[NetBehaviour] Invitation to Internet of Cars reception and events June 1, Wincester Science Centre. All welcome but please book.

Sat May 24 15:42:39 CEST 2014

Hi Ruth and all

Thanks so much for your comments. I remember the work we did together and my time on Furtherfield's advisory board very fondly. SCAN will announce the closure formally in the Autumn but I thought I'd let a trickle out so that people are aware - just in case anyone wants to see the last of SCAN.... I'll still be working freelance and also making time to follow my current interest in psychology and design.

Do come to Internet of Cars - we do have plans to show it elsewhere over the next couple of years but this is the premiere and it's all new work. It's a lovely balance of dystopian critique and data visualisation of traffic in my opinion. Come to see it - Winchester is only an hour away from Waterloo...

All the best
Helen

On 24 May 2014, at 14:16, ruth catlow wrote:

> Hi Helen,
> 
> Thanks for the invitation.
> 
> I'm very sad to hear that SCAN will be closing in September and I'm sure that lots of other people will be too. 
> 
> We are still very proud of the second ever exhibition, Data Agency by SCAN, to be hosted at Furtherfield Gallery (or HTTP as it was then) in 2005.
> http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitions/scan-showcase-data-agency
> 
> You have bought many wonderful artists to our attention and early conversations with you were very important to us as we started to think about exhibiting networked art in physical gallery spaces.
> 
> You and the work you have done through SCAN has always been very smart, well informed, offering a highly valued critical voice, and a playful sense of the importance of physical experience.
> 
> Unfortunately I am not going to be able to make it along to your reception but I hope that you will share any documentation of what happens!
> And keep in touch!
> 
> RESPECT DUE!
> 
> Ruth
>  
> 
> On 23/05/2014 13:36, Helen Sloan wrote:
>> Here are the correct links to book for the events as they seemed to get lost in cyberspace
>> 
>> Reception
>> http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-reception-tickets-11542212067
>> 
>> Screenings
>> http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-screening-and-artist-discussion-tickets-11646309425
>> 
>> Car Flash Mob
>> http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-flashmob-tickets-11543010455
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Helen
>> 
>> 
>> On 23 May 2014, at 13:04, Helen Sloan wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Netbehaviourists
>>> 
>>> Just in case you are interested in SCAN's latest and final offering (sadly, we will close in September) and/or having a debate about the Internet of Things through the lens of the car, visit Winchester and Southampton over June/July. We have special events at Winchester Science Centre on June 1 and everyone is welcome. You will need to book through Eventbrite for all the events that you want to attend. I do hope you will come.
>>> 
>>> All the best
>>> Helen
>>> Helen Sloan 
>>> Director
>>> SCAN
>>> 
>>> Internet of Cars
>>> Turning your car into a data carrier
>>> Special Reception at Winchester Science Centre: 1 June 2014
>>> Book through
>>> http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-reception-tickets-11542212067
>>> All welcome to each event but please book
>>> Special Events
>>> Winchester Science Centre 1 June: Demo Day, 2 – 5pm
>>> Demonstrations of mobile phone apps, artists work and the research from Sixth
>>> Sense Transport. Tickets with admission
>>> 6 – 7.30pm Special Artist Reception,
>>> Book to attend through http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-receptiontickets-
>>> 11542212067 Entry by ticket only.
>>> 7.30 – 9pm Screenings and Discussion Session, Planetarium. All welcome but a place
>>> is only guaranteed through booking at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-ofcars-
>>> screening-and-artist-discussion-tickets-11646309425
>>> 9 – 9.30pm Internet of Cars Flash Mob, An orchestra of sounds from car stereos
>>> Winchester Science Centre Car Park. All welcome. Volunteers required. You need
>>> a car with a CD player (or a portable CD player) and working headlights.
>>> Tickets can be booked through http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-carsflashmob-
>>> tickets-11543010455
>>> 
>>> A Distributed Exhibition
>>> http://www.internetofcars.org.uk
>>> This series of exhibitions and events will explore and debate the use and misuse
>>> of cars in everyday life through the lens of visual arts. Responding creatively to
>>> data and research derived from traffic flow analysis in Dorset and Hampshire
>>> using automatic number plate reading (ANPR), six artists will show work alongside
>>> the results of a research project, Sixth Sense Transport, investigating online
>>> promotion of a social and shared space for people who use cars and want to
>>> reduce their carbon footprint.
>>> Using the concept of the Internet of Things, ANPR cameras on A354 between
>>> Dorchester and Weymouth and similar carmers in Southampton, artists have
>>> used the data provided to interpret their own scenarios in this exhibition. Simon
