Knowbotic Research at ARTLAB

Sept. 30, 1997

Type: discussion

ARTLAB holds ARTLAB 7th Original Exhibition
"I0_DENCIES–questioning urbanity" (artist: Knowbotic Research)
by linking the Internet with local urban movements

INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION
<Internet starts Oct.3> http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/
<exhibition> Oct.4-12 at Hillside Plaza, Tokyo
<artist lecture> Oct.9 at Canon ARTLAB, Tokyo

ARTLAB co-produced ARTLAB7 "IO_DENCIES–questioning urbanity" with
Knowbotic Research(KR+cF), an art group based in Cologne, Germany.

In ARTLAB7 "IO_DENCIES—questioning urbanity," the vision of a new
dialogue with the city is questioned from a viewpoint of informatics
based on the digital network. The group approaches the work with an
inquiry about how to act and intervene in the invisible and latent
potential of the contemporary city.

The title "I0_DENCIES" is made up of the words "density" and "tendency."
It signifies the tendencies of the user activities in dealing with the
different densities which are current in the dynamic processes and
relations of information flows.

For the IO-DENCIES project, Tokyo's Shimbashi area was selected as a
model-site for reading the specific urban dynamics of a local part of a
city. Tokyo as an information city with global qualities will be created
in realtime by modifying data-flows by unspecified but engaging
individuals. Knowbotic Research have developed a connective online
environment that can be experienced and manipulated by participants in
segments.

The IO_dencies-environment is located in the Internet as well as in an
installation site. The exhibition space which is formed by 3D sound
events and stroboscopic light events will be activated from the
visualized networked space. Distributed sensor fields will record the
relational dynamics of the exhibition visitors and send them into the
network space. There will arise a complex, unsurveyable system between
individual and urban activities, between dataspace and realspace,
between urban reality and urban concepts. IO-dencies is an experiment
which offers a tool to negotiate both inside hybrid systems and in a
public field.

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