Panel 1 -- February 8th at 7 p.m.
in the Bill Bordy Theatre, 216 Tremont Street.
Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel and Chris Salter

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.
architecture.mit.edu/people/bg/cvgoulth.html
www.interactivearchitecture.org/?p=4
www.newitalianblood.com/showg.pl?id=519
loop.ph/twiki/bin/view/Openloop/HyperSurfaceTheory#Aegis
loop.ph/twiki/bin/view/Openloop/HyperSurfaceTheory

Susan Kozel

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.
whisper.iat.sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/~siat/bios/archives/000188.html
www.meshperformance.org/

Chris Salter

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.”
www.clsalter.com
www.sponge.org

Panel 2 -- March 15 at 7 p.m.
in the Bill Bordy Theatre, 216 Tremont Street.
Adam Greenfield, Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media), and Michelle Teran

Adam Greenfield

An information architect and user-experience consultant, Adam Greenfield’s principal concern over the past half-decade has been “the restoration of human users and their needs to a place of rightful centrality in the design of technical systems.” Most often, Greenfield says, complex technical objects are designed without understanding of how people receive, process and act on information, and this is a source of endless frustration on the part of the people who use them. Greenfield feels there has been very little knowledgeable resistance to the idea of ubicomp and the supposed conveniences it will bring. He is the author of Everyware: the dawning age of ubiquitous computing, to be published in March ’06, which he hopes will explain just what Ubicomp is, how it might effect us, and how we can effect its eventual development. Greenfield is principal in the New York City-based design consultancy, Studies and Observations. He was previously lead information architect for the Tokyo office of Razorfish.
www.v-2.org/
www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/001862.html
www.informationdesign.org/special/greenfield_profile.php
www.digital-web.com/articles/adam_greenfield/

Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media)

Preemptive Media “reengineers your thinking about mobile digital technologies imbedded in everyday environments. In live performances and real time actions the PM art, technology and activist collective disturbs, dislodges, and redesigns new media technologies that are often ignored, like the bar codes on driver's licenses or radio frequency information devices used for EZ pass on highways. At the forefront of what is called locative media, Preemptive Media repositions highly specialized technologies within the democratic discourse of low-tech amateurism. PM will focus on their latest project “Zapped” which addresses the mass implementation of RFID and its contribution to the ever growing field of technology-enhanced surveillance practices.
www.preemptivemedia.net/
turbulence.org/Works/swipe/index.html
www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/000105.html
www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/001115.html

Michelle Teran

As a media artist, Michelle Teran explores the interplay between social and technological networks within urban environments and creates performances, installations and online works that are concerned with issues of communication, surveillance, psychogeography, presence, intimacy, social ritual, collaboration and public participation. She was nominated for the Transmediale05 award and received a Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention within the interactive art category for her ongoing performance work "Life: a user's manual". With Canadian artist Jeff Mann she received 2nd prize in the Vida 8.0 Art & Artificial Art International Competition for their ongoing work LiveForm:Telekinetics (LF:TK)
www.ubermatic.org/misha/cv.html
www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/000227.html
www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/000402.html
www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/000479.html
www.lftk.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Telepresence+Picnic