blogged about

post-singapore...

see http://www.datenform.de/blog/2008/08/suspect-backpack.html

isea 2008

presented the suspect backpack project at the 2008 International Symposium of Electronic Art in Singapore on a panel with other wearable projects such as Doug Easterly and Matt Kenyon from SWAMP

http://moondial.typepad.com/fashionabletechnology/2008/07/isea2008.html

suspicious warning

isea

I'll be presenting an artist talk at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Singapore in late July 2008.

suspect

exploding

julien maire's exploding camera work - was on exhibition in 2007, at ars electronica and then again at the re:place conference in berlin


exploding camera comments on the murder of taliban opposer Massoud, who was killed by two al quaida suicide bombers posing as journalists

while the parts are all disassembled here, instead of working as a capturing device, the camera has been hacked into a projection device - project images of explosions (by means of his expanded cinema technique)

collision course

yet another innocent....
MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with "fake bomb"

where airport security can't tell the difference between a circuit board - found in all electronic gadgets - and a bomb.

wearable tech = fake bomb? i don't think so...

meeting...

last monday evening - while notting hill carnival was wrapping up - i met with david mery in soho.

after over year in small snippets of discussion over email, i felt humbled to meet the man, on who much of this project has been based.

hopefully the first meeting over coffee and beer is not the last, and that next time he gets to "try out" the project (which will hopefully not develop any anxieties...)

fearmonger

assessing

"The Suspect Backpack makes a strong creative contribution in terms of locative media, sound art, and activist art... The really major creative contribution is the psychological and emotional space that is opened by placing the work on the boundary of private listening and public performance. The audience navigation of this boundary generates the experience of empathy that the artist has intended, and the possibility to use emotion to influence future thinking and behaviour is the holy grail of activist art."

Professor Stephen Barrass, University of Canberra