I worked with Stefania on the EU COST Action on Sonic Interaction Design and this sounds like a very interesting post.

This is for my German readers, though there are images and a video for English readers to enjoy.

I was so happy to see her – and her new book ‘The World in Your Hand. On the Everyday Global Culture of the Mobile Phone’! This book came out of an exhibition is Dresden.

You can order her  book  here.

This is more information about this edited volume:

Over the past decades, almost no other technological innovation has been able to find such widespread dissemination so easily, or so rapidly, nor take such all-embracing possession of our daily lives, as the portable telephone. As camera, Walkman, organizer, navigating device, and post box for private and business messages, the mobile phone does not only represent a connection to the world for the affluent parts of the planet the cell phone conquers public urban spaces as well commercial ones and dissolves previous borders between them. Its use causes fundamental shifts in cultural codes and intervenes in social textures. Mit Beiträgen aus Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften, Philosophie, Soziologie und Kunst / With essays from the fields of cultural and media studies,philosophy, sociology and art: Olaf Arndt, Günter Burkart,Kenichi Fujimoto, Dominic Johnson,Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, Sadie Plant,Paul Feigelfeld & Jan Wenzel, Miya Yoshida

The Opening of the Exhibition on Sonic Interaction Design in Oslo. Was great to see so many people there!
The exhibtion is curated by Trond Lossius and Frauke Behrendt, and hosted by at the Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine. It’s open from May 29 – August 21 2011.Please let me know if you go!

The official photos are coming up soon, these are just mine.

Hope to see some of you there – let me know if you are around!

The session includes:

9.00 Keynote: Frauke Behrendt

– Beyond Mobile Listening: Engaging with Phones, Sounds and Art

10.00 Paper presentation

• Miya Yoshida: Radio Art and negotiations of intimacy
• Anja Kanngieser: A Convivial Politics for Distributed Radio
• Klaus Nielsen: Radio Literature and the (im)material Document
• Kristoffer Jul-Larsen: The Literary Address in Early Norwegian radio

A big thank you to all speakers, performers and chairs – Georgina Born, Atau Tanaka, John Williamson, Steve Symons, Julio D’Escrivan, Rachel O’ Dwyer, Lalya Gaye, Enrique Tomas, Adam Parkinson, Richard Hoadley, Ashley Elsdon, Nick Bryan-Kinns – for making this a great event!

TEMPLATE FOR SUBMISSIONS OF PRESENTATIONS/DEMOS/PERFORMANCES/ETC.

We invite researchers, artists, musicians, designers, businesses, and students to submit their projects by 14th April. Please submit your contribution by filling in the below information and sending it to f.behrendt@gmail.com. Notification of acceptance by 19th April. Thank you!

Full Name:
Email:
Affiliation/Institution/Role:
Type of contribution (delete as appropriate): pecha-kuscha-style short presentations (20 slides for 20 seconds each) (LINK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha), poster presentation, demo, performance, other (please explain)
Title of contribution:
Short description of the contribution (max 300 words):
Relevant URL(s):
Photo(s) of contribution (for use on the event website, please attach as jpg file to your email)
Resources needed (e.g. projector, speakers, outdoor location for demo, time on stage for performance, …):
Any other comments:

Please find more information below and on the website www.anglia.ac.uk/soundslikemobility

I look forward to hearing back from you! It would also be great if you could circulate this email widely. Thank you!

Sounds like Mobility: A Mobile Media, Sound and Music Event

Tuesday 17th May 2011, CoDE: The Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Sitting down motionless, staring at screens, and focusing on the task at hand are becoming much less common than using media on the go, touching and listening to a device, while also being involved in other activities. In mobile media contexts, alternative sensory modalities increasingly replace the largely visual paradigms of the (both physical and virtual) desktop era. This one-day event examines the role of sound in media interactions as an especially pertinent example of our post-desktop world. It features invited speakers, performances, demos, pecha-kuscha-style short presentations and poster presentations. It takes place in Cambridge (UK) and is organised by CoDE: The Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.

There is much more to this than iPods and alert sounds. Interactions between various physical contexts, social networks, mobile bodies and networked devices can be mediated in an almost infinite number of ways by sound – and also though sound. Invited experts and selected projects (see call details below) from a wide range of fields illustrate how designers, artists, researchers, businesses and musicians explore the relationship between mobile media and sound/music.

The projects presented at this event question our dominant visual/screen culture and map out alternative scenarios for interacting with mobile media that take advantage of alternative sensory modalities, especially sonic ones. Sound also serves as a powerful reminder of the temporal aspects of media interactions, complementing the current focus on ‘location’ in relation to mobile media. Mobility does not only play out in space, but also over time: bodies and devices moving though spaces at various speeds, rhythms, and times. This event showcases the role of sound in the negotiation of social and intimate interactions as mediated though layers of located and mobile streams of media.

