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Call for participation

PERFORMING PLACES seminar
media and embodiment in the urban environment

Helsinki, November 7-9, 2006

*Submission deadline: October 6, 2006
*Notification of acceptance: October 12
*Full papers due: October 31
*Symposium opening/closing: November 7, 6 pm / November 9, 4 pm

Seminar theme

The Performing places seminar will bring together researchers, artists and
developers whose work touches on the experiential, affective and political
aspects of urban and technological life, and who share an interest in
inventive artistic and technical practices of the urban environment.

The seminar addresses the current urban situation, where lived environments
are undergoing major experiential and social changes, driven mainly by
technical and economic pressures. Our aim is to create a forum for critical,
transdisciplinary exchange by bringing to resonance a set of relevant themes:

1. Urban space, in its current versions, blends embodied and mediated forms,
orchestrating everyday actions to an invisible score of signals and
software. With ubiquitous computing, devices pervade our physical
environments to trace and modulate behaviour, enabling new modes of service,
surveillance and intervention.

2. Cities are increasingly shaped by the formation of 'creative clusters',
according to innovation strategies which target an evolving experience
industry and seek global competitiveness for a particular region or place.
These strategies typically neglect embodied, affective or everyday aspects
of the production of space - even if they often include programmes to
advance citizen participation and social inclusion.

3. Artists and media developers have the possibility of addressing urban
space in ways that prioritize its experiential, social and political
contexts. Strategies of site-specific, community and performance art are
complemented by the activity of media artists and designers, producing
interventions and applications that can capture the collective dimensions of
our experience and render them palpable.

4. Recent theories in human geography and the cultural study of technology
highlight the affective and relational qualities of the urban/technological
environment. In their focus on the performative and collective aspects of
use and production, these theories challenge dominant views of
representation and innovation, proposing more event-based and mobile
accounts of inventive agency.

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Participation

The seminar invites participation from all relevant disciplines, especially
from practitioners and researchers in


*media, performance and urban arts
*IT design and and urban planning
*urban and media studies.

The aim is to build conceptual links and exchanges between disciplines, in
order to produce a critical framework with real relevance for urban
practice, research and policy. For this reason the seminar will take the
form of parallel workshops, with short presentations and a collaborative
development of issues. Project demonstrations are warmly encouraged - but
the main objective is to move beyond presentation and arrive at a
problematization of practices. Of special interest are contributions
discussing, for example:

*Performativity and performance - embodied, affective and
non-representational practices in media, arts and sociality;
*Ubiquitous interaction - collective, participatory agency in urban
interactions;
*Affected places - art and media interventions in the physical and virtual
environment;
*Urban media experience - audiovisual, mobile and network media in the
production, consumption and experience of places;
*In/visibility - techniques and practices of representing and making
visible, from infrastructures to surveillance to performance;

*Critical urban practice - critical artistic and technical practice in the
urban sphere; perspectives on production, coding, design, planning and
development.

How to participate

Submissions should include 1) Title, 2) Keywords 3) 500-word abstract 4)
Selected bibliography and 5) 200 word cv of presenter.


They should be sent by October 6, 2006 to [log in to unmask] as pdf or rtf
attachments.

Notification of acceptance is October 12 and full papers due October 31, 2006.

For further information, contact Minna Tarkka: minna tarkka [at] m-cult
[dot] org
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Invited speakers and artists

Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick, Human Geography
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/~kstraus/thrift/biography.html
Sally Jane Norman, Newcastle University, Culture lab
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/sally-jane-norman.htm
Adrian Mackenzie, Lancaster University, Institute for Cultural Research
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/mackenza/
Hille Koskela, University of Helsinki, Department of Geography
http://www.helsinki.fi/maantiede/kaumaa/Hille_eng.html

Invited artist-researchers
Pia Lindman, performance artist, Fellow, MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies
http://web.mit.edu/pialindman/
Ari Tenhula, choreographer, researcher, Theatre Academy of Finland
http://www.aritenhula.net/
Heidi Tikka, media artist, researcher, Media Lab UIAH / USED
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~htikka/
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Organisers

The seminar is organised in context of USED (Urban Spaces and Experience
Design), an arts and research interaction project carried out by m-cult and
HIIT and funded by the Academy of Finland and the Arts Council of Finland.
The co-organising partners of the seminar are:

m-cult centre for new media culture, Minna Tarkka
http://www.m-cult.org http://used.m-cult.org
HIIT Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Giulio Jacucci
http://www.hiit.fi
Helsinki University of Technology, Urban and Regional Studies, Panu Lehtovuori
http://www.tkk.fi/Units/Separate/YTK/
Theatre Academy of Finland, Performance studies, Annette Arlander
http://www.teak.fi
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Environmental Art, Alan Prohm
http://www.uiah.fi/page.asp?path=1866,1915,4118,9086,9089
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Media Lab, Lily Diaz
http://www.mlab.uiah.fi

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