[Air-L] QUT iCi Guest Seminar - Mirjam Struppek - Friday 17th August

[Marcus Foth]

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 at 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.


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Dr Marcus Foth
Australian Postdoctoral Fellow
Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute

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Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
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