dorkbotlondon Dorkbot #63
/people doing strange things with electricity/
When: 19:00-22:00, 18 November 2009
Where: Limehouse town hall,
646 Commercial Road,
E14 7HA
[map ]
Featuring the grand and disturbing...
- The People Present: Planetary Pledge Pyramid // The End of the World Game <http://pledgepyramid.org/>* Saul Albert
- The British EFF - Protecting Your Bits <http://www.openrightsgroup.com/>* Glyn Wintle - A discussion of the up coming three strikes legislation, government plans to monitor the uk internet and knitting.
- electric vehicles and open design <http://www.riversimple.com/> * Hugo Spowers - A small UK-based car company, Riversimple, is applying an open collaborative approach, which has had massive success in the software world, to develop the electric vehicles of the future.
- Traces <http://johnwild.info/>* John Wild - GSM data turned into solid matter.
More info - http://dorkbotlondon.org/event/dorkbotlondon62/
'Naked' scanner in Manchester airport trial
John Wild is pleased at the news that the Rapiscan Secure 1000 ‘Naked’ scanner will be introduced at Manchester Airport's Terminal 2, and hopes this will be a step to realising his 2008 proposal ‘Sculpture for Airports’. He has sent a copy of the ‘Sculpture for Airports’ proposal to Manchester Airport's Managing Director Andrew Cornish.
‘Sculpture for Airports proposes a democratisation of the security at airports by rerouting the naked images of travellers produced by the Rapiscan Secure 1000 scanner, to the portrait mounted flat screen TVs used for plane timetables. This will result in an interactive artwork that both references classical art history and the early experiments in photography carried out by Edward Muybridge, whilst allowing travellers the opportunity to take responsibility for their own security by keeping a lookout for concealed suspect devices.’
For more information See: http://www.rupture.co.uk/SculptureforAirports.html
Nostalgia for Mainframes - Part 1
Documentation of Nostalgia for Mainframes. An event and performance organised, by John Wild, for the Maude McMcan Gallery on Saturday 20th June 2009.
Deparcitecture
At Deparcitecture John Wild will be presenting his 2008 project Sculpture for Airports, and giving a joint performative talk with Majed Aslam on, ‘the shifting space of the Airport from the ultimate post-modern non-space to a locus of political and environmental Conflict’.
Deparcitecture
Saturday 12th September
About 2.30pm
Departure Arts Centre
649 Commercial Road.
(Just a couple of minutes from Limehouse DLR)
London
E14 7LW
Leytonstone :: Traces
‘It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level withoutleaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.’
William Gibson
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As we live , work and traverse the city, town , countryside we leave behind marks, traces of our existence upon the physical landscape.
The development of distributed networked computing has created a virtual layer of space, a meta-Landscape of data – ‘dataSPACE’.
Increasingly, physical space is being overlaid by layers of dataSPACE connected and interwoven by the creation of everyday data. Activities such as using mobile phones, wireless computers, GPS systems, Oystercards, or purchasing items containing RFI tags etc, all mediate between physical space and dataSPACE casting ‘data-shadows’.
These data-shadows, etched into the hardware that enable dataSPACE, will provide a rich mine of information for the future digital-archeologist to unearth, sort and analyse.
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John Wild has collected the GSM location data created by his own mobile phone, whilst taking a walk radiating out from the abandoned Leytonstone Woolworths store.
The data was solidified into a series of 7 small metal (pewter)plaques, and embedded back into the physical environment at their corresponding locations.
Maps indicating the location of the data plaques can be obtained and taken away from an installation within the Woolworths store.
Pick ‘n’ Mix
Address: Old Woolworths building, 817 High Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 1HQ
Nearest Tube: Leytonstone, Central Line, Zone 3
Opening dates and times:
Saturday 27 June: 12-6pm
Sunday 28 June: 12-6pm
Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 July (incl.): 12-6pm (Friday until 8pm)
Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 July (incl.): 12-6pm (Friday until 8pm)Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July (incl.): 12-6pm (Friday until 8pm)
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