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Sunday, 30 September 2007
This years conference on the Communications in the 21st Century was on convergence. Abstracts of the presentations as well as the pre-proceedings volume is available from the conference website. The pre-proceedings contains the text version of my presentation From Locative Information to Urban Knowledge.

Locative Media Summer Conference - 3-5. September 2007

Friday, 28 September 2007
After last year's "Geocode of Media" the research project Media Upheavals organised the summer(autumn) conference "Locative Media". This time I got the chance to present a paper about how we know to what measure a specific type of information is 'locative' or that is to say embedded into urban space. The conference website contains not only program but also most abstracts of the papers.
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Digital Cities 5 - June 2007 - nr. 1.

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

I will join the Digital Cities 5 workshop at the 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies at Michigan State University. The workshop is about Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments.

Short abstract of my presentation Visual Pattern of Locative Urban Knowledge:
Recent research on mobile communication suggests that, while networked ICT devices make community formation and the flow of knowledge independent of geographical space, the knowledge of a primarily practical nature mediated by mobile communication remains location-sensitive. The latter is referred to as locative knowledge. However, very little is known about how we can determine the grade of locativity of a given piece of information. I will suggest that location-sensitivity can be detected through looking at dynamics of visual pattern of practical urban knowledge. In our days maps of geotagging and spatial annotation systems visualize traces of urban communication. I will outline the role of the expert eye for interpreting the emerging pattern and reflect on the inherently visual nature of examining complex self-organizing systems. If examined in the suggested way, urban maps of spatial annotation systems not only serve navigational tasks but in the short term become tools for determining what locative knowledge is and for detecting which domains of urban life demand location based services and information.

Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence

Tuesday, 27 March 2007

Abstract for the 2007 Budapest Mobile Communication Conference Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence.

From Locative Information to Locative Knowledge - The Map as Context
Sometimes the body knows, sometimes the world knows - as Berry Smith noted in his paper about the ecological approach to mobile communication and knowledge production in the 2003 mobile communication volume Mobile Learning. Humans leave traces in the environment by creating, distributing and manipulating information through communication technologies. Theese traces are infromation - whether in the form of messages or in form of change of condition caused by human action - which turns into knowledge if contexualized. Using proper representations of urban space can be utilized as context for practical knowledge.

With the use of mobile phones, handhelds, implemented chips and sensors, the networks of digital content and services become organic part of our environment. Experiencing and using geographical space is the function of virtual space as much as time- and geotagged digital documents are connected to physical space: this indicates the complete convergence of virtual and physical space. Maps serving todays needs are not only representations of knowledge of space but are representations of knowledge in space. In my paper I am going to examine representational strategies for mobile practical knowledge focusing on the topologic and/or topographic dimensions of maps of digital locative information.

conference "mapping anthropotechnical spaces"

Friday, 23 February 2007

Berlin, Februar 21-23. 2007. - Conference organised by the Institute for Philosophy at the Freie Universität. I joined this relly exciting conference as audience.

http://www.expolar.de/mapping

A short synopsis:
Our environment is - often invisibly - populated by chips and software: check-in systems, handhelds, mobiles, cameras, smart furniture, etc. Through the use of these technologies virtual and physical space can not be thought of seperately anymore. We live and experience anthropotechnical space. If we want to understand and influence these trend, we have to turn space tangible, operationalizable, navigable - we have to map its connections and mechanism.

Involved disciplines: informatics, social sciences, architecture, cartography, media studies, philosophy.
Keywords: Mapping, Locative Media, Visualization, Ubiquitous Computing, CodeSpace, SmartRooms.

My Hungarian conference report is available in the INFINIT newsletter of the BME-UNESCO Information Society Research Institute (ITTK)

Maps as Tools of Our Thinking

Friday, 15 December 2006
The hungarian version of my paper with the title "Maps as Tools of Our Thinking" submitted for the next volume of the mobile communication research series in Budapest was accepted. The paper suggests that maps of spatial annotation systems like denCity or Google Earth are tools which enable the interpretation of practical mobile knowledge. The text will be published in English and Hungarian language in Spring 2007. Click more to see the English and Hungarian abstract...
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Landkarten als Werkzeuge unseres Denkens

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
My paper Landkarten als Werkzeuge unseres Denkens was accepted by the editor team of "Die Welt als Bild" (The Wolrd as an Image). The text is based on a presentation I gave at the workshop Junges Forum für Bildwissenschaft I 2006 in Berlin. The volume will be presented March 22th 2007 at the Wissenschaftszentrum am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin. Click on read more to see a German abstract...
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MobCom workshop in Dunabogdány

Saturday, 17 June 2006
Today the authors of the next Mobile Communication volume met for a workshop in Dunabogdány, Hungary to exchange about their drafts. See the past volumes here.

Junges Forum für Bildwissenschaft 2006

Thursday, 20 April 2006

Von 30.-31. März fand in Berlin das Junge Forum für Bildwissenschaft 2006 statt, unter der Betreuung der Arbeitsgruppe Welt als Bild der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Ziel war, unter jungen Forschern erste prinzipielle Richtlinien, methodologische Leitfaden für die Bildwissenschaft auszumachen - oder vielmehr, zu sehen, ob welche auszumachen sind. Mehr in dem sehr übersichtlichen, und gut gelungenen Bericht von Sven Behrisch.

Emergent City Action Group

Monday, 13 March 2006

How do new patterns of urban communication emerge?
How does information relate to urban space?

The Emergent City Action Group in Budapest has launched an applied research project to find out. The fields covered by the team members are: Biology, Physics, Computer Science, Sociology, Psychology Philosophy, Media, Design. Read more about ECA and the BlueSpot pilot project...