CALL

We are calling for contributions to this event in the form of pecha-kuscha-style short presentations (20 slides for 20 seconds each) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha), poster presentations, demos and performances. We invite researchers, artists, musicians, businesses, and students to submit their projects using this short template (see below) by 14th April. Notification of acceptance is by 19th April.

PARTICIPATE

Please email f.behrendt@gmail.com. The £10 registration charge covers the entire event including catering. Please get in touch if this charge would prevent you from attending.

PRESENTERS

Atau Tanaka, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/profile/atau.tanaka

Lalya Gaye, http://culturelab.ncl.ac.uk/people/lalya.gaye

Steve Symons (tbc), http://stevesymons.net/aboutme

John Williamson, http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/

Rachel O’ Dwyer, http://www.interferencejournal.com/editorial-board/rachel-o-dwyer

Adam Parkinson, http://culturelab.ncl.ac.uk/people/a.d.parkinson

Frauke Behrendt, http://www.fraukebehrendt.com/

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

10:00 Registration & Coffee
10:30 Welcome
10:45 Presentations, panel
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Poster and demo session, networking
14:30 Presentations, panel
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 networking /pescha kucha/ session
18:30 Performances

Wednesday 18th May 2011 (tbc)
Potential workshop(s) on music mobile phone programming (iPhone, RJ/DJ, Android),  Sonic Interaction Design, sound walks.

COMMUNITY

Here are some links to mobile sound, music & art events and resources:
The Mobile Music Workshop Series (LINK http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/)
Mobile Art && Code (LINK http://artandcode.com/two/)
Sound – space – network exhibition and panel (LINK http://www.gradcam.ie/speaking_matters/audio_broadcast.php)
Mobilesound Blog (LINK http://mobilesound.wordpress.com)
Sonic Interaction Design (LINK http://www.cost-sid.org/)

TEMPLATE FOR SUBMISSIONS OF PRESENTATIONS/DEMOS/PERFORMANCES/ETC.

We invite researchers, artists, designers, musicians, businesses, and students to submit their projects by 14th April. Please submit your contribution by filling in the below information  and sending it to f.behrendt@gmail.com. Notification of acceptance by 19th April. Thank you!

Full Name:
Email:
Affiliation/Institution/Role:
Type of contribution (delete as appropriate): pecha-kuscha-style short presentations (20 slides for 20 seconds each) (LINK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha), poster presentation, demo, performance, other (please explain)
Title of contribution:
Short description of the contribution (max 300 words):
Relevant URL(s):
Photo(s) of contribution (for use on the event website, please attach as jpg file to your email)
Resources needed (e.g. projector, speakers, outdoor location for demo, time on stage for performance, …):
Any other comments:

The program can be found here and includes a keynote by Mimi Sheller on Mobile Art – Locating Mobile Network Cultures. Let me know if anyone is going, I might be tempted…

This is more information from their website:

The symposium will address topics, such as:

• Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices;
• New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social media;
• Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to location-based social networks;
• Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / performance design;
• Civic engagement and political participation through mobile social media, new mapping practices and location-aware technologies;
• Learning and education potentials of mobile and location-based media;

Invited Speakers:
Mimi Sheller (Drexel University, USA), Keynote
Christian Licoppe, Telecom Paristech (France)
Ana Maria Nicolaci-da-Costa (Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil)
Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Australia)See full programme

The Center investigates the notion of networked culture, which we see as one of the
defining characteristics of the contemporary world. The current discourse of
networked cultures and globalization processes often assumes the growing
insignificance of national boundaries and local identities. We argue that the global is
not about to replace the local, but that these structures are being shifted and
reconfigured. We believe that there is a need to further examine the relation between
the local and the global, in order to understand how people are interacting in a
networked world.

Networked interactions permeate our world. We no longer enter the Internet – we
carry it with us. We experience it while moving through physical spaces. Mobile
phones, GPS receivers, and RFID tags are only a few examples of location-aware
mobile technologies that mediate our interaction with networked spaces and the
people in them. And increasingly, our physical location determines the types of
information with which we interact, and the people and things we find around us.
These new kinds of networked interactions manifest in everyday social practices that
are supported by the use of mobile technologies, such as participation in locationbased
mobile games and social networks, engagement with location-based services,
development of mobile annotation projects, and social mapping, just to name a few.
The engagement with these practices has important implications for identity
construction, our sense of privacy, our notions of place and space, civic and political
participation, policy making, as well as cultural production and consumption in
everyday life.

This event will host a group of internationally recognized scholars interested in
exploring how we experience our locally-rooted networked interactions

Organizing committee:

Adriana de Souza e Silva
Bjarki Valtysson
Isabel Froes
Ida Toft (RA, CNC)

They encourage applications from “software developers and artists, as well as all fans of app with creative and innovative applications”.  The deadline is The submission deadline is the 15 May, 2011 MEZ. More info is here.