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. Turbulence Commissions launched during summer 2006: MOBOTAG by Marta Lwin with funding from the Jerome Foundation http://www.turbulence.org/works/mobotag mobotag reveals the hidden layers of a city through an active exchange of location based media and text messages via the cellphone. It's collaborative phone tagging of the city. Part virtual graffiti, part walking tour, mobotag creates a spontaneous and easy way for tagging a neighborhood via the cellphone. Send and view messages, images, videos and sounds. See art, read stories, and watch a hidden layer of the city reveal itself. Respond with your media and participate in the creative expression and mapping of your neighborhood. mobotag also features art projects including flyHere, a mobile phone audio installation featuring native bird calls; bugBytes, collectible graphical bugs originating at major telecoms around NYC; and lookHere, a written work in short form by a native NY writer. MONOLITH[S] by Michael Takeo Magruder with funds form the National Endowment for the Arts http://www.turbulence.org/works/monoliths/index.htm Monolith[s] juxtaposes two icons of British culture: stone circles (Stonehenge, for instance) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Formulated according to motifs and proportions of ancient architecture, infused with fundamental mathematics of modern digital communication systems, each genesis of the artwork's geometry is unique. Variables such as the time of day, the viewer's location on the Earth, and the position of the Earth around the sun are incorporated into the artwork, thus instilling into the realm functions of a rudimentary clock, global positioning system, and solar calendar. [needs: The technical specifications are detailed on the Setup/Help page. Please read them before proceeding.] MY BEATING BLOG by Yury Gitman with funds from the Jerome Foundation http://www.turbulence.org/works/beatingheart/blog My Beating Blog is an attempt to take the journaling aspect of blogging into a surrealistic future in which the author literally and metaphorically bares his heart. For three weeks, a series of posts contextualizing heart-rate visualizations, GPS-maps, and personal journal entries will give online users a rare entrance into personal medical-grade statistics, stalker-level location tracking, and the private thoughts of the blogger. Inevitably, issues regarding privacy, exhibitionism, and voyeurism playfully emerge as the blogosphere is infused with biofeedback and location technology. [needs the following browsers: IE 6.0+, Firefox 0.8+ , Safari 1.2.4+, Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla 1.4+, Opera 8.02+] SWM05: DISTRIBUTED BODIES OF MUSICAL-VISUAL FORM by Troy Innocent and Ollie Olsen with the Shaolin Wooden Men and Harry Lee with funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts http://www.turbulence.org/works/SWM05/ SWM05 features the distributed bodies of musical-visual form that are inhabited by the Shaolin Wooden Men (SWM), a virtual band, a 'gang of numbers' ? me(a)tacodeflesh. SWM require your assistance to manifest as media creatures. They invite you to send them images of your local environment in which they can appear. Sending images unlocks access to the SWM05 mobile site which consists of downloadable micromusic ringtones and small screen machinima performances. The SWM are everywhere. In a meshwork of wireless entities, they are media creatures seeking a fragmented existence to be consumed in the nanoseconds of play-time in the emerging wireless net. SWM05 will transfigure the SWM by embodying them in a new materiality. MACHINE FRAGMENTS by Onomé Ekeh with funds from The Greenwall Foundation http://www.turbulence.org/works/machinefragments/machine.html Perhaps the question "can machines think"? should be re-articulated as "is the machine different from you or I"? Why is there a perceptive gap between our tools and ourselves? Do they not constitute consciousness and by extension the body? The cultural schisms that generate this differentiation between "man" and "machine" are also responsible for spawning voids and displacements?and the ghosts that inhabit them. It is these ghosts who constitute Machine Fragments, sound fictions spun from the perspective of sentient machines, testing humans for machine intelligence. Not so much to expose the machinic dimension in humans (we suspected as much), but to arouse the sense that "Machine" is also a kind of gender. [needs Flash player 8+ and speakers; optimized for Internet Explorer and Safari] THE ESSENCE OF A NATION: CHINESE VIRTUAL PERSONS ON THE NET by XiaoQian with funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts http://www.turbulence.org/works/XiaoQian/ My name is XiaoQian, I am an artist and I create virtual persons online. For this website I created 6 chinese virtual persons: Mu Yuming a painter, Shaxpir a hip-hop singer, Wang Shy a ghost in a traditional garden, He Zhengjun a carpenter working with wood and text, Yi Zhe a guest in a wedding and myself XiaoQian. You can email me at xiaoqian at virtualperson.net. [needs Macromedia Flash Player plugin; Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0+, or Safari 1.0+] Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 ? Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! 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