[ecrea] Urban Screens Conference 2008 posting

Urban Screens Melbourne 08
>Mobile Publics Conference, Federation Square: 3-5 October 2008
>Multimedia Program: 3-8 October 2008
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>USM08: Mobile Publics is a major international conference that will explore
>the changing relations between media, culture and cities. Mobile Publics
>will address the new forms of public participation and interaction created
>by media-dense environments. By engaging a wide range of stakeholders with
>distinctive interests in media and public space, the conference will promote
>new multi-disciplinary frameworks for understanding innovative public uses
>of technology, media and art in contemporary cities.
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>Sessions:
>Art, Technology and Public Space
>Urban Screens and Public Space Broadcasting: A New Public Sphere?
>Strategies for Urban Regeneration
>Cross-Cultural Public Networks
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>Confirmed speakers include: Prof. Saskia Sassen (USA) Lynd Professor of
>Sociology Columbia University; Aaron Tan (HK) Director, Research
>Architecture Design, Hong Kong; Prof. Ien Ang (AU) University of Western
>Sydney; Dr. Andreas Broeckmann (D) Independent Curator; Patrick Fox  (UK)
>Manager, tenantspin; Mike Gibbons (UK) Head of Live Sites & UK
>Co-ordination, London2012; Manray Hsu (Taiwan) Independent Curator; Yann Le
>Bellégo (AU) Sales Director, Barco Media, Asia-Pacific; Monica Narula (New
>Dehli) Raqs Media Collective; Dr. Melinda Rackham (AU) Executive Director,
>ANAT; Jan Schuijren (NI) Curator, Contemporary Arts Screen Zuidas; Mirjam
>Struppek (D) President, International Urban Screens Association; Prof. Leon
>van Schaik AO (AU) Professor, Architecture, Innovation Chair, RMIT
>University; Soh Yeong Roh (SK) Director, Art Center Nabi.
>
>
>Urban Screens 08: Mobile Publics is convened by the University of Melbourne
>and Fed Square PL
>Information and registrations: 
><http://www.urbanscreens08.net/>http://www.urbanscreens08.net/
>
>Early bird registrations are available until July 31.
>
>
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