FLOATING POINTS 2: NETWORKED ART IN PUBLIC SPACES
PANEL DISCUSSION

Participants–Julian Bleecker, Elizabeth Goodman, Greyworld, and Teri
Rueb–will discuss the future of networked public art which uses as its
canvas geographic locations (principally urban spaces) and is made
possible with portable, networked, or "location-aware" technologies.
Anne Galloway, who gave the keynote lecture for Floating Points 2, will
return to serve as the panel moderator. She will pose the following
question:

"Isabelle Stengers has described the creative enterprise as
an "adventure of hope" - inherently political processes in which we
resist the probable and fully engage the possible. And Chantal Mouffe
has pointed to other "social imaginaries" crucial in revitalising an
everyday politics of hope. What kind of hope do you see in networked
public space? How do you see hope acting in your work? What
possibilities and imaginaries drive you?"

DATE & TIME: April 27, 2005; 6:30 p.m (EST, US)
VENUE: Emerson College, Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street, Boston
Streamed live at http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/05/index.php

BIOGRAPHIES

JULIAN BLEECKER has been involved in technology design for over 15
years, creating mobile, wireless, and networked-based applications
across a diversity of project idioms. His expertise is technology
implementation, innovation and concept development. He is currently
Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's
Interactive Media Division and Critical Studies departments.
http://www.techkwondo.com/

ELIZABETH GOODMAN'S design, writing, and research focuses on critical
thinking and creative exploration at the intersections of new digital
technologies, social life and urban spaces. She worked on the "Familiar
Strangers" project with Eric Paulos at the Intel Research Laboratory at
Berkeley and is a visiting lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute.
http://www.confectious.net

GREYWORLD, a group of London-based artists founded by Andrew Shoben,
create public art and responsive objects for an urban context. Their
installations allow visitors, pedestrians and passers by to become part
of the creative process in spaces that permit the widest forms of
interaction. Queen Elizabeth recently unveiled their work, "The Source,"
an eight story high kinetic sculpture at the London Stock Exchange.
http://www.greyworld.com

TERI RUEB'S large-scale responsive spaces and location-aware
installations explore issues of architecture and urbanism, landscape and
the body, and sonic and acoustic space. Rueb will discuss her work
"Itinerant," commissioned by Turbulence, which will be on exhibit at the
Judi Rotenberg Gallery from April 22nd to May 7th. http://www.terirueb.net/

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." Her
publications include articles for academic journals and online
magazines, and she regularly writes at http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org
and http://www.spaceandculture.org.

FLOATING POINTS is co-presented by Emerson College and New Radio and
Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), a New York-based organization that opened
an office in Boston in 2002. The series is made possible by Emerson
College and the LEF Foundation. For more information visit
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/05/index.php

–
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog and Conference: http://turbulence.org/blog