Posts Tagged ‘Immaterials’
Satellite Lamps
We have just launched a new project called Satellite Lamps where we investigate and reveal one of the central infrastructures of the networked city, the Global Positioning System (GPS). This project continues our project of visualising the materials of technologies that started in 2009 with our studies of RFID and WiFi. With Satellite Lamps we now explore the material, spatial and temporal qualities of GPS in cities.
Playful 2012 – ‘Means of production’
Einar has been in London to talk at Playful 2012; a conference about design, games and technology organized by Mudlark. His talk ‘Means of production’ has been turned into a blogpost.
Projects inspired by ‘Immaterials: Light painting WiFi’
The film ‘Immaterials: Light painting WiFi’ has inspired a wide range of projects from designers and technologists from various fields. In this blogpost we look at how the concepts, visual language and techniques from the film have been taken up by other practitioners.
Visualising WiFi for the masses
Over the last year our film ‘Immaterials: Light painting WiFi’ have been seen over a million times, spread far across the internet and have become a popular cultural phenomena. In this blogpost we have a look at where the film has gone and how it has been discussed.
Vimeo Awards 2012
‘Immaterials: WiFi light painting’ has been nominated for a Vimeo Award!
Making ‘Immaterials: Light painting WiFi’
It has been very exiting to see how our film ‘Immaterials: Light Painting WiFi‘ has being linked to and discussed across a broad range of audiences, disciplines and fields of research, including urbanism, technology, architecture, advertising and art.