"CITIZEN 0101100". by Stanza 2010

Citizen 1001100, is an performative digital artwork made using data harvested from sensors being carried by a group of young people. The sensors respond to changes in the environment they are located in this case Bold Street in Liverpool. The data is turned into a data visualisation and sonified stream, which is broadcast online. This artwork, uses data from a cusomt IoT mesh wireless sensor network that the group is holding as they walk. Custom made software enables the sensors to communicate with one another in a network in real time.

Sonicification of the data spae in real time...listen to results of the performance here, download sound file.

Stanza's art practice involves creating spatial manifestations of the liquid spaces across the city and in the landscape. The platforms and systems Stanza created have become not only relational but alive and given agency with real-time data, not just triggering lists of historical assets (data, texts, video etc) to give this illusion. It is the practice of ‘mashed-up’ city-wide performative experiences, evolving in real-time, and represented as systems of control which are made available to audiences globally by being made and shared online through the internet. Not only are the artist's sensors placed in the city; the data is parsed over the internet through online platforms to facilitate this remediation. Therefore, all of these artworks in some form inhabit a real-time online networked space offering many other dimensions of experience and shared possibility. Thus the extended ambition of the project was to put technological systems in place in the city that can re-employ our perception and thus create a new understanding of how this behaviour unfolds and demonstrate that there are patterns, that they are connected, and the systems that evolve can be simulated and acted upon.

What possibilities do real-time data resources representing city environments offer artists?

Made in 2010

Keywords: visualization, net art, data, techno, sensors, artwork,

Stanza, Steve Tanza (on right) running behind to keep in range 2010. Broadcasting the signal to the internet for the visualisation.

Broadcasting the signal to the internet for the visualisation.

Over the internet to gallery. Seen here as a projection in 2013 In Falmouth University

Over the internet to gallery. 2010.

Keywords: visualization, net art, techno, sensors, artwork, Iot.

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