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2007
September
RESIDENCY: Giles Lane is resident at Render, University of Waterloo, Canada, for the first stage of our public authoring collaboration (10-21/09/2007).
TALK : Giles Lane gives a talk at University of Western Ontario, London Canada (19/09/2007)
SMPOSIUM : Alice Angus & Karen Martin present Proboscis' work at the iDesign Symposium, Royal Festival Hall, London (18/09/2007)

July/August
RESIDENCY : Proboscis Case Study Residency participants Eloise, Georgia, Ayalouwa & Vanda complete a week long residency using the DIFFUSION Generator to create eBooks and StoryCubes (23/07-01/08/2007).
SYMPOSIUM : Alice Angus attends the British Council's Creative Cities symposium in Yokohama, Japan (23-27/07/2007).
PERFORMANCE : Loren Chasse gives a performance, Footpaths, at Proboscis' Studio (04/07/2007)

June
WORKSHOP: Experiencing Democracy workshop with Loren Chasse at Jenny Hammond Primary School, London.

May
PUBLICATION : Proboscis published the Conversations & Connections Project Report for the Ministry of Justice (18/05/2007)
TALK : Giles Lane participates in a debate for New Media Scotland's Poker Club series (22/05/2007)
TALK : Giles Lane prsents Snout at the TakeAway Festival, Dana Centre, Science Museum London (10/05/2007).
PANEL DEBATE : Giles Lane participates in the Social Technologies Summit at Futuresonic, Manchester (11/05/2007).
WORKSHOP: Giles Lane participates as a tutor at Mediamatic's Hybrid World Lab, Amsterdam (7-9/05/2007)

April
CONFERENCE : Proboscis creates a Public Authoring Zone at the Enter Festival, Cambridge (26-27/04/2007).
PERFORMANCE: Snout performance and public forum in Shoreditch, London (10/04/2007).

March
TALK : Giles Lane gives a talk for Design Critical Practice at Goldsmiths College, University of London (20/03/2007)
TALK : Alice Angus gives an Artist's Talk at Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Australia(15/03/2007)
RESIDENCY: Proboscis principals Alice Angus & Giles Lane are resident at Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of dLux's Coding Cultures Concept Labs and Symposium.

February
TALK : Giles Lane gives a talk on Social Tapestries and public authoring at CARTE, University of Westminster (15/02/2007)
TALK : Giles Lane presents ST at Uncharted Territories: The Brave New World of Mapping at the British Library (14/02/2007)
WORKSHOP : Giles Lane gives a design masterclass on storytelling techniques for the Interaction Design Lab at Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee (7/02/2007).

January
RESIDENCY: Proboscis principals, Alice Angus & Giles Lane are resident at Render at the University of Waterloo as part of the Winter Lecture series in the School of Architecture.

2006
July
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Robotic Feral Public Authoring – demo at Futuresonic Festival, Manchester.

June
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: policy seminar on
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: project exhibited at Citymined Exhibition & Conference, South London Gallery (June 16-25).
URBAN TAPESTRIES: project exhibited at Sonar Festival, Barcelona (June 15-17th).
URBAN TAPESTRIES: project exhibited at Digital Hub, Dublin (June 9th).
URBAN TAPESTRIES: launch of beta trial of new Urban Tapestries software platform

May
DIFFUSION GENERATOR: launch of private beta trial of eBook Generator platform

March
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Robotic Feral Public Authoring – demo and presentation at the Takeaway Media Festival, Dana Centre London
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Robotic Feral Public Authoring – publication of new Cultural Snapshot
DIFFUSION GENERATOR: launch of private alpha trial of eBook Generator platform
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Proboscis awarded an innovation grant by the Electoral Policy Division of the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

February
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Robotic Feral Public Authoring – Field trial of experimental Feral Robots in London Fields.

2005
November
DIFFUSION eBooks: Proboscis publishes three new DIFFUSION eBooks in the Liquid Geography series by: Hayden Lorimer & Kate Foster, Joyce Majiski & Louise K Wilson.
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Community Collaborations: Havelock (HIRO) Open Day.
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Education Collaborations: Jenny Hammond Primary School Open Day.
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Robotic Feral Public Authoring. Bodystorming Workshop at Space Media Arts for local residents and users of London Fields.

