The Urban Prospector is being shown at ARS Electronica in Linz, Austria. Its part of of the Raise Your Voice Exhibit in the new ARS Electronica Center from July 30th to September 26th, 2010 + at the ARS Electronica Festival from September 2nd -11th, 2010.
As part of the Urban Wilderness Action Center, Myriel Milicevic + Jon Cohrs are organizing the Berlin Micro-Turf Expedition. With a team of self-defined experts (you), we will survey parking lot ecosystems, abandoned infrastructures, trade routes, and micro habitats of Berlin by dissecting the fringe-ecologies within the city.
The expedition will report back live to the ElectroSmog festival with its band of specialists who will setup up camp in several different areas in Berlin.
Using a methodology that analyzes ecological succession the expedition will collect samples, map wildlife, illustrate the topography, detect seismographic data, and observe the micro-climates to create scientific models of future urban habitats.
Please join our expedition on March 20th and let us know what expertise you would like to contribute. We’re looking for documentarians, anthropologists, photographers, seismologists, illustrators, micro-climate inspectors, ornithologists, soil tasters, and other expertise.
We will begin the expedition at 2pm on March 20th.
Electrosmog Festival Streaming will be from 7pm.
http://www.electrosmogfestival.net
location:
SKULPTURENPARK BERLIN_ZENTRUM
KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V.
Köpenicker Str. 36-38
10179 Berlin
http://www.skulpturenpark.org
Let me know if you’re interesting in joining us! -jc
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This is project is part of the Urban Wilderness Action Center. UWAC will be staging events in Berlin, London, Amsterdam and New York City. The first event will be the Berlin Micro-Turf Expedition then events in Amsterdam + London, followed by 6 events in New York City at the Eyebeam Atelier.
UWAC has been conceived of as part of ElectroSmog, a new, three-day, international festival that will introduce and explore of concept of “Sustainable Immobility”: a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and products in travel and transport, and their ecological unsustainability.
We’re in Vancouver right transmitting our mundane webscraped content to the downtown Vancouver. We just updated our streaming server as well, using a custom open-source version of flash called red5. Better yet is that our tv stream is also embedable so any one can add it to their website. like so —>>>
Visit http://omgimon.tv
Visual Voltage
opening -> January 7, 18 – 24.00:
I’ll be showing my video on urban prospecting at the exhibition.
“The exhibition Visual Voltage deals with the mayor subject “energy“ from the perspective of Swedish designers and artists.
Both climate change and pending decisions on the European energy politics motivate also artists and designers from Germany to respond to this subject with their work. These responses are now presented in the exhibition Visual Voltage Amplified which opens on January 7, 2010 and accompanies Visual Voltage until January 24.”
A nice article about the urban prospector on boing boing.
"Last week our pals at Gizmodo stumbled on an Instructables project for hacking a metal detector with a hydrocarbon sensor. The goal: use it to find oil you can extract and sell for $$$ OR locate underground toxins, so you can try to sue whoever put them there (win win, if you ask me)."
A group of us are going to give a series of presentations and workshops in Illinois from March 30th – April 4th. Come check it out if yr in chicago.
Check out the schedule events and participants here: http://roadshow.eyebeam.org/schedule.html
In mid May, I’ll be installing and giving workshops on my Oil Prospecting kit at Futuresonic in Manchester, UK. It will be an interactive installation with live over-hyped twitter feeds of people striking it rich using the oil finder, and google map mash-up of potential money spots. More info on the project here.
Moss Bombs, a project and Instructable I created in 2007 was included in the Experimenta Design 2008 Show in Amsterdam.
visual and sound works by jon cohrs
