_AR: Artistic Explorations — V2_ Institute for the Unstable Medi. The first edition of the V2_AR Ecosystem event series explored the opportunities AR can give to artists. The expert meeting brought together artists, developers and theorists to discuss what AR brings as a medium. The goal of the afternoon was to come up with the right set of questions that can help guide the discussion about this upcoming technology and its use as an artistic tool. The following speakers framed the discussion: Julian Oliver, artist Drawing from his experience as both programmer and artist, Julian outlined why a creatively rigorous future for Augmented Reality is dependent on Free and Open Source software, rather than third-party proprietary suites and solutions. Furthermore, he argued that developers need to help engender a healthy technical culture of exchange in order for the medium to remain both vital and in the hands of creators.
Margriet Schavemaker, Head of Collections at Stedelijk Museum, initiator of ARtours The following people applied to participate: WHERE CAMP EU. Want to help WhereCamp EU but don’t know how? Why not become a sponsor. What is WhereCamp Europe? WhereCamp Europe is an unconference; inspired by FooCamp and the Silicon Valley WhereCamp which traditionally follows Where 2.0.
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Sign up for the newsletter (log in required) to receive updates about Where 2.0 2011. Watch Keynotes Online The first Web 2.0 innovations helped us make new connections on a global scale. The rise of location-aware tools, linked with the growing ubiquity of real-time, social, and mobile, is swinging the pendulum back to the human and local scale. Location has permeated our collective wisdom, informing our online and in-person experiences, our business models, and our ability to change the world. Location information is a force for both opportunity and disruption, ready to explode our assumptions about the limits of the internet operating system. The dramatic increase in the number of products, companies, and people affected by the expansion of location technologies has shaped the 2010 edition of Where 2.0 into three distinct, simultaneous tracks: Mission-critical technologies.
ElectroSmog Sustainable Immobility. March 18 – 20, 2010 Concept ElectroSmog is a new festival that revolves around the concept Sustainable Immobility. The festival will introduce and explore this concept in theory and practice. With Sustainable Immobility we refer to a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and products in travel and transport, and their ecological unsustainability. The exploration of Sustainable Immobility is a quest for a more sustainable life style, which is less determined by speed and constant mobility. What we propose may sound a bit like a paradox: The proposition of the festival is that the unfolding crisis of mobility can only be effectively addressed by deepening our connections across geographical divides through new communication technologies.
Nothing is self-evident for us. What are the true energy costs and environmental and health hazards of using even more electronic technologies (increased levels of electrosmog)? Is ‘going local’ the only solution? • Witnessed Presence. Situated Technologies | LocationWild Competition 2010! 2010 ESRI International User Conference | UC - User Conference. 2010 ESRI Proceedings and Videos are Up.