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Subject: Interdisciplinary workshop: Locative media in the wild
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Please circulate!
An invitation to researchers, faculty, staff, and graduate and
PhDstudents to submit a letter of interest for a 4-day
interdisciplinaryworkshop: Locative media in the Wild
To be held July 20th- July23rd*, 2005 at the Crooked Creek Research
Facility in the White Mountains of Inyo County, California.
Convened by Brett Stalbaum and Naomi Spellman,
InterdisciplinaryComputing Arts, University of California San Diego
Funded by the UCSD Center for the Humanities and the UC
HumanitiesResearch Institute
The goal of this workshop is to share knowledge, methods, and
toolsbetween various research disciplines that have a focus on
humaninteraction with space. Our hope is to identify common interests
aswell as blind spots among a range of disciplines, in order to
enrichthe various practices represented, and to inspire new areas
ofresearch. Four individuals will be chosen to participate. Each will
beprovided with overnight accommodations, all meals, travel
expenses($300 cap), and $500 compensation.
BACKGROUND The fields of cognitive science, anthropology, archaeology,
sociology,psychology, dance, art, computer science, the earth sciences,
andgeography are concerned with the negotiation of space. Recent
advancesin wireless telecommunications, sensor technology, and
GeographicInformation System tools have inspired a tide of experimental
creativeprojects. These tools are being used to address how
communication,navigation, and big data are played out in space. As the
landscape andurban streets become the canvas for ubiquitous computing
applications,what kinds of possibilities emerge? How can research across
multipledisciplines enrich the various practices?
WORKSHOP GOALS AND ACTIVITYWhile the workshop is intended to yield
useful tools andproblem-solving methods for all workshop participants,
we are mostconcerned with fostering an interaction among disciplines,
andexamining and expanding upon how researchers approach
spatialproblems. Discussion and facilitated activity will set up a
frameworkfor activity over the 3-day workshop. Participants will be
asked topresent and demonstrate their own approach to spatial problems,
and tocollaboratively address problems outside their discipline.
Theproblem(s) addressed will be culled from workshop
participants.Possible approaches include but are not limited to:
GeographicInformation System software, GPS-enabled mobile phones,
narrativestrategies, social navigation, performance (performative
engagement ofsurrounding), data visualization, and data mining. Mediated
orunmediated, digital or analogue