an audio and visual installation that uses Internet as an imaginary space where sound echoes, reverberates throughout the Web. Based on transmission errors, the sound material is shaped by the virtual acoustic space of the network. Sound streams broadcasted within the installation structure gradually echoes the activity of the Web in various locations of the globe. Its analysis in these various points is used to progressively draw the contours of an imaginary landscape inside the installation.
The installation is currently on show as part of Cimatics at IMAL in Brussels but I’ve not had any luck finding info on the IMAL website.
is an urban intervention designed to engage people in actively marking up public space.
Created using the labs own NextText Java library (which is also available for Processing):
The project reconfigures private communication technologies into private-to public (p2P) tools. Our motivation for providing a public outlet for privately-produced messages is driven by an interest in addressing the ongoing media reconfiguration of shared urban spaces which favors commercial global consuming culture over personal or local points of view. Our targets are the large-scale LED screens that are increasingly found in Western urban cores. Cityspeak provides a means for urban inhabitants to talk back to these giant screens.
Users can send messages to the public displays from mobile devices or desktop computers (see diagram above) effectively reappropriating the city for every day users through a number of individual broadcast strategies.
PEIR (image above) is a Personal Environmental Impact Report system which allows its user to leverage existing technology on their mobile phone to explore and share how they have an impact on the environment and how the environment impacts them, essentially revealing the network between us and our environment.
Below is a video explaining how PEIR works. PEIR was recently exhibited at Wired NestFest, at the bottom of this post is a video tour of PEIR by it’s creators for NextFest.
The ‘Is our machines learning?’ machine (image above) is a networked installation networking a user and a machine based on how the user answers questions in a test.
composed of real U.S. standardized test questions. The physical installation consists of a machine that is mechanically capable of making marks on a Scantron brand standardized test form with a pencil. In a separate online space, visitors coming to a website determine which multiple-choice answers the machine in the installation selects to fill in. The website consists of a testing interface which delivers standardized test questions written by a government agency called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). When visiting users answer each question, their response is sent to the remote machine. After each answer a user provides, she can watch the machine respond to her input in real-time via a streaming video feed from the installation. To provide incentive for interaction, the user can also explore dynamic statistics about fellow users’ answers as well as generate a student profile based upon how her answers align with actual NAEP statistics.
The test itself (image below) is no longer functioning however details of the project and a video (also below) are available on the site.
This Monday (20/10/08, 20:30 Paris time, GMT+1) Pascal Lièvre and Matthieu Delahausse will perform Surveiller Punir “Double Contraintes Foucault” as part of Panoplie.org’s Double Bind series of webcast performances. The performance will involve:
Pascal Lièvre and Matthieu Delahausse, at two different places in Paris, will read the same extract of “Discipline and Punish” by Michel Foucault, each of them being equipped with an SM accessory which will make the exercise of the reading difficult.
The concept for these curated performances, a Double Bind, is a fascinating one in relation to networked forms:
A dilemma in communication, in which a person receives two or more conflicting messages, and one message denies the other; a situation in which the person will be put in the wrong however they respond, and the person can’t comment on the conflict, or resolve it, or opt out of the situation.
