+ project: CT_BT_GRAFFITI

+ artists = kyd campbell info / cv + petko dourmana info

+ a mobile installation

+ recreated architectural space

+ personal area networking

+ www.frontierlab.org

+ frontierlab[at]gmail[dot]com

+ date of production: 2006, ongoing

+ dimensions: public installation

+ interactive installation

what

+ This project began its developed as a collaboration between artists Kyd Campbell and Petko Dourmana, under the conceptual guidance of curator Galia Dimitrova in Sofia, Bulgaria and with the technical support of Stoycho Stanchev and Petar Slavov at Interspace Media Art Center.

+ CT_BT_GRAFFITI is a project with sends ‘spam’ like images/sound/video to the mobile telecommunication devices of unsuspecting audience members. The bank of digital files consists of subversive media, its content is infinitely flexible and created uniquely for each installation context.

+ CT_BT_Graffiti borrows from possibilities of public expression and influence and presents them as veritable networking tools. It has the ability to do this in a manner that is more accessible to the public because it makes use of familiar technological devices: mobile phones and other portable telecommunication devices. One of the common features of mobile devices is an embedded Bluetooth chip, which allows for short-range (up to 100 meters) wireless contact with others using this technology. Visitors who have Bluetooth technology on their cell phones and other mobile devices are invited to activate it and to explore and collectively inhabit a virtual space.

Similarly to the way in which one can consider graffiti to be an assault on individuals that are confronted by it in their public spaces, an individual roaming around with an open Bluetooth connection is susceptible to receive communication and information that they were unprepared for.

The site-specific installation will include images, text, video and audio files related to the physical location of the transmission node and participants will be able to also add their own files to the database or may simply become aware of the communication potentials of the technology that they carry in their pockets and begin their own personal area networks.

Bluetooth_graffiti.002 Mausoleum
Alexander Battenberg Square Sofia BG, May 21-29 2006
website
The installation in public space was part of Mobile Studios Project, a platform for dialog and creation that took place in June, 2006 in the City Garden in Sofia, Bulgaria. Visitors to the garden received image, audio and video files which recreated the lost architectural space of the Mausoleum to Georgi Dimitrov.

Bluetooth_graffiti.001 Mausoleum
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart DE, Feb 17 - Apr 30 2006
website
Part of “On Difference #2” exhibition. Supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundez, Culture 2000 Programe, Allianz-Kulturstiftung. Visitors to the gallery received image, audio and video files which recreated the lost architectural space of the Mausoleum to Georgi Dimitrov.

EQUIPMENT :
The project consists of the following equipment which is all mobile:

- 1 computer w/monitor
- electrical outlet or solar power
- 2 bluetooth usb devices
- personal bluetooth devices of passing participants [mobile phones, laptops, pdas]
- custom made software

INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS :
-CT_BT_GRAFFITI is mobile and autonomous. It can be powered by regular AC electricity or be solar charged. Its footprint is just the size of a laptop computer.
-CT_BT_GRAFFITI can be housed indoors in an exhibition or outdoors at any exhibition site providing the computer terminal can be sheltered from the weather. It is best in a very public location.

DURATION :
The installation is essentially autonomous and could operate up to 24 hours a day. The artist will remain present for a number of hours each day of the installation in order to present the work and introduce it to users and to add new content to the sending database.

Bluetooth_graffiti.001 Mausoleum
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart DE, Feb 17 - Apr 30 2006
.image credit Petko Dourmana, 2006

Bluetooth_graffiti Mausoleum
.image credit Petko Dourmana, 2006

+ rainbows by the njp / current

.a system that allows anonymous contributors in public space to “safely dispose of their digital data” and contribute to the occurrence of a real rainbow

+ the farm/montreal 09.04 - 09.05

.publicly managed sound environment bringing the country to the city. a solar powered outdoor audio installation. in collaboration with steve helsing

KYD CAMPBELL is an independent artist and curator. She develops projects aimed at promoting action through the creation of new forums for discourse and new interactive situations. She works internationally on technology art and public art projects in Canada, Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey and Germany and with the Upgrade! International. She is the co-founder of TinyNoise nomadic sound art project and the NJP. She was introduced to Pure Data while wokring with InterSpace Media Art Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. PD allows Campbell to work on her art work in a sustainable way.

www.frontierlab.org
www.tinynoise.com
www.htmlles.net
www.studioxx.org
www.theupgrade.net