Monday, February 7, 2011

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Next Step Publishing: introduction of invited discussants

Dear Yasminers,

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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Sana Murrani
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Experimental Architect

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