SPECTRAL ECOLOGIES Led by Martin Howse A series of two 3-day investigations within complex city-wide spectral ecologies constructed through subtle interactions between electrical and magnetic fields (EMF) emitted by all electrical equipment, physical materials, communication technologies (wireless networks, mobile phone networks, RFID, television, radio, radar), power lines, biological phenomena, and geological properties in Newcastle upon Tyne & Dundee, UK.
SERIES I. The Courier's Tragedy 24, 25 & 26 September 2009 \\ Venue t.b.c [Newcastle upon Tyne] The Courier's Tragedy is concerned with a submission of the medium enacted by both ancient and contemporary communication systems. The messenger is rendered redundant (literally killed) on delivery; the message is that which really matters. The carrier can be discarded in favour of a meaningful signal, and this is precisely what all radio apparatus enacts, equally eliminating noise and uncertainty. Expanding a clear concern with electromagnetic [EM] phenomena as a question of substance, and extending the spectrum of artistic concerns to embrace modern data space, this workshop attempts to bridge this impossible divide between the physical (waves) and the protocol (code); asking how, within complex spectral ecologies, it is possible to examine and embrace both the carrier and the signal, to observe the subtle interactions and inherent abstractions? In this context, such an examination becomes a manner of revealing; revealing another city, revealing new modes of communication and transmission (hidden networks). SERIES II. Wave-length 29, 30 Sept & 1st October 2009 // Mills Observatory [Dundee] Wave-length proposes an open exploration of the physical characteristics of various wave phenomena: sound, light and radio, with the latter two encompassed under the heading of electromagnetism [EM]. Wavelength in all instances has a direct relationship to oscillation and thus frequency, to resonance and to any form of change in time and in space. In the case of radio waves, wavelength is translated into a highly physical architecture of antennas, dishes and arrays approximating patterns of reflection and refraction. Whispering galleries and sound mirrors provide inspiration in the audio realm. These fields can also be mapped to the microscopic, with diminishing wavelengths, microwaves, leading into a light which literally colours perception. Wave-length acts as a guiding principle of scale and measure with detection or exploration determined by the quasi-scientific expansion of sensory apparatus. The wave-length workshop will explore both sound and EM phenomena from a spatial perspective: the construction of a landscape of antennas, oscillators and detection or measurement devices using simple materials. The workshop will close with a final performance from participants. MORE INFO: http://ptechnic.org/ecologies/spectral/spectral.html -- Olga P Massanet ·························· www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
