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valign="top" width="300"><span class="brain"><!--a href="http://research.techkwondo.com">research/techkwondo</a> is my reconstituted research notebook capturing current research vectors, discussions on mobile, pervasive and locative media projects and memes.--></span></td></tr></table></div><div id="bulk"><table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="900"><tr><td width="600">   <span class="news">current projects/research vectors</span><p/><b class="c2">current projects, works-in-progress</b><br/><span class="brain"><a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/243">The Military Industrial Light & Magic Complex: Avoiding Ender's Folly</a>, <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/240">Battleship: Google Earth</a>, <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/wiki/Flavonoid">Flavonoid</a>, <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/project_idiom/theory_object/blogjects">Internet of Things</a>, <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/168">Viewmaster of the Future</a>, <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/177">Rules of Rejection</a>, <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/173">EKO's and Theory Objects</a> Mobile Projects <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com">please see my research page</a></span><p/>   <span class="news">winter 2006-2007</span><p/><span class="brain">   <b class="c2">february 2007</b><br/>   <a href="http://www.liftconference.com/">Lift Conference</a>, Geneva, Switzerland, talk titled <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/297">When 1st Life Meets 2nd Life: The 1685 Pound Avatar and the 99 Ton Acre</a></span><p/><span class="brain">   <b class="c2">december 2006</b><br/>   <a href="http://www.nabi.or.kr/connected">Art Center Nabi Connected Exhibition</a>, Seoul, South Korea</span><p/><p/>   <span class="news">fall 2006</span><p/><span class="brain">   <b class="c2">november 2006</b><br/>   <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-11944-en.html">Mediamatic Workshop: RFID & The Internet of Things</a>, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Talk and Public Lecture<p/>   <b class="c2">october 2006</b><br/>   <a href="http://www.nearfield.org/2006/06/workshop-near-field-interactions">Near Field Interactions Workshop, Nordichi 2006</a>, Oslo, Norway<p/>   <b class="c2">september 2006</b><br/>   <a href="http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/">Ubicomp 2006</a>, San Diego<br/>   <a href="http://www.crossmediaweek.org/">Crossmedia Week Amsterdam</a>, Amsterdam, Netherlands</span><p/><p/>   <span class="news">summer 2006</span><p/><span class="brain">   <b class="c2">august 2006</b><br/>   <a href="http://www.01sj.org/">ZeroOne/ISEA 2006</a>, San Jose   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp">Foo Camp</a> <a href="http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp06/index.cgi">2006</a>, Sebastopol</span><p/><p/>   <span class="news">winter 2006</span><p/><span class="brain">   <b class="c2">january 2006</b><br/>   <a href="http://www.lift06.org/">Lift 06</a>, Geneva.   <a href="http://www.transmediale.de/">Transmediale</a>, Berlin.<p/>   <b class="c2">march 2006</b><br/>   <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2006/view/e_spkr/2251">O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference</a> (<a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2006/view/e_sess/7759">Pervasive Electronic Games</a>), San Diego<p/>     <b class="c2">april 2006</b><br/><a href="www.annenberg.edu">USC Annenberg Center for Communication</a> <a href="http://netpublics.annenberg.edu/about_netpublics/networked_publics_conference_and_media_festival_april_28_29">Networked Publics Conference and Media Festival</a>, Los Angeles     <b class="c2">may 2006</b><br/><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/SCS2006/">Microsoft Social Software Symposium 2006</a>, Kirkland<br/>   <a href="http://www2006.org/workshops/#W11">WWW 2006</a>, Workshop on Empowering the Mobile Web, Edinburgh<br/>   <a href="http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2006/05/22/blogject-workshop-part-2/">EPFL Blogject Workshop (2)</a>, Lausanne<br/>   <a href="http://reboot.dk/">Reboot 8.0</a>, Blogject Workshop Report, Copenhagen<br/>   <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/">O'Reilly Where 2.0</a>, <a href="http://www.geotagthings.com">Geotagthings</a>, San Jose<br/>   <a href="http://www.ace2006.org/">Advances in Computing Entertainment</a>, Keynote <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/243">Military Industrial Light and Magic Complex</a>, Hollywood</span><p/>   <span class="news">fall 2005</span><p/><span class="brain">   <b class="c2">october 2005</b><br/>  <a href="http://www.nabi.or.kr">Art Center Nabi</a> for the <a href="http://www.nabi.or.kr/urban_workshop2005">Workshop on Urban Play and Locative Media</a>. I've written some notes on the workshop here: <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/21">here</a>, <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/23">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/julian/24">here.</a></span><p/>  <span class="brain">   <b class="c2">september 2005</b><br/>   <a href="http://www.aec.at/en/festival2005/">Ars Electronica Festival</a><br/>I'll be showing <a href="/projects/weevil">Pussy Weevil</a> in the Hybrid Creatures exhibit at Ars Electronica and staying at the somewhat remote Sommerhotel Linz. </span><p/>     <span class="news">summer 2005</span>   <p/><span class="brain">   <b class="c2">august 2005</b><br/><a href="http://www.iftf.org">Institute for the Future</a> Experts Workshop on <b>Pervasive Gaming</b>.<br/>Presented at SIGGRAPH 2005 on the Emerging Technology panel on the topic of <a href="http://www.siggraph.org/s2005/main.php?f=conference&p=panels&s=network">How Does Art Affect Technology and Vice Versa?</a><br/>And for extra fun on Monday August 1st from 11a-12p in the <a href="http://www.siggraph.org/s2005/main.php?f=conference&p=studio&s=tech">Guerilla Studio at SIGGRAPH 2005, <a href="http://pabit.org">Peter Brinson</a> (a colleague and collaborator who's a Professor here in the Interactive Media Division and down to UC San Diego) and I presented our current research project on pervasive mobile games using our <a href="http://www.visavisgames.com">&quot;Vis-&#224;-Vis&quot;</a> game enterprise.</span><p/><span class="brain">   <b class="c2">july 2005</b><br/>&#8656;    Presenting on the Mobile and Pervasive Lab (MaPL) on July 25th at the Annenberg Center for Communication for <a href="http://www.mobilemonday.la">Mobile Monday LA</a>.<p/><p/>   <b class="c2">june 2005</b><br/>June 29th and 30th I'll be presenting at the <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where/">O'Reilly Where 2.0</a> conference.<p/></span><p/>   <span class="news">spring 2005</span><p/><span class="brain">    <b class="c2">may 2005</b><br/>   From the 4th - 8th I was in Montreal participating in the Mobile Digital Commons Network <a href="http://www.mdcn.ca/tiki-index.php?page=MdcnSymposium">Symposium - <i>Sampling the Spectrum: The Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Technologies</i></a>.   <p/>   <b class="c2">april 2005</b><br/><span class="brain">   From the 26th - 28th I was on the East Coast attending the Boston Cyberarts Festival, and giving a <a href="http://www.turbulence.org/floatingpoints">talk in part of the Floating Points series</a> on the 27th sponsored by <a href="http://www.turbulence.org">Turbulence</a>, <a href="http://www.emerson.edu/">Emerson College</a> and <a href="http://new-radio.org/">New Radio Performing Arts</a><br/>   I was in Portland at <a href="">CHI2005</a> participating in the <a href="http://hciresearch.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/engaging_cities/">Engaging the City Workshop</a>. The Oregonian wrote <a href="http://www.techkwondo.com/external/pdf/reports/news/thecityoftomorrow_oregonian.pdf">a piece</a> about the workshop, mentioning the small group I participated in with Tom jenkins, Andrea Moed and Susan Wyche.    <br/>   <p/>   <b class="c2">march 2005</b><br/><span class="brain">   WiFiBedouin/Place Storming mash-up anticipating the Mobile Issue of <a href="http://www.iml.annenberg.edu/html/research/vectors/vectors.htm">Vectors</a>. We'll be showing how the WiFiBedouin and Place Storming operate through what promises to be a fun collaboration. This'll be at the Premiere Issue for Vectors at LA MoCA on March 3rd. <i>Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular</i> is a new digital journal developed at the <a href="http://www.iml.annenberg.edu">Institute for Multimedia Literacy</a>.