dema2 (tout les ateliers)
workshop avec Jared Hawkey (CADA)
Du 14 au 18 avril 2014
An artistic approach to the IoT
This workshop will examine the class of technologies described as the Internet of Things (IoT) and explore its problematic implications for the notions of human agency and social identity, while equally seeing it as an exciting opportunity to bring people together, provoke new ideas and spark practical experimentation.
Broadly defined in terms of the objects around us becoming sociable, the IoT refers to a world where everyday objects can enter into autonomous communication with other things and human beings via the internet.
Potentially far more complex and dynamic than the human-centric notion of the internet many of us hold today, in this world more items are connected to each other than human beings and while we already inhabit this world, the number of so-called smart objects is expected to increase exponentially with 50 billion connected devices projected to exist by 2020.
Evidently, humans face a great deal of challenges, not least because the development and deployment of the IoT begs the question, how much autonomy are we prepared to let objects have?
The workshop is led by Jared Hawkey a member of CADA, a Lisbon-based art group that collaborates to make mobile software. Its most recent project A Moeda (the Coin), a digital artefact informed by the IoT, will be used as an occasional reference on a course designed to help participants imagine a world from the perspective of an object.
This is the purpose of the workshop: to create a fragment from the life of an object. It also seeks to develop appropriate methods for engaging with the IoT’s inherent complexity and encourage people to think about data capture and its contradictory relation to everyday experience.
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