Hello Everyone! Below you will find the Mobilefest Schedule!
* November 21 and 23 - Mobilefest Connection * November 24 and 25 - MobileActive at MobileFest * December 5, 6, and 7 - II International Mobilefest Seminar * December 6 - International Festivals Exhibit * December 6 - Mobilefest London Festival * December 7 - Mobilefest New York Festival * December 5 (2007) to January 06 (2008) - II International Exhibit Mobilefest Festival Connection Location: SESC Paulista 11/21 Wednesday (((BEHAVIOR, MOBILITY AND LEARNING)))) Schedule: 5pm - 10pm Alan Kay From the 1962 paper laptop to the 100 dollar laptop Vídeo statement - Los Angeles Duration: 40-50 minutes Content: From the 1962 paper laptop to the 100 dollar laptop Mimi Ito Theme: Informal learning, post-pokemon generation, mobility in Japan Emerging communication practices that go beyond the limits of nationality and disciplineVideo conference - USC Duration: 40-50 minutes Directly from the USC Annenberg Center, Mimi Ito, Anthropologist, will participate of the Mobilefest Connection, as a part of the Mobilefest 2007 activities. Content: "Informal Learning" and "Digital Kids". Carmen Maia Theme: Learning through work Why is the cell phone still not in use as a way to awaken and motivate the pleasure of learning among youth? Duration: 30 minutes Content: Why is the cell phone still not in use as a way to awaken and motivate the pleasure of learning among youth? Specially in Brazil, a country where the number of cell phones grow each day and the need of learning and professional capacity is always so urgent? Why, as of yet, we have not been able to use our creativity and intelligence in favor of education, since the means and the technological possibilities already exist and are increasingly more accessible? Armin Medosch Hacker Learning What can you learn from the hacker learning and how can you transfer a bit of that knowledge to non-technical áreas? Duration: 50 minutes Date: November 23 11/23 Friday (((DEMOCRACY AND MOBILIZAION IN CELL PHONE NETWORKS))) 3PM-10PM Katrin Verclas Theme: MobileActive Daniel de Araújo and Pedro Prata Alô Cidadão! The use of SMS (short message service) as a social investment Daniel Araújo - Coordinator of the Alô Cidadão! Project. In person. Duration: 40-50 minutes Content: Progress and results of the social inclusion Project Alô Cidadão. Javier Rodrigo Theme: Border games. It wasn't ETA Case study of democracy in Spain, like the "It wasn't ETA", and cell phone distribution for African immigrantes, and the social game "bordergames". In person. Duration: 40-50 minutes. Content: Case study of democracy in Spain, such as the "It wasn't ETA", and the cell phone distribution to African immigrants and the social game "bordergames". Bricophone An independent cell phone network by the do it yourself type Jean-Nöel Montagné - founder of the "Art Sensitif" NGO, of CRAS (Learning Center for the Artistic Technologies in Open Source) - video conference - Amsterdam | The Waag Society. Canal*MOTOBOY Motoboys armed with cellphones with integrated câmeras transform themselves into tellers of their own reality. Eliezer Muniz - Co- curator of the canal*MOTOBOY "Motoboys transmit via cellphones" II International Mobilefest Seminar Date: December 5 - Wednesday 1PM to 2PM - Sign In 2PM to 2.30PM - Opening Ceremony Elisa Santive Americano - manager of the SESC Av. Paulista unit Marcelo Godoy and Paulo Hartmann, Mobilefest creators Representative from public institutions 2.45PM to 3.30PM - Opening Conference Theme: Education with mobile devices, why not? Martin Owen - British teacher and researcher, specialist in the area of technology for learning, England 3.30PM to 7PM - Table 1 Theme: Mobile technology as a tool of education and transformation Participants Ronald Lenz - Waag Society Holland Graham Brow Martin - Founder and general manager of Handheld Learning, England. Roseli de Deus Lopes - Researches collaborative work/study environments through interactive electronic means. Mediation Maracelo Tas- Author of Blog do Tas, at UOL, Creation Coordinator of Telecurso 2000, of the Roberto Marinho Foundation. 7.15PM to 10PM - Table 2 Theme: Ecology - Battery Disposal and use of mobile technology in the decrease of the carbon chain impact. Participants Renato Rollemberg - Environmentalist and businessman Luis Arthur Filho - Lawyer specialized in environmental management Clovis Borges - SPVS President - ONG that works with battery disposal Mediation Victor Rebouças - Founding businessman of Zen Communications, creative director and author, graduate of Environmental Management Date: December 06, 2007 - Thursday 2PM to 6.30PM Videoconference with University of Westminster, London Theme: New video production and distribution possibilities through the use of mobile networks, user generated content and new languages Participants Max Schleser - Doctorate on the creative potential of mobile productions in the documentary cinema domain, England Daniel Florência - Worked in the opening of Current TV in the United Kingdom Alberto Tognazzi - MovilFilm Fest Director, audiovisual editor 1996, Spain Lisa Roberts - Pocket Shorts Festival Organizer, England Eva Weber - Director of the award-winning medium-length movie "The Intimacy of Strangers", England Cyrus Frisch - Director and Producer of the movie "Why didn't anybody tell me that it would become this bad in Afghanistan", Holland Zico Góes - MTV Programming Director Rosana Herman - Works with