Author Archive
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Functions follow Forms;
Dark Patterns in Contemporary Internet Design HTML Forms from Harwood YoHa on Vimeo. A recent study published by two Facebookers shows that not only is the company collecting data on ‘self-censorship’ behaviour of their users, the browser code that makes this monitoring possible is also capable of ‘reading’ what you type – before you even […]
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Listening to Disappearing
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 […]
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Packet Songs
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 […]
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SSID_Exquis
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 […]
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The Wet Index
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 […]
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Connect Here
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 […]