Electrosmog International Festival
CoLab’s Becca Woods and James Charlton participated in Electrosmog, 19 – 21 March, a new global festival exploring the concept of “Sustainable Immobility” as a critique of the ecologically unsustainable constant mobility of people and products through travel and transport.
James Charlton participated in a collaborative project between AUT, University of Otago, Victoria University, BeSTGRIID, BlueFern and Ventrue Southland via KAREN (Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network) and the Access Grid which involves multiple video and audio feeds, and is facilitated in New Zealand by ADA (Aotearoa Digital Arts Network http://www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz).
The project is called Searching for the Unknown: Transient Radio Events Sensor Network which explores electromagnetic phenomena in the environment to discover whether electronic connections really are more sustainable and not just creating a new form of pollution or “Electrosmog”.
Becca Woods performed with a group of globally distributed collaborators in “Backyard Dances” where dancing bodies and local backyards are transported globally via communication technologies allowing “them to be everywhere at once, while staying at home, in our own backyard.”
Exciting projects were also developed by teams of BCT (Bachelor of Creative Technologies) students as part of the Electrosmog Festival and were online during the festival – see http://creativetechnologies.ac.nz/projects.html
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