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Subject:

CFP i3 WORKSHOP- ARCADIAN VIRTUALITY

From:

Alan Munro <[log in to unmask]>

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Alan Munro <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Tue, 05 Jan 1999 15:37:58 +0000

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Please circulate to all colleagues who may be interested. 

		ARCADIAN VIRTUALITY:
		a one day i3 Workshop
	 on Ecological Information Spaces
		http://www.sics.se/arcadia

 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE I3 SPRING DAYS '99
		 March 7-10 1999   
	Sitges, (near Barcelona) Spain
http://www.dfki.de/imedia/workshops/i3-spring99/

	PRELIMINARY CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Organisers:
Alan Munro, Persona project
Napier University, Edinburgh, 
Scotland

Andrew McGrath, 
BT Labs, Suffolk, 
England


THEME

We are entering the biological age. Our leading technologies are
biochemical, our sympathies are moving towards products and technologies
more in balance with 'nature', and our relationship with nature is becoming
more complex; one of custodian rather than exploiter, part of the system
rather than detached from it. We are beginning to understand that when we
tamper with ecologies, our actions can have widespread and unforseen
concequences far beyond what we might think. 

This profound change in our perception of the world and our place in it is
beginning to be reflected in some of the information systems we are
building, to make sense of our information rich society and aid the work we
do, and how we connect with others. It may be that in the future our
information spaces, whether virtual or somehow embodied, will become more
like landscapes or gardens, where we interact with other people, as well as
autonomous and semi autonomous entities, as part of a complex ecology which
grows and changes, perhaps with a physics and biology of its own. 

The garden ("Arcadia") has for a long time been a powerful image in eastern
and western culture; maybe it is time for its revival as a guiding analogy
in our construction of information worlds. We can start to take note of the
concepts of nature and apply them to the virtual and embodied spaces in
which we might work in the future. However, some questions we might raise
are:-

-	what are the affordances and concepts that Nature can give us to build
	these Arcadian Interfaces?. 

-	What happens to our views of work and organisations and new technologies
	when we think of them in this way?

-	What if we imagined the ecology of the space was governed by laws of 
	balance? Nature is an ecology of competing entities, however, 
	there is an equilibrium inherent in these laws that create places and 
	spaces that are robustly balanced. 
 
-	What if the our ability to deal with information was similarly balanced
	against that of the agents that bring the information to us? 

WHO CAN ATTEND

The workshop is open to:- computer scientists, artists, designers,
cyberneticists, philosophers, sociologists, biologists, architects whether
of the built environment or landscape, and of course those who work with
gardens and other types of arcadian space. It is open to all in the i3
community and outwith it. The workshop will probably number 20 but not more
than 30. 

PUBLICATION

Papers generated by discussion and work in the workshop will be published
as a technical report in the first instance. We are exploring opportunities
for further substantial publication. 

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Entry will be by 
o	position paper (2-3 page abstract)
o	software demo (2-3 page abstract or video tape describing software)
o	portfolio
o	example of work

IMPORTANT DATES

-  Indication of interest in participation: PLEASE SEND ASAP!
-  Submission of Abstracts: February 2nd 1999
-  Notification of authors: February 15th 1999
-  Workshop: March 9th or 10th 1999; exact date to be determined


ADDRESS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND SUBMISSIONS:


Please email submissions/ early indications of interest to:-

Alan Munro, 
Napier University
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and

Andrew McGrath
BT Labs
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Participants will be selected from these materials by the organisers and a
programme committee. We will announce the members of this shortly. 




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