[spectre] Invitation to reception and events Internet of Cars - June 1 and ongoing exhibition June/July, Winchester Science Centre, UK

[Helen Sloan]

Dear Spectre

Just in case you are interested in SCAN's latest offering and/or having a debate about the Internet of Things through the lens of the car, visit Winchester and Southampton UK over June/July. We have special events at Winchester Science Centre on June 1 and everyone is welcome. You will need to book through Eventbrite for all the events that you want to attend. I do hope you will come.

All the best
Helen
Helen Sloan 
Director
SCAN

Internet of Cars
Turning your car into a data carrier
Special Reception at Winchester Science Centre: 1 June 2014
Book through
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-reception-tickets-11542212067
All welcome to each event but please book
Special Events
Winchester Science Centre 1 June: Demo Day, 2 – 5pm
Demonstrations of mobile phone apps, artists work and the research from Sixth
Sense Transport. Tickets with admission
6 – 7.30pm Special Artist Reception,
Book to attend through
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-reception-tickets-11542212067
Entry by ticket only
7.30 – 9pm Screenings and Discussion Session, Planetarium. All welcome but a place
is only guaranteed through booking at 
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-screening-and-artist-discussion-tickets-11646309425
9 – 9.30pm Internet of Cars Flash Mob, An orchestra of sounds from car stereos
Winchester Science Centre Car Park. All welcome. Volunteers required. You need
a car with a CD player (or a portable CD player) and working headlights.
Tickets can be booked through 
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internet-of-cars-flashmob-tickets-11543010455

A Distributed Exhibition
http://www.internetofcars.org.uk
This series of exhibitions and events will explore and debate the use and misuse
of cars in everyday life through the lens of visual arts. Responding creatively to
data and research derived from traffic flow analysis in Dorset and Hampshire
using automatic number plate reading (ANPR), six artists will show work alongside
the results of a research project, Sixth Sense Transport, investigating online
promotion of a social and shared space for people who use cars and want to
reduce their carbon footprint.
Using the concept of the Internet of Things, ANPR cameras on A354 between
Dorchester and Weymouth and similar carmers in Southampton, artists have
used the data provided to interpret their own scenarios in this exhibition. Simon
Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou in The Car That Turned and Steve Beard and
Victoria Halford in Router have created their own futuristic road movie narratives.
Stanza in The Agency at the end of Civilization, Duncan Shingleton in Flows and
Ivar van Bekkum and Esther Polak in Fronting Motion all use the data as it is
gathered in real time to create various visualisations and sonic interpretations of
the data by focusing on traffic build up, carbon emissions and patterns of car
usage. Lanfranco Aceti’s performance Car Park looks at the implication for
Internet of Things regarding people. Each of the pieces has been specially
commissioned and premiered for the show.
Exhibiting Artists
Stanza’s work will visualise the state of the transport and assess repeat patterns
overlaying a narrative that can allude to the subjective overtones of the control
space and surveillance culture. The artwork embeds itself inside the urban
landscape, surveillance culture, privacy and alienation in the city. The agency
created in the galley focuses on the patterns we leave behind as well as real time
networked events that can be re-imagined and sourced for information.
Hollington & Kyprianou’s film examines the ‘classic’ American road movie which
was both an emblem of achieving and escaping from the American Dream. The
car, the road and the hero are the holy trinity of American cinema. But what would
a convincing UK road movie look like? What architecture would it traverse today?
Halford & Beard Router is the soundtrack to an imaginary movie which tells the
story of a secret ‘mobile prison’ experiment by a sinister American G4S-style
company. The company confines four guys in a van and condemns them to travel
the roads of a coastal city in an endless voyage of the damned. Naturally, things
go horribly wrong…
Duncan Shingleton will be show at the Turner Sims Concert Hall ‘Flows’ scans
registration plates in real-time across the six camera sites on the A354 between
Dorchester and Weymouth. As vehicles pass the cameras, a vehicle lookup enquiry is
made to ascertain data on their CO2 emission rating, which is then used to drive Arduino
controlled air turbines, generating movement in six particle filled acrylic tubes. As the
total amount of CO2 emitted ebbs and flows, the air rate is increased and decreased in
correlation, changing the velocity of the particles.
Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum’s Fronting Motion is an outdoor installation piece
which will be a fully immersive experience in Guidlhall Square projected between
two Luton vans, two realities merge into a panorama of a contemporary
landscape. In the west cars are coming right at you. In the east you overlook the
arriving and leaving ships in the harbor taking their time. Everywhere you hear this
constant noise, is it the sea you hear or is it the sound of a highway?
Car Park is a new artwork by Lanfranco Aceti as part of the exhibition Internet of
Cars in association with the John Hansard Gallery. The artwork is inspired by
notions of hard labor and economic exploitation, which will provide the conceptual
underpinning for an exhibition and a public performance in Southampton from
June 7 to June 12, 2014.

Exhibition times:
Winchester Science Centre 31 May – 8 July, 2014
Open 7 days a week: Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm Sat – Sun 10am – 5pm
Turner Sims Concert Hall 2 June – 6 July 2014
Open: Mon – Friday 10am – 5pm and until 7pm on performance evenings
See http://turnersims.co.uk for details of performances
Southampton Guildhall Square 7 – 11 June 2014, 9am – 9pm
Car Park: Become a Car Man, Save the World
Performance by Lanfranco Aceti and participants
13 – 15 June 2014, 9am – 11.45pm
Fronting Motion, Online sound and video installation, Esther Polak and Ivar van
Bekkum
A free symposium, held at the University of Southampton in September (date tbc),
will bring together academics, transport experts and the general public to explore
what an Internet of Cars might be like. More details at
http://www.internetofcars.org.uk 

The exhibition will also be shown at Bridport Arts Centre, Turner Sims Concert Hall and
Guildhall Square Southampton during May, June, July.
Curated by SCAN and Sixth Sense Transport.
The Internet of Cars exhibition and symposium has been made possible thanks to our
partners and funders Digital Economy (Research Councils UK), RCUK Digital Economy
Theme Tales of Engagement Award, Arts Council England, John Hansard Gallery,
Winchester Science Centre, Bridport Arts Centre, Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton
City Council.
Thanks also to contributions from University of Southampton, Design
Informatics (University of Edinburgh), Dorset County Council.
For further information please contact: Helen Sloan helen at scansite.org 07973
919210 or Jane Macdonald jane.macdonald at ed.ac.uk

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