Attendance at ISEA 2013, supported by Creative New Zealand is an output of the ADA Mesh Cities project. ADA members presented a panel titled Media Art and the Transitional City. The ISEA roundtable conversation has been worked into a paper for publication in the ISEA conference proceedings.
JANINE RANDERSON, 2012.
An interactive, online artwork that gathers live pollutant levels from Auckland City air. The collaborative project includes urban meteorologists, programmers, media artists and breathers of air as a continuous feedback mechanism. Sensor instruments in Auckland, New Zealand provide a platform for continuously accessible, real-time information about city air quality.
Founded on long waves of settlement from the Pacific and beyond, Aotearoa New Zealand retains tensions between the indigenous and the imported – on the one hand obsessed with defining identity and maintaining biosecurity, and on the other, free of tariffs and trade restrictions and welcoming of foreign investment.