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ARCADIAN VIRTUALITY:
a one day i3 Workshop
on Ecological Information Spaces
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE I3 SPRING DAYS '99
March 7-10 1999
Sitges, (near Barcelona) Spain
http://www.dfki.de/imedia/workshops/i3-spring99/w4-info.html
Preliminary Call for Submissions
Organisers:
Alan Munro, Persona project
Napier University, Scotland
Andrew McGrath,
BT Labs,
Suffolk, England
THEME
We are entering the biological age. Our leading technologies are
biochemical, our sympathies are moving towards organic products and our
relationship with nature is becoming more complex; one of custodian rather
than exploiter, part of the system rather than detached from it. This
profound change in our perception of the world and our place in it could
change the nature of the systems we build to make sense of our information
rich society, and the work we do.
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,
we must ask ourselves:-
- what are the affordances and concepts that Nature can give us to build
these Arcadian Interfaces?.
- 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?
These Arcadian spaces would be where we might tend our information,
enjoying the liberty of both control and serendipity, the fertile, the
unexpected, the infinitely variable, the joy of creation, the simple
pleasure of building and inhabiting with others an holistic, information
laden, social environment.
WHO CAN ATTEND
The workshop is open to all in the i3 community and also those outwith it:-
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. The workshop will probably number 20 but not more than 30.
Note that this workshop is open to non-traditional attendees and it is
hoped that the workshop will not run on 'traditional' lines. Nevertheless
we wish it to be of the highest quality.
PUBLICATION
Papers generated by the workshop will be published as a technical report in
the first instance.
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
o video tape
Please send submissions to:-
Alan Munro,
Napier University
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Andrew McGrath
BT Labs
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Participants will be selected from these materials by a the organisers and
a programme committee. We will announce the members of this shortly.
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