Kom og få Adam Greenfield og Ben Hammersleys bud på Byens Digitale Liv ved konferencen "Indsigter og fremtidsmuligheder set fra Center for Digital Urban Living"

VELKOMMEN TIL BYENS DIGITALE LIV
Smart Cities rykker lige nu længere og længere op på beslutningstagernes dagsorden. Byernes mange data skal gøres tilgængelige for borgere, politikere og virksomheder. Men byen skal også have et digitalt kultur- og oplevelsesliv. Det handler konferencen om den 22. marts 2012 i Musikhuset Aarhus. [ONLINE TILMELDING]

DEM HENVENDER KONFERENCEN SIG TIL:

• Offentlige og private beslutningstagere
• Konsulenter i kommuner, regioner og nationale myndigheder
• Forretningsudviklere og byplanlæggere
• Journalister og mediefolk
• Iværksættere og kulturfolk
• Folk med interesse i oplevelsesøkonomi

Tags: aarhus | conference

Professor and DUL researcher Ole Iversen recently contributed to the development of BeArt - a tool for disadvantaged young adults in Ribe art museum. Using iPads and QR codes the users are able to express themselves and create their own artwork. By involving the users in the design process the developers achieved a better understanding regarding needs and abilities of the target group. Read the full article here (in Danish).

Thursday 8th Dec, Digital Urban Living and DARC hosted a DIY workshop on textiles and IT, featuring DIVA artist in residence Valerie Lamontagne.

Danish description (the CfP) of the workshop can be found on DARC's website here. During this full day of sewing, knitting, coding, soldering and concept development, 15 lucky workshop applicants were invited to inhabit the soon-to-be-opened Digital Design Lab at Aarhus University. Here, several quickly made prototypes showed how one might use soft materials to experiment with current and future life with digital objects.

Tags: aarhus | creativity | DDlab | workshop

The audiovisual installation  “Atmosphere – the sound & sight of CO2” is currently exhibited in Sydney, Australia as part of the exhibition Curating Cities. The installation is developed by DUL researchers Tobias Ebsen, Morten Riis, Rasmus Lunding & Morten Breinbjerg. Read more on http://curatingcities.org

Tags: Curating Cities | exhibition | istallation | Sydney

Andrew Murphie is a visiting researcher from the The School of the Arts and Media at UNSW in Sydney. He is Editor of the open access, online journal, The Fibreculture Journal (digital media + networks + transdisciplinary critique). Andrew’s research examines the productive nature of differential intensity. He works on transformation, crisis and possibility—as these are filtered through generative process in media, arts and philosophy, dynamic modeling of all types, and new forms of cooperation in politics/social organization. He is currently writing a book—Differential Media, Differential Life: the past and future of social organization that rethinks the ‘world as medium’. This diagrams the relations between: media; thinking, feeling and perceiving; Bateson/Guattari’s ‘three ecologies’ of the social, self and environment.

Tags: Andrew Murphie | art | media | transformation | visiting reseacher

Geoff Cox has co-organised and will be presenting a paper at the following conference in Plymouth.

PRECARIOUS TIMES
workshop/conference, part of the Finale Symposium for British Art Show 7
"IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET"

Dates: 1-3 December 2011
Venues: Plymouth University and Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK.

In times of financial crisis, austerity measures, and the increased privatisation of digital networks and public services, what are the conditions under which we produce art, ideas and concepts? If working as part of the arts has always been precarious, it now operates in exaggerated ways. The symposium will explore these issues in the context of the British Art Show (currently taking place in Plymouth), asserting that the future is largely conditioned through the reality of the political economy, leaving the art world ever more vulnerable but also at the same time a crucial site of struggle. In these precarious times, what does the art world have to offer?

Tags: art | conference | Geoff Cox | Plymouth