[spectre] Tagged: A one-day RFID event and other events at SPACE Media Arts in March

[SPACE Media Arts]

Tagged: A one-day RFID event and other events at SPACE Media Arts in March
 
SPACE Media  Arts gears up for NODE.London with a number of events happening
throughout March. All events held at SPACE Media Arts, 129-131 Mare Street,
Hackney, London E8 3RH (Bus: 254, 253 and 106 from Bethnal Green, 55 from
Old Street; Tube: Bethnal Green). More information soon at
www.spacemedia.org.uk <http://www.spacemedia.org.uk/>  or contact
heather at spacestudios.org.uk.
 
 
 
Tagged: A one-day RFID event
 
Saturday, March 25; 11am ­ 4pm
Booking required ­ limited places, book early
   
On 25 March, SPACE Media Arts will host a program of discussion and debate
focused on electronic tagging technologies, in particular Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID). Tagged: a one-day RFID event will examine the impact
electronic tagging has on our lives and imagine the potential it holds for
art, industry and communities.
   
Even if you don¹t know what a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag is,
you¹ve probably used one, whether it¹s at your local grocery store checkout,
using an Oyster Card, tracking a package you¹re waiting to be delivered or
in your passport at the airport.
 
RFID is the barcode of the future. It is a unique identification code that
can be tracked through radio waves, sometimes without human contact or
knowledge. 
RFID may help create a real-life internet, where objects can communicate
with each other to create complex networks, exchange useful information, and
do things for you in every day life. But it could also have a major impact
on commercial industry, security and privacy.

Tagged: A one-day event will include:

- An introductory address by Dr. Humberto Moran of Open Source Innovations,
addressing the role of free open source software and privacy-friendly
technologies as a way of maximising the social and environmental benefits of
RFID 
- Three concurrent small group demos/discussions on RFID technology by
Tagged workshop instructors Peter Chauncy (RFID: A Technical Overview),
Paula Roush (Spychips: RFID in daily life) and Antonios Galanopoulos
(Interfacing RFID with Pure Data)
- A panel discussion on the implication of electronic tagging on day-to-day
living, including privacy and security issues, chaired by Ann Light
(Leonardo Network, Queen MaryUniversity of London) and including Roush, Dr.
Moran and Chris Ranger (NHS National Patient Safety Association)
- Informal presentations by artists working with tagging technologies,
including Marcus Kirsch, whose project URBAN EYES will be on exhibition.
   
During this event, SPACE Media Arts will launch the new Tagged commissioning
program for artists with an open call for proposals. There will be staff on
hand to answer questions and discuss ideas.

To book a place, please email training at spacestudios.org.uk
<mailto:training at spacestudios.org.uk> or call 0208 525 4330. Places are
limited. Cost is £5 including lunch. Payment is required in advance.
 

URBAN EYES public prototype exhibition
 
Wednesday, March 22 to Saturday, March 25 ; 1 ­ 6pm Free

A project by Marcus Kirsch <http://www.nodel.org/people.php?ID=224> and
Jussi Ängeslevä <http://www.nodel.org/people.php?ID=225>
In collaboration with Arts Council England, Furtherfield and V2
  
Over four days in March, SPACE Media Arts will host a public prototype
presentation of URBAN EYES, an award-winning location based project using
RFID technology and pigeons to reawaken our natural drive for exploration.
Using the everyday urban dweller and bastard son of the carrier pigeon, the
ever-present urban pigeon (Columba livia), URBAN EYES establishes a
connection between humans and those 'flying rats' using modern technology.

URBAN EYES crosses and expands our mobility patterns via the pigeon's
pattern, through images from the bird's journey, delivered to viewers.
The installation is based on a combination of modular feeding platforms and
tagged pigeons. Using Radio Frequency Indentification (RFID) tags in
birdrings, a pigeon landing on a feeding platform sends its images and
messages to surrounding bluetooth devices (phones, organizers, laptops). All
the user has to bring is a bluetooth-enabled device and perhaps some
birdseed. 
 
Artist Marcus Kirsch will be speaking about URBAN EYES on Saturday, March
25th as part of Tagged: A one-day RFID event.