October
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: presentation at May You Live in Interesting Times Conference Chapter Arts, Cardiff
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: presentation at Middlesex University (Lansdown Lectures Series)
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: presentation at Re:Activism Conference Central European University, Budapest, Hungary SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Keynote at Future Wireless Cybersalon, Dana Centre, London

September
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: presentation at The Matching Link Symposium Stroom, Den Haag, Holland
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Proboscis is seeking a part-time temporary assistant for the Social Tapestries Project. details here
NAVIGATING HISTORY: Neville Gabie's project, 10th September 2001...Archive Within An Archive launched.
NAVIGATING HISTORY: Workshop at Worthing Library for Jason Bowman's project, Untitled (Reading)

August
TOPOGRAPHIES & TALES: work-in progress film by Alice Angus & Joyce Majiski screened in the Picturing the Yukon: Yukon Films on Tour series, Canada

July
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES PUBLIC FORUM: half day event focussing on research and future direction of the programme, hosted by the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research.
TOPOGRAPHIES & TALES: Sound Scavenging Workshop at Jenny Hammond Primary School, in collaboration with Loren Chasse.

June
DIFFUSION eBooks: Proboscis publishes new DIFFUSION eBooks in the Species of Spaces series by: Raoul Bunschoten, Nina Czegledy, Scott delaHunta, & Minna Tarkka.
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Community Collaborations. Bodystorming Workshop with St Marks Housing Coop in West London.

March
TOPOGRAPHIES & TALES: Creative Lab & Public Forum at Canada House
URBAN TAPESTRIES: presentation at Whitehead Lecture Series, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Proboscis: presentation at Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford

February
TOPOGRAPHIES & TALES: talk by Alice Angus at Yukon College, Dawson City, Canada
URBAN TAPESTRIES: presentation at University of Cambridge Computer Science Dept
URBAN TAPESTRIES: presentation at PLAN, ICA, London

January
30/1/2005: Proboscis announces a new CULTURAL SNAPSHOT by Nick West.
TOPOGRAPHIES & TALES: Alice Angus & Joyce Majiksi in residence at the Klondike International Arts Centre, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.

2004
November
URBAN TAPESTRIES: presentation at Devices of Design Colloquia, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal Canada

October
URBAN TAPESTRIES: exhibition at ArchiLab, Lyons, France
URBAN TAPESTRIES: launch of UT web browser & RSS Feeds
4/10/2004: NAVIGATING HISTORY: project launches – website | events calendar

September
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: 1 day Creative Lab at the London School of Economics

August
Proboscis awarded funding by EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) to host a Visiting Fellowship by Natalie Jeremijenko in 2004/05.

July
30/7/2004: Proboscis announces two new CULTURAL SNAPSHOTS by Giles Lane and Katrina Jungnickel.

June
10 Years of Proboscis: we celebrate our tenth anniversary since founding Proboscis in 1994
URBAN TAPESTRIES: field trial of mobile phone prototype, London

May
URBAN TAPESTRIES: Presentation at PsychoGeoConflux, New York

April
29/4/2004: URBAN TAPESTRIES: Presentation at Cybersalon Mobile Futures, Dana Centre at Science Museum London
26-27/4/2004: URBAN TAPESTRIES: Participation in the Crossing Project, Finnish Institute London
21/4/2004: URBAN TAPESTRIES: Presentation at DigiPlay Symposium, University of Surrey
21/4/2004: URBAN TAPESTRIES: Presentation at Critical Platform, HTBA Hull
14/4/2004: Panel Session at Life of Mobile Data Conference, University of Surrey
URBAN TAPESTRIES: Bodystorming Experience at London School of Economics
Proboscis becomes an Arts Council England RFO (Revenue Funded Organisation) 2004-2006

March
URBAN TAPESTRIES: Presentations at Nokia, BBCi, Middlesex University, University of Westminster
SOCIAL TAPESTRIES: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation awards funding for collaborations with civil society organisations to develop experiments using Urban Tapestries.
NAVIGATING HISTORY: Arts Council England, Creative Partnerships Kent, West Sussex County Council, Mid Kent Arts & Libraries and East Sussex County Council award funding to new series of commissions in archives in South East England.

February
14/2/2002: Proboscis launches new website
URBAN TAPESTRIES: DTI awards funding extension to UT

January
31/1/2004: Proboscis announces new CULTURAL SNAPSHOT by Matt Locke
URBAN TAPESTRIES: Presentation at Approaching the City conference, University of Surrey