, extensive experience in user experience design and geospatial analysis and project manager on a citizen science and education game being developed with support from the National Science Foundation.
• Michelle Masucci, Chair of Temple University’s Department of Geography and Urban Studies and co-principal investigator of Apps and Maps.
• Mimi Sheller, Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy and Professor of Sociology at Drexel University, who works on mobile technologies, mobile gaming and mobile art in relation to urban public space.

LA Re.Play Opens

LA Re.Play

An Exhibition of Mobile Media Art

Feb. 22-26, 2012, Los Angeles

Mobilizing Los Angeles as a place to play and a place in play, LA Re.Play presents leading international artists working with mobile and geolocated media. The exhibit accompanies the double session presentation on Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking, co-organized by Hana Iverson and Mimi Sheller for the College Arts Association 2012 conference, as well as an off-conference roundtable City/Space and Creative Measure, moderated by Jeremy Hight at the Art Center.

Playing upon the dynamic relations between physical place, digital space, and mobile access via smartphone, we explore art that incorporates cell phones, GPS and other mobile technology, revealing the complex social, political, technological and physiological effects of new mixed reality interactions.

See http://www.lareplay.net/ for more information.

Follow @LARePlay on Twitter

And La Re.Play on Facebook.

Opening Reception:

College Art Association Conference Convention Center

LA re.Play Hub Location

February 22, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Reception:

EDA Grad Art Gallery,

Broad Art Center, UCLA

February 24, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Artists

• Brett Stalbuam and Ricardo Dominguez
• Chris Robbins and Katherine Lambert
• Colleen Macklin
• Ecoarttech
• Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum
• Hana Iverson & Sarah Drury
• Ian Woodcock & Julian Rickert
• Jenny Marketou
• Jeremy Hight
• ManifestAR
• Martha Ladly & Bruce Hinds
• Paula Levine
• Teri Rueb

Mobile Publics Workshop

Call For Papers

New interaction orders, New mobile publics?

13-14 April 2012

Lancaster University, UK

Equipped with mobile technologies, people connect in ways that were unthinkable when Goffman wrote Behaviour in public spaces (1963) and William Whyte explored The social life of small urban spaces (1980). The momentous Arab Spring events, London riots and ‘2011 Occupy’ demonstrations are extreme examples that pose old questions about the ‘interaction order’ and its relation to social order and the public sphere in new ways.

On the one hand, mobile connectivity enables micro-coordination of increasingly mobile everyday lives, new modulations of co-presence, absent presence and present absence, and transformations of socio-material practices of availability, obligation, intimacy and strangerhood in public. Some of the social innovations involved also shape emergent new practices of mobilising people in protests and crises. Arguably new, agile, local and globally networked communities and ‘mobile publics’ are forming. On the other, worries over a loss of civility, community, privacy, and new forms of surveillance enabled by the ever closer intermeshing of digital technology and everyday ‘movement-spaces’ fuel fears over an erosion of civil liberties and ‘capital P’ politics.

Goffman’s insistence that ‘the interaction order’ is the performative locus of such utopian and dystopian transformations and his and Whyte’s attention to detail are the motivation for this two-day interdisciplinary workshop. We would like to bring micro and macro, theory and empirical research, everyday lived practice, design, policy and politics together through collaborative analysis of multi-sited, mobile, ethnographic or otherwise qualitative studies of behaviour in today’s public spaces, zeitdiagnostic theory and avantgarde design. We invite researchers, designers, technology developers, architects, urban planners, artists and urban communities to submit contributions that explore aspects of new and old ‘behaviour in public spaces’, including (but not limited to):

• the ‘osmotic’ relationship between physical and virtual spaces, connectivity and mobility
• the social life of such spaces
• emergent principles and practices of the 21st Century interaction order
• augmented embodied and sensory phenomenology and material agency
• links between the interaction order, public engagement, and public space
• tensions between mobile informationalized everyday lives and movement-spaces and principles of privacy and civil liberty, security, splintering and sorting of ‘access’
• examples, practices and impacts of improvised communities and mobile publics, and collective intelligence
• examples and methods of collaborative, experimental, radically careful and carefully radical design of new practices, technologies, forms of public engagement and spaces
• reflections on the links between theory, empirical studies, design and politics in the broadest sense

Please send a 300 word abstract to Pauline Feron: p.feron@lancaster.ac.uk by 24th February 2012. Notification of Acceptance 9th March 2012.

There is a small amount of financial support available for travel. If funds are an obstruction, please contact p.feron@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Monika Buscher

Senior Lecturer / Director mobilities.lab

Part I Director

Centre for Mobilities Research

Department of Sociology

Lancaster University

LA1 4YD

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/

email: m.buscher@lancaster.ac.uk

 

L.A Re.Play

L.A Re.Play – A Mobile Art Exhibition

Co-Curators: Hana Iverson, Mimi Sheller, Jeremy Hight

Utilizing the thriving, diverse, artistically vibrant and architecturally unique city as a living medium, the exhibition L.A Re.Play will showcase emergent forms of mobile media art that turn the city of Los Angeles into an exhibition space, a game space and a performance space. Presented as a location-based mobile public art exhibition in February 2012, it will accompany the double session presentation on Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking, co-organized by Iverson and Sheller for the College Arts Association 2012 conference. Playing upon the dynamic relations between physical place, digital space, and mobile access via smartphone, the mobile artworks in the exhibit (along with the conference panels) will highlight the embodied performance of hybrid place and the social and collective politics of networked space.

