Source: New Media Art
pg. 62-63: Robotic 7 kW xenon searchlights, webcams, TCP/IP to DMX converter, Java 3D interface, GPS tracker, Linux, email servers
Keywords: public, spectable, telepresence
http://www.alzado.net
Source: New Media Art
pg. 56-57: Knowbotic Research with Peter Sandbichler, 2002
Flash, Nessus Attack Scripting Language, MySQL, Pd, Python Keywords: hacking, hactivism, installation
http://unitedwehack.ath.cs
Source: Spectropolis:
Spectropolis projects: UMBRELLA.net by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki
About UMBRELLA.net: UMBRELLA.net is an experimental platform for developing ad-hoc networks based around coincidence or chance occurrences. The project utilizes the haphazard and unpredictable patterns of weather and crowd formation as a catalyst for network formation. This approach is meant to challenge traditional conceptions of how networks form and function by correlating their existence to circumstances beyond people’s direct control. The system consists of a set of umbrellas as nodes that can spontaneously form based on weather conditions. UMBRELLA.net establishes a visual footprint of a network in public space and creates a framework for sharing localized information among connected nodes.
Source: Vectorial Elevation
http://www4.alzado.net/edinformacion.html : Between April 22 and May 3, 2004 this website allowed you to design enormous light sculptures in the sky over the city of Dublin, using 22 robotic searchlights placed around O’Connell Street. The beams of light were visible at a distance of 15 kilometres; every fourteen seconds a new design was displayed as it arrived from the Internet.
Source: Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warchalking: “Warchalking is the drawing of symbols in public places to advertise an open Wi-Fi wireless network.
“Inspired by hobo symbols, the warchalking marks were conceived by a group of friends in June 2002 and publicised by Matt Jones who designed the set of icons and produced a downloadable document containing them. Within days of Jones publishing a blog entry about warchalking, articles appeared in dozens of publications and stories appeared on several major television news programs around the world.”
Source: Internet Art
pg. 160-163: “Finally, not all software art exists in a functional state; some of it remains purely propositional. Moving away from the explorations of functionality and visualization in the previously discussed works, Graham Harwood’s London.pl (2001) exists in an even less objectified form than an application: it is simply a script in Perl (a language designed for processing text). ...
Source: The Telegarden Archives
http://queue.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/garden/Ars/
The TeleGarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm.
Source: Internet Art
p. 34: “On a simple, white web page with black text, Bunting listed the numbers of public telehone booths surrounding London’s King’s Cross station. Designating a time and date for a collective, international phone-in, the artist orchestrated a telephonic musical in a public transportation and commuter hub.”
http://artport.whitney.org/collection/index.shtml
In 1995, the Whitney Museum acquired its first work of Internet art, Douglas Davis’ The World’s First Collaborative Sentence. Commissioned by the Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, in conjunction with “Interactions,” its 1994 survey exhibition of the artist’s work, Sentence is an ongoing textual and graphic performance on the World Wide Web that is owned by the Whitney Museum but was maintained on the Lehman website from 1994 - 2005. The work was generously donated to the Whitney by Barbara Schwartz in honor of Eugene M. Schwartz, her late husband, who together had purchased the concept and a signed disk with recordings of the first days of the Sentence.
Source: RadioTaxis
http://www.radiotaxis.net/master.htm?fun-art: “All Radio Taxis vehicles have a GPS (global positioning system) fitted. Our computer system assigns the nearest available taxi to the customer, this is how we are able to keep the amount of time that you wait down to an absolute minimum. Taxi Art is your own unique piece of artwork created by using the live GPS data from our taxis as they move about London.”