{"id":3930,"date":"2011-03-01T21:55:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/01\/ekstasis-showtime-timo-arnall-immaterials\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:23:06","slug":"ekstasis-showtime-timo-arnall-immaterials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/01\/ekstasis-showtime-timo-arnall-immaterials\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

ekstasis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Showtime: Timo Arnall, \u201cImmaterials: Light painting WiFi\u201d | Beyond The Beyond<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.<\/p>\n

A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.\u201d<\/p>\n

More here:
 nearfield.org\/\u200b2011\/\u200b02\/\u200bwifi-light-painting<\/a>
 yourban.no\/\u200b2011\/\u200b02\/\u200b22\/\u200bimmaterials-light-painting-wifi\/\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos:
flickr.com\/photos\/timo\/sets\/72157626020532597\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2026More, from the YOUrban<\/a> link:<\/p>\n

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Adam Greenfield<\/a> discusses how \u2018the complex technologies the networked city relies upon to produce its effects remain distressingly opaque, even to those exposed to them on a daily basis\u2019. Greenfield argues for unpacking the technologies and systems of the networked city \u2018demystifying them, explaining their implications to the people whose neighborhoods and choices and very lives are increasingly conditioned by them\u2019. The WiFi light-paintings can be situated within the discourses of the networked city as illustrations of how invisible, complex technologies may be contextualised and communicated through visualisation. This is taken up and discussed in a forthcoming book chapter about this work:<\/p>\n

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WiFi networks are both physically invisible and technically obscure, which makes them blackboxed on multiple levels. The detailed technical level of the infrastructures, data traffic and electromagnetic fields that our mobile devices are built upon are obviously complex and difficult to understand. However, there are also interactional and material aspects to how we experience these technologies that are similarly opaque and vaguely understood. This material level is especially important for design research as it is not only related to the technical and infrastructural properties of the technologies, but also to how they are experienced as spatial, material and interactive phenomena in the city.<\/p>\n

Through visualisations and the process of creating them we have unpacked some of the qualities of WiFi networks and made them understandable as spatial and contextual phenomena. This process of making the phenomena material through visualisation shows how digital structures and physical environments are interwoven elements of the urban landscape. It also illustrates how our interactions with devices and networks are a part of the fabric of everyday urban life.<\/p>\n

Martinussen (2011 forthcoming)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Source:<\/span> https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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