Here are the correct links to book for the events as they seemed to get lost in cyberspace
Reception http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-reception-tickets-11542212067 Screenings http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-screening-and-artist-discussion-tickets-11646309425 Car Flash Mob http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-flashmob-tickets-11543010455 Thanks Helen On 23 May 2014, at 13:04, Helen Sloan wrote: > Hello Netbehaviourists > > Just in case you are interested in SCAN's latest and final offering (sadly, > we will close in September) and/or having a debate about the Internet of > Things through the lens of the car, visit Winchester and Southampton over > June/July. We have special events at Winchester Science Centre on June 1 and > everyone is welcome. You will need to book through Eventbrite for all the > events that you want to attend. I do hope you will come. > > All the best > Helen > Helen Sloan > Director > SCAN > > Internet of Cars > Turning your car into a data carrier > Special Reception at Winchester Science Centre: 1 June 2014 > Book through > http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-reception-tickets-11542212067 > All welcome to each event but please book > Special Events > Winchester Science Centre 1 June: Demo Day, 2 – 5pm > Demonstrations of mobile phone apps, artists work and the research from Sixth > Sense Transport. Tickets with admission > 6 – 7.30pm Special Artist Reception, > Book to attend through > http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-receptiontickets- > 11542212067 Entry by ticket only. > 7.30 – 9pm Screenings and Discussion Session, Planetarium. All welcome but a > place > is only guaranteed through booking at > http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-ofcars- > screening-and-artist-discussion-tickets-11646309425 > 9 – 9.30pm Internet of Cars Flash Mob, An orchestra of sounds from car stereos > Winchester Science Centre Car Park. All welcome. Volunteers required. You need > a car with a CD player (or a portable CD player) and working headlights. > Tickets can be booked through > http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-carsflashmob- > tickets-11543010455 > > A Distributed Exhibition > http://www.internetofcars.org.uk > This series of exhibitions and events will explore and debate the use and > misuse > of cars in everyday life through the lens of visual arts. Responding > creatively to > data and research derived from traffic flow analysis in Dorset and Hampshire > using automatic number plate reading (ANPR), six artists will show work > alongside > the results of a research project, Sixth Sense Transport, investigating online > promotion of a social and shared space for people who use cars and want to > reduce their carbon footprint. > Using the concept of the Internet of Things, ANPR cameras on A354 between > Dorchester and Weymouth and similar carmers in Southampton, artists have > used the data provided to interpret their own scenarios in this exhibition. > Simon > Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou in The Car That Turned and Steve Beard and > Victoria Halford in Router have created their own futuristic road movie > narratives. > Stanza in The Agency at the end of Civilization, Duncan Shingleton in Flows > and > Ivar van Bekkum and Esther Polak in Fronting Motion all use the data as it is > gathered in real time to create various visualisations and sonic > interpretations of > the data by focusing on traffic build up, carbon emissions and patterns of car > usage. Lanfranco Aceti’s performance Car Park looks at the implication for > Internet of Things regarding people. Each of the pieces has been specially > commissioned and premiered for the show. > Exhibiting Artists > Stanza’s work will visualise the state of the transport and assess repeat > patterns > overlaying a narrative that can allude to the subjective overtones of the > control > space and surveillance culture. The artwork embeds itself inside the urban > landscape, surveillance culture, privacy and alienation in the city. The > agency > created in the galley focuses on the patterns we leave behind as well as real > time > networked events that can be re-imagined and sourced for information. > Hollington & Kyprianou’s film examines the ‘classic’ American road movie which > was both an emblem of achieving and escaping from the American Dream. The > car, the road and the hero are the holy trinity of American cinema. But what > would > a convincing UK road movie look like? What architecture would it traverse > today? > Halford & Beard Router is the soundtrack to an imaginary movie which tells the > story of a secret ‘mobile prison’ experiment by a sinister American G4S-style > company. The company confines four guys in a van and condemns them to travel > the roads of a coastal city in an endless voyage of the damned. Naturally, > things > go horribly wrong… > Duncan Shingleton will be show at the Turner Sims Concert Hall ‘Flows’ scans > registration plates in real-time across the six camera sites on the A354 > between > Dorchester and Weymouth. As vehicles pass the cameras, a vehicle lookup > enquiry is > made to ascertain data on their CO2 emission rating, which is then used to > drive Arduino > controlled air turbines, generating movement in six particle filled acrylic > tubes. As the > total amount of CO2 emitted ebbs and flows, the air rate is increased and > decreased in > correlation, changing the velocity of the particles. > Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum’s Fronting Motion is an outdoor installation > piece > which will be a fully immersive experience in Guidlhall Square projected > between > two Luton vans, two realities merge into a panorama of a contemporary > landscape. In the west cars are coming right at you. In the east you overlook > the > arriving and leaving ships in the harbor taking their time. Everywhere you > hear this > constant noise, is it the sea you hear or is it the sound of a highway? > Car Park is a new artwork by Lanfranco Aceti as part of the exhibition > Internet of > Cars in association with the John Hansard Gallery. The artwork is inspired by > notions of hard labor and economic exploitation, which will provide the > conceptual > underpinning for an exhibition and a public performance in Southampton from > June 7 to June 12, 2014. > > Exhibition times: > Winchester Science Centre 31 May – 8 July, 2014 > Open 7 days a week: Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm Sat – Sun 10am – 5pm > Turner Sims Concert Hall 2 June – 6 July 2014 > Open: Mon – Friday 10am – 5pm and until 7pm on performance evenings > See http://turnersims.co.uk for details of performances > Southampton Guildhall Square 7 – 11 June 2014, 9am – 9pm > Car Park: Become a Car Man, Save the World > Performance by Lanfranco Aceti and participants > 13 – 15 June 2014, 9am – 11.45pm > Fronting Motion, Online sound and video installation, Esther Polak and Ivar > van > Bekkum > A free symposium, held at the University of Southampton in September (date > tbc), > will bring together academics, transport experts and the general public to > explore > what an Internet of Cars might be like. More details at > http://www.internetofcars.org.uk > > The exhibition will also be shown at Bridport Arts Centre, Turner Sims > Concert Hall and > Guildhall Square Southampton during May, June, July. > Curated by SCAN and Sixth Sense Transport. > The Internet of Cars exhibition and symposium has been made possible thanks > to our > partners and funders Digital Economy (Research Councils UK), RCUK Digital > Economy > Theme Tales of Engagement Award, Arts Council England, John Hansard Gallery, > Winchester Science Centre, Bridport Arts Centre, Turner Sims Concert Hall, > Southampton > City Council. > Thanks also to contributions from University of Southampton, Design > Informatics (University of Edinburgh), Dorset County Council. > For further information please contact: Helen Sloan [email protected] 07973 > 919210 or Jane Macdonald [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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