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About the Series
Floating Points 3 (FP3) will address the subject of "Ubiquitous Computing" or “Ubicomp”, where computing and wireless capabilities are so integrated into the fabric of everyday life (clothing, cars, homes, and offices) that the technologies recede into the background and become indistinguishable from everyday activities. FP3 will consist of two moderated panel discussions, one on February 8 and the other on March 15. The first will focus on artist-thinkers who work collaboratively with research teams--including scientists--to produce environments and systems that respond to the human presence; it will include Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel and Chris Salter. For the second panel, we have invited artist-thinkers who question and confront the ongoing development of networked objects and work creatively to subvert them, for instance, the ever-enlarging practice of surveillance and data mining. Our guests will be Adam Greenfield, Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media), and Michelle Teran.
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Preemptive Media's Zapped! Workshop
Date: March 16, 2006
Time: 3 - 5 p.m.
Venue: Electronic Projects Classroom, Massachusetts College of Art
Support: ProArts Consortium, Emerson College, Massachusetts College of Art, and Turbulence.org
Workshop Description
You may have heard the term RFID and possibly even brought one home unknowingly. But what exactly is a Radio Frequency Identification tag? Why are Wal-Mart, the Department of Defense and the Food & Drug Administration sinking big bucks into these little chips and paving the way for mass implementation? After a brief overview of the technology and related social ramifications, each participant will receive a Zapped! RFID workbook. Try out one of the fun games or puzzles. Also participants will be able to program a RFID tag to "talk back" to a RFID reader that may be in your neighborhood. Each participant will take home a workbook, apped! stickers/pins and a programmed RFID.
Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer):
Preemptive Media "reengineers your thinking about mobile digital
technologies imbedded in everyday environments. In live performances and real time actions the PM art, technology and activist collective disturbs, dislodges, and redesigns new media technologies that are often ignored, like the bar codes on driver's licenses or radio frequency information devices used for EZ pass on highways. At the forefront of what is called locative media, Preemptive Media repositions highly specialized technologies within the democratic discourse of low-tech amateurism. PM will focus on their latest project "Zapped" which addresses the mass implementation of RFID and its contribution to the ever growing field of technology-enhanced surveillance practices.
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