Event Date and Time:
April 8, 2005
6:30pm - 8pm
Location:
ITP
721 Broadway, left elevators, 4th Floor
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Jonah will discuss his work in the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" in both physical and online instantiations. He will discuss his projects that attempt to challenge accepted notions of network interaction from software manipulation and rule-based systems to translating virtual processes and conventions into the physical world. Projects he will discuss are BumpList, an email community for the determined, Alerting Infrastructure!, a website hit counter that destroys a building, PoliceState a fleet of radio controlled policecars who's movements are dictated by keywords sniffed on a local network, and SimpleTEXT a performance that is controlled by participants through texting messages from their mobile phones.
Personal URLs:
Projects and Work: http://www.coin-operated.com/projects
Personal site and Blog: http://www.coin-operated.com
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Katherine Moriwaki
Katherine will discuss her work on "socially fashioned" networks, utilizing a combination of wearable technologies, varying degrees of network infrastructure, and social behavior for deployment and propagation. Unlike fixed networks, spontaneous ad-hoc networks rely upon mobile and flexible infrastructure which can dynamically reconfigure based on necessity and circumstance. As these communication devices are integrated into intimate personal objects, such as accessories and clothing, the statement that "the people are the network" becomes increasingly resonant. This presentation focuses on the project "RECOIL", "Inside/Outside", "Oscillating Windows" and "Umbrella.net." These projects serve as examples of "socially fashioned" networks.
Personal URL:
Projects and Work: http://www.kakirine.com
Bios:
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. Previously he worked as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland. He received a Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and spent time there as an Interval Research Fellow creating interactive networked projects. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacioin ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including Wired Magazine and Rhizome.org and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04) Transmediale (02,04), ISEA (02,04), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (ICA-04), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04), and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe(04-5).
Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating clothing and accessories as the active conduit through which people create network relationships in public space. Formerly a Design Fellow at Parsons School of Design, Katherine co-developed and taught 'Fashionable Technology', a ground-breaking course integrating wearables and fashion. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College Dublin, her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and numerous festivals and conferences including numer.02 at Centre Georges Pompidou (02), Break 2.2 (03), Ubicomp (03,04), eculture fair (03), Transmediale (04), CHI (04), and ISEA (04). She is a 2004 recipient of the Araneum prize from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO.
