I’ve been collaborating with Art Center graduate student Jed Berk on his Autonomous Lighter Than Air Vehicle’s project, helping him create the version 2.0, a more connected, bloggy instance of the project.
The ALAVs 2.0 are participatory — you can call them using your mobile phone and engage in a conversation that affects their behavior and your own. They’re also using a new design that brings them a step closer to being suitable for DIY, kit-based construction, which is pretty cool.
We’ll be installing it at the Art Center Nabi “Connected” event, which runs from December 7 until December 30 in Seoul, South Korea. Here’s the blurb:
We are living in the condition of the constant ‘logged-in’ through mobile phone, internet, recently emerged wireless technologies. The exhibition aims to reflect on the current state of connectivity and relationship among people, environment, clusters of information, and objects in the networked condition of everyday life. Works in the exhibition question the very concept of mobility, connectivity, locality, kinship, and physicality whether it is poetic contemplation or piercing critique. ‘Connected’, as the first exhibition project in align with Mobile Asia initiative, will also include the winners of the international competition held in 2006.
For the time being, the event website is in Korean, so..there’s that. It’s being translated into English presently!
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