Title: Urban Generation: Trying To Imagine The World From Everyone Else's Perspective, All At Once. by Stanza This artwork works in real time and has been online and working since 2004. It is also available as a software and as an installation for exhibition purposes.
Exhibition Urban Generation: Trying To Imagine The World From Everyone Else's Perspective, All At Once". by Stanza Urban Generation is a data artwork using real time networked cameras. The networked channels are always on, and therefore, the artwork is always changing. It depicts a constant and evolving view of the urban landscape and its inhabitants exploring the emotional state of the metropolis. The artwork considers a world of universal surveillance. The artwork collects live feeds from 200 cameras in London in real time and reworks these video streams into multi-layered visual structures. Multiple CCTV cameras are accessed randomly in real time to make this urban tapestry. What you see is an evolving, generative artwork. These images are from taken from the city of London, and they happen as you see them, in real time. The observed real time surveillance society is re worked into a series of grids. Here the image are remediated into what you see, which is this online artwork that looks like a filmic experience but is in fact a new aesthetic experience. Its not a film, its a real time experience of the city from multiple perspectives. Touring This work is available for sale and for exhibitions. What can be exhibited is both the screen based online version and the installation version as shown below in the images. AvailabilityThis work is consists of two parts: the artists sofware system and computer files and the installation hardware display system. Available for collectors in a edition of three including all sofware set up and hardware...and back up system for provenance.
Funding I would like to make a larger version using over 60 - 100 monitors on the floor contact me if interested. ONLINE NETWORKED ARTWORK ................ OFFLINE INSTALLATION OF LIVE DATA SEE VIDEO Online Versions online since 2002 I "Urban Generation- Divided Cities Parallel Reality 2004" II "Urban Generation - Tapestry 2004" III "Urban Generation - Inside Outside Space 2004" (Install shockwave to view online in real time) NOTE. SOMETIMES THE CAMERAS IN THIS NETWORK ARE DOWN, IE DUE TO TERRORIST ATTACKS OR TECHNICAL ISSUES SORRY.
Videos Of the software system
Installation shot taken 2013 in Gdansk Poland. Alternativa 2013 : Wyspa Institute of Art
Installation shot taken 2013 in Gdansk Poland. Alternativa 2013 : Wyspa Institute of Art
Installation shot taken 2007 in Turku Finland.
Installations shot taken 2007 in Finland.
Stanza Installation shots. Space 4, Peterborough. 19 th Jan - 3rd. March 2006. Exhibitions. List of venues where Urban Generation has been exhibited as an installation. TSSK Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art. Metamorf Trondheim Norway Curated By Espen Gangvik 2014 Alternativa 2013 Wyspa Institute of Art / Wyspa Progress Foundation Doki 1 / Gdansk Shipyard grounds Gdansk Poland 2013 Netherlands Media Art Institute - Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV Amsterdam. Curated by Susanne Jaschko 2009 SXSW Austin Texas Plutopia Event 2009. Curated by Derek Woodgate Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Itäinen Rantakatu 4-6 20700, Curated by Andy Best. Turku Finland April 2007 Space 4, Peterborough. 19 th Jan - 3rd. March 2006 The Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn. 15th April - 13th May 2006 Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery . 9Th June - 9th July 2006 Q Arts, Derby. 12th Nov - 18 Dec 2005 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 2005. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Polish Zurbanizowane pokolenie: próba wyobrazenia swiata z perspektywy wszystkich na raz Stanza 2002-2005. instalacja. Praca Zurbanizowane pokolenie to próba wyobrazenia sobie swiat a widzianego oczami wszystkich na raz. W Zurbanizowanym pokoleniu Stanza wnika w stany emocjonalne metropolii i kontempluje swiat powszechnej inwigilacji. Praca jest zbiorem zapisów z kamer przemyslowych, zainstalowanych w róznych miejscach na swiecie, przekazywanych do Internetu w czasie rzeczywistym. Artysta przepracowuje dostepne strumienie wizualne, tworzac ich wielowarstwowe struktury. Kamery sa zawsze wlaczone, stad dzielo sztuki zmienia sie bezustannie, oddajac nieprzerwanie ewoluujacy obraz miejskich krajobrazów i ich mieszkanców. Dostep do obrazu którejs z licznych, pracujacych symultanicznie kamer odbywa sie w czasie rzeczywistym na zasadzie przypadku. W ten sposób powstaje ten miejski gobelin. To, co widzimy, to ewoluujace dzielo sztuki generatywnej. Zdarzenia na obrazach pochodzacych z miast ogladamy w momencie, kiedy sie odbywaja, a cale wideo przedstawia rzeczywistosci istniejace w przestrzeniach miast w trybie on – line . Ogladane w czasie rzeczywistym spoleczenstwo inwigilacyjne, zostaje przetworzone w postac geometrycznej siatki. Dane, jakie ogladamy podlegaja ochronie ustawowej. Tutaj, zostaja wynegocjowane w postac, w jakiej je ogladamy: praca wideo rozgrywajaca sie w sieci w czasie rzeczywistym, sprawia wrazenie jakbysmy ogladali film. Jednak to nie filmowa fikcja – to autentyczne doswiadczenie miasta w aktualnym czasie, widziane w zwielokrotnionej perspektywie.
Artwork made in daytime london 11. 11. 2006. 100 - 70 cm signed by Stanza
Artwork made London nightime 31. 3. 2005 100 - 70 cm signed by Stanza -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology and installation details. The work ideally needs a plynth the size should be 2.45m by 3m by 35 cm. If no plinth its goes on the floor. The size of the shipping crate is. 54 cm by 66cm by 66 cm exact; weight approx 30 kg, contents fragile. Set up time approx four hours plus some assistance at the venue to set up the internet configuration. The work should be insured at the venue and during transit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The text below was commissioned for the Net Reality show and is written by Jo-Anne Green from Turbulence.org The “net” version of Stanza’s Urban Generation is visually rich and noticeably silent. As twelve live data streams alternately stutter in and out of existence and flow into abstract patterns and textures, the “live” scenes captured in real-time on CCTVs scattered throughout London quickly morph into kaleidoscopic Rorschachs that alter our initial perceptions and demand analysis. A generative work, it calls into question the “urban generation,” a period during which the threat of terrorism has made our environment ripe for surveillance and privacy abuse. Private space has become public space, public space has evolved into covertly “governed” or overtly corporate space. While Stanza is well known for his interactive/participatory art, the “viewer” is forced to passively observe this piece, which simultaneously serves as a call to action. According to the Associated Press [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8501576/; July 7, 2005] “[a]n estimated 4.2 million cameras — largely concentrated in London and other major cities —observe Britons as they go about their daily business, [and] it is widely estimated that the average Briton is caught on various cameras up to 300 times on a normal day.” In the “reality” version of Urban Generation, the innards of a Dell computer, including an inoperable mouse and keyboard (rendering us powerless), are scattered across the surface of a large pedestal above which the gallery visitor must peer down, equating the “seer” with the elevated location of the majority of CCTV cameras. There are eight 15” LCDs, all of which display the “net” section of Urban Generation. Real and virtual, tangible and immaterial, fixed and constantly changing, the mass of wires, switches, circuit boards and LCD screens invokes the notion of the network exposed, turned inside out, laid bare for all to examine. Urban Generation combines interior and exterior, and makes visible that which invisibly and silently tracks our movements, habits, and preferences. It forces us to ask ourselves whether pervasive surveillance is inevitable, and whether it is sufficient to allow these billions of hours of stored data to serve as evidence after the fact rather than prevention.
