Hanna Harris (Finland)

EVENT CITIES - Interactions Between Streets and Screens
1 // EVENT CITIES
• Festival Cities: festive histories and types of events
• Showcasing Cities: using events
2 // RE-DEFINING EVENT SPACE
• Definitions of urban contexts: infra/ spectacle/ process city
• Ambient, locative, pervasive media
3 // BETWEEN STREETS AND SCREENS - Examples
• Mobile events: ISEA 2004, Capturing the Moving Mind (Transsiberia)
• Spatial interventions: Urban Screens
• Combining spaces and frequencies: Urban tv m2hz

Hanna Harris is currently preparing PhD in urban studies on the Process City, its spaces of culture and related, alternative definitions of urban at the Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki. In addition to her research she has produced several urban events and festivals with a focus on media arts and electronic music. Among the latest is the ISEA2004 Symposium of Electronic Arts that took place in Helsinki, Tallinn and a Baltic cruiser ferry. Currently Hanna Harris is part of the core team setting up a multi-channel urban tv platform titled m2hz (space-frequency) for Helsinki. (http://www.m2hz.net) She is also active in various research productions combining urban space and media at both m-cult the centre for Finnish new Media culture (http://www.m-cult.org, http://www.m-cult.net) and the University of Art and Design Helsinki’s Crucible Studio. (http://crucible.uiah.fi)