Wikipedia includes references to new media art works (something I had noticed before) and you stumble accross them under some of the most interesting definitions.

Going through my thoughts about my research and my desire to move away from gallery work, simply because I hate chasing shows and it seems to get more difficult rather than easier as time goes by (or is it something to do with where I live), I started reading up on wearable computing. The standard fare, Steve Mann and Wearcam etc. etc. and stumbled on ubiquitous computing something which was always implied in Manns work but a line of research I had not pursued further. Pervasive computing, ambient informatics and tangible media are all terms I had heard before and while the first two seem almost interchangable with ubiquitous computing, tangible media would seem more associated with haptic technology to me. One term which is new to me is everyware:

More recently, American writer Adam Greenfield coined the term everyware to describe technologies of ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, ambient informatics and tangible media. (The 2004 article All watched over by machines of loving grace contains the first use of the term.)

However two years behind the times isn’t all that bad. Anyway starting to go off topic. The point is what I seem to be pushing towards is about manifesting ideas concerned with networks particularily technology based networks in public spaces so that people can act / react / interact on them to change both their state and how that is manifested in the space around them.

One link in the wikipedia article about ubiquitous computing which lead to a wealth of art work was the link to Natalie Jeremijenko’s website, first port of call the Live Wire (image above left) project which is just a gem in its simplicity. I thought I had never come across Natalie’s work but it seems she is a member of the Bureau of Inverse Technology, their bitplane (images above right) being the work I know best.