January 04

ART'S BIRTHDAY - Call for Collaborators [2] of [3]

Friday January 16th will be a day for informal exchanges and test connections between remote participants.

Saturday January 17th will focus on celebration starting with a wired limousine trip delivering Art to the Western Front. Basically we want to activate things in the space with network activity. Remote locations can stage simultaneous events, generate data, and react to the data flow using simple devices. Working designs and simple instructions will be posted on this website. If you want to participate in some way contact us at media@front.bc.ca.

Sunday January 18th will start with a late breakfast panel discussion in Vancouver followed by an afternoon performance jam with artists in the studio at Kunstradio in Vienna.

Based on ideas developed during the Scrambled_Bites residency, Art's Birthday will involve data exchange between remote locations. Data collected at each location (using various sensors) will be broadcast on the Internet using the Scramble_Bites message server. This data can then be used to activate various mechanisms in the different locations.

Artists can connect to the Scrambled_Bites system in a number of ways (including using the Max Programming Language and text based systems). As the project evolves, software and hardware information will be posted on the web site to help particpants develop working components and ideas.

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