lalya gaye - past

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2007 31 july	In Stockholm for the inauguration of the new Mobile Life Centre in Kista.
20-29 july	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland.
2-6 july	Teaching at the 2007 Summer School in Sound and Music Computing at KTH, Stockholm My lectures about "Mobile Music and Locative Audio" available here
21-23 june	Midsummer in Ludvika
20 june	Showing demos at SICS in Stockholm
4 june	Playing records with Nim at Café Publik for Koloni.
5-9 may	In Amsterdam, Holland, for the 4th International Workshop on Mobile Music Technology. Follow the workshop on its blog and on flickr!
28 mar	Talked at Pecha-Kucha Göteborg. My slides here, Jesper's pictures of the evening here
28 mar	Context Photography featured in the special issue locative of the on-line journal vague terrain
24 mar	Brazil-Chile football match at Ullevi in Göteborg! Vamos!
18 feb	Interview on the radio programme Leo&Leo med Jens at k103
7-9 feb	Utsikt 2007 conference in Stockholm + Mobile Life meeting in Strömsberg
2006 19-29 dec	Holidays in hometown Geneva, Switzerland
nov	The Sonic City project is featured in the book "World Changing: A User's Guide to the 21st Century" (p. 98) Review of the book in Wired here.
15 nov	Vägra låta A-kassan slaktas! Delta i demonstrationen! I Göteborg: samling på Gustav Adolfs Torg kl 18.
14 nov	Interview on We Make Money Not Art!
10-12 nov	Celebrating my 28th birthday in Berlin, Germany with a bunch of swedish nutters (link link).
30 oct	Holding seminar again but at the forskningsskola of the IT-University in Göteborg
24 oct	Holding a seminar about my up-coming thesis at SU/DSV in Stockholm
15-19 oct	In Oslo, Norway to present our full paper "More Than Meets the Eye: An Exploratory User Study of Context Photography" (Håkansson, Gaye, Ljungblad, Holmquist) at NordhiCHI 2006.
12-17 sept	At Atelier Nord in Oslo for the Mobile Troops workshop about mobile art + wearing a nice fancy dress at Operaball
11-12 sept	In Stockholm for an information meeting about the new Mobile Life research center that will open there in 2007
5 sept	Reportage on the ToToGo headphones festival on the k103 radio station
26-2 aug	In London for Notting Hill Gate Carnival !!!
8-14 aug	Sitting with the Mobility research group in Stockholm for a week.
23 july	Our essay "Performing Sonic City: Situated Creativity in Mobile Music Making" (Gaye, Holmquist) is now available in the Leonardo Electronic Almanach's special issue on Locative Media.
20-29 july	Mobile Music (the workshop series and some projects) will be featured in the PLAN exhibition Off The Map at the Futuresonic festival in Manchester, UK. Talks and live performances by our fellows IMPROVe (Richard Wideberd & Zeenath Hasan) and Atau Tanaka! (I won't be attending though) Poster from the exhibition available here.
15 july	Co-organised a Placard headphones festival in Göteborg, together with Nim and sync24! The idea with a placard event is that everyone listens to the music through headphones in an otherwise completely silent performing space. The festival took place in my apartment (kollektivet Högsbohood) in Göteborg, with performances in location and abroad, both streaming live through the internet. People in different locations were able to tune in as well. The festival was called "ToToGo: Göteborg meets Toronto and Tokyo and more". The line-up consisted of various electronic music artists (IDM, experimental, ambient, 8bit...) and can be found here. Documentation of the festival is available on the sync24 website. You can also check out some pictures and comments on this blog, this blog (in Swedish) and this blog (in Japanese). More pictures on this photoalbum.
7-11 july	Going to Edda & Michaël's wedding in Reykjavik, Iceland!
5 july	Our full paper "More Than Meets the Eye: An Exploratory User Study of Context Photography" (Håkansson, Gaye, Ljungblad, Holmquist) was accepted for NordhiCHI 2006, that will take place in Oslo, Norway, in October.
9-19 june	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland. Best place to be at during the football world cup!
4-8 june	At NIME'06 (IRCAM, Paris, France) to present the report "Mobile Music Technology: Report on an Emerging Community" (Gaye, Holmquist, Behrendt, Tanaka) [pdf] [ppt] + attending the Networked Performance workshop at IRCAM.
