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Local Resonance Amplifier
Date(s):
Thu 21 12:00 PM
Host:
Martin Howse
Detailed text:
Local Resonance Amplifiers (LRA) are parasitic city devices (PCD)
which amplify and dislocate wide band electromagnetic (EM) emissions
or signals. Mushroomed LRA devices serve as mute witness, creating
significant physical and symbolic imbalances within complex city-wide
spectral ecologies: subtle interactions between physical
constructions, communication technologies (wireless networks, mobile
phone networks, RFID, television, radio, radar), power lines and lines
of transmission, biological phenomena, and geologic properties.
Biography:
Born 1969 UK. Programmer, theorist and explorer of open hardware Martin Howse founded ap in 1998 to implement a truly artistic operating system (OS) in its most expanded sense and within a free software context. Martin Howse has performed and collaborated worldwide using custom software and hardware modules for audible/visible code/noise generation. ap projects have included the ap02 distributed environmental code-creation software and an environmental computational work, entitled ap0201 installed deep within the Mojave desert which received first prize within Art & Artificial Life VIDA 8.0, 2005. xxxxx was initiated in 2006 with the ongoing xxxxx event series [London, Norway, Germany] and the acclaimed xxxxx [reader] compendium publication. Current projects include an ongoing series of open workshops towards the establishment of a research institute in Berlin and London, and the implementation of a mobile flaneur/scrying EM/data platform.
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