Play de Lune: SMARTlab & @Lab with the Cybersalon Collaborative Conference

On Gaming, Media and Technological Art Forms

Venues: SMARTlab, Cochrane Theatre, Dana Gallery ( Science Museum ), ICA

4-8/9 th JULy 2005-04-09 London

Planned contributions:

Keynote Panel- including the Directors of the Events (Monica and all) & Dr Lizbeth Goodman, Professor Katie Salen (Parsons, NY), Professor Lev Manovich (UCSanDiego) & Chris Yapp (Microsoft)

SMARTlab panels on

Panel 1: Gender and Gaming: participants- chaired by Katie Salen with Mary Flanagan (SMARTlab/Hunter NY), Celia Pearce (SMARTlab/UCIrvine), Emma Westecott (Gamelab Sweden), Dr Katherine Milton (@Lab, OU), Dr Angus Carlyle (LCC)

Panel 2: Sybersociality/traversing the online world in theory and practice: chaired by Lev Manovich participants- Sara Diamond, Sher Doruff, Anne Nigten (SMARTlab/V2w Lab Rotterdam), Patricia Austin (CSM), Axel Vogelsang (SMARTlab)

Presentations on Sybersociality: visual portraits of a cyberculture with video link-by Celia Pearce and Katherine Milton

Panel 3: Wearables that real people might really WEAR: chaired by Dr Lizbeth Goodman with Dr Jenny Tiltoson (CSM- inventor of the smartsecondskin), the Bodkin Design Team, Gayil Nalls (olfactory artist), Jacki Morie (USC/.ICT), Dr Susan Kozel (Simon Fraser/Vancouver), and the UCD Wearables Group in collaboration with the SafetyNET project team

Panel 4: New Media Arts Futures, chaired by Heide Hallegboing ( Cologne Media Lab) with Doug Sery (editor, Leonardo- MIT Press) + Katz Keily (Btween Fest) + Huw Williams (BBC) + Alex Sumner (Hutch 3g) + Cybersalon GALS presenting

Live Music/Interaction Jam- Streetscalledhome- by SMARTlab with KILA and the BBC

VR World Showcase: Jacki Morie- work in progress towards Memory Stairs- unreal walkthrough with head-mounted display

Keyworx stream from webcams internationally- Sher Doruff et al

Gallery Show by interactive artists: Taey Kim, Jana Riedel, Jo Gell, Cassandra St Louis, Mary Flanagan, Chris Hales, et al

Also Ludica gamegirls group to do a show – a feminist/women’s game collective (based in L.A. , running through SMARTlab) exploring, experimenting with and promoting female oriented play activities

Ludica to do a week-long installation Atellier- a space for people to make games during the event – in the DANA Or ICA