Situated Technologies Pamphlet 3: Situated Advocacy

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Situated Technologies Pamphlet 3: Situated Advocacy
http://situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/76

Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2008

The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series invites submissions for its
upcoming volume on "Situated Advocacy."

Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular issue, idea or person, and addresses issues including self-advocacy, environmental protection, the rights of women, youth and minorities, social justice, the re-structured digital divide and political reform. How might Situated Technologies be mobilized toward changing and/or influencing social or political policies, practices, and beliefs? What new forms of advocacy are enabled by contemporary location-based or context-aware media and information systems? How might they lend tactical support to the process of managing
information flows and disseminating strategic knowledge that influences individual behavior or opinion, corporate conduct or public policy and law?

+ Submission details:
We are seeking submissions from pairs of authors, in keeping with the format of a "conversation" between two individuals or groups. Please submit a 500 word abstract and short bio for each author (150 words max) in Rich Text Format (RTF) by February 15, 2008 to editors@situatedtechnologies.net. We expect final manuscripts will range from 7500-10,000 words and will be due by May 16, 2008. Please contact us if you have questions about potential essays or the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series in general. More information is available at http://www.situatedtechnologies.net.

+ About the Series:
The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series consists of nine short pamphlets to be published over the next three years, exploring the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism:how our experience of space and the choices we make within it are affected by a range of mobile, pervasive, embedded or otherwise "situated" technologies. The series, published via print-on-demand(POD), consists of a succession of "conversations" between researchers, writers and other practitioners from architecture, art, science and technology studies, comparative media study, performance studies, and engineering.

+ Series Editors:
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

+ Advisory Committee:
Keller Easterling, Anne Galloway, Malcolm McCullough, Howard Rheingold

+ Publisher:
The Architectural League of New York
http://www.archleague.org

Satellite Voyeurism livecast

You can tune in at http://giss.tv:8000/hmkv.ogg

Please use the VLC software in order to view the stream and enjoy!

The program will restart with Régine Debatty after the lunch break at 14:30.
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_events/detail.php?nr=2344&rubric=events&


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SATELLITE VOYEURISM
Workshop

Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund,
July 20 - 22, 2007

Public Lectures: SATURDAY, July 21, 2007, 11:00 - 16:00 hrs
(4 / 2 Euro, incl. exhibition entrance, no advance booking required)

Conceived and organised by Francis Hunger (HMKV)


The workshop “Satellite Voyeurism" addresses questions of production and reception of satellite images.

In addition to public lectures by international media artists, committed scientists and commercial companies' representatives of the regions' geo-data industry, a two day workshop program with up to 12 participants takes place.

Within the hands-on part the participants learn how to use a simple antenna, computer, soundcard combination to retrieve satellite images of NOAA satellites, and share own ideas and projects with the other participants. Both lectures and workshop discuss the image quality of satellite images but of course the subject will also touch upon the field of locative media, as GPS, GIS.

Through the workshop the basis for a publication shall be created, which includes documentation about recent media art projects in the field of mapping, satellite images and satellite technology.

PROGRAM (public lectures, no booking required)

SATURDAY July 21, 2007, 11 am - 4 pm
Public lectures (partly in English / German)

11:00 am
FRANCIS HUNGER (HMKV, Dortmund)
“Introduction: A few comments on the success of Google Earth"

12:00 am
DANIEL SCHULZ (IAIS Fraunhofer Institut)
“Geomarketing"

Break 1:00-2:00 pm

2:30 pm
Régine Debatty (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com, Berlin)
“Recent artists' project using satellite images and geo-data"

3:30 pm
Tristan Thielmann (Universität Siegen)
“Geomedialität: Neue A-Perspektiven auf den blauen Planeten."

Public program ends at 16:00.


About Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund

HMKV serves as a platform for the production, presentation, education on and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental media art. The activities of HMKV deal, in different formats, with the theme “Augmented Space": in exhibitions, workshops, performances, symposia, publications, Internet applications and in European research projects. The success of last year's “How I learned to love RFID" workshop at HMKV (conceived by Francis Hunger) and the emergence of popular
geographic mapping tools led to the development of the “Satellite Voyeurism" workshop in 2007, directed by Francis Hunger.

For more information on HMKV: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_institution_mission/