Conference / Festival Reports -

(2002 – present) by Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Photo from “Aesthetics” panel at User_Mode Symposium (5/10/03) @ Tate Modern (L-R, David Ross, Lev Manovich, JBC, Joshua Davis)

The following are scene reports of media arts and HCI related conferences I’ve written since 2002. They are listed in chronological order for each category. Most were published first on Rhizome.org, but have been republished here for those without access to their archive. Some of the below links include photos from events I was unable to write up but still attended.

Academic Conferences:

1. Report from UBICOMP 2002, Goteborg, Sweden – (10/02)

2. Report from UBICOMP 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA – (10/12-15/03)

3. Report from DIS 2004, Boston, MA, USA – (8/1-4/04)

4. Report from SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angeles, CA, USA – (8/1-4/05)

Media Arts Festivals:

1. Report from Transmediale 2002, Berlin, Germany – (3/02)

2. Report from Ars Electronica 2002, Linz, Austria – (9/02)

3. Report from ISEA 2002, Nagoya, Japan – (11/02)

4. Report from Ars Electronica 2003, Linz, Austria- (9/03)

5. Report from Transmediale.04 2004, Berlin, Germany – (2/04)

6. Report from FutureSonic 2004, Manchester, UK – (5/04)

7. Report from ISEA 2004, Baltic Sea, Tallinn (Estonia), Helsinki (Finland) – (8/04)

8. Report from Ars Electronica 2004, Linz, Austria – (9/04)

9. Report from FutureSonic 2007, Manchester, UK – (5/07)

10. Report from Ars Electronica 2008, Linz, Austria – (9/08)

11. Report from FutureSonic 2009, Manchester, UK – (5/09)

12. Welcome To Your New NSA Partner Network: Report from Transmediale 2014, Berlin, Germany – (2/14)

Media Arts Events:

1. Report from 6th International Browserday, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – (5/02)

2. Report from B.Playful 2002, Sheffield, UK – (11/02)

3. Report from User_Mode Symposium, Tate Modern, London, UK – (5/03)

4. Report from Numer 02, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France – (4/02)

5. Report from E-Culture Fair, DeBalie/Paradiso/Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – (10/23/03)

6. Report From Ciber-Art Bilbao Conference 2004 , Bilbao, Spain – (4/25-29/04)

7. Report From Wired NextFest 2005 , Chicago, IL – (6/25-26/05)

8. Report From Artbots 2005 , Dublin, Ireland – (7/15-17/05)

9. Report From Ars@ARCO (for Rhizome.org), Madrid, Spain – (2/8-9/06)

Workshops:

1. Report from RAM2: A Joker in the Global Bunker 2003, Oslo, Norway – (2/03)

2. For all pics from workshops –> please visit main Scrapyard Challenge Site For more info see: http://www.coin-operated.com/projects **last updated 6/15/2009.