NYCwireless and The Downtown Alliance to Co-Sponsor The Wireless Park Lab Days
New York City, NY - September 19-20, 2003 - NYCwireless and the Downtown Alliance will co-sponsor The Wireless Park Lab Days, a two-day event that celebrates the availability of open wireless (Wi-Fi) networks in Lower Manhattan and explores their implications for art, community, and shared space. Produced by Dana Spiegel of NYCwireless, and artists Brooke Singer and Yury Gitman, Wireless Park Lab Days will be held in City Hall Park, the most popular �hotspot� in the Lower Manhattan Wireless Network, each day from 12 noon to 4pm. IMPORTANT: We need the support of the NYCwireless community to make this event happen! The New User Day tent is looking for volunteers to help WIFI newbies log on to the network for the first time. Various interactive art installations would benefit from the helping hands of tech savvy WIFI geeks (us). If you are available to volunteer for either or both September 19th - 20th please contact Jordan Schuster: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Volunteers will receive a t-shirt, stickers, and homemade mint chocolate chip cookies (with a dash of peanut butter) courtesy of NYCwireless. Wireless Park Lab Days is an innovative exhibition of new wireless art that features a �new user� area designed to help people become acquainted with the technology, and NodeRunner, the critically acclaimed wireless scavenger hunt that was recently awarded an Arts Electronica Golden Nica. The Wireless Park Lab Days will exhibit a wide-range of projects: PeopleWatching translates a typical park activity into an online arena, Public Broadcast Cart gives a very public voice to remote visitors, Bass-Station transforms a 1970s style boom box into an open juke box accessible to the public through a wireless connection. The New User Area will be staffed with experts in wireless computing from NYCwireless, who will help people get online and better understand Wi-Fi technology. The event will close on Saturday with a fun, interactive round of the group game NodeRunner. For more information on the event and featured artists visit http://www.nycwireless.net/labdays/ NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ About The Downtown Alliance �http://www.downtownny.com/ Media Contact: Dana Spiegel, NYCwireless, (917) 402-0422, [EMAIL PROTECTED] .jordan. Jordan Schuster NYCwireless http://www.NYCwireless.net e/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] p/ 917-697-7616 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