</span><p/><span class="brain">   I was bouncing from <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/conference/gdcmobile.htm">GDC</a> in San Francisco from the <b>7th - 11th</b>, then back to LA long enough to get from Burbank to LAX to head to the <a href="http://www.mobiletechforum.com/mes2005-agendaMar13.htm">Mobile Entertainment Forum</a> at <a href="http://www.ctiawireless.com/">CTIA</a> in New Orleans from the <b>13th-14th</b>, then back to LA long enough to switch terminals to get a flight to San Diego for <a href="">O'Reilly ETech</a> until from the <b>14th-17th</b>. Drop a note if you're going to be at any of these and want to kibbitz or meet up.</span>    <p/>   <b class="c2">january 2005</b> <br/><span class="brain">   Participated in a workshop titled <b class="c2">&quot;Collaborate! In search for Intelligent Social Infrastructure&quot;</b> at <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio University.</a> You can see my flickr photostream <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julianbleecker/sets/96356/">here</a>.</span>   <p/>    <span class="brain">   Teaching the mobile module in the <a href="http://interactive.usc.edu">usc interactive media division's</a> graduate seminar <a href="http://www-cntv.usc.edu/academic_programs/interactive_media/academic-interactive-gradreq.php">CTIN 541b, Design for Interactive Media</a>, a five week component of a semester long design class. The class <a href="http://www.techkwondo.com/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=229">wikiog is here</a>.</span>   <p/>   <span class="c2">fall 2004 - spring 2005</span> <span class="brain"><a class="c2" href="http://www.iml.annenberg.edu/vectors/projects.html">vectors fellowship</a> and research faculty at the <a class="c2" href="http://www.annenberg.edu/">annenberg center for communication's</a> <a class="c2" href="http://www.iml.annenberg.edu/">institute for media literacy</a> <b>at the university of southern california.</b> I will be doing research, development and writing related to my work on proximity based mobile networks, including <a class="c2" href="projects/bedouin">WiFi.Bedouin</a>.</span></td><td valign="top"><span class="news">press</span><p/><b class="c2"><a href="http://www.res.com/">res magazine</a></b> <span class="brain">brief profile in print edition, vol. 9, no. 4</span><br/><b class="c2"><a href="http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/49/digital-willis.php">Digital Universe With L.A. At Its Center</a></b><br/><span class="brain">Holly Willis from the LA Weekly interviewed me for an article on the Los Angeles Digital Arts scene.</span><p/><p/><img valign="bottom" src="http://www.oreillynet.com/network/2005/06/06/graphics/111-geospatial_design.gif"/><br/><b class="c2"><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/06/07/geospatialweb.html">A Design Approach for the Geospatial Web </a></b><br/><span class="brain">I wrote a little POV on designing Location Based Services and Location User Interfaces for O'Reilly. Trying to warm things up for the <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where/">Where 2.0</a> Conference. </span><p/>   <b class="c2"><a href="http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101417&ref=5930005">The Feature - Tinseltown 2.0</a><br/> by <a href="http://www.thefeature.com/user/rushkoff">Douglas Rushkoff</a>.</b><br/><span class="brain">Douglas Rushkoff interviewed <a href="http://www.itofisher.com/mito">Mimi Ito</a> and myself about the mobile research we are both doing <a href="http://interactive.usc.edu">here</a> at USC. [<a href="http://www.techkwondo.com/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=341">Locally Archived</a>]</span><p/>   <b class="c2"><a href="http://chronicle.com">The Chronicle of Higher Education</a><br/> by Peter Monaghan.</b><br/><span class="brain">The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a piece introducing the premier issue of <a href="http://www.iml.annenberg.edu/vectors/projects.html">Vectors</a> (also <a href="http://www.techkwondo.com/confluence/display/Vectors">Vectors</a>) and mentioned the project I'm doing for the second <i>Mobility</i> issue of Vectors. Unfortunately, The Chronicle is paid, subscription only so I have it [<a href="http://www.techkwondo.com/confluence/display/LIBRARY/An+Online+Journal+of+Culture+and+Technology+Begins">Locally Archived</a>].