City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community
June 11– 13 & 19, 2010
Please visit: CityCentered.org for a complete list of projects.

City Centered is a three-day festival of locative media and urban community in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, a gathering of practioners at KQED in the Mission District and a weekend of community training workshops. The event includes three consecutive days of exhibitions, a symposium, and demonstrations and installations of locative including an afternoon of presentations, an exhibition opening event, Saturday symposium, and Sunday walks and tours of installations using wireless technology.

Over two weekends, it will engage artists, educators, civic organizations and community members of all ages in exploring how how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression.

Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression.

From within San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, this festival will celebrate the rich possibilities that art and technology offer for urban communication of place and place-based media. City Centered focuses on the use of locative media and wireless technologies for site-specific and neighborhood-based interventions. Artists, designers, architects, community and cultural workers —people, places, and devices — will meet for four days of street-side celebration, public exhibitions, a symposium, and workshops. The festival seeks new work aligned with the themes of creative mapping, urban storytelling, sentient space, body awareness, local history, contested spaces and gaming.

Please visit: CityCentered.org for a complete list of projects.

Participating Organizations
KQED Public Media San Francisco
Gray Area Foundation
Center for Locative Media
Conceptual Information Arts/Art Department/SFSU
The Berkeley Center for New Media