Invisible Island - Kunsthal Aarhus Presentation

Invisible Island is an art project that revolves around the notion of sharing and the intersection the public space and the data space. This is the first public presentation of the project.

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1. INVISIBLE ISLANDS PRESENTED @KUNSTHAL AARHUS, AUGUST 21st 2014
2. Part of Human Futures Collaboration Montréal / Aarhus Presented at The Media Architecture Biennale
3. THANKS TO Martin Brynskov Geoff Cox Joasia Krysa Andreo Mielczarek
4. ART TECHNOLOGY ACTIVISM
5. NETWORKS CHANGED OUR LIVES
6. ALLOWING US TO ACCESS INFORMATION ANYTIME, WHEREVER WE ARE
7. BUT THIS FREEDOM TO ACCESS INFORMATION IS SLOWLY BEING RESTRAINED
8. GOVERNMENTS ARE APPLYING MASS SURVEILLANCE
9. NET-NEUTRALITY IS BEING CHALLENGED
10. COMPANIES TRY TO CREATE CENTRALIZED ENTRY POINTS I'M FEELING LUCKY
11. THE QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP & CONTROL OF NETWORKS HAS BECOME CRITICAL
12. WIKI LEAKS JULIAN ASSANGE
13. PLATON / WIRED MAGAZINE EDWARD SNOWDEN http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/
14. NEW YORK TIMES? FERGUSON PROTEST http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/12/us/STLOUIS-ss-slide-M1BQ/STLOUIS-ss-slide-M1BQ-superJumbo.jpg
15. WHAT CAN BE DONE TO TAKE BACK SOME CONTROL AND PRESERVE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
16. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY CHANGING SOCIETY BY TECHNOLOGICAL MEANS http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=336
17. CRITICAL ENGINEERING QUESTION THE TECHNOLOGY WE DEPEND ON, UNDERSTAND IT, AND TURN IT TO OUR ADVANTAGE. http://criticalengineering.org/
18. ARAM BARTHOLL DEAD DROPS http://datenform.de/blog/dead-drops-preview/
19. JULIAN OLIVER TRANSPARENCY GRENADE http://transparencygrenade.com/
20. 5POINTZ NEW YORK CITY STREET ART & GRAFFITI
22. ART ACTIVISM TECHNOLOGY
23. PUBLIC SPACE PHYSICAL DATA SPACE VIRTUAL
24. WHAT IF, UNLIKE ON THE INTERNET, INFORMATION WAS ONLY AVAILABLE LOCALLY?
25. HOW COULD THIS HELP PRESERVE FREEDOM OF SHARING & FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION?
26. AND HOW WOULD THAT AFFECT LOCAL COMMUNITIES
27. INVISIBLE ISLANDS LEVERAGE INEXPENSIVE HARDWARE & OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
28. TO CREATE INFORMATION ISLANDS WHERE INFORMATION IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE LOCALLY
29. THE DEVICES CREATE A DATA OVERLAY THAT IS ANCHORED IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
30. INFORMATION IS MADE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH QR CODES DISPLAYED IN THE PUBLIC SPACE
31. MOBILE DEVICES ARE USED TO SCAN THE QR CODES AND ACCESS THEIR CONTENT
32. BUT THE CONTENT IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE WITHIN A DELIMITED PHYSICAL SPACE
33. CREATING AN INFORMATION ISLAND NATURALLY SHELTERED FROM NETWORK-WIDE SCRUTINY
34. EACH INFORMATION ISLAND IS A BLANK CANVAS FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO SHARE & EXCHANGE
35. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT IS BEING INSTALLED IN AARHUS
36. ISLANDS WILL LATER BE DEPLOYED IN STRASBOURG, MONTRÉAL & LIVERPOOL
37. AARHUS IS AN IMPORTANT CITY THIS IS WHERE WE INTEND TO DEVELOP A LOCAL COMMUNITY OF USERS
38. THE FIRST LOCATION WILL BE THE PARK IN FRONT OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
39. MØLLEPARKEN The park offers a large open space, with a wide range of people passing by and staying for a while. From students in the morning and afternoon to parents with young children during the day, and a varied crowd at night, it seems to be a place that most people would see every week if not every day in Aarhus.
40. MØLLEPARKEN The nearby library actually uses QR codes on busts displayed at the entrance. Sadly, the QR codes are only accessible if you have mobile data access, as the nearby WiFi networks all require some kind of registration.
41. THE SECOND LOCATION WILL BE THE NEARBY BANK BEHIND THE VOXHOLL VENUE
42. VOXHOLL The space behing Voxholl is more intimate, surrounded by trees and even features some cosy lounge chairs. It has very different properties from M lleparken and a crowd that is ø likely to be more specific. The two spaces being so close, and in way, so different, makes it even more interesting to install Islands in both.
