Wireless Art - Past, Present, Future
Stephen Wilson, Professor,
Conceptual Information Arts Dept, San Francisco State University
Topics Covered
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Cultural Issues Related to Wireless Art -Media Archeology
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Categories of Wireless Art
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Examples from Stephen Wilson Installations
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Future Research Issues in Wireless - Artisitc Opportunities
and Challenges
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Based on research for Wilson book Information
Arts: Intersections of Art Science & Technology
Cultural Issues Related to Wireless Art - Media Archeology
-(cultural
issues ink)
Why is wireless interesting/ important ?
Same origins of interest as Telecommunkcations in general
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curiosity about the Other - places, persons
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desire to project into another place, to act at a distance
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desire to know of another place
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abilty to be in more than one place at a time
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dominion
Specific interest in Wireless
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Freedom from the physical, gravity, exploring the ether
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Originally it was thought it was from the spirit world
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Dream of freedom/ movement
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Importance of place/ irrelevancy of place
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Mobility/ spontaneity
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Smart mob - distributed democracy
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Why is contemporary wireless different than radio - one to
one?, linkage with data? more democratic?
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Radio as Artistic Space
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Artists as Broadcasters
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Making visible the content of 'Hertzian' Space
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Making conscious the Electromagnetic "cloud"
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Location based events affecting particular locations
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Location Based Authoring
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Location Based Games - Reflection on Smart Mob
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Location based sound events and stories
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Active audience via mobile phones, wi-fi
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Mobile phone activated public sculpture
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Conceptual Works
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The Telepresent
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TransitTime
Future Research Developments - Opportunities and
Challenges for Artists - (future
research link)
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Access Everywhere - Low orbit satellites
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Haptics - Sending more than image and sound
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Ubiquitous/ Pervasive Computing
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Enabling Technologies for Activating Objects
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Location Based Research
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Alternative Power Sources
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Telerobotics - Telepresence - UAV
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Electromagentic Spectrum
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Electromagnetic fields - dangers and benefits on the
body
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Teleportation
Link Resources in Wireless/GPS Art
Stephen Wilson links
Compendium
of artists working with emerging technologies (including wireless and
GPS)
Information
Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology (MIT Press, 2002)
Art Shows/conferences
Ohne Schnur - kunst und drahtlose kommunikation - art
and wireless communication conference & show
ResFest - Wireless Art Show - Korea Competition
for wireless art graphics (multimedia works for screen)
Deep Wireless - Celebration
of Experimental Radio Art - Darren Copland / New Adventures in Sound Art
Wireless Event
- Tate online examination of wireless culture and art - theorists
- http://www.tate.org.uk/audiovideo/wireless.htm
electra
and magnetics (Conference on electromagnetics - Montreal)
ResFest - Wireless Art Show - Korea Competition
for wireless art graphics (multimedia works for screen)
Courses/ Articles/ Talks on Wireless Art
Future of Wireless
Art (Nikolas Tesla)
Jeff Golman - Art
of the Mobile Phone
Radio
vs Wireless Micz Flor - (tate streaming video)
- Flor main Site
The
Phenomenology of Wireless Technologies - Tetsuo Kogawa - (tate
streaming video)
Tetsuo
Kogawa main site - micro radio manifesto, radio party,
etc
Wireless
Intermedia and the birth of Terraportals - Pete Gomes - (tate
streaming video)
Receiver -
Vodaphones ezine with articles and descriptions of wireless artists work
(articles by Timothy Druckrey, Usman Haque, David Toop, etc)
Smart
Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard
Rheingold
Yury Gitman Wireless
Art (parsons)
Bertolt Brecht 'The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication' -
http://home.freeuk.com/lemmaesthetics/brecht1.htm
Wireless
artists create art for screens - article in Texuality
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Amodal
Suspension precedents - link list of wireless/remote art works
Wireless Review ( trade
journal)