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Research
Radiowaves
Phillip Smitt and his project Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new kind of camera. It locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here. Nowadays digital photography causes a infinite stream of imagery. Camera Restricta could be a controversial tech product, promising unique pictures by preventing the user from contributing to the overflow of generic digital imagery. It is a interesting Thought, where i can relate too as a photographer.
Magnetoceptia, is a serie of antenna-based costumes for performance and installation from Dewi de vree together with Patrizia Ruthensteiner. The self made antenna picks up electromagnetic fields and translate them into electronic sounds. For the antennas she uses branches, bamboo, apples etc. combined with open electronics. The copper wire is wound into different patterns into the constume, the project an investigation on different properties of natural and technological materials. What I really like about this project is here choice voor design. But also here research (Magnetoceptia) is very nice.
The ipad app from Richard Vijgen lets you see radio signals. The world around us is completely surrounded by invisible waves. If you could see it, everything around us would ripple with information. "As an information designer, I'm interested in visualizing things we cannot see," says Vijgen. The project is evealing the invisible technological landscape. In a very nice way, like a blueprint. It makes the design very graphic and the shape of the signals are coming well forward in de design. The Architecture of Radio is a data visualization, based on global open datasets of cell tower, Wi-Fi and satellite locations. Based on your GPS location the app shows a 360 degree visualization of signals around you. The dataset includes almost 7 million cell towers, 19 million Wi-Fi routers and hundreds of satellites. "As technology is becoming more and more transparent, I think data visualization can help us to relate to things that are invisible, yet play an important role in our lives."
The camera as a networked object. Sascha Pohflepp made Buttons, Buttons is a camera without a physical lens, but only a shutter button. When the button is pressed, the exact time of the press is recorded as well as the location of the camera. This information is then searched on the internet, returning a photo with either the exact location metadata or the exact time stamp of creation. This through location-aware technology. "Another response to the sense of local displacement associated with networked image-making is seen in a project by British artist Mark Selby, Camera Explora. The project employs a specially designed location-aware camera with an embedded map to urge us to explore a wider range of locations and photograph each more mindfully. The camera only allows the user to take one photo for each plotted grid on the map, and when this picture is captured, the camera disables itself until the photographer physically moves to a new area. The photographer's movements around the city are also plotted in real-time on a map, and each photo is printed as it is taken."
The project I did at the practice Hacking relateds to the subject of this semester. The assignment was to discover the hidden electromagnetic spectrum. The focus was on how to get the electrical activity inside of plants as a main source of data. That gives a insight into processes happening inside the plant and see its reaction to its environment. We have tried to capture this signals with a Arduino and made a visualization in processing.
Ivan Henriques is a artist who is researching the balance between nature and technology – He believes nature is a very important factor for the development of our technological world. Jurema Action Plant is an interactive bio-machine. Like machines and animals, the plants have an electrical signal traveling inside them. If you touch te plant, the machine will move away from you.
It is too explore new ways of communication and co-relation between humans, living organism and a machine. What I like about the research and project from Henriques is that he takes nature as an inspiration. nature and technology sounds like two extreme and combined them into one piece creates a interesting friction. electric signals is a natural phenomenon but because you can not perceive, it feels like fiction. The part that makes it interesting for me as a imagemaker is too visualizes this signals/waves.
(Nicolai) "Howalt investigates and visualizes visible and invisible areas of the light spectrum, and the power of the life-giving as well as destructive radiation of sunlight. Light Break is a documentary and aesthetic encounter between photography, history, science and visual art. Nicolai Howalt's methods and experiments reflect a fundamental interest in photography and light as material, in this case making specific use of scientific methods and apparatuses of the nineteenth century. During his investigations, leading to the work presented in Light Break, Howalt borrowed a number of Finsen’s original lenses from Medical Museion, now part of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark." As a photographer I really like this project. In the presentation of the project you see a lot of experiments and craft. He shows the light that the eyes can't see, it examination of what light looks like. He din't see the light taking photo's, so he was constantly testing. The exposure was directly on paper. I really like the fact that he build like his own camera with a lens that he used for a new purpose. All the pictures are made at the same place, taken from the sun. Maybe it is not related to radiowaves, but it's part of the hidden spectrum.
