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From: drew hemment <dh@loca-lab.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:08:47 +0100
To: digest@rhizome.org, Net Art News <netartnews@rhizome.org>
Subject: Pervasive and Locative Arts Network | cfp


Announcement and Call For Proposals
PERVASIVE AND LOCATIVE ARTS NETWORK (PLAN)

A new international and interdisciplinary research network in pervasive
media and locative media has been funded as part of the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Culture & Creativity programme.
The network will bring together practicing artists, technology developers
and ethnographers with the aim of advancing interdisciplinary understanding
and building consortia for future collaborative projects.

The network will stage three major gatherings. Each gathering will have a
distinct form and focus: an initial workshop to launch the network and
assess the state of the art; a technology summer camp for artists and
technologists, including hands-on prototyping sessions using the facilities
at Nottingham's Mixed reality Laboratory; and a major public conference a=
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participatory exhibition as a central component of the Futuresonic 2006
festival in Manchester; as well as a supporting web site and other
resources.


CALL FOR PROPOSALS - PLAN Workshop

Submissions are invited to the first of these events, a two day public
workshop with papers, demos and discussion sessions. The aim of the event is
to launch the network, review the state of the art, bring key players in the
field together, and make initial contacts. The event will also aim to
identify a range of specific interests that can lead to the formation of
sub-groups within the network. Position papers and a summary report will
subsequently be published on the network web site.

The workshop will take place in London over two days in the week beginning
24th January 2005. Venue and final dates announced soon.

Please send submissions to ben@open-plan.org by Monday 8th November.

We request that participants seek support for travel and subsistence from
their institutions. For participants without institutional affiliation the
network shall support applications to funding councils and foundations,
please contact us for further details.


THE NETWORK

Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN) - Enhancing Mobile and Wireless
Technologies for Culture and Creativity

This network will draw together computer scientists and engineers who are
leading the field in developing pervasive and locative technologies; artists
who are using these technologies to create and publicly deploy innovative
and provocative experiences; social scientists with a proven track record of
studying interactive installations and performances; industrial partners
from the creative industries, spanning the arts, television, games,
education, heritage, mobile computing and telecommunications sectors; and
international partners who are coordinating parallel networks around the
world.


NETWORK OBJECTIVES

The network aims to support the formation of a new interdisciplinary
research community to investigate how the convergent fields of pervasive
media and locative media need to evolve in order to support future cultural
and creative activities. Specific network objectives are:
-To review the scope of the research that is currently being carried out in
these fields through a focused workshop, leading to an integrated