Internet;Environment
How does the Internet interface with the Environment?

Time: 5:45pm
Location: School of Architecture and Design
Digital Media Lab
139 Vivian Street/Dunlop Terrace
4th floor Wigan Building
Entrance is on Dunlop Terrace. Walk though the atrium, and make a
right at the information desk.
Walk towards the back of the building up the small flight of stairs,
make another right, then take the elevator to the 4th floor.
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Internet;Environment__How does the Internet interface with the
Environment? The Internet is often described as a virtual space, but
behind the illusion of immateriality, there is a complex physical
infrastructre. The talk explores the physical construction of the
Internet and its impact on The Environment using the technique of
voluntary poverty. The cultural interface between the Internet and
the Environment is explored through the historical relationships
between cyberculture and environmentalism. These cultural and
physical interfaces are contextualised in the light of the present
day resurgence of interest in sustainability, energy production and
climate change. Opportunities for the Internet as a model of, and
tool for infrastructural change are explored.
http://informal.org.uk/project/internet-environment/internet-
environment.pdf
Bio
---Julian Priest is an artist and independent researcher living and
working in New Zealand. He was co-founder of early wireless
freenetwork community Consume.net in London. He became an activist
and advocate for the freenetworking movement and has pursued wireless
networking as a theme in fields of arts, development, and policy.
He writes and lectures through Informal - an informal independent
research framework. He was one of the instigators of WSFII, the world
summits on free information infrastructures - an international series
of events to promote grass roots information infrastructures. He has
commented on radio spectrum policy and co-founded policy intervention
OpenSpectrum UK to advocate an open spectrum in the public interest,
in Europe and the UK.
Since 2005 he has developed an artistic practice around participatory
and collaborative forms and has shown works internationally in the
UK, Latvia, Germany and New Zealand. He has worked with students and
been peer advisor at the Banff New Media Institute.
He is currently focused on art practice and current interests are
around the physical and cultural boundaries between technology and
the environment. Most recently these have found expression in a 'A
Geekosytem'. He is based in Whanganui, New Zealand where he works
from 'The Green Bench' project room.
Morgan Barnard
Lecturer, Digital Media Design
School of Design
Victoria University of Wellington
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