FLOATING POINTS 2: NETWORKED ART IN PUBLIC SPACES
Anne Galloway: Playful Mobilities

TONIGHT: Wednesday, January 26, 7:00 p.m. (USA EST)
WHERE: Streamed Live at
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/05/index.php and at the Bill
Bordy Theatre, 216 Tremont Street, Boston.
Free and open to the public.

Playful Mobilities: Mobile phone usage is already commonplace for many
people around the world, and other wireless technologies promise to
become just as pervasive in coming decades. As technological development
continues apace, scholars and artists have begun in earnest to explore
the social and cultural implications of our emerging devices. Mobile and
networked computing has the potential to cultivate new opportunities for
personal autonomy and collective action, as well as to re-inscribe
existing social inequalities and discourage cultural diversity. Bringing
together theory, art and technology to critique - and create - these
shared spaces is nothing new, but it takes on increasing value and
importance as we struggle to negotiate between private and public
interests in our technologically saturated daily lives. This
presentation will consider what is at stake in these relationships, and
what play and creativity can offer in terms of critical approaches to
mobility.

Anne Galloway is completing her PhD in sociology and cultural studies of
technology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Researching mobile
technologies, public spaces and play, the working title of her
dissertation is "Urban Mobile, At Play in the Wireless City". In
addition to theoretical work on mobility and urbanism, her current
research includes five case studies of ubiquitous computing design for
urban environments, and Galloway has presented her findings at prominent
international conferences and workshops in technology, design, and
sociology. Her publications include articles for academic journals and
online magazines, and she regularly writes at www.purselipsquarejaw.org
and www.spaceandculture.org. Galloway also teaches undergraduate courses
in urban cultures and the sociology of science and technology, where she
and her students play as much as possible.

Floating Points 2: Networked Art in Public Spaces is organized and
presented by Emerson College and Turbulence.org, and funded by Emerson
College and the LEF Foundation.

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