CcIaaResidency

From UoWiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Latest News_


Workshop Day

SUNDAY 8 JUNE

Following on from the discussions on saturday 31 may, we're going to have a cycle route mapping day on SUNDAY 8 JUNE:

Here's the plan: Take a leisurely (or fast) ride to limehouse town hall, get there for 3pm to 4pm for bagels and cake. If you can procure one, carry a GPS unit with you and record your route. If not, make a careful note on a map. feel free to include your favourite stopping-off places.

At limehouse we will download the routes from the GPS units and otherwise plot the journeys.

This will be our research and development session for the collaborative cycling map idea and a further discussion will i'm sure ensue.

We are trying to get around 3 GPS units to lend. Please try and get one by your own means . If you want to try and borrow one, and/or need some guidance on how it works then ring or email me and we'll arrange:

07946 378905

MONDAY 9 JUNE

6.30pm A further chance to hear about and discuss the work of IAA, including a glimpse under the hood of the robots. PLUS a show and tell session by Paul Mobbs and Lisa Haskel about recent adventures in Jamaica with Mervin Jarman (from the Mongrel artist group) building the CONTAINER - an open access media lab in a freight container using all donated equipment. for a preview have a look at: http://www.fraw.org.uk/jamaica/





_____________


see sauls pics from the intro and brainstorm session including wandering, swimming, cycling and climbing... http://chinabone.twenteenthcentury.com/gallery/iaamappingday



General project description



Subject: Institute of Applied Autonomy London residency 31 May to 14 June Limehouse Town Hall

EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO MEET AND WORK WITH IAA:

Introduction and "brainstorm" session, 1pm Saturday 31 May

Workshops on Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 June

Guest appearance at Dorkbot London on Wednesday 11 June


IAA are designers and makers of electronic and robotic systems for subversion and resistence. Their software projects and machines are the results of keen observation, social/political analysis and top-class engineering Their projects include: Graffiti-Writer - a programmable robot who will carry out your spray-can missions at a remote distance, and "Little Brother" aka. "the pamphleteer" , a propaganda robot "designed to bypass the social conditioning that inhibits activists' ability to distribute propaganda by capitalizing on the aesthetics of cuteness".

A particular focus in London will be their project "iSee". This is an on-line mapping tool which has been used to plot the position of surveillance cameras, and then to calculate and draw the "path of least surveillance". Over the past two years, this system has been deployed in New York and Amsterdam where it has been used by countless individuals and groups who consider themselves to be "at risk" from unwarranted photographic intrusion.

In their visit to London, IAA are seeking to look again at the iSee software and use their residency to see how it might be re-applied to other areas of interest. The software enables a database of locations with images and descriptive texts to be built up, for these to be represented as a map with multiple views, and for the data to be sorted and relationships visualised on the map. IAA are seeking input from anybody who would like to see the software re-purposed for other areas of social research or action. Psychogeographers, street protestors, health researchers, cyclists and observers of the hidden and invisible data structures of the city are among those who have shown interest in the potential of the software.

Everyone is invited to the introductory session to hear more about IAA'S work, and bring their own ideas for the development of iSee. Interested people are then invited to participate in the workshop sessions that will be a chance to participate in data gathering and data entry to make your own iSee map.


Contact lisa@southspace.org with your questions/suggestions.

URLs:



This residency is a Media Art Projects collaboration, supported by London Arts as part of its Developing Digital Media in London fund.

Retrieved from "http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/index.php/CcIaaResidency"
Personal tools