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Tonight I attended a packed lecture hall for the inaugural, and as it turned out engaging and super-smoothly executed, Wireless London event that featured talks from Armin Medosch and Usman Haque. Both were great; interesting and provocative...
In particular Usman's Sky Ear project was just fantastic - send up little radio frequency sensors with powerful LEDs, some communication circuitry, and phones all inside hundreds of helium balloons. The sensors detect both natural- and human-created signals and visualize them with the LEDs. An extra twist is created by the ability to be able to SMS/text the device which in the process of receiving the message affects the surrounding ether and thus the visualization! The scale of the creation was just awesome and looked wonderful.
Definitely recommended, looking forward to the next one.
Continuing what seems to be a run of good fortune meeting cool people, I was lucky enough to be sitting next to an architect who did an intriguing project on the 'flirtatious city' examing how configurations of architecture are and are not conducive to urban intimacy in its broad sense. Gotta love intending to go to Rome and experiment wearing high-heels on a Vespa to see how that effects passage through the urban landscape... Someone has to investigate this stuff.
Posted by Paul Makepeace at January 18, 2005 23:40 | TrackBacki was at that lecture. i am am architect and teach architecture. i find the whole invisible architecture thing really interesting and i am trying to set up a peice of research related to the above. i was unable to stay to the end of the lecture (i have seen sky ear before). i would like to get in touch with people who have similar interests and was intrigued with the idea of the 'flirtatious city ' project. would you be able to pass my interests and contact details to that person. j
Posted by: jane mcallister at January 22, 2005 13:21i was at that lecture. i am am architect and teach architecture. i find the whole invisible architecture thing really interesting and i am trying to set up a peice of research related to the above. i was unable to stay to the end of the lecture (i have seen sky ear before). i would like to get in touch with people who have similar interests and was intrigued with the idea of the 'flirtatious city ' project. would you be able to pass my interests and contact details to that person. j
Posted by: jane mcallister at January 22, 2005 13:23