Guest Seminar by Mirjam Struppek Interactionfield - Urban Space and Public Sphere and the New Media Date: Friday 17th August Venue: The Loft, Z2 Level 5, QUT Creative Industries Precinct Time: 5pm - 6.30pm Map: http://www.qut.edu.au/about/location/map_ciprecinct.pdf Please RSVP to courtney.oconnor@qut.edu.au http://qutedu.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5236926753 In an experimental timeframe of about ten years, interactive media installations and performances have emerged as a new art form in urban space. Screen Installations, Public Projections, Interactive Fassades and Shopwindows, Public Communication-Sculptures and Messageboards or Space Annotations, Psychogeographic Performances and Location-Based Mobile Games try to create create new visual experiences in an increasingly commercialised urban space. What has been learned from the investigation of the interconnectedness of urban public space, interaction and new media utilising the growing digital infrastructure and new wireless and wearable gadgets. What strategies and tools can be found to engage the audience, considering the character of an urban surrounding and desired type of interaction and personal or joint experiences. http://www.interactionfield.de/ http://www.urbanscreens.org/ SHORT BIOGRAPHY Mirjam Struppek works as urbanist, researcher and consultant in Berlin. She has lectured and published essays with a special focus on the livability of urban space, public sphere and its transformation and acquisition through new media. Since 2002 she is developing the online-information-platform interactionfield about the relation of interaction, new media and public space. In this context she organises the monthly lecture and discussion evening „Urban Media Salon“. She developed the first international conference Urban Screens in 2005 and is currently working on further implementing this concept of utilising outdoor screens for a sustainable urban society.. In 2003 she worked as Assistant in a gallery for still and motion pictures in Berlin. She is holding a degree with distinction in Urban- and Environmental Planning from University of Kaiserslautern and spent in 1999 two research semester at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Nagoya University, Japan. Please join the Urban Informatics facebook group: http://qutedu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2493830797 -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/