Victoria And Albert Museum Visualisation for Decode Stanza. (www.stanza.co.uk). Decode at V & A. The Art Of Environmental Data Sensing the gallery and the environment to make art. The results are the visualisation and sonification of real time spaces. Sensity V & A by Stanza. (www.stanza.co.uk).
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Using custom made sensors in the V & A Porter gallery and around the city. 20 custom environmental sensors units measure, light, noise, sound, humidity, and temperature....this data is turned into a online real time visualisation of the space. |
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Stanza’s work “Sensity V & A” uses environmental sensors scattered all over the museum and the city to make visualisation and sonifications. Literally painting with data these works open up a discourse about networks and surveillance technologies. The ownership and interrogation of public domain space is opened out where anyone can view all the data in these networks. This is used by stanza to make artworks but it is of equal interest to urban designers, city planners, and architects. Stanza’s main point is to question the social political fabric of the landscape around us. This work aim to reclaim the city which is remade as a real time virtualised space belonging to all. The work is interactive, real time and responsive; it is also available online.
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Sensity .http://www.stanza.co.uk/sensity/index.html
Gallery http://www.stanza.co.uk/gallery/index.html
See sensors on google maps http://www.soundcities.com/data.php
Sensity. (in detail)
A series of artworks based on sensing the environment. The results are the visualization and sonification of real time spaces. Sensity artworks are made from the data that is collected across the urban and environment infrastructure. The sensors interpret the micro-data of the interactive city. The output from the sensors display the "emotional" state of the city online in real time and the information is also used to create offline installations and sculptural artworks.
Several artworks have been made ( 2004- 2009) , and several new physical cities are in development for 2009. These artworks represent the movement of people, pollution in the air, the vibrations and sounds of buildings. They are in effect emergent social sculptures visualizing the emotional state of the city.
The sensor networks can be moved from urban to rural setting, ( ie they are mobile) and different types of visualization can be made depending on the environment. Sensity is an open social sculpture that informs the world and creates new meaningful experiences.
Sensity incorporates the holistic city system. The sense city is a city full of accumulated incidents; of love, abuse and death, fundamentally of change. The micro incidents of change in the weather, the noise traffic flows and people flows are all potential sources for inquiry. The archives of this data can be controlled via mixed up interfaces that can re-form and re-contextualise experiences in real time. A new city experience is resulting based on the mash up meta data from these multiple cities streams. My wireless sensor network is set up to visualize cities as 'worlds' full of data, a city of bits. These new data-spaces can help us understand the fundamentals of our outside environment.
Tech.
The changing data is what affects what you see and experience. The flash interfaces reflecting these real time changes in the interactive city space.
Live XML feeds form real time sensors when switched on. This is open sourced so other academics, urban designers, researchers as well as artists can make use of the data.
The sensors can monitor temperature, sounds, noise, light, vibration, humidity, and gps.
The sensor network takes a constant stream of data which is published onto an online environment where each different interface makes representations of the XML
ABOUT STANZA ||
Stanza is a London based British artist who specializes in interactive art, networked spaces, installations and performances. His award winning online projects have been invited for exhibition in digital festivals around the world. Work has been shown at The Venice Biennale, Tate Britain, The Victoria and Albert Museum. Recipient of Nesta Dreamtime Award, AHRC creative fellowship and numerous prizes. All his artworks can be found at www.stanza.co.uk
Stanza's artworks explore artistic and technical opportunities to enable new aesthetic perspectives, experiences and perceptions within context of architecture, data spaces and online environments.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS || La Biennale di Venezia ie Venice Biennale: Victoria Albert Museum: Tate Britain: Mundo Urbano Madrid: New Forest Pavilion Artsway: Haifa Museum Israel: Novosibirsk Festival Exhibition.
AWARDS|| AHRC Creative fellowship 2006 - 2009: NESTA Dreamtime Award 2004: Clark Digital Bursary 2003: Future Physical Grant for Genomixer 2002: D.T.I. Innovation Award 1997:
PRIZES || Stanza has won first prize awards at these festivals internationally.
Videoformes Multimedia First prize France 2005: Art In Motion V First prize USA 2004: Vidalife 6.0 first prize Spain2003 : Fififestival Grand Prize France 2003: New Forms Net Art Prize Canada 2003: Fluxus Online first prize Brasil 2002: SeNef Online Grand Prix Korea 2000: Links first prize Portugal 2001: Videobrasil first prize Brasil 2001 : Cynet art first prize Germany 2000 : Wolfson Paintings prize England.
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