Vortrag: Leo Findeisen - Amplified Cities

The process and aesthetics of how architecture is developed have changed significantly with the arrival of new media tools like CAD or 3D-scanning devices. But how will it be affected by the arrival of the internet? Will the experience of 21st century urban space start online? Two complementary approaches will be presented to allow for discussion.

On the one hand, the presentation will focus on trends in augmented reality devices for navigating urban space and look into their underlying structures, socially and technically.

On the other hand, the talk will outline the NetzNetz project, an alternative funding model for Digital Arts and Cultures whereby the money is distributed by `parliaments of art´, adaptable procedures that allow for the social fine-tuning between different interests and needs in these fields of cultural production to become visible and decidable while staying open and arguably democratic.

Links:
Wikitude - Der Reiseführer am Handy - http://oe1\.orf.at/highlights/136361\.html
Wikitude: Android App With Augmented Reality: Mind Blowing http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/23/wikitude-android-app-with-augmented-reality-mind-blowing/
Wikitude: Philipp Breuss And The Story Behind The Software http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/23/wikitude-philipp-breuss-and-th…

http://netznetz.net/wiki/Hauptseite

LEO FINDEISEN, born 1967, trained as philosopher, since 2002 artistic and scientific collaborator of Prof. Peter Sloterdijk, teaching cultural philosophy and media theoy. Findeisen has participated in the founding of several international collaborative projects such as SeriousPop and TransformingFreedom, which investigate the shared knowledge-space of the next European generation. Findesien has participated São Paulo Biennal (2002), Ars Electronica (2003), Transmediale (2004), the runme.org-Festival (2004) and Documenta Urbana (2007). Findeisen is member of the jury of the Vilém Flusser Theory Awards, of the Advisory Board for Digital Communities of the Ars Electronica, Linz und and member of the online-Jury of the Visual Lead Awards Germany.