19 apr - 1 may	Oh Canada! - Visiting sintheta (David) and meeting up with Kanta & co in Toronto (19-23) - CHI 2006 conference in Montréal (24-27): Presented the Work-In-Progress "BashoCam: Collective Photographic Sequencing in Wireless P2P Networks" (Lalya Gaye, Svante Hermansson and Lars Erik Holmquist). Maria Håkansson, Sara Ljungblad and I also presented "Snapshots from a Study of Context Photography" at alt.chi. - Holidays in Montréal with my best friend Catherine coming from NYC! Thanks Noëlla! (28-1)
20 mar	Our report "Mobile Music Technology: Report on an Emerging Community" (Gaye, Holmquist, Behrendt, Tanaka) was accepted for NIME'06, at IRCAM, Paris, France!
2-3 mar	Co-organising the 3rd international workshop on Mobile Music Technology in Brighton, UK
11 feb	Hugs kollektivet spelar på Big Love tillsammans med isländska konstnärerna Bryndis Hrönn Ragnarsdottir & Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjörvar. Vernissagen börjar kl 19, spelningen 20.
7 feb	"BashoCam: Collective Photographic Sequencing in Wireless P2P Networks" (Lalya Gaye, Svante Hermansson and Lars Erik Holmquist) was accepted as a Work-in-Progress for CHI 2006! Maria Håkansson, Sara Ljungblad and I will also present "Snapshots from a Study of Context Photography" at alt.chi. CHI 2006 will take place in Montréal, Canada, between 24-27 April. Oh Canada! : ) More information about BashoCam and Context Photography at the Picture This! project website.
2005 1-3 dec	Mobile Music meeting in London, UK
25-28 nov	Holidays in Malmö, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark
12 nov	My birthday! Turning 27 and celebrating in Stockholm
28 oct	Random Access Memory 4 sound installation at Klubb Koloni (Göteborg), with Alexander Berman and David McCallum
21 oct	Giving a talk about ubicomp and everyday creativity at the Trondheim Matchmaking festival for new technology and electronic arts, in Trondheim, Norway (my slides here)
19 oct	Attack of the PANTS (Portable Art Noise Things) workshop blogged at Make
2-8 oct	Taking part in the PLAN technology camp at Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, UK Worked on a project called track, together with Marek Bell, Adam Drozd, Malcolm Hall, Iain Mott and Karl-Petter Åkesson.
8-28 sept	In Tokyo, Japan for the Ubicomp 2005 conference (doctoral colloquium and demo) + checking out the New Sonic performance concerts at Tokyo Perfoming Arts Market 2005 + visiting Sony CSL Tokyo; Yasumura Lab & Tokuda Lab at Keio University; Toshio Iwai Lab at RCAST Univ.Tokyo + sitting with Kanta Horio at Dept of Media Art, Faculty of Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University and giving a presentation at his seminar in Production Application + visiting Tama Art University (Tamabi) and guest-lecturing about sound and interaction design at Akihiro Kubota's Information Art & Design course at Tamabi's Dept of Interaction Design.
5 sept	Street performance on the Aveny: "Important message from the public", with Alexander Berman and others
12-15 aug	Going to the Subörb festival in Alby, south of Stockholm, to see Saïan Supa Crew!!
28 jul - 8 aug	Talking at a panel (Ubiquitous Music) at SIGGRAPH 2005, in Los Angeles, USA (review here and here) + visiting my cousin Britta in San Jose
27 jul	Demo "Context Photography on Mobile Phones" accepted for UbiComp2005 (Tokyo, Japan)
7 jul	Paper "Performing Sonic City: Situated Creativity in Mobile Music Making" accepted for the LEA special issue on Locative Media
29 jun	Position paper on thesis work "Enabling the Emergence of New Everyday Aesthetic Practices with Ubiquitous Computing" accepted for the UbiComp 2005 doctoral colloquium (Tokyo, Japan)
17-27 jun	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland, during the Fête de la Musique + visiting Nicolas Nova (pasta and vinegar) and the CRAFT research group at EPFL, Lausanne
15-16 jun	In Stockholm for the SITI conference, where we're presenting the latest context camera prototype
7-8 jun	PhD students workshop in Orust
26-28 may	Attending the NIME'05 conference in Vancouver, Canada
25 may	Co-organising the 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Music Technology together with Lars Erik Holmquist and Atau Tanaka in Vancouver, Canada, in conjonction with the NIME'05 conference
15-20 mar	A few days in Stockholm, Sweden
14 mar	Accepted panelist to Ubiquitous Music panel, at SIGGRAPH 2005 (July, Los Angeles, USA)
11 mar	Contribution to PLAN:ICA mentioned in netartreview: PLAN Report: Reflections on the Pervasive & Locative Arts Network launch at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, February 1-2, 2005 (by Naomi Spellman)
