"Capacities Life In The Emergent City" captures the changes over time in the environment and represents the changing life and complexity of real time space as an emergent artwork. Capacities goes beyond simple single user interaction to monitor and survey in real time the whole city and entirely represent the complexities of the real time space as a shifting morphing and complex system. What you see is a sculpture representing the emergent properties of the environment the sensors network is placed situated. In this case the city .

The artwork exhibition.

In the gallery the artwork is installed called 'Capacities: Life In The Emergent City. ' The leads, the wires,and cables are incorporated into the artwork to look like a city map.' Capacities' looks "designed" like a piece of urban design, a city surveyed and controlled. The whole space becomes a live emergent sculpture to wander through. The changing life in the city creates all the changes one experiences in the gallery space. The moving objects, fans, changing lights, motors, noises, that you encounter in the gallery are all responding to changes in temperature, light, pressure, noise, and the sound of the city outside. The whole gallery space becomes one large artwork made from real time city information and data. The aesthetic and feel of the space looks like an electronic city. The city is made of units, grids, repetition, building blocks.

In the city, the sensor network is laid out across the environment to collect and monitor the data ie temperature, light, pressure, noise, and the sound of the city outside.

Experience.

The artwork is a responsive installation with embedded interactive elements. It is responsive to the live environment via sensors and interactive with its embedded CCTV systems. The artwork gathers data from the city (environment) via a custom made wireless sensor network. This is then represented virtually and then this virtual city is represented as this artwork installation. The work becomes a manipulation of data, that ‘powers’ all the ‘events’ 'actions' and 'processes' in the installation.

Concepts.

The art of gathering environmental data. This project leverages the real time space using data gathered using new sensor technologies. The objective is to explore new ways of thinking about life, emergence and interaction within public space and how this affects the socialization of space. The project uses environmental monitoring technologies and security based technologies, to question audiences experiences of real time events and create visualizations of life as it unfolds. The interactions of all this data are re-formed and re-contextualised in real time artwork.

We understand the 20thc in terms of atoms, molecules and gases that move. Our world is now a world of numbers and changing data and information. This art installation manipulates these numbers and the data from the living real world; all of this affects the installation ie the artwork in the gallery space and all the changes occur in real time. The real world is made virtual and the virtual is made real again and exposed in the process. This whole piece is a living and breathing artwork. The project focuses on the micro-incidents of change, the vibrations and sounds of the environment using wireless sensor based technologies.- stanza

Capacities V2 was made in the Barn at Lanternhouse, in an Open Studio process. During the creation process, Stanza revealed the actual process; laying bare the reality of the work, physically by showing the machinery of the piece in progress and theoretically with a series of show-and-tell invitations to the public.

Experience The main artwork appears all over the floor. As you walk in the space the floor is a city of bits.

The sensors that are used to display the data are also used and exhibited across the gallery and the city.

Exhibition. Booking.

This works is available for exhibition and touring. Five days set up. Floor space painted white. 360 by 490 cm was size used last.

Projector needed to be above the work. Dark room is best.

The work ships in five boxes.

All artist fees, insurance, set up labour time, transport of work, travel, accommodation and all expenses, etc must be covered. email: stanza at sublime.net