Advertising and Journalism Silvio da Rin - Audiovisual Secretary, Ministry of Culture Wagner Martins - creator of the Cocadaboa site Mediation Ninho Moraes - Journalist and Moviemaker 6.30PM to 7.45PM Opening of the Mobilefest Advertisement and Marketing Award 7PM to 8PM Theme: Smart Mobs Presential Participants Renato de Paula - Ogilvy's President Sergio Amadeu - Teacher and reseacher Hernani Dimantas - Lidec Coordinator Rogério da Costa - Puc Researcher Paulo Castro - Portal Terra's President 8PM to 9PM Video Conference - Howard Rheingold Theme: Smart Mobs 9PM to 10PM Debate with Howard Rheingold and guests Theme: Future Mediation: Paulo Henrique Ferreira - Journalist Date: December 7, Friday 3PM to 8PM Video conference with the University of New York - ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) Theme: Art and Technology Presential Participants Gabe Sawhney - Artist, creator of the Murmur and Wireless project, Toronto, Canada Richard Vickers - New Media Researcher, Hull School of Art & Design, England Fabio Fon - Multimedia artist and webdesigner Soraya Braz - Multimedia artist, researches artistic productions that make use of electromagnetic radiation Rachel Jacobs - Artist, consultant and co-founder of Active Ingredient - England Priscila Arantes - Brazilian scholar of the new medias Video Conference Lucas Longo - Engineer and Brazilian businessmen, taking a masters course in ITP Jonah Brucker Cohen - Researcher and artist, creator of the Wifi Liberator and simple text, USA Kati London - Art and Technology researacher, Botanicalls project developer - USA Mediation: Giselle Beiguelman - new media artist and multimedia experimentor, Communication and Semiotics teacher at PUC-SP The II International Showcase will present works and installations by national and international artists that have different approaches to the complex relationships between mobile art and technology. MOBILEFEST INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS EXHIBIT Pocket Films - France Screening of the award winning videos from the Pocket Films 2007 Festival - France MovilFilms - Spain Screening of the award winning videos from the MofilFilmFest Festival - Spain Mobifest 2007 - Canada New series of award winning videos from the Mobifest Festival from Canada Pocket Shorts - England and Scotland Screening of award winning videos from Pocket Shorts with comments by Lisa Roberts, directly from London Festival de Microfilmes - Portugal Screening of award winning videos from the Festival Microfilmes - Portugal "The Intimiacy of Strangers" by Eva Weber is a story built from conversations between real people, randomly heard, done by cellphone. "Why didn't anybody tell me it would become this bad in Afghanistan", by Cyrus Frisch - screening of a full-length movie produced by a cellphone by the director, Cyrus Frisch, Holland [murmur] - Canada Oral history documentary project that records stories and memories that were told about a specific geographic location, using cellular phone technology. Mobile Minded - Holland Welcome to the world of mobile citations, experiments, statistics and factoids, all reflecting the new state of art in wireless thought. Mieke Gerritzen e Geert Lovink 15x15 - England In 1968, Andy Warhol said that; "In the future, everyone will be worldly famous for 15 minutes". Using Warhol's affirmation as a premise, 15x15 advances to the 21st century; with technology from the new medias, anyone and everyone can be famous... for 15 seconds. Roaming - Brazil This experimentation comes from the appropriation of small chips that are present in the inside of cell phone pendants, which are trinkets that light up during calls. In a panel, light is literally sent to the invisible radiation that emanates from the cell phones and that invades our bodies. Mobile Active at Mobilefest Date: 24 and 25 of November - In Person Location: SESC Av. Paulista To enlarge the context of "web" that allows us to present experiences to other countries and promote the debate of ideas, the II edition of the Mobilefest Festival brings to Brazil for the first time the International Mobileactive Conference, which brings to the Mobilefest discussion table the theme of "Mobility for Good". Organized by the German researcher Katrin Verclas, the meeting, aside from showing international case studies about the potential of mobile technologies in civil society towards a better society, will have the presence of 50 international NGO specialists and 50 Brazilians will be selected to participate in the discussion about "How can mobile technology contribute to democacry, culture, art, ecology, peace, education, health and the third sector? Mobilefest's theme has awakened the interest and the participation of artists, companies and researches from all over the world since its first edition in 2006. This year everyonewill be able to participate with their opinions and experiences at the conferences, interactive sessions,workshops and discussion groups. Katrin wants to make the Mobilefest public question and present ideas of how the cellphone boom, in all the continents, can contribute to the sharing of knowledge and to well suceeded experiences. How it is possible to develop mechanisms that can spread good practices to other communities, group of educators, NGOss, public policy GESTORES, with acess to experiments that were done, registered and documented by mobile devices. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