</span></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><span class="news">earlier news</span><p/>   <b class="c2">fall 2004</b><br/><span class="brain">   Taught in the <a href="http://interactive.usc.edu">usc interactive media division</a> with <a class="c2" href="./obj/design_technology_for_mobile_experiences.pdf">design+technology for mobile experiences</a> and <a class="c2" href="./obj/ctcs_505_survey_of_interactive_media.pdf">Survey of Interactive Media: Interactivity in the Age of Electronic Media</a> in the Critical Studies department. Student projects included <a href="http://www.projectcar.org">projectCAR</a>, a mobile confessional using a car, SMS and cell phones,  and <a href="http://www.trackingagama.net">Tracking Agama</a>, a mobile, location-based exploratory narrative for cell phones</span>   <p/>   <b class="c2">october 2004<span class="brain"> <a class="c2" href="projects/artcache/">WiFi.ArtCache</a> selected for installation in the <a class="c2" href="http://www.lmcc.net">Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's</a> Spectropolis wireless art-technology showcase. <!--Interested art-technologists interested in exhibiting their work on the WiFi.ArtCache should see the <a href="http://wifiartcache.techkwondo.com">developers</a> site for details and downloads.--></span>   <p/>   <b class="c2">november 2004</b><span class="brain"> <a href="http://www.mobilescout.org">MobileSCOUT</a> in <i>Database Imaginary</i>, <span class="brain">at the Banff Center for the Arts' <a class="c2" href="http://www.banffcentre.ca/wpg">Walter Philips Gallery</a></span>   <p/>   <p/>   <b class="c2">august 27, 2004</b><span class="brain"><!--a class="c2" href="obj/julian_bleecker_dissertation.pdf"-->the reality effect of technoscience<!--/a-->, my ph.d disseration on technology, culture and entertainment from <a class="c2" href="http://humwww.ucsc.edu/HistCon/HisCon.html">ucsc's history of consciousness board</a> is totally, totally done. signed and, like, totally done.</span></span>   </td></tr> </table></div>  </span>            <!--a href="/projects/wifiku/index.html"><img src="/images/wifiku_logo.gif" border="0"/></a><p>  <h1 id="pageName"><a href="/projects/wifiku/index.html">New  Project - WiFiKu</a></h1><p/><a href="/projects/wifiku/index.html">WiFiKu</a> is a psychogeography project  being introduced as part of Glowlab's Psy.Geo.Conflux, May 13th and  May 14th. Walking through New York City neighborhoods, we will be  digitally scanning for the names of personal and public WiFi Hot Spots, and then constructing a visual map containing Haiku formed from these found names.-->  <span class="wifi_description">             <!--a href="/projects/bedouin/index.html"><img src="./images/bedouin_logo.gif" border="0"/></a><p>  <h1 id="pageName"><a href="/projects/bedouin/index.html">New  Project - WiFi.Bedouin</a></h1><p/><a href="/projects/bedouin/index.html">WiFi.Bedouin</a> is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet. It forms a WiFi <b><i>&quot;island Internet&quot;</i> challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks that are based on physical proximity rather than solely connectivity. Most significantly, WiFi.Bedouin facilitates the creation of a truly mobile web community.-->  </span> <p/>  <p class="wifi_description" align="center">contact me via julian (at) techkwondo (blot) com</p><!-- Creative Commons License --><span class="wifi_description"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" border="0" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.</span><!-- /Creative Commons License --><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/"    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><Work rdf:about="">   <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Interactive" />   <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" /></Work><License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction" />   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution" />   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice" />   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution" />   <prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse" />   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks" />   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike" /></License></rdf:RDF>--><!--/div--></body></html>