Wireless Futures and Aura
Hosted at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in London on October 4th, the Cybersalon's Wireless Futures event was a day of presentation, demonstration, and debate into the nature, impact and potential of the wireless technologies Internet and mobile telecommunications. I was invited to present the wireless blimp project I'm working on for ISEA 2006, as well as to join a public panel debate exploring social, cultural and political aspects of a wireless future along with Dooeun Choi (curator Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea), Peter Cochrane (Co-founder Concept Labs and former CTO of British Telecom, Bob Horwitz (Co-ordinator Open Spectrum International, Prague), Tapio Mäkelä (a researcher and media artist from Helsinki), Adam Hyde (a new media artist from New Zealand) and Francis McKee (Head of Digital Arts and New Media at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow). The event was webstreamed and it will be archived later this week, at which piont I'll add a link to this post.
In addition to the discourse, I had the chance to play with some mobile art projects like Steve Symons' Aura, "a sonic multi-user augmented reality that allows users to effect a personal audio landscape through their actions within a defined space". I'd played with Aura back in March 04 at Futuresonic, (which actually featured one of the first and most exciting of our Locative Media Workshops). Steve also wrote about the project in this text of locative-type projects that I edited last year as well.
