Fwd: AIR project + Public Workshop 6/24

June 14, 2006

Type: discussion

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> From: "Preemptive Media" <[email protected]>
> Date: June 14, 2006 5:08:01 AM CDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: AIR project + Public Workshop 6/24
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Preemptive Media is getting ready to launch a new project, AIR (Area's
> Immediate Reading), in New York City this September. AIR is a
> networked,
> social experiment in which individuals will self-monitor the
> byproducts of
> fossil fuel combustion by carrying small, portable devices. These
> devices
> display current levels of air pollution and locations of other
> roaming AIR
> devices for participants to better understand that they are part of a
> nomadic network. Online viewers can send text messages to prompt
> people to
> go to specific locations or volunteer to become a carrier to keep the
> network moving and alive. Data from the devices will be dynamically
> visualized along with other information on a digital billboard in
> Lower
> Manhattan and the web when the project launches in September 2006.
>
> Come help us beta test the devices and data visualization application
> currently in development on Saturday, June 24, from 1-5pm at
> Eyebeam Art +
> Technology Center in New York City. For more information on the
> workshop
> and to enroll, visit
> http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=unique&id'.
>
> And for more information on the project: www.pm-air.net.
>
> Hope to see you at the workshop or project launch in the Fall!
> Beatriz, Brooke and Jamie of Preemptive Media
>
> This project was made possible with support from Eyebeam/Lower
> Manhattan
> Cultural Council's 2005 Social Sculpture Commission.
>
>
>