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Nautilab: exploring notions of mobility and urbanity via living on board Nautila: the name of my boat/home Nautilog: the ship’s log Captain: Amanda Steggell I’ve just started a new blog ; Nautilog, dedicated to exploring notions of mobility and urbanity in networked culture. The motivation for this project was triggered by a desire to find [...]
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LOOSE NOTES Die Sonne tönt, nach alter Weise, In Brudersphären Wettgesang, Und ihre vorgeschriebne Reise Vollendet sie mit Donnergang. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, excerpt from “Faust”, 1829 Quick introduction/recap about Energy Bank: In his essay Art and the Public Sphere Vito Acconci writes; Public space in an electronic age, is space on [...]
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A new model for the Energy Bank project: Moving away from trends in e-textiles towards something less slick, I’m working on a back-pack system that can produce and store more power than any current off-the-shelf/grid, mobile phone charging device. I found an old 24 DCV, 4A Clansman hand generator with a snap-on lithium battery pack, [...]
Continue Reading →Participation in HUT #6 Opera House, Oslo CODA Festival 17th October 2011 HUT #6 is a collaborative project and part of Jill Sigman’s Hut series. She writes … the hut project is a series of site-specific huts made from found and re-purposed materials. Each hut is at the same time a structure, a sculpture, [...]
Continue Reading →Exhibition: SOFT TECHNOLOGY Galleri 3.14 Bergen, Norway 19.08-25.09.2011 Presenting “Pulp Cryption” – a prototype project featuring self-folding origami. Pulp Cryption envisages a novel angle on data protection; in this case, paper documents that contain sensitive information. The work has come out of my participation in the Soft Tech research group initiated by Hillevi Munthe in [...]
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Pulp Cryption – a prototype project featuring self-folding origami The issue: data protection Many people are worried about having their identities stolen and consequently shred all kinds of documents that contain sensitive information. Yet such documents may be decrypted by painstakingly putting the shreds back together (as seen on CSI, etc). – How could [...]
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