6 mar	Sonic City featured in El Mundo (Spain's 2nd largest daily newspaper): Transforma el ruido de tu barrio en una sinfonía
4-10 mar	In Budapest, Hungary, for EC-Agents meetings
24-27 feb	Visiting family in Östersund, Jämtland (Northern Sweden)
20 feb	Holding a DIY electronics workshop at Gallery Big Love, together with David NG McCallum and Tobias Good
1-2 feb	Presenting at PLAN:ICA (London, UK) - my slides here, other slides here
25 & 28 jan	Interaction with Sound and Music lectures at the Interaction design project course HCI / Interaction Design programme, IT-University Göteborg, Sweden (2nd lecture postponed to 7th of February)
13-14 jan	Student volunteer at the workshop Designing Robot Applications for Everyday Use, at the Viktoria Institute, Göteborg, Sweden
2004 22 dec-3 jan	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland
5-8 dec	Sara Ljungblad is presenting our poster "Robot Toys: Designing Playful Interaction Between Robots and Humans" at the Complex Systems Conference, in Turino, Italy
30 nov	Open house at the Viktoria Institute
26-27 nov	Going to the Rekyl winter festival in Stockholm, Sweden
24-26 nov	Mobile Life meeting in Stockholm, Sweden Also meeting up with researchers from the UK-based project Equator
15-17 nov	Sonic City demo at the European Union's IST 2004 Event in The Hague, Netherlands
12-14 nov	Visiting STEIM in Amsterdam,checking out DEAF04 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and visiting family in Brussels, Belgium
12 nov	My birthday! Turning 26 and losing all my youth discounts...
27 oct	Tejp named in the swedish design magazine FORM (5/04 p. 49) [link - p.4]
26-29 oct	Assisting Martin Strohbach from Lancaster University during a hands-on Smart-Its workshop at the Intelligent Systems Design program, IT-University in Göteborg
13 sept	New Sonic City website available here!
11 sept	Video "Mobile Music Making with Sonic City" shown at Ubicomp04, Nottingham, UK (I didn't go, though)
2 sept	Our lab was visited by a chinese TV crew today! Apparently, they were from Dragon TV Shanghai (120 millions viewers!). They filmed Sara, Maria and Lars Erik as they were demo-ing Context Photography, Pin&Play and Informative Art[picture]
1 sept	Sonic City featured in the swedish technology newspaper Ny Teknik [link]
28 aug	"Tap&Bass" dance-techology performance at Club Locus, Pustervik with Alex Berman (Nim) and Valerie Bugmann within the Dance & Theater festival in Göteborg
24 aug	Sound installation "Electro Love" and DJ-ing at Club Love, Järntorget with Nim and Jonas Frankki within the Dance & Theater festival in Göteborg
9 aug	Video "Mobile Music Making with Sonic City" accepted for Ubicomp04
5 aug	FAL's presentation at and visit of MIT Media Lab, Boston (or Cambridge?), USA
1-4 aug	DIS conference in Cambridge (or Boston?), USA: 1) Participating in the panel "Design for Hackability" moderated by Anne Galloway (Carleton University), with Jonah Brucker-Cohen (MLE), Elisabeth Goodman (NYU), and Dan Hill (BBC Radio & Music Interactive) proposal: [ PDF] - powerpoint slides: [PC ppt] [Mac ppt] 2)Design exhibition of Context Photography (Picture This!) with Maria Håkansson, Sara Ljungblad and Panajotis Mihalatos
29-31 july	A couple of days in NYC, USA
24 july	"Motstånd? - Hack your toys" workshop! [flyer PDF] Holding it together with Jonas Frankki, Alex Berman and Dylan Tinlun Chan at Pustervik, Järntorget (Göteborg, Sweden) between 13.00 and 17.00 Register by emailing: jonas (at) mediekritik (dot) nu
16 july	Margot Jacobs is presenting our project Tejp at Street Talk, an urban computing happening organised in Berkeley, CA, USA, by Intel Research Berkeley
2-12 july	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland
19 june	Prototypes built from found junk during the "Hacking the street" workshop exhibited at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Göteborg, Sweden
18 june	Going to the workshop "Applications of New Interaction Techniques" organised by CID and Equator in Stockholm, Sweden
17 june	Exhibition at the annual SITI conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Our project Mobile Life was awarded "best IT-research project 2004" (for Sweden) [pics]
14-15 june	Going to the Outside In workshop "Hacking the street" held by Katherine Moriwaki and Jonah Brucker-Cohen in Göteborg, Sweden [pics]
14 june	Featured in the newspaper Metro
10-11 june	Invited speaker at the first international workshop Mobile Music Technology 2004 in Göteborg, Sweden [pics]
3-5 june	Presenting the poster "In Duet with Everyday Urban Settings: A User Study of Sonic City" [PDF/a>] at NIME'04, Hamamatsu, Japan [Michael Lyons's pics] [my pics]
30 may-2 june	Visiting my friend Haewon in Tokyo, Japan!
