[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo co-sponsored lecture and workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina

[Leonardo/ISAST]

To: Leonardo Network
From: Ricardo Dal Farra

As part of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations, we are pleased to 
bring to your attention:

Electronic Arts Experimenting and Research Centre
National University of Tres de Febrero (CEIArtE -- UNTreF)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Co-sponsored by Leonardo
 
http://170.210.60.208/sitio_ceiarte/?q=node/147
 
Research and Arts
Lecture and workshop series 2007-2008
 
"Participatory Design of Interactive Games for Cellphones, Public Spaces 
and Extreme User Scenarios"
David McIntosh
October 23-30, 2007
 
The cell phone has become the most popular and widespread medium of 
communication in the world and is producing profound changes in the way 
in which we experience, occupy and move through physical and public 
space. On one hand, constant mobile access to virtual space via the cell 
phone enhances individual subjectivity while converting the physical 
space we find ourselves in into a form of "nowhere." On the other hand, 
cell phone services connect the deterritorialized individual user to a 
global virtual network of commercial audiovisual products for 
consumption, another form of "nowhere that is paradoxically everywhere 
in the world. In this context, the needs and desires of specific located 
and embodied user groups must be taken as crucial elements in any 
participatory design process for new cell phone uses, taking into 
account not only conventional uses, but also extreme use scenarios, 
including people with memory loss, loss of sight and loss of mobility. 
This new and developing dynamic between physical/ corporeal/public/local 
space and mobile/virtual/global space underpins David McIntosh's recent 
research and creation work at the Ontario College of Art & Design, 
Toronto, Canada.
 
In this workshop, McIntosh will present his experiences with the design 
of the interactive cell phone game "The Haunting," which combines the 
narrative logic of the land with the mobile locative interactive 
potential of the cell phone and with the collective actions of a group 
of players. He will also present a series of other design approaches to 
artistic and social uses of cell phone networks. Participants in the 
workshop will develop an understanding of the underlying technologies 
for mobile interaction design, including GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi. 
Workshop participants will employ this framework for cell phone 
interaction design to identify potential user groups in their immediate 
local context. In this design process, we will examine a series of cell 
phone interaction design issues including: writing and designing for 
specific physical spaces taking into account the geographical and 
historical specificities of the site of interaction; constructing 
coherent narrative logic across a range of technological devices; 
interaction design that promotes user experimentation and innovation; 
and the re-imagination, re-invention and re-metaphorization of the cell 
phone for innovative applications.

More information about CEIArtE -- UNTreF: http://www.ceiarte.untref.edu.ar/

More information about Leonardo's 40th anniversary celebrations: 
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events/leo40.html

Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Donations are 
tax-deductible in the U.S. To learn more about Leonardo/ISAST's 
projects, programs and activities, visit http://leonardo.info


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