43. THE THIRD LOCATION WILL BE UNSURPRISINGLY, GODSBANNEN
44. GODSBANNEN The outside portion of Godsbannen acts as an open playground for citizen innovation. The strong concentration of creativity and the playfulness of the open space make it ideal for deploying an Island. The Media Architecture Biennale will also be held there.
45. THESE THREE SPACES ALL HAVE DIFFERENT QUALITIES & COMMUNITIES
46. AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE PROJET IS HOW PEOPLE WILL USE THE ISLANDS & WHAT TYPE OF CONTENT THEY WILL CREATE
47. AS SUCH, THE PROJECT IS A MUCH A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT AS A TECHNOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT
48. WHICH IS WHY SOME USES CASES ARE IMPORTANT TO INSPIRE PEOPLE
49. ART TECHNOLOGY ACTIVISM
50. 1 ARCHITECTURAL WALKTHROUGH
51. CRAEATE A LOCAL NETWORK OF PLACES TO VISIT, WHERE TOURSITS & LOCALS CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CITIE'S LANDMARKS
52. THE LANDMARKS Using printed guides works if you have them on you all the time. As tourists don't have mobile data, and public WiFi might not be accessible it's not really possible to use a webpage for information. Even if you're on-site it's often hard to know if a particular building is interesting.
53. ARCHITECTUREPLUS QR-CODES AS SIGNAGE QR-code enhanced stickers with a distinsctive visual identity allow to clearly identify buildings of interest, while giving access to useful information without requiring mobile data. Each sticker will tell you more about the building's history, its architecture and why it is important to the city.
54. ARCHITECTUREPLUS GAMIFICATION While people visit builings the unlock new content that turns learning about the city into an interactive real-life game. ARCHITECTUREPLUS ARCHITECTUREPLUS
55. 2 STREET-ART HISTORY
56. CAPTURING THE EPHEMERAL Street art comes and goes, either white washed, removed by city cleaning teams or sprayed over. Although the temporary nature of street art is part of its charm, there is a loss of history & maybe a loss of identify for the place when a piece disappears.
57. ADDING A NEW LAYER By using the Island to capture photos of the graffiti, while it is still visible, and binding them to a QR code sticker, the history of the place can be preserved. QR code can be placed and re- placed at will, allowing permanent access to this moment in time. http://midnightmisery16.wordpress.com/about/a-lost-little-pen/the-issues-tissues/1614-2/
58. STREET EXHIBITION As Islands preserve privacy , graffiti artist (or their supporters) can overlay information containing details about the artist and the specific piece, turning the location into a public exhibition space. About the Artist Above is an international street artist who has deliberately chosen to keep his identity concealed.[1] He was born in California in 1981 and has been creating public art since 1995.[2] Above is known for his multi-layer, full color social and political stencils, spinning wooden
59. 3 WHISTLEBLOWER DROPS
60. SHARING IN PRIVACY A whistleblowers might be afraid of using the Internet (even with TOR) to share information. They might even be afraid of handing over a USB key in person.
61. SHARING IN PRIVACY Instead, he could prepare the files and put them on his mobile phone, then locate an existing QR code within the area of an Island and attach the files to the QR code.
62. ACCESSING ANONYMOUSLY Later on, a journalist could then scan the QR code while connected to the Island and retrieve the content. As the QR would normally redirect to a regular website, there is no easy way for someone to notice that the journalist is actually accessing the information cell on the Island.
63. COMMUNITIES
64. HACKERS & MAKERS OPEN DATA ACTIVISTS EVENT ORGANIZERS PHOTOGRAPHERS RESEARCHERS WRITERS INTERACTION DESIGNERS ARCHITECTS
65. Q
66. How do we kickstart a new medium?
67. How will people use this new medium?
68. How will the community influence the content?
69. How will the content influence the community?
70. How do we relate to a data space anchored in the urban space?
71. Who does the data space belong to / what are the legal boundaries?
72. IN ESSENCE, INVISIBLE ISLANDS IS ABOUT CREATING A NEW MEDIUM
73. BASED ON A DATA OVERLAY ANCHORED IN THE PHYSICAL SPACE
74. THAT IS BOTH OPEN & PRIVATE
75. WHERE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN ART, DESIGN, ENGINEERING & ACTIVISM ARE BLURRED
76. AS AN ART PROJECT THE RESULT IS INVISIBLE
77. AND ONLY EXISTS IN ITS POTENTIAL FOR CREATION & SOCIAL CHANGE
78. THANK YOU!
79. INVISIBLE ISLANDS invisibleislands.org @ssebastien