Posing the body as site and as context, Jessica Thompson discusses several projects where mobility, sound and interaction set the stage for networked performances.
Mobile Sound and (Re)Making Place
Augmented Topography by Sound?
Aline Veillat interrogates the notion of soundscape/landscape and the way we frame our audio field. She brings us back to more artistic concerns with her deambulatory sound installations.
Introduction: Bio-Mobilities Issue
Edited by Jennifer Willet, this issue address issues of bio-mobility from a variety of perspectives. With contributions from artists, theorists, programmers and tinkerers, this issue serves to address bio-mobility in relation to biomedia, bioart, biotechnology, biomedicine, ecology, phenomenology, embodiment, performance, and even re-animation of biomaterials.
Biolab-on-Wheels: finding a space for a DIY bio lab in Toronto
Dr. Roberta Buiani traces a short history of her struggles with the social / political / economic barriers to building a DIYbio Laboratory as a non-specialist in metropolitan Toronto. In response to these circumstances she teams up with with Lisa Carrie Goldberg to develop a project called Biolab-on-Wheels.
[Personal Nature]: A Virtual Reality Picnic for Visually Unresponsive Persons and Their Caretakers
David Dowhaniuk presents “Personal Nature,” an artist / programmer progress report on a project intended to better connect visually unresponsive patients with their families and caregivers through the projection of sound samples from the outdoors.
Companion Species
Antonia Hernández offers an online portfolio of photographs of microorganisms with which she shares her domestic space – specifically a delightful array of colorful and textured molds found in foods left unattended in her fridge.
Digital Mediations: Janet Cardiff and George Büres Miller’s Schizo-Phenomenologies
Dr. Karl E. Jirgens provides readers with an analysis of contemporary artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s walking tours as mobilizing participant bodies in the production of art.
Lifelike Artificial Hybrids: Aesthetic and Practical Approaches to Combinations of Natural and Unnatural Technology
Doo-Sung Yoo traces earlier artistic practices utilizing human / robotics interfaces, as well as other cultural and scientific influences on his artwork.
BioARTCAMP: Trekking the Lab into the Field
Dr. Jennifer Willet presents research results from a large collaborative bioart project called BioARTCAMP, where 20 artists, scientists, and students were invited to build a portable bioart laboratory and conduct a variety of art/science projects in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Introduction: New Media and the Imagination of the Future
By Simone Natale and Benjamin Beil
This special issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media tackles the relationship between new media and the imagination of the future. Taking under scrutiny how new technologies are inserted into particular visions of the upcoming world, we argue for the necessity and urgency of critical approaches to predictions and forecasts.