Project research
1) SATELLITES
NOAA Wheater Sattellites. The world's best weather satellite (WXsat) signal to image decoder.
Quadrature: "Satellites are used for almost all modern achievements, from communication or navigation systems to environmental monitoring and military purposes. By now there are approximately 3000 satellites in orbit, about 1000 of those are still operating. The majority of these objects revolve our planet in 200km to 2000km height, with an orbital period of 90 to 130 minutes.Despite their overall application, we hardly notice their existence." This project follows the path of satellites and visualize this through a plotter on a old map. This way you get a geographical knowledge about the for us invisible satellites.
You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception. -Eugene Cernan, an astronaut on the Apollo 17, on seeing the Earth from space In the project from Jenny Odell are all here prints from Google Satellite View. She collects everything. "The view from a satellite is not a human one, nor is it one we were ever really meant to see. But it is precisely from this inhuman point of view that we are able to read our own humanity, in all of its tiny, repetitive marks upon the face of the earth. From this view, the lines that make up basketball courts and the scattered blue rectangles of swimming pools become like hieroglyphs that say: people were here. The alienation provided by the satellite perspective reveals the things we take for granted to be strange, even absurd. Banal structures and locations can appear fantastical and newly intricate. Directing curiosity toward our own inimitably human landscape, we may find that those things that are most recognizably human (a tangle of carefully engineered water slides, for example) are also the most bizarre, the most unlikely, the most fragile." For my ideal scenario I want to work with images from Satellites.
WHAT ARE THE IDEAL SCENARIOS? – SKETCH To receive images from satellites.
2) SECURITY CAMERAS
The Peek-a-Boo Cantenna from Michelle Teran is a performance object for locating and viewing video. Constructed out found materials, such as aluminum pipe and drawer handles, it is a functioning 2.4 Ghz antenna connected to a video scanner that allows one to intercept wireless video and audio transmissions, which are viewable on a LCD monitor installed inside the object.
3) CAMERA
In the research above you find already camera based projects that work on 'waves'. As a photographer I am searching for new ways to make image's and it will be interesting too develop my own redesigned camera. Maybe a camera that shows you more than you can see with the naked eye.. When I go through my research, I searching for images. it does not have to be photo, a translation through a plotter or direct print can also be a version of the concept. But I want to work with something that is invisible, like satellites. Show the people our digital landscape, what is so naturally integrated too make it conscious again.
Mark Selby his project employs a specially designed location-aware camera with an embedded map to urge us to explore a wider range of locations and photograph each more mindfully. The camera only allows the user to take one photo for each plotted grid on the map, and when this picture is captured, the camera disables itself until the photographer physically moves to a new area. The photographer's movements around the city are also plotted in real-time on a map, and each photo is printed as it is taken.
WHAT ARE THE IDEAL SCENARIOS? – SKETCH Build a working camera that takes images from invisible signals.
Everyday a lot of footages is made by satellites and security cameras. These images are part of our human landscape but remains invisible most of the time. This camera has nog lens. But it wille receive footages from the cameras surrounding you. The camera has a LED what goes on if there is a signal, a antenna to receive and in the ideal scenario a screen on the back to decide which moment you want to capture. Without a screen the camera will feel more like a analogue camera, where your have to wait and see. This also has its advantages. When I think of a next step the images, that being taken, can also be real time printed. In a way it will fit the concept. What maybe be interesting is too map the location of those camera's.
First sketch:
For the presentation sketch I thought more about the location-aware function. I want to map the signals from camera’s, also if the signal is encoded. to get a overview of the camera landscape. How many times are we registered on a daily base. If this camera can map the locations, it can make it more visible and privacy less abstract. I did a photographic documentation of the most visible camera's, this can be also a part of the mapping presentation.
