Speaker: Michael Longford, Associate Professor, Digital Media Program, School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design The proliferation of interactive screens – large and small – on city streets and in our pockets are changing buildings and bodies into new kinds of interfaces and adaptive displays, creating dramatic interactive public spaces and transforming the ways in which we experience the urban environment, our community and ourselves. Enabled by smartphones, tablets, and wearable computing connected to GPS, cameras and distributed sensor networks; the city turned interface is increasingly responsive encouraging new social behaviors informed by cinema, gaming, and social media. This talk will explore a number of recent projects by artists, architects and new media companies contributing to the emerging practice of digital placemaking.

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