A Social Choreography for the Ears How might listening prosthetically choreograph acts of recovery? This question is brought to the site of the disappearing St James Theatre and its civic surrounds. A headphonic sound score mobilises a collective body of participants, effecting and politicising the way they activate this urban site. Listening becomes an action […]
sniffer code, sounds, public, network traffic (duration variable) Luke Munn, 2014 Packet Songs monitors the nearby internet router, reading the data packets traveling through it and using this information to trigger tones. In a space which is increasingly monitored and monetized, the packet serves as a ubiquitous and sometimes intimate trace of our everyday actions […]
SSID_Exquis wireless network auditing hardware and software, public web interface (dimensions variable) Walter Langelaar, 2014 SSID_Exquis is a gamified exercise in collaborative poetry, manifested in WiFi. Its participants can publicly broadcast wireless network names, or SSIDs, by contributing to a collectively assembled list. From this list a series of wireless LAN beacon frames is generated […]
Kedron Parker & Bruce McNaught THE WET INDEX invites people to see city water in a whole new way. Water collected from a variety of sources in Wellington – storm-water, grey-water, streams, and water tanks – will be on display as its own work of art, in a floor to ceiling ever-flowing waterfall curtain. The water curtain is […]
Martin Hill & Reuben Pohamara present their artwork Connect Here responds to the question “How do we connect with the places we inhabit?” This work represents a practice-based research journey where we have reflected on our personal connections with the notion of ‘place’, and supported the reflections of others on this question. This research required […]
Making Friends: Becoming Real and Mythical Animals as a Research Lens Chris Berthelsen (NonPresenting Collaborator: Jared Braiterman http://social-models.com) Like buildings and people, animals also have a history in the city, with dimensions that include layers, time, and context. Becoming them is a research lens that helps us look past spatial, structural and service strategies that focus on physical […]