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Tag That Pigeon
March 14, 2006

I've mentioned the Urban Eyes Project before but now you can go and see exactly what they are doing at SPACE Media Arts

URBAN EYES public prototype exhibition
Wednesday March 22 - Saturday March 25
13:00 – 18:00

SPACE Media Arts
129 -131 Mare St
Hackney
London
E8 3RH
FREE

A project by Marcus Kirsch and Jussi Ängeslevä
In collaboration with Arts Council England, Furtherfield and V2

Using the everyday urban dweller and bastard son of the carrier pigeon, the ever-present urban pigeon, URBAN EYES establishes a connection between humans and birds using modern technology. URBAN EYES crosses and expands our mobility patterns via the pigeon's pattern, through images from the bird's journey, delivered to viewers.

The installation is based on a combination of modular feeding platforms and tagged pigeons. Using Radio Frequency Indentification [RFID] tags in birdrings, a pigeon landing on a feeding platform sends its images and messages to surrounding bluetooth devices (phones, organizers, laptops).

All the user has to bring is a bluetooth-enabled device and perhaps some birdseed!

Artist Marcus Kirsch will be speaking about URBAN EYES on Saturday, March 25th as part of Tagged: A one-day RFID event.

Space Media Arts is part of Space, which was founded in 1968 by artists Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley.

I'll try to find time, later, to add a few more links here as there is some pretty interesting stuff.

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