***For
Immediate Release -- 12 July 2006***
***SPACE Media Arts announces four
new artist commissions focussed on
RFID***
SPACE Media Arts is pleased
to announce the commissioning of four new
artworks focussed on Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) technology by
artist collectives C6,
boredomresearch, Processing Plant (Louis Philippe
Demers and Philippe Jean),
and Mute-Dialogue (Yasser Rashid and Yara
El-Sherbini).
Even if you
dont know what a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag
is, youve
probably used one, whether its at your local grocery store
checkout, using
an Oyster Card or in your passport at the airport. RFID
is the barcode of the
future. The tags can be read through radio waves
without any contact and,
potentially, without your knowledge. With
widespread adoption across many
commercial and public industries, RFID
is set to shape societies of the
future.
Through these commissions, SPACE Media Arts is encouraging
artists,
technologists and end-users to explore RFID technology
from
alternative perspectives. These works, along with a site-specific
Oyster
Card performance by artist Paula Roush, will be exhibited in
//Tagged//,
opening at SPACE on 5 October and running through to 18 October
2006. A
newly-commissioned text by Armin Medosch will accompany the
exhibition.
For more information, contact Heather Corcoran on +44 (0)208
525 4339 or
by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED].
***Further information:***
REALSNAILMAIL is a project
in development by *boredomresearch*,
employing RFID technology to enable real
snails to carry and deliver
electronic messages. Is there a place in our
speed obsessed lives for a
service that takes time?
iTAG by
*Processing Plant* is an ironic statement about the electronic
pollution that
surrounds us a portable device that reads RFID tags
from surrounding
products and generates ambient musak inspired from this
collected
data.
*Mute-Dialogue* will create an interactive installation exploring
tagged
objects and their histories in ORIGINS AND LEMONS. The project
subtly
critiques the use of technology to access histories, and asks how
we
know the world we live in through interactions with material
objects.
*C6* will implement RFID technology in the ANTISYSTEMIC
DISTRIBUTED
LIBRARY PROJECT, an alternative distributed library of community
shared
books, videos, and music. With institutional libraries acting as one
of
the earliest adopters of RFID technology, how does RFID fit in with
more
radical ideas of librarianship? And what are the radical politics
of
RFID itself?
//SPACE Media Arts is at 129 131 Mare Street,
Hackney, London, E8 4AA
| http://www.spacestudios.org.uk//
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