If you are wondering about the impact of the digitalisation on our cities, if you’re curious about alternative network topologies and want to hear more about the potential of artistic interventions for our urban live you should visit the Urban Media Lounge, a project by Public Art Lab.
Following the afternoon programme “Smart Cities: New (In) Visible Cities“ the Lounge invites experts from the field to host a roundtable to discuss such questions and related projects with you.
If you don’t want to miss it, please RSVP to verena.schwarz@publicartlab.org by Thursday, 30.April, subject line: Urban Media Lounge, including a brief note on the preferred table. Of course you can still move around.
Your hosts are:
· Susa Pop, Public Art Lab. “European Urban Media Network for Connecting Cities. From temporary artistic interventions to a sustainable urban media planning.”
· Sibylle Kubale, Enterprise Europe Network Berlin-Brandenburg. “European programmes for living cities”
· Julian Oliver. “Network topologies as political control toplogies. Case: Newsteek.”
· Khaldoun Al Agha, ECT ICT Lab. “The Citizen Centric model within the Digital Cities: The eco-System”
· Oriana Persico & Salvatore Iaconesi, AOS.
The Lounge will be kicked-off with the presentation of considerable cases like the projects Living Cities (initiator: AOS, Art is Open Source) and the European Urban Media Network for Connecting Cities (initiator: Public Art Lab, 2012 – 2016) and host the launch of the publication Urban Media Cultures (release: April 2012, avedition). Drinks and snacks will be provided. Organised with the kind support of Enterprise Europe Network Berlin-Brandenburg.