The Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 presents:

First public testscreening will happen on the rearprojection facade of the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin on the August 30 2008, starting after dawn. We will present first selected artworks produced in the framework of the Media Facades Festival. The final Urban Screenings will take place from October 18 - November 3 2008 on four media facades in the center of Berlin. 24 meda artists and interaction designer will gain temporary use of the facades and one interactive city terminal ito explore their cultural, political and social roles. They invite a wider audience to gain hands-on experience in this special connection of content, format, and site-specificity, and to take part in a new interactive infrastructure.

USM08 Conference: Mobile Publics

Registrations are now open for the USM08 conference, which will explore the impact of digital technology and new media on the public space of contemporary cities. Full conference programme and registration information is now available!

Single tickets will be available for keynote sessions, but must be booked in advance.

Exposive Revelations (2008) by Daniel McKewen of the program Great Expectations.

NEXT WAVE festival - May 15-31 2008: a biennial festival all around Melbourne, presenting genre-busting new works by the next wave of Australian artists. The theme "Closer Together" refers to the way society is - for the better or for the worse - becoming increasingly connected by media and communication technologies.

Sceptical of the acclaimed social achievements of new technologies, the Brisbane-based artist-run initiative Boxcopy sets out to explore the futility of human activities with a collection of works entitled Great Expectations as part of the Membrane Project, a major site-specific exhibition, infiltrating the cracks and crevices of Federation Square.

A few other projects deal with media interventions in Public spaces such as Spinning a video projection by Kotoe Ishii is running on the Night Projection Window of the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Serial Blogger a unique digital narrative and performance installation based on a hyper-real crime scene investigation. The project invites audiences to pry into the lives of a group of bloggers who get a little too close to someone stranger than themselves a serial killer…. Esky a Moving architectural intervention is a quirky, curious and nomadic intervention, an unexpected inflatable bar and venue that will occupy periphery and unconventional urban spaces. Urban Screens wil be presented at the Polyphonic’s Forum 3 on Sunday 25th.

I-sites and the Atrium at Federation Square, Melbourne

The deadline for submissions for our call for poster presentations has been extended to the 31. May 2008!

We are looking for researchers to present posters on the latest development in the interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results of ongoing research projects, drawing important conclusions from practical experiments, for giving an introduction to innovative art works or new practical design applications, reports on cutting edge technologies and content management systems under development.

To bridge the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition posters will be displayed in an exhibition in the public Atrium precinct, next to the conference hall, viewable for all conference attendees and the general public. The conference audience will be gathering around the A1 posters during the poster session to engage with the author. Eight submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental presentation on the four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. These are equiped with an integrated screen, which offer the possibility to present remotely via scheduled skype sessions, while the audience gathers in groups around them.

Poster online submission form - click here

The episode Playful Audiovision on blip.tv presents some documentations about projects shown at Urban Screens Manchester 07: Videos about the general overview, an Interview with Susanne Jaschko and the projects ‘A wall is a screen’, ‘Circulez Y’a A Rien A Voir’, ‘The Air Been Broken’, ‘D.I.Y. Ballroom’, ‘Man With A Movie Camera’, ‘2.4Ghz Homing Pigeons’ and ‘Megaphone’. Go to their show page for watching the videos.

Call for film/video and multimedia projects: The Urban Screens Melbourne 08 exhibition is looking for submissions of film and videos or multimedia, interactive or participatory screen based projects. We are looking for existing and potentially adaptable projects that tackle the festival key themes of issues of building community or sustainability in relation to water. Submission deadline: 31. May 2008

Call for posters : Bridging Conference and Multimedia Exhibition, we are looking for posters about the latest development of Urban Screens research projects. They will be displayed in a public exhibition in the Atrium next to the conference venue. Eight submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental skype presentation on the four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. Submission deadline: 24. May 2008

CALL : The Media Facades Festival Berlin is looking for creative people such as artists, media producer, interaction designer, filmmakers, software developer, architects, urbanists and digital poets for the production of site-specific contents for four media facades in urban areas of Berlin. The works will be presented to a broad expert audience and the Berlin public from 18.10. - 3.11. 2008 during the main activities of the Festival.

Deadline for submissions of a broad project idea: 15.April 2008

Nordic Urban Design Conference
27-28 February 2008, Bergen

City lightening and new urban spaces - the third annual NUDC Conference in Bergen.

The Nordic climate, with its long dark winters, must be an essential concern for urban designers, planners and architects. City lighting can contribute significantly to social integration and urban regeneration. But, being a big user of energy, lighting is a critical issue in relation to climate change. How can we create beautiful cities while still considering climate and environmental issues in the planning process? How can cities become more enjoyable, functional, permeable and innovative, using not only hydrogen-drive vehicles, solar-powered heating and environmentally approved materials, but also new developments in city lighting?

www.mediaarchitecture.org/mediafacades2008

Myths and Potentials of Media Architectures and Urban Screens
Berlin, October / November 2008

The MEDIAFACADE FESTIVAL BERLIN 2008 builds on the successful international Mediaarchitecture Conference held in London in 2007. This festival will explore the integration of social media and images into façade structures as communicative element and its effect on urban space. It will be the beginning of a long-term urban screens network with the aim to coordinate a creative program for architectural digital surfaces in Berlin.

The city of Oslo is an interface, a space for social interaction and cultural diversity. The comparably small size of the city centre creates a dense urban situation in which housing and working go closely together. Large parts of the city centre seem to be finished, but with the new development of the harbour site Oslo will get a new face. Changes also happen slowly and less visible such as residential movements from one district to the other which are caused by appreciations of real estates. However Oslo offers a rather laid back urban environment with a lot of street life.

http://oslo.urban-interface.net