25 may	Mobile Life meeting in Stockholm
18 may	Context Photography accepted for the DIS 2004 Design Exhibition. The exhibition will take place in Boston, USA in early August and will be held by me, Maria Håkansson,Sara Ljungblad and Panajotis Mihalatos
10-11 may	EC-Agents workshop with Sony CSL in Paris, France
26 apr - 03 may	In Vienna, Austria, to present the short paper "Context Photography: Modifying the Digital Camera Into a New Creative Tool" at CHI 2004
21 apr	Picture This! featured in the swedish technology newspaper Ny Teknik [link]
15 apr	Panel submission "Designing for Hackability" with Anne Galloway, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine Moriwaki, and Elisabeth Goodman accepted for DIS 2004, Cambridge, MA, USA
6 apr	Presenting Context Photography (Picture This!) and Sonic City at the Viktoria Institute seminar "Mobile Services for Everyday Creativity" (article about it in Göteborgs Posten)
20-22 mars	Margot Jacobs is presenting our project Tejp in Reykjavik, Iceland and placing audio tags across the city!
19-29 mars	Visiting my best friend Catherine in New York, USA
15 mars	"In Duet with Everyday Urban Settings: A User Study of Sonic City" accepted to NIME'04
27 feb	News and updates about the Sonic City project available here (new website coming soon!)
20 feb	Short paper "Context Photography: Modifying the Digital Camera Into a New Creative Tool" accepted to CHI'04
12-13 feb	EC-Agents project meeting in Rome, Italy
8-12 feb	Visiting Medialab Europe in Dublin, Ireland with the rest of the Mobile Life crew
1 feb	The Viktoria Institute leaves Viktoriagatan and moves to Lindholmen. Goodbye bicycles, cafés and thai food! Hello harbour, IT-university and Big Love art space!
19 jan	Interview by David Toop included in his article Walking through sound, in Vodafone's Receiver webmag
5 jan	New EU-funded project for FAL: Embodied and Communicating Agentswith Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology in Rome (Italy), Sony CSL Paris (France), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Institute of Advanced Studies, Collegium Budapest (Hungary), Humbold Universitat (Germany), Physics Department, La Sapienza University (Italy), University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain) and University of Tokyo (Japan)
2003 19 dec-4jan	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland
5-7 dec	Holidays in Östersund, Jämtland
12 nov	My birthday! Turning 25!! Send presents! : )
7 nov	SITI meeting with Santa Anna and IDA in Linköping, Sweden
4-5 nov	Mobile Life project meeting in Göteborg
24-27 oct	Holidays in Vienna, Austria (pic)
21 oct	Tejp featured in Wired News [1] [2] See comments [3] [4]
13-14 oct	Tejp demo at Ubicomp 2003, Seattle, USA [poster (15Mb)] [paper] [pics]
sept-oct	Teaching a course with FAL at the Intelligent Systems Design program, IT-University, Göteborg
17 oct	New website for the “Picture This!” project available here + updated Sonic City website
8-11 sept	Participating in the workshop “Physical Interaction – Workshop on Real World User Interfaces”, and attending the rest of the Mobile HCI 2003 symposium, Udine, Italy (pics: [1] [2])
23-26 aug	Partying at Notting Hill Gate Carnival (!!!), London, UK (pics)
12-13 aug	Group meeting at Varberg
31 july	Found some pictures and reviews of NIME03 – where Ramia and I presented the Sonic City project – on-line at [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
16 july	Submission accepted to “Digital Cities 3: local information and communication infrastructures: experiences and challenges”, Communities & Technologies conference, Amsterdam, Holland
11-30 julu	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland
4 july	Submission accepted to “Physical Interaction – Workshop on Real World User Interfaces”, Mobile HCI 2003 symposium, Udine, Italy
30 june	Anne Galloway (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) writes about Sonic City and Tejp in her paper “Resonances and Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and the City” submitted for a special issue of Cultural Studies
24-27 june	Attending the workshop “Movement in the city” about video-based ethnographic field studies, organised by Barry Brown (University of Glasgow) and the Mobility Studio, Interactive Institute, Stockholm
19-21 june	Presenting Sonic City at the Cybersonica festival Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
30 may	The Total Recall demo video that had been shown at CHI is available here (featuring me, showing off my amazing drawing skills!)
