Tag: Participation

Jonah Brucker-Cohen

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Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and writer. He received his Ph.D. in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications in the Media, Culture, Communication dept of NYU Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development. He has also taught at Parsons MFA in Design & Technology (2010, 2011), Parsons School of Art, Design, History, and Theory (ADHT) (2010), NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) (2007, 2008), and Trinity College’s MsC in Interactive Digital Media (2003, 2004). From 2001-2004 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe and from 2006-2007 he was an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City. He received his Masters from ITP in 1999 and was an Interval Research Fellow from 1999-2001. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of “Deconstructing Networks” which includes over 77 projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group), recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO, and was a 2006 and 2008 Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellow Nominee. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Neural, Rhizome.org, Art Asia Pacific, Gizmodo and more, and his work has been presented at events and organizations such as DEAF (03,04), Future Sonic / Future Everything (2004, 2009), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04,08), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06,09), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Tate Modern (03), Whitney Museum of American Art’s ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04,08), Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5),Museum of Modern Art (MOMA – NYC)(2008),San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2008), and Palais Du Tokyo, Paris (2009). His work has been reported about in The New York Times, Wired News, Make, El Pais, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Register, Slashdot, The Wire, Rhizome, Crunch Gear, Beyond the Beyond, Neural, Liberation, Village Voice, IEEE Spectrum, The Age, Taschen Books, and more.

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

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  • The Walk Book,2005
  • Edited by Thyssen_Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna in collaboration with Public Art Fund, New York, texts by Mirjam Schaub
  • ISBN: 3-88375-824-8
  • Distributed by Buchhandlung Walther Koenig order@buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de or D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, New York
  • EUR 59.00
  • A survey of walks including a site-specific walk through the book; 1 Audio-CD with 35 tracks, texts in English.

Pulse Room, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2006

Pulse Room in Aarhus, Denmark,2009

Pulse Room 2006

About 100 (analog/classic) light bulbs are hung from ceiling of the installation site.

The bulbs plays a sequence of blinking. Every singe bulb represents and actually repeats heartbeat of past participants as 1 by 1 correspondence.

Sequence of how new participant joins is as following.

One of audience grabs a handle which heartbeat sensor is embedded.

It takes a short while until the sensor stabilize its readout. When it is done, whole order of pulses of bulbs shifts 1 (the oldest is now gone). And the new beat joins.

(Aug 2011)