Locative arts in which artists experiment with location aware devices has been a focus at Futuresonic and the Social Technologies Summit for many years, since we helped shape the field in 2003, leading to Mobile Connections (2004) and my own artwork on pervasive surveillance Loca: Set To Discoverable (2006).
On 16 May 2009 Andrea Polli interviewed Jonah Brucker-Cohen at Futuresonic 2009.
We live in a user generated age, with the huge uptake in social media, and the rise of new kinds of participatory media.
In Berlin during July I was invited to take part in a discussion on art and ecology, with Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the German Federal Cultural Foundation, who are looking to develop an art and climate change strategy for Germany.
Japan Foundation has posted a report (in english) on Sendai Creative Forum 2009 in Japan on March 23, 2009.
I was happy to be invited to be the only international speaker at Sendai Creative Forum 2009 by the Japan Foundation, Sendai City and the Miyagi Museum of Art.
View original announcement (in japanese).
The theme was “Crossing Creative Powers – Local
Yesterday I was an invited participant in a workshop in Berlin on the future of international festivals on media art and digital culture. It was hosted by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) to reflect on the present position and the future of Berlin’s Transmediale Festival for Art and Digital Culture.
“We have invited
