As part of the Ubicomp2010 conference taking place in Copenhagen 26-29 Sept, members of DUL are co-organising the workshop "Designing for Performative Interactions in Public Spaces".

Deadline for application to participate is approaching fast, read more on the workshop website.

Building on the assumption that every human action in public space has a performative aspect, this workshop seeks to explore issues of mobile technology and interactions in public settings. We will examine the design of performative technologies, the evaluation of user experience, the importance of spectator and performer roles, and the social acceptability of performative actions in public spaces.

Tags: digital aesthetics | events | performance | urbanity | workshop

Invited Talk: Professor Elisa Giaccardi, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
June 14, 2010 kl.13.00 – 14.30
IT-Parken Katrinebjerg, Wiener-bygningen, lok 026

Heritage matters are starting to emerge as an important domain for interaction design. Yet we are often stuck with traditional museological frameworks, failing to understand the nature of heritage as cultural process. In this talk I will argue that the means of heritage engagement and production are built not only in space (e.g., the museum exhibition, the heritage site or the natural environment) but also—naturally—over time, where the past can be projected in the present and in the future.

Tags: cultural heritage | people | talk

Due to the ash- and eruption related cancellation of the three-day seminar “Interweaving Technologies – the Aesthetics of Digital Urban Living”, you are hereby cordially invited to the mini-seminar “Aesthetic eruptions of the digital”.

KaserneScenen, Aarhus University // 9.30 // Thursday 22 April 2010

This will be a minor seminar of 3-4 hours where we will take our departure in the already prepared presentations by the presenters from the Aarhus area. Additionally, we will have two of the workshops originally intended for the cancelled conference, as Martin Howse and Gordan Savicic will be joining us.

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

Tags: aarhus | conference | digital aesthetics | events | interface aesthetics

Seminar on the city, art and media technologies

The ability of digital media to add an extra layer to the cityscape characterizes the experience of the city as mobile phones, cameras, media facades and other interfaces diffuses into the urban scenery. In the urban interface we find lexical indexes linked to maps, links to other places and images of what used to be at a specific location, surveillance devices, etc. The seminar focuses on how and in what ways we can experience the city’s layers and the simultaneous view of (past, lost, virtual, future) information and a specific location – through artistic installations, urban games or architectural strategies.

Tags: aesthetics | architecture | cultural heritage | digital aesthetics | events | interface aesthetics | urbanity

Together with the Nordic Research Network "The Culture of Ubiquitous Information", and Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Digital Urban Living will be hosting the research seminar "Interweaving technologies: the aesthetics of digital urban living" on 21-23 April 2010.

The seminar is a work-in-progress seminar and the length of the final papers is relatively short (see CfP on the above link). Contributions can thus be made in the spirit of a position paper, where you present a hypothesis, a project or a specific position on a topic related to the seminar theme with the purpose of contributing to and maybe initiating a broader discussion amongst peers when we meet.

The seminar is aimed at the members of the Nordic Network, but contributions from researchers from outside of the network are greatly welcomed. So don't hesitate to contact us and please feel free redistribute this call.

Deadline for abstracts is 18 Feb, but we will be able to extend your deadline if you express your interest in participating right away.

Tags: aarhus | conference | digital aesthetics | events

As part of the course "Urban Interactions" at Information Studies, Aarhus University, students presented concepts and prototypes of systems they have developed. Below are a list of links to their web presentations.

• Urban Thoughts – Not another social network
• MedieSnuden & Inspiration Table
• Open Surveillance
• SMS Bio
• Aarhus City Companion – meet your city (see video below or directly on vimeo)
• UrbanAudioSystem – UAS
• Soundscape Creator

Tags: courses | exhibition | poster | presentation | student projects

Peter Wright, Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University (UK) is visiting IMV on november 19. In his talk he will outline some health-related projects he is currently involved with which have taken different approaches to the problem of bringing lived experience to design.

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