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NEWS by http://www.interactionfield.de
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1. Interactionfield News
2. Deadline reminder for submissions
3. Conferences Workshops and exhibitions
4. Reading recomendation / online discussions
5. Editorial news

1. INTERACTIONFIELD NEWS  
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Interactionfield and Urban Screens is going on presentation tour:

Weimar
10-12 November - Media city Conference / Bauhaus-University Weimar
http://www.mediacityproject.com/e_conference.html

Amsterdam
14. November - Stifo at sandberg workshop
http://www.all-media.info/page.php?id=65

Augsburg
16. November - Urban Media - Mobile Experience - Symposium
http://www.xinober.de/Symposium_Augsburg_161106/

Bremen
19.November - International Urban Media Workshop
http://www.eculturefactory.de/CMS/index.php?id=352

Urban Screens also has been presented in the context of this exciting
research and production tour of 22 students from Carleton College:
http://www.newmediaroadtrip.com

My last Urban Screens article has been published in Spanish:
"PANTALLAS URBANAS sobre EL POTENCIAL URBANO" in: ACT 2.0 – the trace  
of the
other - ARTICULOS
http://www.aparienciapublica.org/ACT0.2.swf

2. DEADLINE REMINDER  
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15. November / Deadline: call for projects
IDENSITAT 07, Calaf / Barcelona
Looking for creative projects in the field of public space and related  
to
the territory that stimulate creative practices which experiment with  
new
ways of social engagement and participation, connected to already  
existing
practices and dynamics in the territory.
http://www.idensitat.org/a_index2007.htm

1. December / Deadline: Call for Artists
After Urban - Video Art & Architecture event
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA - USA
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

4. December / Deadline: Call for Proposals
INTERFERENCIA July 2007, Barcelona
Projects of artistic interventions in public space. Only proposals  
including
public space as specific part of the artistic project -modifying it,
questioning it, rethink it- will be accepted. Prioritized are those  
actions
fostering participation of the public and with a social content.
http://www.interferencia.info/PAGS/2007/CONV_ENG.htm

15. January 2007 / Deadline Call for Papers
Urban Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing invites articles about urban computing: the
integration of computing, sensing, and actuation technologies into our
everyday urban settings and lifestyles.
http://tinyurl.com/w6pej
Submission address: http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com

3. CONFERENCES WORKSHOPS AND EXHIBITIONS  
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14 | 15 | 16 november 2006 Amsterdam
Mediamatics workshop: RFID & The Internet of Things
www.mediamatic.net/rfid

17 November 2006 - Conference Liverpool, UK
The City in Transition
The 2nd National Public Art Conference will be focusing on issues of
placemaking and transformation within the contemporary urban renaissance
together with the role of art, media and culture as catalysts for  
change in
shaping regional identity.
http://landor.co.uk/html_email/conf/nationalpublicart/

23rd November, Nottingham, UK
Urban Play
Exploring urban space and methods of play, in particular projects which
combine these areas in examining and utilising new media elements of the
city. Proposals of urban games, creative computer games, video,  
interactive
installation, audio guides, sound, music and performance – exploring  
play,
gaming, new media and the city.
http://www.trampoline.org.uk/diary.htm

26th - 28th November 2006, Sydney
Engage 06 - Interaction, Art and Audience Experience
http://www.creativityandcognition.com/engage06

See also my presentation tour

4. READINGS  __________________________________________________________

[Re: ] magazine
has launched its first edition. The theme of this international new  
media
online magazine is locative media.
http://re.cont3xt.net/index.html

Interview with Aram Bartholl by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
In the hyper-realist console and arcade gaming space, the closer a game  
gets
to emulating reality, the better chance the game has of succeeding in an
already over-crowded market place. Berlin-based media artist Aram  
Bartholl
makes urban-art, taking this hybrid of realism and screen-based
entertainment to an extreme....
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/games/gizmodo-gallery-aram-bartholl- 
sees-in-f
ps-mode-203130.php
Aram featured at German Giga TV:
http://www.oase.udk-berlin.de/~aram/aram_bei_giga.mov

Online Publishing from Proboscis
A revised edition of the Urban Tapestries Report combining all three
original reports from June 2005:
http://socialtapestries.net/outcomes/reports/UT_Report_2006.pdf

Eight new DIFFUSION eBooks will be available by early November; the
authors are:
Heath Bunting, Loren Chasse, Anne Galloway, Jim Harrold, Dave Key,
Lisa LeFeuvre, John Schofield & Kathryn Yusoff
http://diffusion.org.uk

Open 11 Hybrid Space
The influence of digital technologies on the use of the public domain.
Open is a cahier about art and the public domain that is published  
twice per
year.
http://www.naipublishers.nl/open_e/

STATIC 4: Special issue on 'Unaccommodated'
(should be out the next days)
Including a.o. a project rieview: Susanne Schuricht with Michael Hohl  
and
Mirjam Struppek: Freequent Traveller: Interaction versus Contemplation
And Saskia Sassens text: Making Public Interventions in Today's Massive
Cities
http://static.londonconsortium.com

5. EDITORIAL NEWS  
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To gradually rise the quality of my newsletter, I would like to  
encourage
you, to forward me suitable information If you come across them, so  
that I
can distribute them via Interactionfield NEWS.

struppek at interactionfield.de

Mirjam Struppek
Interactionfield - Urban Media Research
http://www.interactionfield.de
http://www.urbanscreens.org

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