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Poietic Generator @ RAI (Italia)
Digital Blood
The Poietic Generator is at the International Festival of Electronic Literature OLE.01, Royal Palace of Naples, Italy, between October 8 and 31 2014.
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« Digital Blood », is this to say that our blood would have to be digital? This is a first approximation the question raised by Olivier Auber through a network installation that takes the form of a robotic reliquary connected to the world.
Neapolitans will understand the allusion: for six centuries, they celebrate every year in several churches in the city, the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro, who died in the early fourth century. A reliquary containing a few drops of blood taken from him, is presented to the crowd each time expecting its verdict: as the blood appears liquid or dried, it is a blessing or rather a dark omen for all the community.
As the reliquary of San Gennaro, Digital Blood offers an experience to which everyone can participate, whether in the exhibition, or from any point on the planet. Via a smartphone, tablet or computer, anyone can connect to http://poietic.net to draw with all those connected at the same time: the image of the collective interaction of all participants is displayed in real time on the reliquary Digital Blood presented in the exhibition. This image is also available everywhere and everyone can observe it and display it as he/she wishes. Moreover, it is permanently diffused in various locations in Paris, Brussels, London, and soon: Mumbai, Bamako, Hong Kong, etc.
Thus, moment by moment, everyone can see if we act together as a human community (liquid), or if we behave as agents, absent or indifferent to each other (dry). Digital Blood and raises a prospective question: if our exchanges are required to be made one day exclusively through technology, will we still be human? Or will we become robots?
Olivier Auber is an artist and independent researcher member of the research group of the P2P foundation, affiliated to the « Evolution, Complexity and COgnition » Lab (ECCO, Free University of Brussels) and to the Global Brain Institute
Contact : olivier.auber@vub.ac.be
Blog : http://poietic-generator.net
Live image : http://live.poietic-generator.net
Site of the festival : http://www.olefestival.it
Autumn 2014 agenda
The Poietic Generator will be involved in the followings events :
- Basic Income Summer University, Périgeux, France, August 21-23 2014: poietic session on the 21th – 14:00/15:30 MET (confirmed)
- Internet Yami-ichi, Brussels, Belgium, September 28, 2014, 11:00 – 20:00: performance (confirmed)
- Festival of Electronic Literature, Naples, Italy, October 1-31, 2014: installation in the Royal Palace (confirmed).
- Photophore Festival, Espace Jean-Roger Caussimon, Tremblay-en-France, October 20-25, 2014: real time sessions between several cinemas (to be confirmed)
- Mozilla Festival, London, UK, October 24 – 26, 2014: online session (to be confirmed)
- Botkamp digital center, Brussels: Permanent Installation (schedule to be confirmed)
- Hong Kong University, Hong Kong (schedule to be confirmed)
There is somebody, only if you are here.
Strange, are we somewhere else than in the « real life »?
Poietic Generator @imalorg #Brussels
Poietic Generator @imalorg #Bruxels – Nov 6th 2013 v2 (speed x50) V.2
Poietic Generator at school !
Today, twelve kids (around 10) of Jean-Marc Lescaudron‘s classroom played the Game of Life on the Poietic Generator for 20 min. Lets see what they did (speed x 10):
See other school experiments here.
Poietic generator – Home edition
This is an unexpected discovery: the poietic generator can also become an object, a piece of furniture or a painting! How I found it? Simple: for a long time, I used an old PC to continuously display the overall picture of GP for technical purposes. Then, the PC is dead. Then a friend recommended me to use a Raspberry PI to replace the PC. Eureka! Suddenly the screen and raspberry PI assembled together become a single object that I first left lying on my table, then I hung it above my fireplace. Since then, whenever someone draws on the poietic generator from across the world, a small digital flame comes alive under my eyes. It’s like a global digital fireplace!
My little global digital fireplace and the oe of a friend of mine.
Then an idea came: Why not distribute this item in one form or another to fund the project? Obviously, the poietic generator is free, this object must also remaain free and everyone can tinker for by cheap following this manual. But nothing prevents those who want to buy it (fully assembled and configured) for a certain amount of money at their convenience in order to support the overall project. Say that the basic price is the hardware (approximately 80 € off screen) assembly (20 €) and port (depending on destination). The purchase price shall be at least 100 € + possibly some money as a gift (cf. DONATE button).
Table and wall versions using second hand 17′ screens (35 €)
The PI raspberry can be connected to any display, screen or projector, in the most various configurations.
Mons (Belgium) & everywhere : thursday, March 20, 2014 – 12:00>13:00 (UTC+01)
The Poietic Generator will be displayed at Mons (Belgium) during the VIA festival from Thursday, March 20, 2014. This is a preview of what may occur next year in an urban context during Mons 2015 (European Capital of Culture).
I propose an online rendez-vous thursday, March 20, 2014 – 12:00>13:00 (UTC+01) on http://poietic.net
The global image that we will create will be displayed not only into the exhition, but also in Paris (NUMA & La Tapisserie), in five publics spots in Brussels, one in London, maybe one in Bamako, etc.
Please let it know to some friends who may join the poietic experiment…
Photo : Philippe Franck
Permanent display at NUMA Paris
The poietic generator started @NUMA Paris on February 4th, 2014.
