Hello, everyone. I posted the following workshop CFP to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' 2011 conference bulletin board (http://www.cmstudies.org/). See the conference FAQs (http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=100) for more information about the workshop format, submitting a proposal, SCMS membership, etc. Please feel free to forward! Regards, Shannon Mattern Assistant Professor Department of Media Studies and Film The New School 2 West 13th Street, 13th Floor New York, NY 10011 [log in to unmask] wordsinspace.net Type of Posting: Workshop Proposed Panel/Workshop Subject: Urban Informatics, Geographic Data, and the Media of Mapping Organizer Name(s): Shannon Mattern E-Mail Address: [log in to unmask] Summary: The past several years have seen increasing corporate and educational interest in, and major funding for, projects that make urban histories, knowledges, data, etc., accessible, visible/audible/tangible, and, ideally, intelligible to urban publics. Examples include the projects of the recent Towards the Sentient City exhibition (http://www.sentientcity.net/exhibit/) at the Architectural League of New York, UCLA and USC's Google Map-based Hypercities (http://hypercities.com/about/), and mobile-phone- or mp3-based audio walking tours, like Justin Hopper's "Public Record" (http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=11142). This workshop will examine a selection of these projects, critically addressing their rhetorical and aesthetic strategies and examining their utility as platforms for research, as pedagogical resources, and as political tools for civic engagement. Acknowledging the widespread commitment among these projects to "making the invisible, visible" (which occasionally results in collapsing "the urban" into "the visible"), we will pay particular attention to the *media* and *sensory modes* of mapping and "content" presentation. Please send 300-word abstract, links to relevant media, and c.v. to Shannon Mattern ([log in to unmask]) by Wednesday, August 11. All will be contacted regarding the status of their proposals by August 15. Send individual topics & summaries to organizer(s) by: E-Mail ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu