The first day of my exhibition. It is painful to walk around London in rainy and snowy day. I have paid 5 pounds to subscribe BTopenzone for my project and it is really helpful to upload my data immediately. This performance and exhibition aim to trace and show out wi-fi footprint and urban invisible wi-fi landscape. Most wi-fi maps show wi-if distribution and related information according to physical geography. I want to show what we see when we are using or walking in real world. I assume we will have special affection and membership for wi-fi aps which we can go online by them and cyborg identity may be produced by the behaviour and concepts which are for wi-fi access points. Although wi-fi access points are popular in london, they don’t have equal value and meaning, symbols for the users. I adopt abstract colour charts on webpage to emphasize the symbol traits of wi-fi networks. The real-time performance may help me to explain how I do wi-fi translation for the public.
“Cyborg in Wi-Fi London” Performance and Exhibition by Jung-Hua Liu
My name is Jung-Hua Liu and fine art PhD student in University of Leeds.
My project aims to visualise urban Wi-Fi networks and study the link between technology and society. In my project, I assume Wi-Fi users as cyborg, the combination of human beings and machine (Wi-Fi access points and mobile devices), and my hypothesis is that Wi-Fi users will have construct cyborg identity by particular behaviour in Wi-Fi networks.
I will have an online performance and exhibition on http://fireant.itaiwan.net/cyborg_exhibition.php from 21 Dec to 25 Dec. I will walk around London and search Wi-Fi hotspots then upload the data to this webpage to create real-time colourful Wi-Fi landscapes. This performance will act in real world (streets in London) and cyberspace (colourful paintings). We will see how Wi-Fi networks are so popular in the city and become one important part of daily life and urban landscape. If you are interested in this performance and exhibition, you can go to http://fireant.itaiwan.net/cyborg_exhibition.php to obtain more information.
Most of my works are web-based and the website can provide interactivity for the users. But if I print them out, what changes will happen on the printed works? I made some static images on http://fireant.itaiwan.net/urban_image/crunchtime.php for experiment.
