April 23, 2006
Oyster cards sound jam
"Arphield recordings is a project documenting sound performed with RFID (arphid) technology, the radio frequency identification system used for access control and surveillance. The microchip inside each Oyster card tracks your journeys, beeping every time you enter or exit the tube. Join the mob at the Stockwell tube station for an impromptu sound jam/memorial using your oyster cards. 10 June 2006 at 14pm."
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/002325.html
The sound of the metro entrance is very usual thing. But like my previous post indicates, it can be a good signal to notice something unaware.
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April 10, 2006
Low Drone
"The LowDrone melds the lowrider, a customized vehicle with hydraulics and candy coated paint, with the functionality of the drone, an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with surveillance cameras that has been standard U.S. military fare since the ‘60s. Initially commissioned for INSITE 2005/Tijuana Calling, The LowDrone is the world’s first flying lowrider, outfitted with wireless video transmission capabilities and conditioned for remote aerial flight. Through The LowDrone website, users are able to simulate flight over one of the most surveilled spaces on the planet: the U.S./Mexico border between Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and San Diego, California."
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March 19, 2006
Surveillance & Privacy in art
For my ‘current events’ in privacy & information I have decided to give some examples of new-media artworks / experiments that refer to the subject. This is a choice of some project which will each give its own perspective and hopefully be informative as a ‘what’s being done in the field’ kind of overview. This is of-course a very limited overview, but hopefully you’ll find it useful and inspiring.
continue reading...
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March 04, 2006
Hyperscope Project
source via blackrimglasses.com
A little taste of computer history... the Hyperscope project.
Brad Neuberg writes of his present experience as one of the researchers invited to work on the Hyperscope project.
This interesting project revisits and pays homage to the work of Douglas Englebart... who we can thank for inventing the computer mouse and pioneering the field of human computer interaction, amongst many other accomplishments.
A snippet:
Hyperscope is a National Science Foundation funded project to rebuild portions of Douglas Engelbart's groundbreaking NLS system on the web.In NLS (or Augment, as it was later renamed), a small command bar at the top of the screen could accept commands; below this command bar was the document that was being worked on. Users would type commands into the command bar, something like the command-line of a DOS or Unix terminal, and would use the mouse to click on portions of the document to interact with and operate on.
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February 14, 2006
Track the Trackers
" TRACK-THE-TRACKERS---” is a network installation consisting of tactical media components. The work makes use of existing personal technologies in conjunction with the satellite GPS infrastructure to provide participants with an expanded audible (not a visual) experience of the proliferation of video surveillance in the urban public sphere. The mobile unit, a bag containing a laptop, GPS-receiver, earphones, and a generic mouse is taken on a walk through the city. The sound in the headphones changes whenever the participant enters the vicinity of a surveillance camera. This effect is not automatic but created by other participants who are continuously adding new locations to the existing database. The technology is fully documented with the intention of inspiring others to build similar systems and improve on the design "
http://www.t-t-trackers.net/index.php?inc=english
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