[spectre] FP3, Panel 1: Responsive Environments and Systems

[Turbulence]

Floating Points 3: Ubiquitous Computing
Panel 1: Responsive Environments and Systems

DATE: February 8th, 7:00 p.m.
PLACE: Emerson College, Bill Bordy Theatre, 216 Tremont Street, Boston, and
LIVE ONLINE at http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php

Panelists: Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel and Chris Salter
Moderator: Helen Thorington
Co-presented by Emerson College and Turbulence.org

Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org
announce a new speaker series, "Floating Points 3" [FP3] that will address
the subject of "Ubiquitous Computing" or "Ubicomp", where computing and
wireless capabilities are so integrated into the fabric of everyday life
(clothing, cars, homes, and offices) that the technologies recede into the
background and become indistinguishable from everyday activities. [more at
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php]

Mark Goulthorpe: In 1991, architect Mark Goulthorpe established the dECOi
atelier to undertake a series of largely theoretical architectural
competitions. Today, dECOi is an established architectural/design practice
that takes a fresh, exploratory approach to design. Goulthorpe will discuss
his interactive "Aegis Hyposurface" which dynamically mediates events
happening inside and outside of buildings. Goulthorpe currently divides his
time between the School of Architecture and the Media Lab at MIT.
http://architecture.mit.edu/people/bg/cvgoulth.html

Susan Kozel is a dancer, choreographer, writer and Associate Professor at
the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser
University in Canada. Kozel has a PhD in Philosophy and is co-founder of
Mesh Performance Practices. Her research combines a broad range of
interactive and responsive systems with performative practices (telematics,
motion capture, sensing, wearables). All of her work is about exploring and
expanding our physical and creative interface with technology. She will
discuss her current project "other stories" which utilizes the Vicon motion
capture system. http://www.meshperformance.org/
 
Chris Salter is a media artist, director and composer based in Montreal,
Canada and Berlin, Germany. He develops and produces large-scale,
multi-media and interactive environments that merge space, vision and sound.
These environments respond in complex and subtle ways to audience presence
and activities. He is also a professor in the Design and Computation
Department at Concordia University. He will discuss his large scale
installation "Suspension/Threshold." http://www.sponge.org/

Helen Thorington is co-director of Turbulence.org

Floating Points is co-presented by Emerson College and New Radio and
Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), a not-for-profit media organization with
offices in Boston and New York. It is funded by Emerson College's Office of
Academic Affairs, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies,
School of the Arts, and Department of Visual and Media Arts.

For more information please visit
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
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