AD UNDAS is a social network service using the sea as medium. The network uses messages in bottles as the main communication. More than connecting and interacting with other people, as in Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., ad undas aims at a dislocation of representation (people, time, space), and an uncycling of events, as a breakthrough from semi-closed web circuits towards a widening perception of communication and state of affairs, expressed in the three-fold strategy of listening, gleaning, and littering.
deadSwap is an offline file sharing system where participants covertly pass a USB stick from one to another. The route of the USB memory stick and the identity of the other participants is not known by the users but controlled by local, independently operated SMS gateways that are kept as a carefully shared secret by their users.
brain coding: “only small windows of frequencies have been shown to have consequences for consciousness. These are typically below 30Hz frequency and less than 500nT in strength.” Members of the public are invited to play in a game of chance.
Saturday, June 27, 2009 @ 2 PM General Public Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin.
Exquisite Code is an algorithmic performance system for heterogeneous groups of writers. The writers are fed a sequence of prompts on 6 minute intervals while the audience tracks the progress projected on the wall. At the end of each interval, a computer selects one of the texts as the next segment of the narrative and the Proctor will read the text to the audience. There are 10 prompts in total and the whole event takes about an hour and a half. The audience is free to eat, drink and move around, so long as they don't disturb the writers. The writers are free to conspire with or against the system as well as each other. This performance features Michaela Karen Elliot, Lief Monte Cantsin, and Luther Blisset.
Exquisite Code is a concept from Sabrina Small and Brendan Howell with technical assistance from Till Nagel.
Crossing the field
A multimedia installation made up of an environmental projection and five sound amplification points.
The Echo of the Leonids meteor swarm, a radio signal recorded when meteors coming from the cosmos go through the atmosphere, interacts in the exhibition area with images of a journey through the earthen landscape. Crossing the field is a project whose key element is the journey, the crossing, and the perception of the environment and of one’s self during the transit. This work, supported by sounds related to interaction phenomena of the earth's magnetic field with the universe, sets itself in a perspective of cognitive expansion of the Sound Landscape. The focus is the relationship between perceptive alteration of reality and the movement of the inner geography.
Videos have been recorded on the Sardinian territory, while images have been developed by means of a process which involves analogical and digital media. The audio material used in this work has been selected in cooperation with the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari and has been made available thanks to the ESA European Space Agency.
Crossing the field is an original work of Alia Scalvini, Production year: 2009.
“Swarms of fireflies stalk the peripheries. Acentered peripheries, worlds in the surroundings of worlds, coexisting and making contact at some point. Making contact and igniting a hundred fireflies, peripheral bugs transmuting fear into a luminous caravan…”
Virtual Fireflies is an exercise of fictional intervention. It is not a fiction in its strict sense but it uses fiction as a tactic for deviation. It is an exploration of speculative techniques that aims to open up the reality of societies of control to an array of peripheral worlds and actively engage in its production.
Here in Berlin I'll deploy a few clusters of these bugs. Virtual Fireflies have not penetrated our world in a material form ever before. This will be the first deployment. They are meant to work as entry points for fictional worlds to leak into our world, entities trafficking between peripheral worlds.
The intervention will take place Saturday night and will last for some days (if nothing goes wrong!).