NYCwireless September Meeting Announcement
All are invited - please re-post everywhere!
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 at 7:15pm
Bway.net
568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner
Suite 404
New York, NY 10012
(lobby sign-in required)
*** We have a bunch of free tickets for WIRED's NextFest, taking
place from Sept 29-Oct 1. We will be distributing the tickets (worth
$15) to any member that attends this month's meeting. If you're not a
member yet, please join (only $35), and you will be eligible for a
free NextFest? ticket. ***
Agenda:
1. Lise Brenner will talk about PETER STUYVESANT'S GHOST, an art and
historical environment project inspired by the rapid cultural and
physical changes during the Dutch colonial period in what is now New
York City. Using sound as the primary medium of performance, PSG
hopes to tap into the visceral response that hearing generates. The
overall goal is a rich, many-layered experience of the footprint of
Peter Stuyvesant's 17th century farm, known today as 4th Avenue to
the East River, and East 4th to 23rd Streets. Events include guided
walks, referencing specifically created maps and soundscapes, a daily
internet radio broadcast, and a panel discussion. Ryan Holsopple will
talk about the technical specifics of the PSG Telephone Tour, which
involves sound art and open source telephony.
2. Molly Steenson will talk about her ethnographic research in
Bangalore, India, on mobile phone sharing in lower and middle class
Indian mobile users. She conducted the study in July-August 2006
while at Microsoft Research India and discovered that unlike
countries like Japan and Korea, mobile phones are shared in a variety
of ways, regardless of class. She's particularly interested in how
this plays out in domestic and urban space.
Molly is a graduate student at the Yale School of Architecture, where
she is researching historical precedents for mobile, social
interactions in architecture. Previously, she was an associate
professor at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy,
where she led the Connected Communities research group. Molly has
worked for a variety of web and technology companies, including
Scient, Razorfish, Phoenix Pop, Netscape and Reuters, and was the co-
founder of Maxi, an award-winning webzine in the late 90s. Online,
she's at girlwonder.com.
NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every
month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required.
NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and
enables the growth of free, public wireless networks.
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Dana Spiegel
Executive Director
NYCwireless
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www.NYCwireless.net
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