http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/48067/ Events that briansuda is attending or watching. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:00:26 -0700 Upcoming 60 en-us
Grab one (or more!) of GBK’s finest burgers — chips & beer on the side, with great web folk before a burger inebriated waddle to the official pre-party for fun & games.

Open to all — conference & non-conference goers.

*** please mark attendance so I can warn GBK in advance :)
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In September 2009, the Architectural League will present Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City, a major exhibition that will imagine alternative trajectories for how various mobile, embedded, networked, and distributed forms of media, information and communication systems might inform the architecture of urban space and/or influence our behavior within it.

As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces of the city, we are increasingly finding information processing capacity embedded within and distributed throughout the material fabric of everyday urban space. Artifacts and systems we interact with daily collect, store and process information about us, or are activated by our movements and transactions. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing evangelists herald a coming age of urban infrastructure capable of sensing and responding to the events and activities transpiring around them. Imbued with the capacity to remember, correlate and anticipate, this near-future “sentient” city is envisioned as being capable of reflexively monitoring its environment and our behavior within it, becoming an active agent in the organization of everyday life in urban public space.

Few may quibble about “smart” traffic light control systems that more efficiently manage the ebbs and flows of cars, trucks, and busses on our city streets. But some may be irritated when discount coupons for their favorite espresso drink are beamed to their mobile phone as they pass by a Starbucks. And many are likely to protest when they are denied passage through a subway turnstile because it “senses” that their purchasing habits, patterns of movement and current galvanic skin response (GSR) reading happens to match the profile of a terrorist.

Despite the obvious implications for the built environment, architects have been largely absent from the discussions about how these technologies are conceptualized and deployed. To the extent that business interests and government agencies drive these technological developments, we can expect to see new forms of consumption, surveillance and control emerge. Within architecture, the recent fascination with building envelopes wrapped with large-scale programmable “urban screens” or corporate lobbies outfitted with so-called “interactive architecture” highlights the dilemma. In an age of urban computing and ambient informatics, what opportunities for the design of urban artifacts and spaces lie beyond the architectural surface as confectionery spectacle or the interior vestibule as glorified automatic door opener?

Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City will combine a survey of recent work that explores a wide range of context-aware, location-based and otherwise “situated” technologies with a series of commissioned projects by multi-disciplinary teams of architects and artists. The exhibition will examine the broader social, cultural, environmental and political issues within which the development of urban ubiquitous/pervasive computing is itself situated.
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The event is tentatively scheduled to be held from 1 May 2010 – 31 October 2010.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/217390/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/217390/ robertscales http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/217390/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:41:20 -0700 2008-07-01T06:41:20-07:00 Expo 2010 - World Fair 20100501T080000 20101031T230000 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/5679/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/5679/ Shanghai The city Shanghai Shanghai China http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/5679/ Festivals The magic word that Picnic needs to think about in 2009 is focus, perhaps cutting the number of parallel events which distract from the main conference. Videos of the 2007/8 festivals are now up on the Picnic website if you want to get a feel for it. The only clouds on the horizon are their constant drive for growth and the fact that very little is free anymore. Money is going to be extremely tight this year, so I personally hope it doesn't try to become a film festival, but keeps its focus on emerging media. I also hope they put more effort into improving the navigation of the Picnic website. It becomes very chaotic around the time of the conferences. Agree?
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/309701/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/309701/ Jonathan Marks http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/309701/#comments 52.396 4.87484 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:08:43 -0700 2008-03-25T13:08:43-07:00 Picnic '09 20090923 20090925 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/10450/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/10450/ Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10 Amsterdam Noord-Holland The Netherlands http://www.westergasfabriek.com Festivals
Note: The venue listed for this event, BC Place Stadium, is the site of the opening and closing ceremonies. The athletic events take place at venues stretching across 120km, from Richmond south of Vancouver to the Whistler resort area north.

For general information on the Olympic movement, see the International Olympic Committee official site.
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