Three-Day Spectropolis Event Highlights Diverse Uses of Wireless Technology
New York, NY, SEP. 15, 2004 - NYCwireless ,The Alliance for Downtown New York Inc., and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) are co- sponsoring Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, a three-day event that features projects that use cell phones, laptops, wireless internet, radio broadcasts and PDAs to create playful forms of social interaction, and innovative ways to experience the invisible networks we use everyday. Spectropolis, which takes place from Oct. 1 to Oct. 3 in Manhattan's City Hall Park will explore how the increasing presence of mobile communication technologies (cell phones, laptops, PDAs) is transforming the manner in which people live, construct, react and navigate through their daily environments.
Visitors to Spectropolis will experience and witness "live" projects such as screen-based interactions, audio narratives and physical installations powered or reliant upon the invisible forces of wireless technology. Projects will include a luminescent flower whose colorful glow intensifies as it moves closer to wireless internet "hot spots", a wireless bicycle that chalks text messages from the web onto city streets, a portable hearing device that transmits a soundscape in response to its immediate surroundings, and a computer station open to the public for free download of digital art objects. Spectropolis is curated by Wayne Ashley and artists Yury Gitman and Brooke Singer, and produced by Dana Spiegel of NYCwireless and Jordan Silbert and Jordan Schuster.
Spectropolis will support the Downtown Alliance's Lower Manhattan Wireless Network Alliance, which provides free wireless internet service from eight hotspots located throughout Lower Manhattan. Volunteers from NYCwireless will be on-hand at Spectropolis events to conduct demonstrations on how to access the free service. Volunteers will also be available every Friday and Saturday after Labor Day through Oct. 9 at City Hall Park to help the general public access this free service. For more information, please visit www.DowntownNY.com/WiFi.
In addition to the projects presented in the park, there will be several hands-on workshops free to the public and three panels. The workshops offer an up-close look at wireless communication technologies and opportunities for hands-on play and participation. Three panels will be held in conjunction with Spectropolis. The first, scheduled for Sept. 27, is titled Hot Enough?: Art, Activism and Wireless Technology During the Republican National Convention. The second, scheduled for Sept. 29, is titled The Victory of the Commons: The Case for Public Airwaves. There will also be a Spectropolis participant panel on Monday, Oct. 4. Please see www.spectropolis.info for more information and scheduling.
For more information on Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, please visit www.spectropolis.info or e-mail Dana Spiegel at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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