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'Capacities' by Stanza . The installation is about the real time city, making artworks using live data. Essentially this artwork gathers data from the city this is then made virtual and then this virtual city is represented as this electronic city. A manipulation of data, that ‘powers’ all the ‘events’ in the installation.The changing data affects all the changes one experiences in the space. ie the moving objects, fans and changing lights are all responding to changes in temperature, light, pressure, noise, and the sound of the space. The whole galleryspace becomes one large artwork made from real time city information and data. The aesthetic and feel of the space will look like an electronic city. The city is made of units, grids, repetition , building blocks. All the leads wires and cables will be also made to look like a city. It will look "designed" like a piece of urban design, city surveyed and controlled. The whole space will turn into a map. The central piece “Capacities” in the gallery will be a series of responsive events triggered by live data. The installation is responding to changes in the environmental data. There will be electronic components all over the floor. (Fans, Lead, Soleniods, Motors) these move only in response to a wireless sensors network of 40 motes deployed in the gallery and across the environments . The light temperature, noise, humidty of the space and the city. As this data changes this wired city changes. That is the physical world is made virtual and them made real again. IE fans will turn when the temperature changes, motors will turn when the light changes. This whole piece will be living and breathing city. We understand the 20thc in terms of atoms, molecules and gases that move. Our world is now a world of numbers and changing data and information. This installation manipulates these numbers from the real world and affects the installation in the space in real time. Technologies. I will set up set up of my 40 motes sensors networks. (this is technology I already have) . This is tested, and I have custom built software that gathers data and places it online via a java proxy server. This then allows me to make artworks with the data. The data include GPS positions , humidity, noise, temperature, light, of the space and the surrounding environment. The sensors collect the real time data of the space and the environment. All the events in the gallery will be real time not recorded. The interactions of all this data, controlled via interfaces that can re-form and re-contextualise experiences in real time. Representations of these data sets allow unique understanding of the gallery and the urban environment in real time.
For Installation version. In another area of the room there will be visualization of the data from the network, ie a visualization of the network showing the process of the exhibit; which will projected.
NOTE the sensors that are used to display the data will also be used and exhibited across the gallery. Support works… http://www.stanza.co.uk/sensity/index.html capacity noun (capacities) 1 a the amount that something can hold b • as adj • a capacity crowd. 2 the amount that a factory, etc can produce. 3 (capacity for something) the ability or power to achieve it • capacity for change. TYPE OF WORK. Networked, real time, responsive, mediated, online, dataspace, city, artwork. The objective is to explore new ways of thinking about interaction within public space using data gathered from new technologies. Motes are used to collect the data. The 'motes' are tiny wireless sensor boards that gather data and communicate to the central server. The real world is monitored and the data stored in my archive retrieval system. Motes and sensor boards sense the micro incidents of change in the light, the noise, temperature, sounds of the flows inside the space. The interactions of all this data are re-formed and re-contextualised in real time artwork.
Heart of the external system 'capacities' main custon output board. (Image above) Technology. I am an expert in wireless sensor technologies as a result of my AHRC creative fellowship. I have 40 motes multi sensor network that will be scattered thought the the building. The nodes can be placed up to 50 -300 meters apart over the space. Once switched on they gather the data. I have made two versions of the interface software and custom built software for real time data over networks. Mote proxy is a java middle-ware environment for connecting up xbow motes to get access to the data outside moteview and directly off the motes. It is now in version two and sits on our servers. It allows access to two networks of twenty motes in real time from which php and xml pages are served up. Mote proxy version two, and allows real time polling of data online from any sensors network that is connected and switched on, the data is then formatting in PHP and XML to enable anyone to make a visualization or interpretation of the data with it. The changing data is what affects what you see and experience. Live XML feeds form real time sensors when switched on. The sensors monitor temperature, sounds, noise, light, vibration, humidity, and gps. The sensor network takes a constant stream of data which is published onto an online environment where each different interface makes representations of the XML. Custom electronics support and new Mote reader interface from XML in visual basic Ian Steele.
To do. Build the outputs. See drawing above.
Skectes in studio and other works based on networks. ( the feel of the installation)
Data as art. Using the XML live feeds the data can be turned in music visual or to trigger phyical events.
Above shows XML live feed example Environment. Light, Temperature, Sound, Noise, Pollution, GPS, Pressure, etc turned into sound How For the past four years I have been researching wireless sensor networks . I have developed the software and I can place sensor hardware as in kind support to make the installation. What I want to do is build this physical entity that one can see and hear to experience the real time based on the above sketch. This project investigates the real time gallery space and the experience of the gallery visitor, using data gathered from new technologies. The objective is to explore new ways of thinking about interaction within public space and how this affects the socialization of space. The project uses environmental monitoring technologies and security based technologies, to question audiences experiences of the event and space and gather data inside the space. The project also focuses on the micro-incidents of change, the vibrations and sounds of the gallery using wireless sensor based technologies.
Custom built mote reader in visual basic from live XML data to suppor installation version.. Budget and funding needed. Funding is needed to make a larger version.of the protoype boards and all the components.
ABOUT STANZA. Stanza is a London based British artist, who specializes in net art, networked installations, and electronic sounds. Stanza is an AHRC fellow at Goldsmiths College London, and has set up his studio for practice based research in the Digital Studios. His award winning online projects have been invited for exhibition in digital festivals around the world, and Stanza also travels extensively to present his net art, lecturing and giving performances of his audiovisual interactions. Artistic Statement about current research and practice. I am researching data within cities and the built environment and how this can be represented, visualized and interpreted. Data from security tracking, traffic, and environmental monitoring can all be interpreted as a medium to make artworks. I am investigating new ways of comparing, conceptualizing and then visualizing complex concepts related to the relationship of emergent data and real space in the built environment. Through practice based research, a series of modular experimental artworks are being created to express the possibilities for our data-mediated future. There are three strands of my working process; these involve collecting the data, visualizing the data, and then displaying the data. The outputs from the online interfaces and online visualizations are now realized as real time dynamic artworks as diverse as installations, and real objects, made out of new display materials back in physical space. In all my work I try to exploit the changing dynamics of city life as a source for creativity and create meaningful artistic metaphors. I utilize new technologies and integrate new media artworks into the public domain as part of this ongoing research into the visualization of city space. In essence I am researching data as a medium for creativity and how meaningful experiences of our cities may result. I was a NESTA Dreamtime Fellow from February 2004/5. During that time, I focused on new technologies and their relationship to urban space. As a consequence, for this Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts with AHRC, I now aim to research new technologies, sensors, motes, display technologies and interactive architectures. By investigating these data structures I aim to create new metaphors relevant to the experience of the environment. The patterns we make, the visual and imaginative interpretations we give to real world events, are already being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined and source for information. These patterns disclose new ways of seeing the world. The value of gathering and re-presenting this data in artistic form, and then analyzing its impact and influence, lies in making meaning accessible to a wider audience. Awards. AHRC Creative fellowship 2006 – 2009. Frist Prizes in festivals. Videoformes Multimedia First prize France 2005, Art In Motion V.First prize USA 2004, Vidalife 6.0 first prize 2003, Fififestival Grand Prize France 2003, New Forms Net Art Prize Canada 2003, Fluxus Online first prize Brasil 2002, SeNef Online Grand Prix Korea 2002, Links first prize Porto 2001, Videobrasil Sao Paulo 2001 first prize, Cynet art 2000 first prize, Dresden.
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