 
XXXXX Events 

1) A la recherche du temps perdu / In Search Of Lost Time
Monday, March 20; 12 ­ 6pm
Free entry
 
A performance by Karl Heinz Jeron and Valie Djordjevic.

For a long time I would to go to bed early. Sometimes, the candle barely
out, my eyes closed so quickly that I did not have the time to tell myself:
I'm falling asleep.
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

The performance A la recherche du temps perdu takes the code literally. We
are reading the machine-code version of Marcel Proust's novel. During the
eight hours of a working day the human performers are playing computer. From
the analog to the digital and back again: The sequence of events of the
performance is described in this manual. Starting from the ASCII-Version of
Marcel Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu it is then re-coded into
its underlying zeros and ones and then read by two performers alternately
(one is reading the zeros, the other one the ones). The third person is CPU
(the Central Processing Unit): She interprets the zeros and ones with the
aid of an ASCII allocation table, cuts out the corresponding letter from the
prepared sheets and turns it over to Display, who sticks it onto the wall
panel. After eight hours of performance about 250 characters can be
processed. During the act of reading, interpreting and presenting the work
of art emerges, posing questions about the nature of the digital and the
analogue, of work and art, time and beauty.

players:
False (Zero): James Smith
True (One): Valie Djordjevic
CPU: Karl Heinz Jeron
Display: Elvina Flower
  
http://khjeron.de/index.php?cSID=&cat_id=1826
<http://khjeron.de/index.php?cSID=&amp;cat_id=1826>
  
2)  holographic xxxxx
Monday, March 20; 7:30 ­ 10:30pm
Free entry
  
Neurophysiologist Karl Pribram investigates the Spectral Holographic Domain:
in Brain, Navigation and the Universe.
  
Karl Pribram is the leading exponent of a holonomic theory of the human
brain backed up by hefty experimental research. All parts contain the story
of the whole, with the term holonomic referring to a dynamic or changing
hologram.

Remove the converging lens in a slide projector that forms the image. Place
a slide in the projector and project the light onto a screen. No image will
form. Technically, the light incident on the screen is in a holographic
form. Each point on the screen is receiving information from every point
from the slide. If a converging lens is placed at a location between the
screen and the slide projector an image can be formed on the screen. The
lens can now be moved to new locations in a plane cutting through the light
path to the screen and in each case a complete image is formed (Taylor,
1978).

The consequences of such domain transforms within the context of
consciousness are extreme. xxxxx pairs Karl Pribram's lecture with a rare
screening of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's sci-fi magnum opus Welt am Draht.
A world where one is able to make projections of people with a computer. And
of course that leads to the uncertainty of whether someone is himself a
projection, since in this virtual world the projections resemble reality.
Perhaps another larger world made us a virtual one? In this sense it deals
with an old philosophical model, which here takes on a certain horror (RWF)

Transformations enacted by both the lens of Pribram and of Fassbinder open
up the total consequences of the universe as hologram under a rereading of
the instantaneous communication of totally distant subatomic particles.
Holographic theory presents a radical view of reality which well connects
with monadology and computation, with a stress on the framing of perception,
the question of which abstraction or domain we inter information within.

3) xxxxx on a wire 
Wednesday, March 22; 8 ­ 11pm
Free entry
 
#N canvas 0 0 323 172 10;
#X text 202 123;
#X msg 120 31 node.l ->;
#X obj 175 139 print;
#X msg 279 153 world_on_a_wire ->;
#X msg 222 108 ap ->;
#X msg 167 104 pd ->;
#X msg 148 82 osc ->;
#X msg 126 55 xxxxx ->;
#X connect 1 0 2 0;
#X connect 3 0 2 0;
#X connect 4 0 2 0;
#X connect 5 0 2 0;
#X connect 6 0 2 0;
#X connect 7 0 2 0;
 
open call for no fee/free play OSC/Pd/ap on a wire participants for
collaborative open air performance Mare Street 22nd March

welt am draht projection
  
7pm set up 
8pm opening
 
RSVP/submit protocols/working plans to xxxxx at 1010.co.uk
confirmed participants: ap, Alejo Duque, Yves Degoyon, Alejandra Perez Nuñez
see xxxxx.1010.co.uk for all xxxxx events 16-26th March 2006