[spectre] Hidden Histories - HiveNetorks and Armin Medosch unveil street radio in Southampton - March 14, 2008
HIDDEN HISTORIES From: March 17th Southampton, UK - Launch event: Friday 14th of March, 11am - open ended, Fountain Cafe, Southampton Civic Centre Gallery Cafe. - The Solent Centre for Architecture + Design, in partnership with London based media art innovators Hive Networks and artist Armin Medosch, have been working with Southampton City Council’s Oral History Unit on Hidden Histories, a unique project that turns the city itself into a giant outdoor gallery. Hidden Histories makes accessible some of the highs and lows of Southampton's 20th Century history, the glory of great ships and journeys as well as the disasters and long forgotten tales. Hidden Histories will uncover those treasures through a revolutionary new concept of Street Radio. This is a totally new way of experiencing the city. The system utilises wireless communication technologies such as WIFI and Bluetooth in combination with FM radio to create a public interface to the city’s heritage. A selection of stories from the Oral History Unit will be broadcast from 10 nodal points linked together to form a media rich walk that transports people through the changing life of the city. Following the success of the pilot scheme it is hoped that the project can be extended further not only in Southampton but to other towns and cities as well. The walk begins in and around the proposed ‘Cultural Quarter’ on Above Bar Street and the Civic Centre complex. You can experience the walk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through any FM radio receiver or mobile phone with radio capacity. Route maps and radio units can be hired from Southampton’s Tourist Information Centre from Monday 17th March. A limited number of or radios will be available for borrowing. Please bring a portable radio or an FM enabled mobile phone. More information can be found at www.hiddenhistories.org.uk Read more research notes by Armin Medosch : http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/332 Find out more about HiveNetworkshttp://www.hivenetworks.net Press contact: Rosie Danby 023 8028 3053 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Solent Centre for Architecture and Design, 30a High Street, Lyndhurst Hampshire SO43 7BG Hidden Histories is funded through an investment made by Southampton Partnership, using SEEDA funding. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Hive Networks UNlaunched June 13
Hive Networks UNlaunched @ Space Triangle Hackney 129-131 Mare Street London E8 3RH Wednesday June 13, 2007 17:00 pm: a special reception and debate with the hive-mind 19:00 pm: speeches and hospitalities rsvp: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hive Networks is an Open Source project that has developed a DIY kit for ubiquitous computing. During an extensive RD phase, we have created Hivewares - a range of software tools that transform industrially built, inexpensive, small consumer devices into the much smarter species of Hive device. With Hivewares we offer an easy to use media toolkit that creates networks that can see, hear, move and communicate using a suite of applications that enable a device to gather and disseminate digital content. Now we invite you to explore the current development phase of the project and hear about art projects past, present and future. We welcome media practitioners, curators, organisers and researchers to examine the project, give advice and come up with ideas for future developments. www.hivenetworks.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Porta2030
PORTA2030 by TAKE2030 === YOU ARE THE NET YOU ARE PORTA-PORTER --- toward building portable and responsive social networks, === PORTA2030 is a performative urgency network exercise with PORTA-porters. PORTA2030 launches its porta-pack, a wifi compact unit that documents, archives and transmits during the Node London media season in March,2006. PORTA2030 locates East London's Broadway market, a racially mixed urban block currently under regeneration plan of Hackney council, as the site for its public performance. PORTA2030 engages the community members as PORTA-porters in scripting its site-specific urgency scenario. Roaming in Broadway Market's public wifi zone, PORTA-porters equipped with porta-packs upkeeps the communal data and echoes each other upon receiving urgency signals. Audio and visual data transmitted live from porta-packs and displayed in public view is further remixed, calling for active public participation and intervention. PORTA2030 holds 3 public meeting sessions to discuss self-initiative networks, sign up PORTA-porters, conduct scripting sessions and porta-pack workshops. Join us on Broadway Market, E8, London March 15- Gossip (#62) - 3pm to 6pm March 22- Fabrications (#7) - 3pm to 6pm March 30- off Broadway (#63-65) - 6pm to 9pm To sign up as PORTA-porters [EMAIL PROTECTED] PORTA2030 Broadway market public performance April 24 to May 1. 2006. http://www.porta2030.net Broadway market in transition: 34 Broadway market occupation http://34broadwaymarket.omweb.org/modules/wakka/HomePage Hari Kunzru's Guardian articles http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1660371,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1678046,00.html Node London media seasion http://www.nodel.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
