[spectre] URBAN SCREENS 05 /FIRST MONDAY SPECIAL ISSUE / CALL FOR PAPERS [u]

[Geert Lovink [c]]

> 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, peerˆreviewed 
> 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