>>> Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou in The Car That Turned and Steve Beard and
>>> Victoria Halford in Router have created their own futuristic road movie narratives.
>>> Stanza in The Agency at the end of Civilization, Duncan Shingleton in Flows and
>>> Ivar van Bekkum and Esther Polak in Fronting Motion all use the data as it is
>>> gathered in real time to create various visualisations and sonic interpretations of
>>> the data by focusing on traffic build up, carbon emissions and patterns of car
>>> usage. Lanfranco Aceti’s performance Car Park looks at the implication for
>>> Internet of Things regarding people. Each of the pieces has been specially
>>> commissioned and premiered for the show.
>>> Exhibiting Artists
>>> Stanza’s work will visualise the state of the transport and assess repeat patterns
>>> overlaying a narrative that can allude to the subjective overtones of the control
>>> space and surveillance culture. The artwork embeds itself inside the urban
>>> landscape, surveillance culture, privacy and alienation in the city. The agency
>>> created in the galley focuses on the patterns we leave behind as well as real time
>>> networked events that can be re-imagined and sourced for information.
>>> Hollington & Kyprianou’s film examines the ‘classic’ American road movie which
>>> was both an emblem of achieving and escaping from the American Dream. The
>>> car, the road and the hero are the holy trinity of American cinema. But what would
>>> a convincing UK road movie look like? What architecture would it traverse today?
>>> Halford & Beard Router is the soundtrack to an imaginary movie which tells the
>>> story of a secret ‘mobile prison’ experiment by a sinister American G4S-style
>>> company. The company confines four guys in a van and condemns them to travel
>>> the roads of a coastal city in an endless voyage of the damned. Naturally, things
>>> go horribly wrong…
>>> Duncan Shingleton will be show at the Turner Sims Concert Hall ‘Flows’ scans
>>> registration plates in real-time across the six camera sites on the A354 between
>>> Dorchester and Weymouth. As vehicles pass the cameras, a vehicle lookup enquiry is
>>> made to ascertain data on their CO2 emission rating, which is then used to drive Arduino
>>> controlled air turbines, generating movement in six particle filled acrylic tubes. As the
>>> total amount of CO2 emitted ebbs and flows, the air rate is increased and decreased in
>>> correlation, changing the velocity of the particles.
>>> Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum’s Fronting Motion is an outdoor installation piece
>>> which will be a fully immersive experience in Guidlhall Square projected between
>>> two Luton vans, two realities merge into a panorama of a contemporary
>>> landscape. In the west cars are coming right at you. In the east you overlook the
>>> arriving and leaving ships in the harbor taking their time. Everywhere you hear this
>>> constant noise, is it the sea you hear or is it the sound of a highway?
>>> Car Park is a new artwork by Lanfranco Aceti as part of the exhibition Internet of
>>> Cars in association with the John Hansard Gallery. The artwork is inspired by
>>> notions of hard labor and economic exploitation, which will provide the conceptual
>>> underpinning for an exhibition and a public performance in Southampton from
>>> June 7 to June 12, 2014.
>>> 
>>> Exhibition times:
>>> Winchester Science Centre 31 May – 8 July, 2014
>>> Open 7 days a week: Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm Sat – Sun 10am – 5pm
>>> Turner Sims Concert Hall 2 June – 6 July 2014
>>> Open: Mon – Friday 10am – 5pm and until 7pm on performance evenings
>>> See http://turnersims.co.uk for details of performances
>>> Southampton Guildhall Square 7 – 11 June 2014, 9am – 9pm
>>> Car Park: Become a Car Man, Save the World
>>> Performance by Lanfranco Aceti and participants
>>> 13 – 15 June 2014, 9am – 11.45pm
>>> Fronting Motion, Online sound and video installation, Esther Polak and Ivar van
>>> Bekkum
>>> A free symposium, held at the University of Southampton in September (date tbc),
>>> will bring together academics, transport experts and the general public to explore
>>> what an Internet of Cars might be like. More details at
>>> http://www.internetofcars.org.uk 
>>> 
>>> The exhibition will also be shown at Bridport Arts Centre, Turner Sims Concert Hall and
>>> Guildhall Square Southampton during May, June, July.
>>> Curated by SCAN and Sixth Sense Transport.
>>> The Internet of Cars exhibition and symposium has been made possible thanks to our
>>> partners and funders Digital Economy (Research Councils UK), RCUK Digital Economy
>>> Theme Tales of Engagement Award, Arts Council England, John Hansard Gallery,
>>> Winchester Science Centre, Bridport Arts Centre, Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton
>>> City Council.
>>> Thanks also to contributions from University of Southampton, Design
>>> Informatics (University of Edinburgh), Dorset County Council.
>>> For further information please contact: Helen Sloan helen at scansite.org 07973
>>> 919210 or Jane Macdonald jane.macdonald at ed.ac.uk
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