Noogy: 16 ‘ 19 November 2006. Portland Square, University of Plymouth. To talk to Noogy text: ‘noogy; and your question..’ to 07766404142. Noogy in residence is part of the Motion Plymouth Festival 2006. Noogy’s background is a little unclear. Some claim that Noogy arrived from deep space, originating somewhere off the shoulder of Orion, watching C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. Others claim that Noogy grew from within the network of CAT6 Ethernet cables, silicon chips and data mines that form the core of the Arch-OS system in Portland Square. Whilst others still claim that Noogy was there all the time, waiting in the void for the digital interface that would allow his manifestation. Some say Noogy is the ‘building’, others that Noogy is just a ‘viral infection’, like a bad cold that cant be shaken. http://www.noogy.org/
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Noogy: 16 - 19 November 2006. Portland Square, University of Plymouth. To talk to Noogy text: noogy; and your question.. to 07766404142. Noogy in residence is part of the Motion Plymouth Festival 2006. Noogy’s background is a little unclear. Some claim that Noogy arrived from deep space, originating somewhere off the shoulder of Orion, watching C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. Others claim that Noogy grew from within the network of CAT6 Ethernet cables, silicon chips and data mines that form the core of the Arch-OS system in Portland Square. Whilst others still claim that Noogy was there all the time, waiting in the void for the digital interface that would allow his manifestation. Some say Noogy is the ‘building’, others that Noogy is just a ‘viral infection’, like a bad cold that cant be shaken. http://www.noogy.org
Dr Paul Thomas, Artistic Director of BEAP.(Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2007) will be the i-DAT Interactive Architecture Resident artist during the month of July. Thomas will be further developing Arch-OS through the i-500 Project extension. With funding provided by Curtin University the residency will focus on the articulation of the dynamic data generated by the public art instillation to be incorporated into the fabric of the Curtin University of Technology Minerals and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct buildings. http://www.i-500.org
At 6pm on the 22 July, during the Consciousness Reframed, 8th International Research Conference (21 - 23 July 2006) the ‘Sloth-bot’ will be launched as an extension of the Arch-OS project. Sloth-bots are large autonomous robots that move incredibly slowly (between 5mm and 20mm a minute). Sloth-bots, influenced by their interactions with people, imperceptibly reconfigure the architecture. Sloth-bots build on robotic technology developed by Dr Guido Bugmann, famously incorporated into Donald Rodney’s “Psalms” which was exhibited in the South London Gallery as a part of Rodney’s last exhibition entitled “Nine Night in Eldorado”, in October 1997. http://www.arch-os.com/projects/slothbots.html
At 6pm on the 22 July, during the Consciousness Reframed, 8th International Research Conference (21 - 23 July 2006) the ‘Sloth-bot’ will be launched as an extension of the Arch-OS project. Sloth-bots are large autonomous robots that move incredibly slowly (between 5mm and 20mm a minute). Sloth-bots, influenced by their interactions with people, imperceptibly reconfigure the architecture. Sloth-bots build on robotic technology developed by Dr Guido Bugmann, famously incorporated into Donald Rodney’s ‘Psalms’ which was exhibited in the South London Gallery as a part of Rodney’s last exhibition entitled “Nine Night in Eldorado”, in October 1997. http://www.arch-os.com/
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Digital Arts Symposium. University of Arizona College of Fine Arts. Friday, April 7, 2006. Speakers: Peter Anders, Roy Ascott, Elif Ayiter, Martha Blassnigg, Margaret Dolinsky, Cristina Miranda de Almeida, Carlos Nobrega, Mike Phillips, Yacov Sharir, and Diana Slattery. University of Arizona Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Building and Fine Arts complex. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Sponsored by UA Fine Arts Technology & Treistman Center. Thanks to The University of Arizona Libraries & Museum of Art?For information. Free and open to the public. Contact: Lucy Petrovich lucy@email.arizona.edu http://www.arts.arizona.edu/lucy/symposium06.htm
(30/11/2005) Arch-OS is to be integrated into the two new buildings that will form the Minerals and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct at Curtin University. Paul Thomas / Chris Malcolm / Mike Phillips have been commissioned to develop the Public Art Work in collaboration with Woods Bagot Architects, John Curtin Gallery and the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). http://www.arch-os.com
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Minerals and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct - Perth - Australia. Arch-OS is to be integrated into the two new buildings that will form the Minerals and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct at Curtin University. Paul Thomas / Chris Malcolm / Mike Phillips have been commissioned to develop the Public Art Work in collaboration with Woods Bagot Architects, John Curtin Gallery and the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). The new buildings will create an internationally significant Resources Research and Education capability in Western Australia and will house the Department of Applied Chemistry, the Chemistry Centre of W.A., links to the expanded CSIRO Minerals Laboratory, and the Nanochemistry Research Institute. http://www.i-500.org/
‘Cybrid’ project constructs a ‘virtual’ architecture from the dynamic activities that take place within the Portland Square Development. The Cybrid uses a range of embedded technologies to capture audio-visual and raw digital data from the building through: the Building Management System; its computer and communications networks; the flow of people within it; changing noise levels; weather, light and temperature changes. This vibrant data is then manipulated (using computer simulation, visualisation and audio technologies) and replayed through projection systems incorporated into the architecture and broadcast using streaming internet technologies. http://www.arch-os.com/
Higher education has changed rapidly over recent years, reflecting the general tendency of increased corporatisation of culture at large. Management cultures insist on personal responsibility where the individual employee is supposed to align themselves with the organisation’s brand values. The phrase, “I want to make a difference”, reveals something of the tendency towards increased individualisation and a break with previous collective ways of engendering change. Does this demonstrate the view that large corporate and hierarchical institutions are ineffectual, that local and more complex models are at work in the forces of change? Who holds responsibility in seeking positive improvement in the workplace and in terms of the service on offer? Will the number of people pressing the “I want to make adifference” button reveal a true willingness or an empty gesture towards change? The shift from the individual sound to a chorus by the end of the project presents itself as an allegory in this respect. http://www.i-dat.org/projects/makingadifference/
