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Seminar
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
"Deconstructing Networks"
and
Katherine Moriwaki
"Socially Fashioned Networks"
Thursday 18 January 2007 /
5:30 pm
The Green House / Inverness, Scotland
Free and open to the public
Distance Lab is pleased to host a seminar with two accomplished
techno-designer-artists from New York City, Jonah Brucker-Cohen and
Katherine Moriwaki.
Jonah will discuss his work in the theme of "Deconstructing
Networks" in both physical and online instantiations. He will
discuss his projects that attempt to challenge and subvert accepted
notions of network interaction from software manipulation and
rule-based systems to translating virtual processes and conventions
into the physical world. Some projects he will discuss include
BumpList, an email community for the determined, Alerting
Infrastructure!, a website hit counter that destroys a building,
PoliceState a fleet of radio controlled policecars who's movements are
dictated by keywords sniffed on a local network, and SimpleTEXT a
performance that is controlled by participants through texting
messages from their mobile phones.
Katherine will discuss her work on "socially fashioned"
networks, utilizing a combination of wearable technologies,
varying degrees of network infrastructure, and social behavior for
deployment and propagation. Unlike fixed networks, spontaneous ad-hoc
networks rely upon mobile and flexible infrastructure which can
dynamically reconfigure based on necessity and circumstance. As these
communication devices are integrated into intimate personal objects,
such as accessories and clothing, the statement that "the people are
the network" becomes increasingly resonant. This presentation focuses
on the projects "RECOIL", "Inside/Outside", "Oscillating Windows" and
"Umbrella.net." These projects serve as examples of "socially
fashioned" networks.
Jonah and Katherine will also be leading the MIDI Scrapyard Challenge
in Forres on Friday 19 January.
Speaker biographies
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and R&D OpenLab
Fellow at Eyebeam
in NYC. He is also currently completing his Ph.D. as an HEA MMRP
(Multimedia Research Programme) fellow in the Disruptive Design Team
of the Networking and
Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College
Dublin. He was also a Research Fellow in the Human
Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe. He received a Masters
from the Interactive
Telecommunications Program at NYU and was an Interval Research
Fellow there creating interactive networked projects. His work and
thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which
includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert
accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is
co-founder of the Dublin
Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the
ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and
Technology and Fundacion ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous
international publications including WIRED Magazine, Rhizome.org, and GIZMODO, and his
work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale
(02,04), ISEA
(02,04,06), Institute of
Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of
American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04), and the ZKM Museum of
Contemporary Art (04-5).
Jonah URLs
Projects and Work: www.coin-operated.com/projects
Personal site and
Blog: www.coin-operated.com
Katherine Moriwaki
Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating clothing
and accessories as the active conduit through which people create
network relationships in public space. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in
the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College
Dublin, her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and numerous
festivals and conferences including numer.02 at Centre Georges
Pompidou (02), Break 2.2 (03), Ubicomp (03,04), eculture fair (03), Transmediale (04),
CHI (04, 06), ISEA
(04), Ars Electronica
(04), and WIRED Nextfest
(05). Katherine recieved her Masters degree from the Interactive
Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of
the Arts and currently teaches at Parsons School of Design in and the
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She is a 2004 recipient of the
Araneum Prize from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology and
Fundacion ARCO.
Katherine URLs
Projects and Work: www.kakirine.com
Sponsors
Jonah and Katherine's trip to the highlands is being supported by Distance Lab and Urban Learning Space,
Glasgow.
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