..on Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:01:37AM +0200, adam hyde wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 12:58 +0200, Damian Stewart wrote: > > honor wrote: > > > In a geographically-elongated context (such as New Zealand), such a > > > vehicle > > > might better be conceived of as virtual, rather than physical, distributed > > > rather than centralised. > > > > what about conceiving of this vehicle as a vehicle, so to speak? > > ADA-Blerta? that was another one of my ideas before i jumped ship - fill a > > bus/van with some basic tech and go and confuse smalltownfolk with new > > media. > > a really good model and precedent for this is the Expert Base van > Florian Schneider had, and of course Ariel Railway (the roaming > recording studio from Coromandel).
There was also a mobile lab/schoolroom/digital-library/internet-cafe in the form of a bus at one point travelling around Eastern Europe. Maybe you can remember the name? People could pack in and skill up for a day or two. All the machines and tables could be folded away in all sorts of impossible ways; IKEA meets house-bus. This bus-lab was a little sterile and over-hyped as a whole. That said it it did make a lot of sense when I was actually inside the thing. It'd be great if such vehicle could be taken further, doubling as a micro exhibition space as Damian suggests. Roll in a few terabytes of knowledge archives, a local webserver, uplink for offline locals, free software repositories, soldering irons, arduinos, microphones, speakers, a dozen thin client workstations, 20 foldable chairs and a back-projection screen on one side the bus for mini-cinema. > I cant find links for them..ugh...the internet...so young...so young... Same situation here.. Can't find a reference.. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
