November 23, 2004
multi-disciplinary research in location aware media
Location-Aware Research
Your participation is desired in an online forum geared toward focusing the theme for an interdisciplinary research residency proposal. The discussion will take place from November 26 through December 5. In the last few years, advances in wireless telecommunication, sensor technology, and Geographic Information System tools have inspired a tide of experimental creative projects. Artists are using these tools and location-aware media to renegotiate how communication, navigation, and big data are played out in space. As the landscape and urban streets become the canvas for computer augmented social and physical interaction, what possibilities emerge for practices outside the arts? How can we mutually inspire and inform diverse practices?
We request your participation in the form of either a question or suggested topic posted to the discussion list. Your inquiry will thus be fielded to an invited list of scientists, researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines such as cognitive science, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, psychology, literature, science fiction, theatre, history, art history and theory, computer science, and earth sciences. We envision the role of artists in this discussion as minimal, more instigating than expository. You may find you will need to clarify your intended topic. Finding a common language among disciplines may constitute a valuable goal in itself! Your topic or question will alert scientists and researchers to some of the issues or questions that are engaged or encountered by artists working with locative media.
Our goal is to create an open channel for the scientist/researcher quotient of the discussion participants, who may not have considered a creative application of mobile media and mapping in the context of their research. The identification of critical issues, spaces of common interest, and potential blind spots between disciplines is of particular interest. A bibliography will be compiled and made available at the conclusion of this discussion. To participate in the discussion, go to http://34n118w.net/UCHRI
Here you will find directions for subscribing to the discussion list (available by this Thursday), as well as relevant links (available now).
Your input would be a valuable factor in a multi-disciplinary research residency to take place in the next year, pending funding. The research residency itself would be attended by participants chosen through an international open call by the University of California Humanity Research Institute. We greatly look forward to hearing from you. Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Sincerely,
Brett Stalbaum, Lecturer psoe, stalbaum @ ucsd.edu
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts Major, UCSD.
Naomi Spellman, Lecturer, spellman @ 4n118w.net
Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts, UCSD.
Posted by jo at November 23, 2004 10:48 AM
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To subscribe to the discussion list, send an email to majordomo@jupiter.ucsd.edu and in the content write "subscribe location_focus xxx@xxx.xxx (your email address)". To post a question or comment to the list, send your message to location_focus@jupiter.ucsd.edu the discussion list will be active from friday november 26 through dec 5 only. More information and relevant links can be found at http://34n118w.net/UCHRI
Appreciated: a short bio and/or links to your research and projects at the bottom of each message.
We request your participation in the form of either a question or suggested topic posted to the discussion list. Your inquiry will thus be fielded to an invited list of scientists, researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines such as cognitive science, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, psychology, literature, science fiction, theatre, history, art history and theory, computer science, and earth sciences. We envision the role of artists in this discussion as minimal, more instigating than expository. Our goal is to create an open channel for the scientist/researcher quotient of the discussion participants, who may or may not have considered a creative application of digital mapping tools or location-aware media in the context of their research. The identification of critical issues, spaces of common interest, and potential blind spots between disciplines is of particular interest. A bibliography will be compiled and made available at the conclusion of this discussion.
All discussion participants will be invited to apply for the research residency associated with this discussion, if our theme is chosen for the UCHRI research program. The application process would be open to all individuals regardless of regardless of affiliation, rank, or nationality.
Posted by: Jo at November 27, 2004 09:49 AM
