[spectre] TAGGED opening 6 October: 5 artists using RFID at Space Media Arts, London

[Heather Corcoran]

TAGGED
//Five new works by artists working with RFID technology as part an
ongoing project produced by [ space.media.arts ]// 	
		
Opening Reception: 6 October, 6 - 9pm; continuing until 21 October With
a performance by Paula Roush

Electronic tagging technologies are increasingly impacting society and
are set to shape the future. Standing for Radio Frequency
Identification, RFID tags use radio waves and can potentially function
without your knowledge, with widespread adoption across many commercial
and public industries.

In this exhibition, the artist collaborative **Louis-Philippe Demers and
Philippe Jean** are working with local shop Hollywood Convenience
electronically tagging their grocery items to produce the artwork iTag.
Using a portable music device, available to pick up from the exhibition,
shoppers can listen to music generated from the grocery aisles.

RealSnailMail is a project in development by **boredomresearch**, using
RFID technology to enable real snails to carry and deliver electronic
messages on their own time, despite growing expectations of instant
communication.

**Mute-Dialogue (Yasser Rashid and Yara El-Sherbini)** have created the
interactive installation, Origins and Lemons. Arranged as an East End
market stall the installation invites you to pick up RFID-tagged items
and scan them to receive clues as to their history and origin.

In SWAPOId, **evoLhypergrapHyCx (C6)** implement RFID technology in the
Antisystemic Distributed Library Project, an alternative library of
shared books, videos, and music with venues in community centres and
bedrooms worldwide, and through this acting as but one site of
resistance against a de-humanising, de-dimensional agenda.

Arphield Recordings by **Paula Roush** records the sound of citizens
scanning their Oyster cards in London Underground stations, and outputs
them in live performance, installation and public intervention.

A new essay by **Armin Medosch**, The Spychip Under Your Skin,
accompanies this exhibition and is published on a new [ space.media.arts
] website: http://www.spacemedia.org.uk. 


RELATED EVENTS: 
Oyster Card Intervention -- Saturday, October 7 at Old Street Tube
station, 3pm sharp. Bring your Oyster Card to participate in the endless
symphony. 
boredomresearch Artists Talk -- Wednesday, October 11 at Space, 7pm.
Hear more about RealSnailMail research and development and other
broedomresearch projects. 


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FOR MORE INFORMATION 

Email: exhibitions at spacestudios.org.uk
Web: http://www.spacemedia.org.uk
Telephone: 0208 525 4339
Press inquiries: claire at spacemedia.org.uk 

TRAVEL

Bus: 26 & 48 from Liverpool Street
106 & 254 from Bethnal Green
55 from Old Street 

Tube: Bethnal Green
Train: Hackney Central Silverlink

EXHIBITION OPENING TIMES

Wednesday - Saturday.1 - 6pm

//FREE ADMISSION  FULLY ACCESSIBLE//