Events

Feb. 22 – 29, 2012 L.A Re.Play Exhibition

Installations: Grad Art Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA

Tuesday, February 21

Pre-Conference Workshop: Mechanics of Place, a Mobile Augmented Reality participatory project by Hana Iverson and Sarah Drury. Held at CalArts.

Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 – 5:00 pm

CAA Panel 1: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Place Making, Part I Chairs: Hana Iverson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Mimi Sheller, Drexel University (Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center)

In a Network of Lines that Intersect: Placing Mobile Interaction

Teri Rueb, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Situated Mobile Audio

Siobhan O’Flynn, Canadian Film Centre Media Lab

Sounding Cartographies and Navigation Art: In Search of the Sublime

Ksenia Fedorova, University of California, Davis

Indeterminate Hikes

Leila Nadir, Wellesley College

“En Route” and “Past City Future”: Making Places, Here and There, Now and When

Ian Woodcock, University of Melbourne

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 5:30 – 7:30 pm L.A Re.Play opening reception at CAA Convention Center L.A Re.Play Hub Location

Thursday, Feb. 23 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Off-conference Roundtable:  The City / Space and Creative Measure moderated by Jeremy Hight at ArtCenter South Campus

Panelists TBA

Friday, Feb. 24, 6:00 – 8:00

Reception: DESMA Grad Art Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA

Saturday, Feb. 25 9:30 AM–12:00 PM

CAA Panel: Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Place Making, Part II,  Chairs: Hana Iverson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Mimi Sheller, Drexel University (Concourse Meeting Room 406A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center CAA)

I-5_Passing/52 Food Marts Project

Christiane Robbins, Jetztzeit

Narration in Hybrid Mobile Environments

Martha Ladly, Ontario College of Art and Design

Silver (Gateways): Being Here and Everywhere Now

Jenny Marketou, independent artist

Mechanics of Place: Textures of Tophane

Sarah Drury, Temple University

ManifestAR: An Augmented Reality Manifesto

John Craig Freeman, Emerson College

Feb. 29 show closes

Event Locations

CAA Conference Center and Exhibition Hub: Los Angeles Convention Center

1201 S Figueroa St Los Angeles, CA 90015

Exhibition: Grad Art Gallery, DESMA, UCLA

Broad Art Center, 240 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Art Center South Campus

950 South Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105

CalArts (pre-conference workshop)

24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355

AR Panel 4/26

Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now

April 26^th, 6:00-8:00 pm

Van Pelt Auditorium
Philadelphia Museum of Art

In this panel, cutting-edge artists and software developers working at the intersection of art, technology and science, the real and the imaginary, offer us a tour through the potentials for an augmented future.

Opening Remarks

Gary Steuer – Chief Cultural Officer of Philadelphia; Director, Office of Arts, Culture &Creative Economy

Moderator

Dr. Mimi Sheller – Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University

Panelists

Deb Boyer – Public historian and Project Manager, Sajara and the PhillyHistory project

Dr. Paul Diefenbach – Associate Professor, Digital Media, Co-founder of RePlay Lab, Drexel University

John Craig Freeman – Artist, Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College, Boston

Chris Manzione – Artist, Founder of the Virtual Public Art Project

Josh Marcus – Software developer,  Technical Lead for Decision Tree

Mark Skwarek – New media artist

Virtual Art Walking Tour
Following the event Chris Manzione will lead a Virtual Art Walking Tour along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.  Original AR artwork will be on view as part of Breadboard’s city-wide Virtual Art Project in partnership with the Philadelphia International Festival of Arts (PIFA). Newer models of iPhone and Android smart phones will be needed to view the art work.

Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now is a Breadboard production in coordination with the Philadelphia Science Festival , Philly Tech Week and Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. More information on this event can be found on the official PIFA events calendar

Augmented Reality Check

Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now

April 26^th, 6:00-8:00 pm

Van Pelt Auditorium
Philadelphia Museum of Art

In this panel, cutting-edge artists and software developers working at the intersection of art, technology and science, the real and the imaginary, offer us a tour through the potentials for an augmented future.

Opening Remarks

Gary Steuer – Chief Cultural Officer of Philadelphia; Director, Office of Arts, Culture &Creative Economy

Moderator

Dr. Mimi Sheller – Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University

Panelists

Deb Boyer – Public historian and Project Manager, Sajara and the PhillyHistory project

Dr. Paul Diefenbach – Associate Professor, Digital Media, Co-founder of RePlay Lab, Drexel University

John Craig Freeman – Artist, Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College, Boston

Chris Manzione – Artist, Founder of the Virtual Public Art Project

Josh Marcus – Software developer,  Technical Lead for Decision Tree

Mark Skwarek – New media artist

Virtual Art Walking Tour
Following the event Chris Manzione will lead a Virtual Art Walking Tour along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.  Original AR artwork will be on view as part of Breadboard’s city-wide Virtual Art Project in partnership with the Philadelphia International Festival of Arts (PIFA). Newer models of iPhone and Android smart phones will be needed to view the art work.

Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now is a Breadboard production in coordination with the Philadelphia Science Festival , Philly Tech Week and Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. More information on this event can be found on the official PIFA events calendar