teletaxi

teletaxi
:: a mobile interactive media art exhibition in a taxicab ::
http://www.year01.com/teletaxi

October 10th - 31st, 03
Presented by Year Zero One
at various locations across Toronto

Year Zero One is pleased to present teletaxi, a site-specific media art
exhibition in a taxicab. The taxi is outfitted with an interactive touch
screen/computer that displays video, animations, music, and information
triggered by an onboard GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver which
allows the displayed artwork to change depending on where the taxi is in
the city. With the combination of the media/gps technology, the mobile
environment and the passenger/audience inside the cab ? the seven
artists in teletaxi are offered a unique set of possibilities for
exhibiting their work - both technically and thematically.

teletaxi will expose interactive media art to a normally passive
audience, by presenting works that explore notions of mapping, intimacy,
subterranean space, simulated cities, generative art games, information
architecture, data-visualisation, public interventions, surveillance and
psychogeography.



Participating Artists:

Michael Alstad - Toronto
Isabelle Hayeur - Montreal
David Jhave Johnston - Montreal
Michelle Kasprzak - Montreal
Jim Ruxton - Toronto
Camille Turner - Toronto
Gernot Wieland ? Berlin


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teletaxi demo: Friday, October 10th @5pm
in front of the Latvian House - 491 College St, Toronto

Join us for a 'fare free' ride in the teletaxi to navigate some of the
neighbourhoods and Toronto sites explored by Year Zero One artists and
guests.

TeleTaxi is an off-site programme of the TRANZ<—>TECH Media Art
Biennial <http://www.tranztech.ca>

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For project updates and the teletaxi cell phone check the website at:
<http://www.year01.com/teletaxi>

for further information contact:
[email protected]


Year Zero One gratefully acknowledges the Canada Council for the Arts
and the Toronto Arts Council for their financial support of the teletaxi
project.





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Year Zero One is an on-line artist run centre which operates as a
network for the dissemination of digital culture and new media through
web based exhibitions, site-specific public art projects, an extensive
media arts directory, and the Year01 Forum - an electronic art journal.

http://www.year01.com
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