I’ve posted about the ground breaking work of Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz before and mentioned their work Hole in Space in a post elsewhere and how it has inspired other more recent works. Somebody has now posted historic video documentation of the work to YouTube which is well worth seeing.
The images above show the original work and a more recent reconceptualisation of it. More information about the work available here.
Originally seen on Turbulence.
Light Painting WiFi by Timo Arno of Touch is a four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light to reveal:
the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.
Of all the uses of light-painting (far too over used as a technique) this is the most creative I’ve seen to date.
For related work see Drawing invisible wireless network fields and Immaterials: the ghost in the field.
SYN by Artereazione.
SYN is a synchronization request packet on the Internet. SYN means “together” in ancient greek. SYN is the synapsis. Through the synapses a neuron exchanges informations with other neurons within a neural network managed by the brain. SYN installation is a “social brain” activated by new feeds posted on thematic blogs or web community pages.
Users can send impulses to the installation by leaving comments on the projects page.
Tele-Present Water by David Bowen (I’ve previously posted about Tele-Present Wind) is a connected installation which:
draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 46075 Shumagin Islands Alaska (53°54’39″ N 160°48’21″ W). The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.
Image above of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 46075 Shumagin Islands Alaska (53°54’39″ N 160°48’21″ W).
Originally seen on Triangulation Blog. See Also Hiperficies by Elias Crespin.
A selection of some drawn networks of various types by Norwegian artist Torgeir Husevaag.
Network of People (image above) is a rendering of people encountered by the artists during a week.
During a week in November 1996, I took notes about all forms of contact I had with other people (name, time, place, duration etc). This was an attempt to investigate and visualise to what extent a persons private history is a part of his present life and personal network. The people I met in the research-week became the “1st generation informers”. They are represented with a name in an red oval in the drawing. Most of these 104 encounters of the “present” could refer to other associates of mine. These relations (named by the 1st gen. Informers), were added to the drawing (orange oval) according to a cronology. I stopped the investigation there, although The 2nd generation informers could have refered to a third one, etc…
Poker-drawings I and II (image above and below).
These pen and ink drawings were transcriptions of poker-tournaments played online, with myself as a participant. Each players actions is shown as a series of specific symbols, while the players involved in each hand is connected with lines. The two series employ the same set of symbols, but arrange them differently.
Antimatter (image above).
The map is a network of two hundred Norwegian companies/ organizations core values. I have replaced all the words representing the values with antonyms (the opposite of synonyms).
Originally seen on Serial Consign.
