ECA research seminar series
'Hello, where are you?':
Mobile Technologies and the Creation of a Memory Space
Henrik Ekeus: University of Edinburgh
It is easy to see how mobile telephony has changed the way we communicate and interact with each other. With the recent spread of technologies such as GPS and Mobile Internet, this change is continuing, with the potential of modifying our experience of geographical and social space. The interoperability of various datasources and services allow us to easily sculpt new forms of information; we can 'mash-up' our social networks with GPS devices and at a glance see where our friends (and enemies) are,
while on the move ourselves.
Meanwhile digital content, which previously seemed to only 'exist' on the desktop, has now gone beyond the shell of the computer and is being embedded into the very fabric of our landscape. A rapidly increasing mass of temporally and geographically tagged content is arising around us, forming a kind of 'Memory Space' of human activity.
Wednesday 21 January 2009, 4.30-5.30 pm
edinburgh college of art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF
Hunter lecture theatre (O17), Hunter Building
Simon Biggs
Research Professor
edinburgh college of art
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