[spectre] Invitation Connected Club 6/19th The dynamic scale of interactive space

[Floor van Spaendonck]

6/19/03 THE CONNECTED CLUB  PRESENTS:

"The dynamic scale of interactive space" &"RemoteHome: a new home for the 
mobile society" by Tobi Schneidler

Location: Theatrum Anatomicum- Waag Society- Nieuwmarkt 4- Amsterdam
Date: 19th of June 2003
Time: 19.00 o'clock
Reservations:  floor at waag.org

The Connected Club is a series of presentations related to Waag 
Society's-programme 'Connected! The making of a live art exchange'. Tony 
Schneidler is invited to talk and discuss the topic of "The dynamic scale 
of interactive space" and to present the Remote-home-project.

The RemoteHome: a new home for the mobile society

The RemoteHome is a flat share that will exist in two distant cities at the 
same time: London and Berlin. Both spaces are electronically connected 
through the Internet, to turn furniture and architectural elements into 
tangible and sensual means of communication.

Sensory and kinetic devices, as well as an interactive light installation 
allow for the exchange between this remotely living group of friends. A 
mobile wireless artefact, in the shape of a transforming interactive bag, 
can be taken on journeys to stay emotionally in touch with the RemoteHome.

The project is an architectural response to the emerging notion of a 
remote-society; a society that is forming personal bonds beyond sharing 
origin or geographical proximity, a culture that is constantly on the move. 
Information technologies, in all its shapes, have led to a separation 
between the body of the messenger and the message itself. Relationships 
between people are increasingly sustained, formed or even ended over long 
distances, through the use of communication technologies, like the mobile 
phone, e-mail or instant messaging.

The RemoteHome is proposing more intuitive ways of communicating and 
exchanging presence. The materiality of the architecture becomes the 
medium, the space transforms into a metaphysical reflection of its inhabitants.

The project was presented as two connected prototype spaces at the London 
Science Museum and the Raumlabor in Berlin.

The project was developed by Tobi Schneidler in cooperation with the Smart 
Studio / Interactive Institute Stockholm and the Future Textiles department 
at the Central Saint Martins in London.

Further information: www.remotehome.org  and smart.tii.s   www.tobi.net |

  Connected! The making of a live art exchange is realised with the support 
of the Netherlands Culture Fund.

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