_AR: Artistic Explorations — V2_ Institute for the Unstable Medi. Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, March 30 - Apr. Save the Date - Where 2.0 2011 will happen April 19-21, 2011 at the Santa Clara Hyatt and Convention Center. 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.