Starting tonight at 6 Pacific time, the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts will be presenting a second set of SENSEable Cities talks in conjunction with the digital art space’s partnership with MIT. After yesterday’s “New York Talk Exchange” visualization, I’m upset to miss these two talks tonight especially:
Trash Track foreshadows the internet of things and smart dust, where everything that can be instrumented will be. Dietmar Offenhuber will present how his team instrumented thousands of pieces of garbage in NY and Seattle with small location-aware tags. The trash transmitted its location and journey, revealing seldom observed phenomena of the of the reverse supply chain.
The Copenhagen Wheel is part of a global movement to reduce our dependence on cars by embracing intelligent hybrid bicycles that participate in networks. This project is part of a more general trend: that of inserting intelligence in our everyday objects and of creating a smart support infrastructure around ourselves for everyday life. MIT grad Christine Outram will present how this went from idea to a project that debuted at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, along with its implication for people, transportation and urban systems.
[...] Tenderloin-based Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is not only increasing awareness of and participation in digital art and culture–it’s [...]