Infrastructure
6 posts tagged.
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Immaterials: Satellite Lamps
Satellite Lamps reveals the invisible accuracy of GPS positioning across an urban landscape. Three lamps with built-in GPS receivers vary their brightness depending on signal accuracy, photographed over time to build a picture of how these signals behave in actual urban spaces.
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Internet Machine
Internet machine is a multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet, shot inside one of the largest and most secure data centres in the world, run by Telefónica in Alcalá, Spain. I made it to show the physical reality of our data: the rooms, racks and machines through which ‘the cloud’ is transmitted and transformed.
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Immaterials: Light Painting WiFi
Made as part of the YOUrban and Touch projects, this film explores the invisible terrain of digital networks in urban spaces by light painting WiFi signal strength into long-exposure photographs. A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.
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Wireless in the World
Made for the HABITAR exhibition at Laboral , Wireless in the World draws WiFi, Bluetooth and RFID fields directly onto footage of streets, shops and homes. The hidden radio environment appears as patches of colour and glowing volumes; the spaces remain ordinary. More…
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Things
A short note on a cluster of emerging ‘things’ services in early 2010. Thinglink’s exploratory homepage, SVPPLY’s continuous navigation of want, and related services like Thingd and Allconsuming.
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Immaterials: Ghost in the field
Ghost in the Field makes the field around an RFID reader visible. Long-exposure photography traces the volume in which a tag and reader can talk; outside that volume, the radio falls off and nothing happens. Made with Jack Schulze as part of the Touch project , 2009. More…