GO! This is when I wish I could “apparate” and feel like squeezed down a rubber tube! Surely, you may ask where is the digital nomad in all this… but street life and culture has always fascinated me! I recall looking for Miss Tic’s stencil-graffitis in Paris. The artist was marking a territory, in a post-Situationist mode, leaving traces when drifting… Get inspired by Rue au Grand Palais, and if you happen to go, moblog or so… let me know :)

Novaplanet tells us (article) that “Pour l’évènement, le ministère de la Culture a demandé à Radio Nova et Générations 88.2 de participer à la programmation du week-end. La mise en place est plutôt impressionnante, avec une scène de 14 m sur 14, six murs de graf, une rampe pour skaters et affiliés, un dancefloor de 900 mètres carrés, une arène pour les B-boys, un terrain de basket-ball, un terrain de hand-ball, deux écrans géants, le tout disposé sur la longueur d’un Palais transformé en rue.”

Post Scriptum: my favorite Miss Tic’ s (from the Miss Tic’s website, photo by Raoul)

Architecture and Situated Technologies…:

“A 3-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore the emerging role of “situated” technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metapolis.

Since the late 1980s, computer scientists and engineers have been researching ways of embedding computational intelligence into the built environment. Looking beyond the model of personal computing, which placed the computer in the foreground of our attention, “ubiquitous” computing takes into account the social dimension of human environments and allows computers themselves to vanish into the background. No longer solely virtual, human interaction with computers becomes socially integrated and spatially contingent as everyday objects and spaces are linked through networked computing.”

Test_Lab presents FLESHING OUT Wearable Interfaces, Smart Materials, and Living Fabrics (art project realized by V2_Lab) | 9-10 Nov 2006

The seminar… “brings together leading and critical initiatives in the field of wearable technology and smart materials and presents them to a broad audience of artists, designers, scientists, and students from a variety of disciplines. The seminar takes place on Thursday 9th of November at V2_ in Rotterdam. The seminar is part of V2_’s Test_Lab events series.” Check it out!!

Also while hyperlinking… found: Mobile Habit Talkshop