Ubiquitous Computing, Systems Aesthetics Championship

Hi, Rhizomers. Lee Walton & I are collaborating for this show,
tomorrow, at Flux Factory. A description of our project is below the
invite…
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The First Ubiquitous Computing, Systems Aesthetics Championship
Saturday, May 29, 6 p.m. UBISAC 1.0
Flux Factory, 3838 43rd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

UbiSAC Artists from all over are coming together to face the first
UbiSAC challenge. Each piece addresses a specific challenge put forth
by this year's host organization, The Holders of the Sac `04.
More information about this year's exhibition can be found at
http://www.ubisac.org

Artists Include:

Marisa S. Olson, from SF, CA, and Lee Walton, from NYC: "Tele-Drawings"
Sliv and Dulet from SF,CA: "as of May 29, 2004"
Randy Sarafin from NYC: "The Most Important Statement About the Speed
of Time Ever "
Made by Me
Donnie Bugden from NYC: "Everyone's a Weiner!"
Ubicomp Krew from Berlin, DE: "RIPLfield"
James Rouvelle from NYC: "Robotomy"
Holders of the SAC '04 from NYC: "Haptic Experiment in Transmission
of Volumetric Spheres"
Holders of the SAC'04 from NYC: "Voting Tool"

The hosts: The Flux Factory, James Rouvelle, Nurit Bar-Shai, Michael
Bernstein, Mark Driscoll, Carlos Giffoni, Clay Johnson, Itti Karuson,
Jason Lee, Alison Lewis, Yeonju Shim, Dong Jun Song


Directions to Flux Factory: http://www.fluxfactory.org/how.htm

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"Tele-Drawings"
by Marisa S. Olson & Lee Walton

In our collaborative tele-drawings, Lee Walton phones Marisa Olson
from a specific drawing site, is told what to draw (but is given no
instruction for doing so), and completes the tele-circle by faxing
her a copy of the drawing. The project is a spoof on telepresence,
something which we believe can never truly be achieved… We are
interested in how technologies magnify or underscore distance and
alienation, even as they make things "easier." Each drawing is an
experiment and what we discover are the ways in which
telecommunications technologies effect our communication styles and
the model of representation & interpretation to which we are
accustomed. So far, there are always interesting discrepancies
between what the two of us envisioned and what we were able to
communicate, in separate times & spaces. We are both interested in
the models of authorship & problem-solving that arise in such
collaborations.