Berlin Micro-Turf Expedition
12 Mar โ10
As part of the Urban Wilderness Action Center, Myriel Milicevic + Jon Cohrs are organizing the Berlin Micro-Turf Expedition. With a team of self-defined experts (you), we will survey parking lot ecosystems, abandoned infrastructures, trade routes, and micro habitats of Berlin by dissecting the fringe-ecologies within the city.
The expedition will report back live to the ElectroSmog festival with its band of specialists who will setup up camp in several different areas in Berlin.
Using a methodology that analyzes ecological succession the expedition will collect samples, map wildlife, illustrate the topography, detect seismographic data, and observe the micro-climates to create scientific models of future urban habitats.
Please join our expedition on March 20th and let us know what expertise you would like to contribute. We’re looking for documentarians, anthropologists, photographers, seismologists, illustrators, micro-climate inspectors, ornithologists, soil tasters, and other expertise.
We will begin the expedition at 2pm on March 20th.
Electrosmog Festival Streaming will be from 7pm.
http://www.electrosmogfestival.net
location:
SKULPTURENPARK BERLIN_ZENTRUM
KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V.
Kรถpenicker Str. 36-38
10179 Berlin
http://www.skulpturenpark.org
Let me know if you’re interesting in joining us! -jc
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This is project is part of the Urban Wilderness Action Center. UWAC will be staging events in Berlin, London, Amsterdam and New York City. The first event will be the Berlin Micro-Turf Expedition then events in Amsterdam + London, followed by 6 events in New York City at the Eyebeam Atelier.
UWAC has been conceived of as part of ElectroSmog, a new, three-day, international festival that will introduce and explore of concept of “Sustainable Immobility”: a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and products in travel and transport, and their ecological unsustainability.
| Tags: berlin, micro-turf
OMG TV broadcasting during 2010 olympics
18 Feb โ10
We’re in Vancouver right transmitting our mundane webscraped content to the downtown Vancouver. We just updated our streaming server as well, using a custom open-source version of flash called red5. Better yet is that our tv stream is also embedable so any one can add it to their website. like so —>>>
Visit http://omgtv.splnls.com
| Tags: omg tv
Steve Goodman’s “Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear”
6 Jan โ10
Interesting review of Steve Goodman’s book on sonic weapons by Geeta Dayal. The book is a very thorough look at history and implications of sonic weapons. Read the review here.
Steve Goodman, Toby Hayes, and I will be working on some projects around this subject over the next year. I’m hoping to spend sometime reverse engineering a LRAD speaker system used in crowd control.
| Tags: rhizome, sonic weapons
Work at Nordic Embassy, Berlin. 01.07.10
4 Jan โ10
Visual Voltage
opening -> January 7, 18 โ 24.00:
I’ll be showing my video on urban prospecting at the exhibition.
“The exhibition Visual Voltage deals with the mayor subject โenergyโ from the perspective of Swedish designers and artists.
Both climate change and pending decisions on the European energy politics motivate also artists and designers from Germany to respond to this subject with their work. These responses are now presented in the exhibition Visual Voltage Amplified which opens on January 7, 2010 and accompanies Visual Voltage until January 24.”
| Tags: energy, urban prospecting
Presentation + performance at RIXC XI: ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETY
7 Oct โ09
This Friday, October 9th, 2009 I’m presenting a talk called ” Show me the money.” It’s loosely based on some of the ideas involved in UrbanProspecting.net It’s part of the RIXC ART+COMMUNICATION 2009 XI International festival for new media culture, in Riga, Latvia.
I’m going to expand on the self-made man, and how wealth can drive us to new heights.
| Tags: latvia, rixc
Blip on Furtherfield
14 Sep โ09
This joyful satire of opportunism and greed provides one of the few critiques presented at FutureSonic that account for the role of complex economic and ideological interests, in debate and action, surrounding climate change. The values (or at least the spirit) of America’s self-made-man, mining for black gold, sits uncomfortably comfortably alongside those of the hardware hackers and media activist dudes. “Being green has never been this cool”.
– http://www.furtherfield.org/
| Tags: article, furtherfield, urbanprospecting
Deutsche Welle radio program about my work and few others.
30 Jul โ09
“How can web technologists interested in the interface between digital footprint and environmental footprint, and artists concerned with collaborative observation, mapping and intervention in the environment, bring a fresh approach to ‘citizen science’ and public engagement in the environment? Cheryl Northey found out at the recent Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas.” dw-world.de
audio interview
| Tags: dw, new
Copyright and the Creator: Who Cares Whatโs Fair?
5 Jul โ09
This Thursday, July 9, 6โ8PM at Eyebeam, there will be a panel discussion on fair-use and appropriation within activist and creative practice moderated by Creative Commons product manager and Eyebeam research associate Fred Benenson; artist/curator Mark Tribe, audio-visual remix artist Jonny Wilson (Eclectic Method), Postmasters gallery director Magdalena Sawon, and myself.
Come early at 5pm for a BBQ in front of Eyebeam.
| Tags: copyright, fair-use
We’re going prospecting!
5 Jul โ09
ยฉ image by jan dixon & emily dixon
Open Video Conference
21 Jun โ09
Jeff Crowse, Kenseth Armstead, and myself presented our work at the open video conference. There was a great Q&A afterwards that lead to some interesting copyright questions and dialog.
| Tags: open video
Boing Boing love
14 May โ09
A nice article about the urban prospector on boing boing.
"Last week our pals at Gizmodo stumbled on an Instructables project for hacking a metal detector with a hydrocarbon sensor. The goal: use it to find oil you can extract and sell for $$$ OR locate underground toxins, so you can try to sue whoever put them there (win win, if you ask me)."
