PLAN workshop at the ICA

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd February 2005

A two day event bringing together leading international figures to review the emerging fields of locative and pervasive media.

Wireless and locative technologies are enabling people to break away from traditional computer interfaces. Mobile devices are mediating new kinds of social interaction and responding to physical location and context.

What kinds of creative, social, economic and political expression become possible when every device we carry, the fabric of the urban environment and even the contours of the Earth become a digital canvas?

The event launches a new international network (PLAN), bringing together artists, activists, hardware hackers, bloggers, game programmers, free network builders, semantic web philosophers, cartographers, economists, architects, and university and industry researchers.

Speakers include Duncan Campbell, Anne Galloway, Matthew Chalmers, Matt Adams, Bill Gaver, Eyal Weizman, Sally Jane Norman, Giles Lane, Usman Haque, Katherine Moriwaki, Julian Priest, Rob Van Kranenburg, Franz and Nicolas (representing the Exyzt collective), Richard Hull, Jo Walsh, Teri Rueb, Minna Tarkka, Tapio Makela, RIXC, Pete Gomes, Saul Albert, Susan Kennard, Michael Longford, Steve Benford, Drew Hemment, Ben Russell. Music in the bar from Xela (City Centre Offices, Type Records), XFM Flo-Motion DJ Nick Luscombe and Apachi61. [Full list of speakers below]

Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH, UK

Tickets are available from:

[ALL TICKETS HAVE SOLD OUT]

ICA Box Office: 12 Midday - 9:30 pm

Tel: +44 (0)207 930 3647

Web: http://www.ica.org.uk

If you would like to be included in the PLAN networking activities and delegate list, or have further questions about the event email lra@cs.nott.ac.uk

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PLAN

Pervasive and Locative Arts Network

PLAN is a new international and interdisciplinary research network in pervasive media and locative media funded as part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Culture & Creativity programme.

The network brings together practitioners from a range of disciplines including artists, technology developers and ethnographers, with the aim of advancing interdisciplinary understanding and building consortia for future collaborative projects.

PLAN website: http://www.open-plan.org

PLAN email: ben@open-plan.org

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SPEAKERS DAY ONE

February 1st 2005

ICA London

9:30am registration 10am start

10am Introduction by the steering committee

Steve Benford, Drew Hemment, Ben Russell

Matthew Chalmers - Glasgow University

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~matthew/

Bill Gaver - RCA

http://www.rca.ac.uk/pages/research/dr_william_gaver_609.html

Eyal Weizman - Professor of architecture, Academy of fine arts in Vienna

http://www.akbild.ac.at

Sally Jane Norman - Culture Lab, University of Newcastle

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/culturelab/

Cliff Randell - Computer Science Department, University of Bristol

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~cliff

Wilfried Hou Je Bek - Socialfiction

http://socialfiction.org

Giles Lane - Proboscis

http://proboscis.org.uk

Matt Adams - Blast Theory

http://www.blasttheory.co.uk

Usman Haque - Haque design + research

http://www.haque.co.uk

Franz and Nicolas - representing the Exyzt Collective

http://www.exyzt.org

Richard Hull - Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

http://www.mobilebristol.com

Constance Fleuriot - Bristol University

http://mobilebristol.com

Jon Dovey - Bristol University

http://www.republicof.net

Debbi Lander - Futurephysical

http://futurephysical.org

Giulio Jacucci - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)

Advanced Research Unit (ARU)

http://www.hiit.fi

Annika Waern - Swedish Institute of Computer Science

http://www.sics.se/~annika/

Mara Traumane - RIXC

http://rixc.lv

Jaanis Garancs - RIXC

http://rixc.lv

Pete Gomes - Architectural Association

http://www.mutantfilm.com

Saul Albert - Twenteenthcentury, Limehouse Townhall

http://twenteenthcentury.com/cv.php?mem_id=1

Susan Kennard - The Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre

http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi

Michael Longford - Mobile Digital Commons Network

http://www.mdcn.ca

Tobias C. Van Veen - Mobile Digital Commons Network

http://www.quadrantcrossing.org

Naomi Spellman - UC San Diego

http://34n118w.net

Brett Stalbaum - UC San Diego

http://visarts.ucsd.edu/faculty/bstalbau.htm

Julian Priest - Informal

http://informal.org.uk

Rob Van Kranenburg - Virtueel Platform

http://blogger.xs4all.nl/kranenbu

Minna Tarkka - M-cult

http://www.m-cult.org

Tapio Makela - M-cult

http://www.m-cult.org

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MUSIC PROGRAMME

February 1st 2005

ICA London

8pm-1am

Xela (City Centre Offices, Type Records)

XFM Flo-Motion DJ Nick Luscombe

Apachi61

In association with Baked Goods and Futuresonic

http://www.baked-goods.com

http://www.futuresonic.com

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SPEAKERS DAY TWO

February 2nd 2005

ICA London

9:30am registration 10am start

Duncan Campbell - IPTV, The Guardian

http://duncan.gn.apc.org

Anne Galloway - Carleton University

http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org

Katherine Moriwaki - Trinity College Dublin

http://www.kakirine.com

Jo Walsh - Co-author 'Mapping Hacks'

http://space.frot.org

Schuyler Erle - Nocat, Co-author 'Mapping Hacks'

http://nocat.net

Teri Rueb - RISD

http://www.terirueb.net

Erich Charles Harris - Interact Lab, Informatics, University of Sussex

http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/interact/

Lalya Gaye - Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute

http://www.viktoria.se/~lalya

Martin Rieser - Bath, BFI

http://mobileaudience.blogspot.com

Ewen Chardonnet - Ellipse

http://e-ngo.org

Sarah Kettley - Napier University

http://www.eca.ac.uk/tacitus/SarahKettley.htm

Andrew Wilson - Blink Media

http://fisharepeopletoo.blogs.com

Karl-Petter Akesson - SICS

http://www.sics.se

Jen Southern - University of Huddersfield

http://www.theportable.tv

Russell Beale - Advanced Interaction Group, School of Computer Science

University of Birmingham

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rxb/

Steve Benford - MRL Mixed Reality Lab

http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk

Drew Hemment - Futuresonic, University of Salford

http://www.futuresonic.com/

Ben Russell - Headmap / Locative / Notfree

http://www.headmap.org

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Full details of the programme can be found at

http://www.open-plan.org