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Anne Galloway (Carleton University, CA)
Mistress of Ceremonies for the Social Technologies Summit, Anne is an internationally renowned researcher and writer on mobile technologies, space and culture. Based in the Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, Anne is in the final stages of a PhD dissertation on how artists, engineers, university and corporate researchers work together to bring locative media projects for urban public spaces to life. She applies her interests in politics and ethics to a variety of technosocial concerns, and trains a critical ethnographic lens on everything she encounters.
http://purselipsquarejaw.org
Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK)
Director of Research at Lancaster University's Institute for Cultural
Research, Charlie will set the stage by giving an historical introduction and decoding the many ways that art and technology interface and interlink.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/cultres/staff/gere.php
Steve Dietz (YProductions, USA)
Artistic Director of ZeroOne: the Art and Technology Network, Steve was the Director of ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the
Edge and the ISEA2006 Symposium, which took place in San Jose, California in 2006. He is the former Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where he founded the New Media Initiatives department in 1996, the online art Gallery 9 and digital art study collection. Steve will bring his extensive experience as a curator to our discussions around collaborative work.
http://www.yproductions.com
Giles Lane (Proboscis, UK)
Co-director and founder of Proboscis, a non-profit creative studio based in London, and his understanding of collaborative work is unrivaled. Recent projects such as Snout, Everyday Archaeology and Robotic Feral Public Authoring have explored how to combine environmental sensing with public authoring to gather evidence about local environments and start conversations about action. By combining electronic engineering and software programming with artistic and social activism Proboscis investigates contexts in which emerging technologies may become tools of empowerment for change, at the same time rooting them in everyday life and questioning our reliance on them as objects of consumption.
http://proboscis.org.uk/
Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin, IRE)
A leading researcher in the realm of emerging network technologies, as well as projects which blur the boundary between art and engineering. She is celebrated for combining her solid background in engineering with art, literature, politics and gender studies, as a part of the Disruptive Design Team, a group she has created at Trinity College in Dublin. The focus of their research is to challenge traditional ideas of connectivity, communication and sociability through the creation of installations and applications that subvert traditional uses of mobile technologies and create situations for critical questioning.
http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~ledoyle/
Kristina Anderson (STEIM, NL)
An accomplished researcher and designer of experimental interfaces and conceptual objects ranging from wearable furniture to toys. She is currently an artist in residence at Amsterdam's Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), where she works with what she calls 'naive electronics' or ways of getting children and artists to interact with, and understand, new technologies.
http://www.lockergirl.com/
Eric Paulos (Intel Research, USA)
A Senior Research Scientist at Intel in Berkeley, California, USA Eric is the founder and director of the Urban Atmospheres research group - challenged to employ innovative methods to explore urban life and the future fabric of emerging technologies across public urban landscapes. His areas of expertise span a deep body of research territory in urban computing, social telepresence, robotics, physical computing, interaction design, persuasive technologies, and intimate media.
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/
Paul Domenet (Saatchi & Saatchi, UK)
A Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi with direct responsibility for T-Mobile and NSPCC, Paul was recently made Saatchi's first ever Head of Copy. He started his advertising career in Manchester, then migrated South to work on award-winning campaigns for Knorr and Volkswagen, for which he won a Cannes Gold Lion. Paul has since worked with many of Saatchi & Saatchi's clients including Toyota, T-Mobile, NSPCC, P & G, The Army and Carlsberg. He has also been honoured at the British Television awards and has consistently appeared in the D and AD awards. Paul brings this considerable creative experience to our discussions of social technologies.
http://www.saatchi.co.uk/
Nina Wakeford (INCITE, UK)
Nina Wakeford is Director of INCITE, at Goldsmiths College in London. Internet cafes, digital communities, mobile usage and the use of ethnography by new technology designers have all been a focus of her research. She is interested in the ways in which collaborations can be forged between ethnographers and those from other disciplines, such as engineering and computer science, and ways in which critical social and cultural theory can play a part in the design process. Nina will be discussing 'live sociology' or ways of practicing social research with new media.
www.studioincite.com/
Alan Dix (Lancaster University, UK)
Professor in the Computing Department at Lancaster University's
InfoLab21, Alan is currently working on FireFly, a technology for creating display surfaces created from vast numbers of tiny, individually controlled LED lights that are scattered through trees or on buildings. Amongst other high-profile research activities, he also serves on the management committee of LeonardoNet (Culture and Creativity programme network) and leads the SlowTime art project, which looks at 'visualising' slow phenomena through sound. Alan enriches our discussions with his extensive knowledge of situated technologies and social interaction.
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/dixa/
Drew Hemment, (Futuresonic/Lancaster University, UK)
Associate Director of Imagination@Lancaster at Lancaster University, Drew is also Artistic Director and founder of the Futuresonic festival, and Director of FutureEverything, a creative, research-active 'community interest company'. His art and research activities have most recently included his work as lead artist in Loca, whose Loca: Set To Discoverable project premiered at ZeroOne and ISEA2006 in San Jose, and he was a founder member of PLAN - The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network. Drew also brings to this event notable curatorial experience from the Manchester Firsts project commissioned by Manchester International Festival and Always On at Sonar/CCCB in Barcelona in 2006, where he was the first international guest curator on the Sonar programming group.
http://www.drewhemment.com
Laura Watts (Lancaster University, UK)
Laura is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of
Sociology at Lancaster University whose research interests include mythologies of the future that circulate in high-tech industries, and how these myths become fixed in everyday practices and landscapes. Her recently completed doctorate on the archaeologies and futures of the mobile telecoms industry drew on her prior career as a mobile handset designer, and she is also currently Ethnographer in Residence at the Centre for Transport & Society,
University of the West of England, Bristol.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/wattslj/