-The first wireless, inexpensive technology
-Historically dominated by government and commercial interests
| one to one (walkee talkee, phone,sms) | one to many (broadcast radio, net radio, sms) |
| many to one (???) | many to many (conference call,maillst) |
-Revolutionary Potential - eg Bertolt Brecht "Let
the listener speak as well as hear"
-Many similar issues now in wireless artistic experiements
'The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication' - http://home.freeuk.com/lemmaesthetics/brecht1.htm
Bertolt Brecht
-Free Radio, Pirate Radio
-Mini-FM movement (eg Tetsuo Kogawa)
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-Simon Penny - Lo Yo Yo (rods access different stations as they rock) http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny/
Christian Terstegge - Radio ? Active (Sponges with embedded receivers)
-Scanner - Music made of intercepted cell phone conversations
-Usman Haque - SkyEar - Balloons pick up the electromagnetic melange of signals as they ascend http://www.haque.co.uk/
Simon Penny - Lo Yo Yo |
Christian Terstegge - Radio ? Active |
Scanner |
Usman Haque - Sky Ear
- Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby (Placebo Furniture/ De-electrification center - furniture that reacts to electromagnetic fields) http://www.crd.rca.ac.uk/dunne-raby/
- Cahterine Richards (Curiosity Cabinet - copper plated to protect from electromagnetic fields)
- Haruki Nishijima - 'Remain in Light' - (special butterfly nets capture 'electronic insects' radio waves of sound)
Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby (Placebo Furniture |
Cahterine Richards (Curiosity Cabinet |
Haruki Nishijima - 'Remain in Light' |
Stephen Wilson - Transit Time
Real time positions of San Francisco light rail system
trains and buses (via GPS) control sound, video, and kinetic experiences
in gallery
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/
Teri Rueb - Trace - People left voice memories tied to
certain locations
http://www.research.umbc.edu/%7Erueb/Oindex.html
-urban tapestries
http://www.proboscis.org.uk/urbantapestries/
Hoshi Takuya - "Spatial Memory Architecture" people link
text with particular locations
Stephen Wilson - Telepresent - people upload images as
they move through their day
Traces - Terri Rueb |
Hoshi Takuya - "Spatial Memory Architecture" |
Urban Tapestries |
Communication with other groups at specific places - Reflection on Smart Mob, Collective Intelligence
-cntrcpyô - SMS game to send astronauts to Mars http://operation.cntrcpy.com/
-Blast Theory - 'Can You See me Now' - Virtual
chase game activated by tracing real runners moving through city.
Also 'Uncle Roy All Around You' - viewers help people in city find
uncle Roy http://www.canyouseemenow.co.uk
-Raby, Clavin,Farrington, Gosling, Durrant, Kitchen,
Hooker, Patel, ,Sweeny, Walke Flirt, Lost Cat, Herd -
Location based games and systems
http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/research/projects_card/flirt/text.html
-Yury Gitman and Carlos Gomez de Llarena - Node Runner
(Wireless scavenger hunt) http://www.noderunner.com
cntrcpyô |
Can you see me now |
-Iain Mott - Sound Mapping - Place activated sound
-Stefan Schemat - Water - Location activated
story
Iain Mott - Sound Mapping |
Stefan Schemat - Water |
- Golan Levin Telesymphony (sound composition
using audience calls to cell phones) http://www.flong.com/telesymphony/
- Ken Goldberg Teleactor (web visitors tell
a mobile person what to do and what to say) http://www.eiu.org/experiments/teleactor/
- Sheron Wray, Fleeta Siegel - Texterritory
(audience members converse with eath other and the performers) http://www.texterritory.com/
Levin Telesymphony |
Goldberg et al - Teleactor |
Sheron Wray, Fleeta Siegel - Texterritory |
-- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Amodal Suspension - (people activate
search lights via SMS and conversion into light pulses)
http://www.amodal.net/precedents.html
- Electroland ? Urban Spectacle R-G-B" - callers
control light patterns on a building
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Amodal Suspension |
Electroland ? Urban Spectacle R-G-B |
-Igor Stromajer - Wpack - (downloadable packages activate
on mobile phones)
http://www.intima.org/
-Paula Levine - San Francisco/Bagdad - (map real coordinates
of war activities into San Francisco)
-Marko Peljhan - (link mobile people with Makrolab)*-
Igor Stromajer - Wpack |
Paula Levine - San Francisco/Bagdad |