trying to write a 5 year plan. cause well, its what we do.

here goes: finish grad school keep working in IA/IXD curate/run my own little gallery learn more and more and more about interaction design spend more time working in mobile spend more time working in device design get better at hacking on arduinos move to ITALY/TOKYO/LONDON rinse, repeat.

Everyone should do this.

Visit Incubate

all the places to get hooked up:

http://www.wifipdx.com/all/

So here we are! I spent a little time today with Anselm developing the images for the Disjecta show and here is what we have so far:

Paige is blue Anselm is Purple Meg is Pink

We have a new addition to the mapping project: Blake Shell. Her phone has no been formally added. Apparently my phone has not been tracking data points as well as it should be. So tomorrow I have to go out and run around and gather more points manually for a little while. We decided to add head shots to the exhibit and also to add all the lat- long instances which will be interesting, and LONG. there are 9,000 data points for anselm alone.

Anselm created a map of me! Apparently my life is wicked boring. His map was way cooler. Meglet’s map was INSANE.

Anselm’s data map is http://hook.org/whereisanselm/lines.html Paige’s data map is http://hook.org/whereispaige/lines.html Meg’s data map is http://hook.org/whereispaige/lines.html

A little submission for a small project: Very basic, wrote it in ten minutes.

Artists: Paige Saez paigesaez.org Anselm Hook hook.org

Affiliations: makerlab.com red76.com

Proposal for Disjecta Art Space for opening exhibit of the new space in NoPo

Medium: Website, Video, Google Maps, Cellphones, Processing

The artists have been working in augmented reality style art/game projects and de-mystifying technologies. For the purpose of this and many projects, they have hacked their cellphones and begun reprogramming them in novel ways. One of which involves a voluntary tracking device.

Whereis:

Now more than ever, we are being persistently watched by governments and corporations- this is done in a manner of already familiar ways- via our purchases with credit cards, video surveillance and online transactions and activities to name just a few.

Using geo-location triangulation via cell towers everyone can be tracked by their cellphone- plotting daily movements for anyone with the device.

Surfacing this inherent stalking capability the artists have offered to be tracked in real-time for the remainder of their lives, by hacking their phones and creating a database of all of the movements that they make across the landscape.

The artists have devised a means of displaying this activity in real time, plotting our lives in linear form on to the walls of the space and then forever more on our website: makerlab.com/projects. The project will be open and free for everyone to take and use to make their own tracking devices at the exhibit.

Furthermore, we would like to invite other people to plot their lives with us-using the same software we created. The result would be that there is an organically generated painting of each persons daily lives overlapping each other with the movements mapped and translated into a piece simultaneously. Each person will be represented as a shape, color or line. To participate in this little piece please write me at paige @ g mail dot com

Hey all! DORKBOT PDX at PNCA

Don’t forget the date!

This sunday at PNCA from 2-6pm in Room #205 Main Building Dorkbot Arduino Workshop.

Learn how to make kinetic/robot/interactive/wearable art projects.

inspiring links:

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/ http://www.botanicalls.com/network.html http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Projects/ArduinoUsers#sonicPingPong

http://dorkbotpdx.org

Donald Delmar Davis’s (the teacher of the workshop) photo stream

Benjamin Foote, a dear friend, collaborator, and makerlab founder has moved in next door to me and started a gallery. The gallery opens on July 3rd and will feature the work of local and national and international interactive digital and analog artists. There is no formal call for work out as of yet, but you can get in touch with him and submit work here: callforartists@ONgallery.org

Paige and Sam are going to San Jose for the 01’s Festival

Weclome to ToolShed Days Day-to-Day.

In the fall of 2007 Red76, in collaboration with the staff and students of the CADRE Media Laboratory at San Jose State University, began investigating the possibilities of the online collaborative platform Second Life as a means towards engaging radical social histories and contemporary socio-political dilemmas. Surrounding a series of dialogues and public actions – entitled ToolShed Days – three discrete projects were implemented; Second Home, Befriend a Recruiter, and Defense Co-op. For the ZeroOne Festival in San Jose, California Red76 will discuss these projects, and the interests and ideas that grew out of them through a series of formal and informal public initiatives. Walks, lectures, radio broadcasts, impromptu sign-making sessions, mobile photo studios, and more will be some of the means in which the ideas manifest from ToolShed Days will make their way into public space in San Jose. All of the groups activities will be somewhat improvised day-to-day as a means of creating a formulaic conversation with the random interactions that take place between the group and the public at large. Regular schedules of the groups activities can be found by dialing a toll-free hotline number (1-888-339-4496), which will be updated each morning, and at times throughout the day.

1-888-339-4496