“NODE.London [Networked, Open, Distributed, Events. London] is committed to building the infrastructure and raising the visibility of media arts practice in London.”
Some events and links that I am curious of:
Body Data Space “b>d>s will host two evenings of network and exchange on 6th March and 13th March examining the cross overs between body reactive interfaces, large screen displays and public/performative interventions as part of Node.London in March 06.”
The Strangers With Angelic Faces exhibit at the Space Studio “What does it mean to be a Stranger? The term constitutes such a broad area of life in modern society. Alien migrants penetrate borders, travellers render maps meaningless, the homeless who make the street their own, bizarre subcultures that make city life so dynamic.”
Day to Day Data “A collection of artist who collect, list database, and absurdly analyse the data of everyday life.”
If you are in London for Spring Break, check it out… and if you already did check these out, let me know!

Presentation of my research in Antoine Picon’s Digital Culture Space and Society course at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

http://www.synesthesie.com/mobilites/

Extrait: “Mobilisation pour une multiplicité de mobilités :: Dans notre monde actuel, impermanent, instable, certains artistes produisent des pièces insaisissables qui résistent aux leurres de l’aliénante fantaisie, et nous ancrent dans le flux continu du présent. Aujourd’hui, il est demandé à tout être humain de se mettre en adéquation avec le changement, d’être ouvert en permanence à de possibles nouvelles exigences, de transformer une situation de crise individuelle personnelle ou sociale en opportunité de progrès, de puiser dans ses ressources propres pour s’adapter, se transformer et être apte à suivre le mouvement généralisé. Puisqu’aucun avenir ne semble pouvoir s’inventer en dehors de la mondialisation, la mobilité est devenue un impératif sociétal. Nous n’avons pas voulu avec le cycle Transimages faire l’apologie de l’uniformisation mais au contraire offrir au débat les complexifications culturelles, sociétales, impliquées par le processus actuel d’interactions globales.” (auteur: Anne-Marie Morice)

Look at the line… people not using the automat, and the signage (replacing architecture?)

Signage placed at the begining of the line to the counters (with physical interaction). At the time of the moblog, none was using the automat!

Check Stamps : attacher des messages à des lieux via votre mobile by Hubert Guillaud (via Internet Actu), 14/03/2006: attach messages to places you like ; a project that makes me think of socialight… And read Se repérer depuis un téléphone-appareil photo also by Hubert Guillaud (via Internet Actu), 14/03/2006: take a picture of a monument with your cell phone, and get the detailed information about it!

Be critical about the digital :) Yesterday Adam Greenfield gave a lecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design! Folks from MIT came as well, so we had a rather good turn out!

This was my text of introduction:
I have met Adam Greenfield at the Digital Civilization Forum 2005; the Digital Civilization Forum was “dedicated to the future of the digital revolution and designed to evaluate its social, cultural, and economic impacts”; it was held in Bordeaux, one of the best French wine regions. Adam had done a lot of travel, worked internationally and, was then coming from conferences in Tokyo and Berlin… Yet, what intrigued me most about him was his complete understanding of the structure, Big Brother and Co, and his very situationistic ability to subvert it. And, while I was sipping my wine, it occurred to me that I had never understood the word cyberpunk before (So I guess now, I am very proud to have a cyberpunk friend)… And while I was still sipping my wine, he had to leave to New York City to finish his book: EVERYWARE: the Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing that he will now be introducing to you. Please welcome Adam Greenfield!

The event was sponsored by Critical Digital: Critical Digital fosters a dialogue about digital media, digital technology and design. Challenging contemporary discourse of digitality through symposiums, competitions, publications and conferences, the intention of Critical Digital is to offer a forum of critique of current trends and inquiry within contemporary digital culture.