[ARENA] (fwd) CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS - URBAN SCREENS 08 CONFERENCE - deadline May 31

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Call for Poster Presentations - Urban Screens Melbourne 08

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Urban Screens Melbourne 08
Conference "mobile publics" 3 - 5 October 2008
Multimedia exhibition 3 - 8 October 2008
www.urbanscreens08.net

EXTENDED Deadline for submission: 31st May 2008

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Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking  
international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of  
worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital  
infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the  
official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and  
will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne.  
Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented  
multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED  
screen complemented with other digital elements.


CALL FOR POSTERS ********************

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is currently looking for researches to  
present posters on the latest development in the interdisciplinary  
field of Urban Screens. The poster presentations will be integrated  
in the overall Urban Screens Melbourne 08 event structure. You will  
be able to showcase your project to a public audience and  
professionals and stakeholders with distinctive interests in media  
and public space, in attendance at our conference "USM08 -Mobile  
Publics".
<http://www.urbanscreens08.net/conference-2008>http:// 
www.urbanscreens08.net/conference-2008

The poster presentations provide a forum for authors to present their  
work in an informal and interactive setting. To bridge the Conference  
and the Multimedia Exhibition we are looking for proposals for  
posters and experimental presentations in public space. All accepted  
posters will be displayed in an exhibition in the public Atrium  
precinct, next to the conference hall, viewable for all conference  
attendees and the general public. The conference audience will be  
gathering around the A1 posters during the poster session to engage  
with the author.

Urban Screens 08 posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late- 
breaking results of ongoing research projects; for drawing important  
conclusions from practical experiments; for giving an introduction to  
innovative works or new practical design applications, and reporting  
on cutting edge technologies and content management systems currently  
in development.

EXPERIMENTAL SKYPE SESSIONS

Besides the poster exhibition, eight submissions will be additionally  
shown in an experimental presentation on the four outdoor I-sites  
around Federation Square. These I-sites offer authors from abroad the  
possibility to present remotely via scheduled Skype sessions whilst  
the audience gathers in small groups around the terminals. A time  
schedule for these digital presentations of 15 minutes will be placed  
on the chosen posters of the exhibition.

This I-hub presentation should be delivered using Adobe Flash or  
Powerpoint. For remote presentations, the portrait format screen will  
be split in two half sections, the top one for the presentation, the  
other for the life image of the presenter. You will be able to  
remotely control the presentation.


MAIN CRITERIA

Posters are aimed at presenting the latest development in this  
interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. We are open to a wide range  
of issues around this idea about the integration of digital moving  
images in outdoor public spaces and using this new integrated digital  
layer of the city for contributing to a lively urban society.

For more information about Urban Screens and range of topics see:  
www.urbanscreens.org
For more information about Urban Screens Melbourne 08 see:  
www.urbanscreens08.net


EVENT COMMITTEE
Posters will be reviewed by the Event Committee, announced on the  
website.


PRACTICAL

Applications are due (extended deadline):    May 31st 2008
Poster design and presentation due:    September 15th 2008

For submissions please use the application form provided under  
www.urbanscreens08.net/call

- One author per accepted poster can attend the conference, for free  
of charge, excluding travel and lodging expenses
- Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page  
summary for publication of the best selected posters in the  
conference proceedings
- Selected submissions will also be published on-line on the  
International Urban Screens Association website: www.urbanscreens.net
- The size of the exhibition poster is portrait A1
- A broad guideline for the poster design and the I-hub presentations  
will be announced after the selection process
- The final poster design must be submitted by September 15th for  
printout
- Authors presenting remotely, via Skype will be contacted for a test  
after September 15th


APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL

Please have a look at the complete calls and the official online  
submission forms for application,  available at:
<http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects>http:// 
www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects


CONTACT

exhibition  urbanscreens.net  (please use the subject "USM08 -  
question concerning the CALL")


MAYOR EVENT SPONSORS

The event is brought to you by the International Urban Screens  
Association.
www.urbanscreens.net

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through  
the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory  
body. www.australiacouncil.gov.au

Fed Square Pty Ltd - www.federationsquare.com
Barco 'visibly yours' - www.barco.com
Melbourne University - www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au
Film Victoria - <http://film.vic.gov.au>http://film.vic.gov.au
Circus - www.circusexp.com
Pinnacle 'Production Services' - www.pinnacleps.com

Media Partner:
ARS HyperMedia - www.simultaneita.net
australian-architects - www.australian-architects.com



Best regards,
Mirjam Struppek
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URBAN SCREENS MELBOURNE 08
www.urbanscreens08.net
Artistic Director

International Urban Screens Association
www.urbanscreens.net
Rheinsberger Str. 68
D-10115 Berlin