Meet at the Park Street T Station on the Boston Common for a walk downtown.
Experience Mark Shepard's iPhone app, "Serendipitor" and EcoArtTech's Android app, "Indeterminate Hikes" (wear comfortable walking shoes!). Then join us for drinks at Jacob Worth (31-37 Stuart Street, between Tremont and Washington Streets).
"Serendipitor" is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for somethin...g else. Join us and participate in a 45 minute serendipitous city walk! Bring an iPhone (iOS 3.1.3 or higher), comfortable walking shoes, and ample curiosity. Bring a friend or two as well! Download "Serendipitor" for free from the App Store.
"Indeterminate Hikes" (IH) is an Android app that acts as your guide through urban wilderness, directing hikers to the sublime Scenic Vistas inhabiting our most developed environments. If you have an Android smartphone, download the IH app for free from the Android Market, or else just hike along.
Link:
http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston/2011/04/serendipitous-indeterminate-walk/
Cary Peppermint's work explores the convergence of ecological, cultural, and digital networks, through a post-disciplinary practice with strong ties to internet and performance art. His works are in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Computer Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since co-founding ecoarttech with Leila Nadir in 2005, Cary's art has turned toward the imagination of the environment as a convergent network of biological, cultural, and digital spaces. Selected ecoarttech works include "Eclipse,” commissioned by Turbulence.org; "Untitled Landscape #5,” a commission for the Whitney Museum of American Art; and "Center for Wildness and the Everyday,” a series of digital media works and performances about water scarcity commissioned by the University of North Texas. ecoarttech's honors include a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts artist fellowship and teaching appointments at Banff New Media Institute and Anderson Arts Ranch. Cary’s curatorial work has focused on digital, back-country, off the grid exhibitions such as Wild Info Net, a solar-powered sound-art installation in the Catskill Mountains, and Nature 2.0, one of the first exhibitions of eco-art engaging new media technologies. Peppermint is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester and has held previous appointments at Cornell University, Colgate University, and the Pratt Institute.
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