cell phone disco and Massumi

http://www.cellphonedisco.org
yay Ursula Lavrenčič and Auke Touwslager some more beautiful work..
met them and the lovely LUNA at Light wave and was transfixed by the idea..

this from their website..
"Every single mobile phone transmits radio waves in order to connect to a network and everyday millions of people around the world are broadcasting their private conversations. Here we are witnessing a unique moment in history, when transmission is no longer exclusive domain of broadcasting companies. Mobile phone connectivity became just another layer of urban landscape and substantially changed the electromagnetic topography of the environment. Although Cell Phone Disco has been embraced by art galleries and museums, its rightful place is in public space to generate a glimpse at the dynamics of this omnipresent mobile phone traffic.

Thousands of sensors that are incorporated in Cell Phone Disco are tuned to detect the mobile phone’s electromagnetic radiation. Each of them sets a LED to flicker when it picks up a nearby transmission in frequency used by GSM network. Because each sensor is independent and they are applied in high density, the installation has the capacity to display the real time high-res image of the electromagnetic field. As a mirror, it reveals the actual shape of the field and enables us to witness the dynamics of each transmission.

Lavrenčič and Touwslager do not label the radiation as good or bad. It is an essential part of the device, as physical and natural as the mobile phone itself. The installation merely provides a missing sense and creates an opportunity to witness it. It is up to the spectator to take a standpoint of his own. As the flickering of the red lights might be experienced as playful or disturbing, the visualization of the electromagnetic body of the mobile phone can fill him with worry or pure fascination".

could apply this concept to balloon ,led idea..how does this tie in with cocreation? ..or is it more participatory..the latter I think.

considering how Huizinga might deal with play in the electromagnetic sense..play in the virtual ? Massumi might have more to say..

"In essence, Massumi is providing a means of creating a system that encourages others to create, perhaps to create systems of their own".

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