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 2005. Installation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGOUND INFO: TEXT BY STANZA. 2003 Surveillance systems are everywhere in the public domain. We are all actors, bit part actors, in a giant movie called life. Except we cannot watch, it is not on public display even though the results are monitored, filtered and distributed without our permission. The increase of technology infrastructure in the daily existence of a city means that technology will, more than ever be everywhere in our environment. Everything is or will be tracked. CCTV, tracking via car sensors, tracking inside our phones and tracking our id card movement: All this tracking in the guise of anti- terror activity. The patterns we make, the forces we weave, are all being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined and sourced for information. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world. The value of information will be a new currency as power change. The central issue that will develop will be the privilege and access to these data sources. By at least taking some of this data and making something with it one is at least reclaiming ownership of the data and putting it back in the public domain. The increase of technology infrastructure in the daily existence of a city means that technology will, more than ever be everywhere in our environment. Mobile data mining will be part of the fabric of the landscape. The city has millions of CCTV cameras and embedded surveillance cameras. In essence the city is the biggest TV station and by proxy the biggest surveillance system in existence. Millions of hours worth of data are recorded every day by these cameras on city TV. One can take the sounds and images off live web streams and re-represent them thus creating new interpretations of the city in the process. So let us imagine a space in which every action, memory, thought, feeling, has a connection to every other action. A space where all data in the system, seemlessly integrates with all others. This place exists, its inside our heads. The emergent metaphor of the brain has many similarities with the emergent connectivity of cities. The city experience is a web of connected networks and multi layered threaded paths that condition us to the emotional state of the city space. In essence, the city fabric is a giant multi user multi data sphere. To take part you really have to put something back in, that's like life. In this case, to take part you have to input data so others 'may' see the output of the data response. This scenario leads to identifiction of various type of mobility. Mobility can be seen from traffic patterns, to pedestrian patterns, to bird flocking patterns; to multi-threaded patterns along a time line. Patterns can be seen in the architecture, patterns in the buildings, patterns in the architectural fabric of the urban design network. And closer inside the micro patterns of the city, we have the life cycles of the atomised, the insects, the life of continuity all of which exist along a timeline of past present and future. Stanza. 2003.
Live at SXSW 2009 Austin Texas. Set up as installation using three projectors. Needs live internet connection and three computers.
A Day In The Life Of The Urban Generation. 3 metres by 1.6 digital print. Signed By Stanza
Title - "A Day In The Life Of The Urban Generation". 300cm by 160cm digital print. (detail of above) "A Day In The Life Of The Urban Generation". (download detail for print of above for catalogues)
"Regeneration Generation " 251cm by 118 cm original artwork made using artists software system taking images from 200 CCTV cameras in one day in London. Signed By Stanza 2007
Detail "Regeneration Generation" original artwork on canvas taken artists software system made of images from CCTV cameras taken in 1 day in London ========================================================================= From and essay "Philosophical Issues in the Art of Stanza" by Graham Harman The London-based artist Stanza has been exhibiting for over three decades, and has been drawn consistently to themes of surveillance technologies, as in the “panopticon” addressed by Michel Foucault but later treated more skeptically by Bruno Latour and Emilie Hermant. The theme of surveillance has been a central concern in the social sciences in recent decades. Much of the credit for this obviously must go to Foucault, due to his well- known passages in Discipline and Punish on Jeremy Bentham’s “Panopticon,” an institution whose inhabitants (prisoners, students, patients, or otherwise) might be watched at any moment from a central observation point. As Foucault puts it: “The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power.” Urban Generation; trying to imagine the world from everyone else’s perspective, all at once There is an apparently deliberate tension between the description of the work and its title. On the one hand, the title seems to celebrate the diversity of perspectives housed in the minds of contemporary urban youth, and thus strikes an optimistic and progressive note. On the other, the accompanying description invokes the rather Foucauldian phrase “universal surveillance” and reminds us of today’s security-obsessed London, which is practically depopulated of unwitnessed events. Though to some extent this ambiguity remains even after we have seen the work for ourselves. The images multiply so numerously that not even a team of Stasi officials could discern whatever subversive deeds might be hidden in these frames. Indeed, the video transmits so much information that it dies as information only to be reborn as sheer kaleidoscopic spectacle, in the sort of reversal that Marshall McLuhan studied so intensively. =========================================================================
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