[ecrea] The Fibreculture Journal 19—Ubiquity Issue—online

Dear Readers/Associates of the Fibreculture Journal,

We have now launched FCJ 19, the Ubiquity issue, our final issue in what 
has been we think a very successful year for the Fibreculture Journal.

Edited by Ulrik Ekman in Copenhagen, FCJ 19 presents a series of 
incisive analyses of current and future events/practices in ubiquitous 
computing.

Leading thinkers in the area presented articles on actuated 
architectures, questions of interaction design, rethinking of 
computer/human relations, environmental critiques, the scripting of 
urban space, performative aesthetics, affective experience, pervasive 
gaming and feral computing.

More information below but you can skip to the real thing at—

http://nineteen.fibreculturejournal.org/

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from Ulrik Ekman's extensive editorial—

"This is a journal issue invested in remarking more than once upon the 
undecidability hovering today around our getting into contact 
with  ‘ubiquity’ or ‘pervasiveness’ as a potential to be further 
actualized in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), 
interaction design, and the cultural life worlds of information 
societies more generally. It could well be that you have not yet heard 
of ubiquitous or pervasive  computing, or that you have heard of these 
but still remain in doubt whether there actually is or will be such a 
thing, in interaction designs or elsewhere. It could also very well be 
the case, however, that you both know a great deal about this as a 
rather momentous shift, qua a  third wave in computing and associated 
disciplines, and find yourself engaging with it all around you in your 
practical life: at work, at home, in leisure activities and games, in 
the media art at the museum, or in the everyday culture of the public 
sphere. Affirming this undecidability is a necessity – since both of 
these alternatives are currently at stake, and since ‘ubiquity’ and 
ubicomp remain potentialities of whose actualization we are not yet 
sure, whether this is matter of an explicit articulation of the 
principal ideas or of the concrete lines of development and research 
making of this so many hands-on facts inherent in the interactions in 
our contemporary life worlds. In other words, the focus and special 
merit of this issue is not least to enter into the set of questions 
surrounding the notion of ‘interaction designs for ubicomp cultures’ – 
as something partaking of that which Michel Foucault would have called 
‘a history of the present.’ This issue engages with an altogether 
contemporary field of research in order to make a difference that makes 
a difference while the cultural and technical developments at stake are 
still undecidable, multiple, and emergent – at a fast pace, too."

Articles include:

Ulrik Ekman: Ubiquity Editorial – Interaction Designs for Ubicomp Cultures

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Karin Bech: Embedding response: self 
production as a model for an actuated architecture


Anders Michelsen: Pervasive Computing and Prosopopoietic Modelling – 
Notes on computed function and creative action

Simon Penny: Towards a Performative Aesthetics of Interactivity


Christian Ulrik Andersen and Søren Pold: The Scripted Spaces of Urban 
Ubiquitous Computing: The experience, poetics, and politics of public 
scripted space


     Bo Kampmann Walther: Reflections on the Philosophy of Pervasive
     Gaming—With Special Emphasis on Rules, Gameplay, and Virtuality

Matthew Fuller and Sónia Matos: Feral Computing: From Ubiquitous 
Calculation to Wild Interactions


Malcolm McCullough: Toward Environmental Criticism


     Jonas Fritsch: Affective Experience in Interactive Environments

more on FCJ 19—the Ubiquity issue <http://nineteen.fibreculturejournal.org/>