28 may	Participating in the workshop “Interaction with sound in public space” at the Interactive Institute gathering, Stockholm
22-24 may	Presenting the full paper “Sonic City: The Urban Environment as a Musical Interface” at NIME 2003, Montreal, Canada (Hong's pictures)
15 may	Presentation at Viktoriadagen, the open house of the Viktoria Institute (Johan's pics)
9-12 may	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland
28 april	Meeting with “MobileLife” industrial partners in Stockholm, Sweden
21 april	Harddisken (Danish Radio) interview about Sonic City available here
5-10 april	Presenting two posters at CHI 2003, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA (see texts) Total Recall poster PDF here TRIP CANCELLED. STOP THE WAR.
3 april	Sonic City demo at the FRINGE, Café Krasnapolsky, Göteborg @ 7 pm
22 march	Total Recall winner of the CHI fringe competition at CHI 2003
13 feb	Interviewed about the Sonic City project for the radio program Harddisken (Danmarks radio – P1)
6 feb	SITI conference in Stockholm, Sweden
4 feb	Interactive poster “Total Recall: In-Place Viewing of Captured Whiteboard Annotations” and student poster “Are Designers Ready for Ubiquitous Computing? A Formative Study” accepted for CHI 2003
29 jan-2 feb	“MobileLife”-workshop with SICS and Interactive Institute in London, UK Visiting Imperial College London, Royal College of Art and King’s College London
2002 20 dec - jan 4	Winter holidays in Geneva, Switzerland
21 nov	1rst FRINGE [new media art & design] gathering in Göteborg
12 nov	Holding a seminar with Ramia Mazé at the interactiondesigngroup, Chalmers University of Technology + it’s my birthday!
4-7 nov	Paper writing and BTnode workshops at ETHZ in Zurich, Switzerland
27-3 nov	Demo at UIST'02 in Paris, France: “Sonic City: Merging Urban Walkabouts with Electronic Music Making” [PDF] [Poster PDF – 3.4MB] (Ramia’s pictures)
3 oct	Participating in a wearable computing and textile workshop at PLAY
2 oct	Delegates from HP (USA) and NTT, the University of Kyushu, the University of Tokyo and ATR from Japan visit the Future Applications Lab
29 sept-2 oct	“Smart-Its go to Dinner: Scenarios for Context-Aware Technology in Restaurant Application” demo at the second Disappearing Computer Jamboree, held together with the Ubicomp 2002 conference in Göteborg, Sweden
16-21 sept	Attending the ICMC conference in Göteborg, Sweden
11-12 sept	“MobileLife”-workshop with SICS and Interactive Institute in Stockholm’s archipelago, Sweden
28-29 aug	Smart-Its meeting at ETHZ in Zurich, Switzerland
23 aug	Sonic City demo accepted for UIST'02
17 aug-5 sept	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland
14-15 aug	FAL-workshop at Aspenäs Herrgård
1 july	Joining the Smart-Its project June 18 FAL has been awarded 19 million SEK (approx. 2 M Euro) by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research for a 3-year research project on Mobile Services, together with SICS and Interactive Institute
12-14 june	Pin&Play meeting in Lancaster, UK
28 may	KTH MScEng graduation Ceremony in Stockholm’s City Hall
24-26 may	Attending NIME02 in Dublin, Ireland (pics&videos)
16-20 may	Holidays in Geneva, Switzerland
19-26 apr	Student poster presentation at CHI 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (poster PDF here) + Observer at the CHI 2002 South African HCI Development Consortium (DevCon) see Johan's pictures
11-12 apr	Attending the Smart-Its Hackfest at TeCo in Karlsruhe, Germany
8-10 apr	Attending ARCS'02 in Karlsruhe, Germany
28 feb	Holding a music technology workshop with Ramia Mazé at the IT-University of Göteborg (Ubiquitous computing course – Human-Computer Interaction Program)
8 feb	FAL visits Telia and SICS in Stockholm
7 feb	SITI conference in Stockholm
28-29 jan	Kick-off group meeting at Aspenäs Herrgård
7 jan	I start working at Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute
4 jan	I move from Stockholm to Göteborg

Lalya Gaye