network
Location @ Dana Center:
D-lounge
Date(s):
Thu 10 11:00 AM - Fri 11 5:00 PM
Host:
Mark Dixon
Detailed text:
As part of the Enter¬¬¬ Unknown territories festival and conference, Cambridge,
Mark Dixon developed a major site-specific installation for the domes on Parker's Piece. He explored the visualisation of the wireless information that surrounds us but is rarely acknowledged. Using 3000 wireless detectors and 6000 ultra bright LEDs Dixon created a work that visibly responded to mobile phone use in a public environment. Each day, workshop participants were actively encouraged to hack and to add to the lighting array that was visible all through the night. On the last day of the Festival the Network was broken down and handed out to festival goers and distributed throughout the city. A short movie of this ephemeral artwork will be available at Mark Dixon
Biography:
About Mark Dixon
His work is typically experimental and often collaborative. Over the past 5 years it has involved combining art and technology and has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. He has used various processes such as high voltage static electricity and ink, or wireless cameras and projection equipment to record the demolition of buildings from within. During 2005 he worked with Commissions East on site specific installations at the Great Eastern Hotel in London as part of the Arts Council Escalator program. Since then he has had commissions and residencies with Wysing Arts Centre, The Technology Partnership, Commissions East and Arts Council England and started using LEDs triggered by mobile phones. This was developed further in a permanent public commission for Grafton House, Ipswich, installed in early 2007.
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