Sarah Grant & Danja Vasiliev: LANscapes
About the residency
LANscapes is a research project into how one can work with the preexisting infrastructure found within a given environment for creating and deploying communication networks. Building upon the common natural phenomenon such as (and not only) radio, electromagnetism, acoustics in combination with elevations, forestation, (known and unknown) geodesic anomalies of a local terrain, the project aims to determine a set of possible solutions for creating local area networks (LANs) for communicating digital forms of information within a certain unmodified landscape. Trees, plants, rhizomatic root systems, bodies and streams of water could become antennae, signal leads and wave guides for messages sent from point A to point B.
Expected outcome of LANscapes research is a collection of low tech technological solutions and methodologies for working with a given natural environment. Such a technique could become a useful tool for disaster relief, rural network deployment and last but not least understanding of the environment we find ourselves surrounded by.
Timeline
Workshop on Experimental broadcasting
Tuesday, December 10, 3PM–9PM @ osmo/za, Slovenska 54, Ljubljana
Digital Dish: presentation of artists-in-residence
Tuesday, December 17 @ osmo/za, Slovenska 54, Ljubljana
Exhibition
December 17-20, 3PM-9PM @ Miklošičev park, Ljubljana
About the artists
Sarah Grant is an artist and educator. She is a former artist-in-residence of the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and is currently a Technical Lead at The Barbarian Group and Adjunct Professor at NYU Polytechnic in Digital Media. Her work explores both the practical and expressive properties of wireless networks for connecting people who are in close
proximity to each other in order to encourage participation within their immediate
geographical location. Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from the University
of California at Davis and a Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications
Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Danja Vasiliev je kritični inženir, rojen v Sankt Peterburgu, ki trenutno živi in deluje med Berlinom in New Yorkom. Preučuje sisteme in mreže s pomočjo protidisciplinarnega eksperimentiranja s strojno, strojno-programsko in programsko opremo. Zagovarja uporabo odprtokodnih praks na vseh ravneh življenja. Ustvarja in razstavlja dela kritičnega inženiringa. Od leta 1999 je vpleten v računalniško-tehnološke dogodke, razstave medijske umetnosti in seminarje po celem svetu. Prejel je številne nagrade in omembe, med drugim na festivalu Ars Electronica, Japan Media Festival in Transmediale. Vodi javne delavnice in pogovore, redno predava v okviru učnih seminarjev na teme: nezaščitenost mrež, preoblikovanje programske in odprtokodne opreme, reinženiring strojne opreme, digitalna forenzika ter ostale s tehnologijo povezane tematike.
Produkcija: Ljudmila, laboratorij za znanost in umetnost in Zavod Projekt Atol.
Rezidenco sta podprla Ministrstvo za kulturo in Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo. Rezidenca je del mreže EASTN-DC, ki je sofinancirana s strani Evropske Unije, program Ustvarjalna Evropa.
