Just to clarify that Alex Aurigi is currently the Head of School of
Architecture, Design and Environment at the University of Plymouth.
Best,
Sana
On 7 February 2011 09:38, xDxD.vs.xDxD <xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Yasminers,
>
> here below i introduce our colleagues who have been invited to discuss on
> the subject of Next Step Publishing.
>
> In the next message i will introduce the initial statement, but i first
> wanted to introduce the discussants, as the initial statement is, in a way,
> a synthesis of their practices, and of the scenarios that emerge from them,
> which includes a series of truly insightful perspectives on the
> possibilities for transformation of what we are now calling "publishing".
>
>
> and so i am really happy and honored to introduce our dear friends and
> colleagues:
>
> Massimo Canevacci
> Currently teaching at the universities in San Paulo and Florianopolis,
> Massimo is a major researcher on anthropology of visual cultures and on the
> concept of what he calls "design eXpanso" (expanded design), a meta-design
> practice in which ubiquitous technologies enact interstitial spaces where
> polyphonic cultural expression flourishes in unexpected forms. FakePress
> collaborated with Massimo on a project called "Ubiquitous Anthropology": an
> augmented reality system used on a research with the Bororo population in
> Mato Grosso, experimenting tools and strategies to go beyond ethnographical
> writing, enabling native, cross-cultural forms of expression for
> anthropology. This theme is also at the base of the recent book
> "Beyond
Ethnographic Writing", a collection of essays exploring potential
> directions of ethnography with a special focus on its publishing practices.
>
>
> Andrew Hudson Smith
> Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith is a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in Urban
> Planning and Geographic Visualization and Course Leader of the new MRes in
> Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualization at the Centre for Advanced
> Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London.
The main topics of his
> research involve developing visual techniques for urban planning, three
> dimensional city visualizations and public participation by means of
> web-based systems using GIS and CAD. He has been instrumental in developing
> CASA into a world leading research lab in the area of visualization and
> transferring research into the commercial and private sector, most notably
> through the recent Virtual London, GENeSIS and MapTube projects which he
> manages.
>
>
> Luca Simeone/FakePress
> Luca is a cultural anthropologist and an interaction designer and carries
> out research activities for FakePress and the University of Rome, La
> Sapienza. He has recently edited the book "REFF, the reinvention of reality
> through critical practices of remix, mashup, recontextualization and
> reenactment". This book represents a milestone in the research of FakePress
> Publishing as it materializes a technological platform and the
> methodological and scientific approaches used to design it, that allow
> using
> objects, architectures, bodies, geographical spaces and social networks as
> spaces for publication.
Together with Luca, the entire team of FakePress
> (Oriana Persico, Federico Ruberti, Cary Hendrickson) will initiate a stream
> of discussion on the (potential) role of publishing houses in future
> publishing scenarios and practices. Andrew Hudson Smith
> Dr. Andrew Hudson Smith is a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in Urban
> Planning and Geographic Visualization and Course Leader of the new MRes in
> Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualization at the Centre for Advanced
> Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London.
>
> Simone Arcagni
> Researcher at the University of Palermo, Journalist and Cinema expert,
> Simone published a number of books on the main theme of "post cinema":
> after
> the historical analysis of vision and of representation and fruition, Post
> Cinema describes a series of practices and methodologies in which artistic
> expression expands throughout other media and creates narratives that take
> part in architecture and design.
>
> Marc Garrett/Furtherfield
> Marc is an artist with an extensive knowledge of network based arts and on
> the possibilities for collaboration between sciences and artistic
> experimentations. Marc leads the Furtherfield/Netbehaviour networks, where
> around 15000 people among artists, hackers, activists and researchers in
> humanities, design, engineering and architecture constantly discuss and
> enact collaborative practices, including experiments in performative,
> networked, participatory, p2p, ubiquitous publishing.
>
>
>
> And please let me also introduce our colleagues who have agreed to
> participate to the discussion, but to a limited degree (due to traveling
> and
> faculty work which would make continuous participation difficult or at all
> impossible to sustain). We value their contributions as representing truly
> insightful frontiers in the areas of our discussion. And so i am very happy
> to introduce:
>
>
> Alessandro Aurigi
> Director of the Architecture Department at Newcastle University. He focuses
> on what he calls "augmented cities".
>
> Mike Batty
> Chairman at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analisys (CASA).
>
> Nina Czegledy
> Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Canada
> Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
> Honorary Fellow, Moholy Nagy University of Arts and Design, Budapest,
> Hungary
>
> We will also have some unexpected guests that will be joining into the
> discussion, and you are all invited to actively participate.
>
> Coming up: initial statement for the discussion.
>
> best,
> Salvatore
>
> --
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>
>
> m. ++39 3476054421
> t. ++39 0697600324
>
> salvatore.iaconesi@artisopensource.net
> xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com
> salvatore@fakepress.net
>
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