trampoline
diary
18th May 2007
Heath Bunting
– The Status Project
Heath
Bunting’s Status Project is an interactive online artwork that reflects
upon issues of identity, data protection and privacy. Future Factory and
Trampoline have commissioned the artist to develop this work further. The
project will be launched as part of Trampoline’s Radiator Festival
for New Technology Art in November 2007. As a precursor to this, a Live
Lecture accompanied by a presentation of works will be hosted by Broadway
in May 2007.
Live Lecture
Friday
18th of May 2007 at 11am
Broadway, Cinema 1, 14-18 Broad St, Nottingham NG1
3AL
Admission free
Heath Bunting will give a presentation on his work with focus on the Status
Project.
Presented Works
BorderXing
Guide – Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, 2001
Broadway Café Bar
Slideshow
Throughout May, starts daily at 4 pm
And BorderXing Guide on computer in Broadway Foyer, 14 - 20 May
Status Project –
Heath Bunting, 2004
Broadway Foyer on computer, 14 - 20 May
Status Project
– Heath Bunting, 2004
“The Status Project is an expert system for
identity mutation” says net art pioneer, Heath Bunting. Presently
available as an online database, it forces the user to describe themselves
through a set of multiple choice questions. While the Status Project currently
maps the systems that control our documented identities, Heath is developing
software which guides us through the process of building and modifying these
official documents. With effects in the real world – ranging from
getting a Tesco club card to appearing on the electoral register, the artists’
ultimate aim is to apply for a passport with his new identity.
http://status.irational.org/
BorderXing Guide
– Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, 2001
In 2000 Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon crossed 24
of the 26 European borders without a passport using wilderness routes, thus
avoiding official border posts. During the several months long project,
Bunting and Brandon documented exact details about each crossing’s
location, strategy, availability of food and where to get help, resulting
in the BorderXing Guide now found on the internet.
The website is not available to everyone who has an Internet connection. People wishing to view the website must physically travel to one of the listed designated locations, or apply to become an authorised client themselves. The project intends a reversal of the way that borders restrict movement and challenge the supposed liberties that accompany the concept of the Internet as a borderless space.
If you
are at an Internet terminal authorised by the artist, go to www.irational.org/BorderXing
to view the work. The full work can be accessed from the PC at Broadway
foyer from 14th – 20th of May, as well as numerous other locations
listed on the site.
If you would like your network address to be added to the list of authorised
locations, send it to heath@irational.org. Please note that only static
IP addresses will be considered as authorised clients.
While BorderXing comments on the way movement from one country to the next is restricted by governments and border authorities, the Status Project looks at how the construction of our ‘official identity’ – a collection of data – influences how we can move around in social space. What this ultimately shows is how our everyday environment and virtual space - the internet, private or governmental databases and networks – are inseparably woven with each other forming a densely controlled actuality.
www.irational.org/heath/
www.future-factory.com/
Supported by:
Thanks to:
Broadway, The Gamut
1st April 2007
Trampoline guest-curates Electric Lounge - Broadway Media Centre - Nottingham
7.30 - 11.30pm
Trampoline
curates April's Electric Lounge event presenting a selection of the latest
experimental live electronic music and cutting edge visuals
Trampoline has assembled the latest session of beats, live music and visuals
that is Electric Lounge.
Magic Window will be performing live, slipping between edit heavy beat structures
and atmospheric melodic progressions. With the latest engaging visual banquet,
Trampoline will ease you through a brand new array of special April 3-D
foolery from Crayon Transmission to accompany the glitchy meanderings of
Mi Dark Star Rise (MIDSR).
Matthew Clark will be delving into his vast knowledge and collection of
electronic music and Futureproof return with their modular visual delights.
23rd November
Trampoline Event - Broadway Media Centre - Nottingham
The
city is paved with pixels, the flow of traffic becomes the flow of bits, the
flow of people, the flow of electrons. Streets and circuit diagrams become
meshed. The race has begun.
Each
one of us becomes a player in the game of the city, furiously manipulating
the control pad, tapping buttons, flicking switches. Leaping from platforms,
scaling the walls – the concrete/media playground is before us.
Hurtling
around corners, lunging up surfaces, shooting through the streets.
Join
the rush and surge of the city, find new ways to play the game.
Trampoline invites you to participate in this one day event to be held on 23rd November in Nottingham, UK. Its objective is to merge video gaming, art and design with the investigation of the city space. The structures of the city are increasingly pervaded by new media with screens, cctv, electronic networks, mobile devices, implements often designed to control our movement through urban space and even to remove us from our surroundings. We wish to investigate how new media can form an even tighter relationship with our immediate environment – challenge and subvert its conventional structures – hacking the city.
See
submissions
for more details
28th July - 18th August
Dislocate
An exhibition in Tokyo, bringing UK and Japan based artists together in an investigation of multiple space and indeterminate location in the age of global connectivity.
Ginza Art Laboratory 7-3-6 Ginza, Chuuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061
Koiwa Project Space 7-2-7 Minami-Koiwa Edogawa-ku Tokyo 133-0056