*taster event for futuresonic04*

MobiloTopia

Besides bio-technology, mobile communication is now the prime technology that manages to spark utopian hopes. Mobile phones, 3G/UMTS, wireless networking, satellites, and even the good old radio, are the objects of desire for a media-savvy class which holds on to the idea that new media technoloigies can make you money, and might even enhance the democratic potentials of a globalised world - whether as Smart Mobs or as anti-WTO protesters. As a response, artists are exploring the emerging field of 'Locative Media' which combine the mobility of the device, with the fact that the mobile user can be tracked and located. 'MobiloTopia', the utopian site of mobile communication, is littered with locative media, the electronic bracelets of the immaterial class. Can it be turned in on itself, and can the hyper-sanitized, hyper-mediated, hyper-surveilled spaces of the Disneyfied city be contaminated with digital graffiti?

Devised by Drew Hemment. Presented in partnership with futuresonic and the Locative Media Lab

Montag 2.2. 17.00-19.00 Uhr

Marc Tuters (CDN)
Drew Hemment (UK)
Teri Rueb (US)
Ben Russell (UK)
Jason Harlan (US)
mod. Armin Medosch (UK/AT)

Participants from the MobiloTopia conference session join other leading figures working within locative media for an investigation of metaphors and principles, and a hands-on exploration of locative techniques and technologies, with the aim of initiating collaborative projects. Participants are invited to bring their locative tools.

Montag 2.2. 20.30-22.00

Teri Rueb (US), Jason Harlan (US), Ben Russell (UK), Marc Tuters (CA), Drew Hemment (UK), Steve Symons (UK), Jen Southern (UK), Edward Mac Gillavry (NL), Jaanis Garancs, Ieva Auzina (RIXC/Latvia), Raitis Smits (RIXC/Latvia), Signe Pucena (RIXC/Latvia), Davis Bojars (RIXC/Latvia)

*With thanks to Transmediale!*