Fwd: MiT SENSEable Cities Lab Exhibit Opening & City Centered Festival Weekend

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From: "Gray Area Foundation for the Arts" <in...@gaffta.org>
Date: June 8, 2010 10:01:48 AM PDT
To: "" <vivia.e...@gmail.com>
Subject: MiT SENSEable Cities Lab Exhibit Opening & City Centered Festival Weekend
Reply-To: "Gray Area Foundation for the Arts" <in...@gaffta.org>

		MiT SENSEable Cities Lab Exhibit Opening & City Centered Festival We are extremely excited to announce "MiT's SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures" Opening Reception Friday, June 11th 2010 | 7:00pm-10:00pm More info: here! Invite your friends on Facebook Exhibition Description: Since 2003, MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory has been investigating how emerging digital technologies can be employed to make cities more livable, sustainable and efficient. We recognize that the digital revolution has lent our cities a new layer of functionality and that now is the time to explore how sensors, cellphones, micro-controllers and networks of other handheld devices can be used to more effectively manage city infrastructure, optimize transportation, analyze our environmental impact and foster new communities. In this, the first retrospective of the lab's work, we have chosen 15 past projects that represent the potentials of this new world of pervasive computing. A collection of works from MoMA, Venice Biennale, Expo 2008, and Design Museum Barcelona. The work ranges from a pollution-sensing e-bike, to tiny sensors that can detect the final journey of trash in the waste removal system, and from real time visualizations of calling patterns during Obama's Inaugural speech to a new smart building from the London 2012 Olympics. SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures commences with a series of public events, June 11th- 13th, with related programming running through August 11th. Projects: future NENEL / 2010 flyfire / 2010 the cloud / 2009 AIDA / 2009 the copenhagen wheel / 2009 trash track / 2009 currentcity /2009 spacebook / 2009 eyestop /2009 obama | one people / 2009 world’s eyes / 2009 real time copenhagen / 2008 digital water pavilion /2008 NYTE / 2008 The wireless City /2007 wikicity rome / 2007 wikiCity / 2007 venice biennale / 2006 real time rome /2006 zaragoza bus stop / 2006 tsunami_safe(r) houses / 2005 mobile Landscape Graz / 2005 iSPOTS / 2005 Raster Cities /2005 A.C. Milan / 2004 Sandscape / 2004 Illuminating Clay / 2004 Phoxelspace / 2004 Programmable Window / 2004 Cannes Reloaded /2004 Contributors: Carlo Ratti / Director Assaf biderman / Associate Director Current: Filippo Dal Fiore, Rex Britter, Xiaoji Chen, Carnaven Chiu, Luigi Farrauto, E Roon Kang, Mauro Martino, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Francisco Pereira, Francesco Calabrese, Cesar Harada, Jennifer Dunnam, Christine Outram , Caitlin Zacharias, Sey Min, Kristian Kloeckl, David Lee, Clio Andris, Stephen Miles, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Lindsey Hoshaw, & Mahsan Mohsenin Past: Avid Boustani, William Mitchell, Dennis Frenchman, Martin Ramos, Saro Getzoyan, Bo Zhu, Yao Wang, Ben Piper, Chester Tse, Enrico Costanza, Justin Moe, Daniel Berry, Andrea Mattiello, Eugenio Morello, Jia Lou, Daniel A Gutierrez, Walter Nicoolino, Kenny Verbeeck, Alyson Liss, Lucie Boyce Flather, James Patten, Kenneth Namkung, Guy Hoffman, Sarah Dunbar, Saba Ghole , Daniel Gutierrez , Sonya Huang, Sriram Krishnan, Justin Moe, Najeeb Marc Tarazi, Andres Sevtsuk, Burak Arikan, James Patten, Bernd Resch, Fabien Girardin, Margaret Ellen, Stjerne Thomsen, Yaniv Ophir, Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Michael Lin, Fabien Girardin, David Lu, Stephen Miles, German W Aparicio Jr., Fabio Pinelli, Pedro Correia, Shaocong Zhou, Andrea Cassi, Andrea Vaccari, Paula Echeverri, Myshkin Ingawale, Ari Kardasis, Eugenio Morello, Musstanser Tinauli, Lewis Girod, Kevin Nattinger, Alan Anderson, Chris Chung, Lorenzo Davolli, Kathryn Dineen, Natalia Duque Ciceri, Samantha Earl, Sarabjit Kaur, Sarah Neilson, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Jill Passano, Elizabeth Ramaccia, Renato Rinaldi, Francisca Rojas, Louis Sirota, Malima Wolf, Armin Linke, Tim Gutowski, Euro Beinat, Aaron Koblin, Bartosz Hawelka, & Alex Haw. Press inquiries, general questions and suggestions are welcome. "City Centered Festival: a festival of locative media and urban community" City Centered is a free, three-day festival of locative media and urban community in San Francisco. The event includes demonstrations and installations in the Tenderloin district, a symposium in the Mission district and community training workshops. All events are free and open to the public. We do request that you register for the symposium here. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Friday, June 11 1:00pm – 5:00pm Symposium: Sensing the city – Data visualization and urban life KQED, 2601 Mariposa St. SF CA City Centered begins with a gathering of data visualization, mapping and tracking projects including installations, online maps and projected art developed with research and collaborations with neighborhoods organizations. These projects can be experienced in the Tenderloin on Sunday, June 13. 7:30pm – 10:00pm Opening event at GAFFTA (Gray Area Foundation for the Arts), 55 Taylor St, SF CA featuring Exploring Urban Futures , an exhibition by MIT's SENSEable Cities Lab. Saturday, June 12 9:00am – 5:00pm Symposium: Location, Politics and Community KQED, 2601 Mariposa St. SF CA Keynote by Joel Slayton, Director of ZER01 SJ Bienniel followed by morning panels on Location as Political and afternoon panels on Location and Community. Sunday, June 13 10:00am – 4:00pm Public walking tours of Citycentered projects Experience the Tenderloin community through wireless technologies, the Internet and a walks led by artists and community members. Walks will start at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (55 Taylor Street). They will visit the Luggage Store Gallery (1007 Market Street), the Tenderloin Tech Lab (150 Golden Gate), the Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA (387 Golden Gate) and the 900 block of O'Farrell Street. Saturday, June 19 Community education workshops KQED, 2601 Mariposa St. SF CA Free and open to the public. Please register here . All workshops begin at 10am. For more information and event details, contact citycentered [at] gaffta.org Be a part of GAFFTA's mission of building social consciousness through digital culture by attending or participating in any of our events, promotions and programs. By purchasing a ticket, enrolling in a workshop, becoming a member or volunteering your time, you will be a direct stakeholder in our shared vision of a creating a new home for multidisciplinary creative exchange in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Sent from Gray Area Foundation for the Arts 55 Taylor St. San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 843-1423 info (at) gaffta (dot) org gaffta.org
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