[spectre] IAA residency, Container, Invisible Dances and more...

[lisa]

Some events and news from London and beyond.
All welcome.

lisa


IAA Residency:
Institute of Applied Autonomy (IAA) come to London from May 31 to June 
13 for a Residency at Limehouse Town Hall as part of the Cartographic 
Congress.

Join the intro session on 31 May the workshops, 6 to 8 June to 
investigate new uses for the iSee surveillance mapping tool, and hear 
about other IAA exploits and experiments with subversive software and 
critical robotics. Full info at the end of this mail.

Container Collaboration:
Monday 9th June, 6.30pm, at Limehouse Town Hall
A "show-and-tell" session where Paul Mobbs and I will show our pictures 
and videos, talk about our recent trip to Jamaica to help with the 
"Container" project and discuss plans for further exchanges.

In April and May this year, MAP supported the launch of IandI Media's 
"Container" project in Palmers Cross, Jamica.  This involved building a 
media access resource in a converted freight container from donated 
computers.  The project is an initiative of Mervin Jarman from the 
Mongrel artist group.  Camille Turner and Mike Steventon from 
Interaccess in Canada also joined Mervin and many people from Palmers 
Cross to get the container operational. Myself and Paul Mobbs made it 
over from London as a first stage of an exchange programme between UK 
and Jamaica. You can see Paul's diary at:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/jamaica

Invisible Dances:
This "work for the ear" by Bock and Vincenzi is now available by 
telephone on:
0115 941 5651
(+44 115 941 5651 if dialling from outside the UK)
and is being presented as part of the Nott. Dance festival until 1 June.
Read more about it at;
http://www.invisibledances.org.uk

This work will be publicised and presented in London later this year.



MORE on the IAA Residency follows...

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

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.

The IAA residency is being kindly hosted by the artists at Limehouse 
Town Hall, and is part of the Cartographic Congress - a 6 week 
gathering and exhibition of diverse mappings.

URLs:


*	http://appliedautonomy.com
*	http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/CartographicCongress
*	http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/LimehouseTownHall
*	http://mediaartprojects.org.uk



The IAA residency, Container project exchange and Bock and Vincenzi 
collaboration are all supported by London Arts as part of its 
Developing Digital Media in London fund.
All are welcome to all the events, though its good to email 
lisa at southspace.org so you will be expected.