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

Tue Dec 20 22:04:50 GMT 2011




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/>




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