[rohrpost] [call] URBAN SCREENS/FIRST MONDAY SPECIAL ISSUE / CALL FOR PAPERS

[Mirjam Struppek]

URBAN SCREENS 
Discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban
society
FIRST MONDAY SPECIAL ISSUE / CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline: Friday, 14 October 2005


CALL FOR PAPERS The Institute of Network Cultures and
First Monday are happy to announce our first
collaborative project: a special URBAN SCREENS issue
of First Monday, scheduled for publication in early
2006. Papers from, or thematically related to, the
conference are to be published in a special First
Monday issue. Mirjam Struppek, Berlin, Geert Lovink,
Sabine Niederer and Pieter Boeder of the Institute of
Network Cultures will work with Edward Valauskas,
Chief Editor of First Monday, as special editors for
this issue.

TEXT SUBMISSION As a contributor to/participant of
Urban Screens, you are invited to submit your text -
or a draft/synopsis thereof - for review to Pieter
Boeder of the INC, pieterboeder at yahoo.com, who will be
happy to give you advice and editorial assistance if
needed. Deadline for submission is Friday, 14 October
2005. After that, contributors will still have 60 days
to put their papers in order. There are guidelines for
authors on the First Monday Web site at
http://www.firstmonday.org/guidelines.html.

URBAN SCREENS 2005 is an international conference
ranging from critical theory to project experiences by
researchers and practitioners in the field of art,
architecture, urban studies and digital media. The
focus is on understanding how the growing
infrastructure of large digital displays influences
the visual sphere of our public spaces. How can the
commercial use of these screens be broadened and
culturally curated? How can urban screens contribute
to a lively urban society, and involve the audience
interactively? Urban Screens 2005, 23 / 24 September
2005, TPG Building / Stedelijk Museum CS, 11th floor,
Amsterdam.
http://www.urbanscreens.org

FIRST MONDAY is one of the first openly accessible,
peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted
to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First
Monday has published 631 papers in 111 issues; these
papers were written by 748 different authors. First
Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer
& Communications Security Abstracts, INSPEC, ISI’s Web
of Knowledge, LISA, PAIS, eGranary Digital Library,
and other services. In the year 2004, users from
835,768 distinct hosts around the world downloaded
6,728,893 contributions published in First Monday. In
August 2005, users from 89,498 distinct hosts around
the world downloaded 485,746 contributions.
http://www.firstmonday.org/

Contact: Pieter Boeder
Institute of Network Cultures
HvA Interactive Media
Weesperzijde 190, NL-1097 DZ Amsterdam
t: +31 640 15 09 00
f: +31 (0)20 5951840
pieterboeder at yahoo.com



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Mirjam Struppek
Urban||ReseARTch
http://www.interactionfield.de

Urban Space, Public Sphere and the New Media