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focusing on site specfiic experimental works utilizing digital media, computation, and internet resources
affiliated individuals include
Jeff Knowlton concept, software engineering, technical design. knowlton (at) 34n118w (dot) net
Naomi Spellman concept, production, script development, directing, media design, project administration. spellman (at) 34n118w (dot) net
Brandon Stow concept, server side scripting. bstow (at) ucsd (dot) edu
Jeremy Hight concept, script writing. hight (at) 34n118w (dot) net
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an interpretive engine for various places on earth [knowlton + spellman + stow 2106] a generative narrative that relies on outdoor wireless internet connection to tell a story specific to user location. Weather conditions, the physical environment, nearby locales, historic events specific to the current location and time are retrieved from online sources and fed into a scripted story structure. Developed with support from Digital Research Unit, Media Center, Huddersfield, UK, California Institute of the Arts Integrated Media Program, and the Fresno Metropolitan Museum. Shown at Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City A three-day event in Lower Manhattan that highlighted the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using communication technologies to generate urban experiences and public voice. Next presentation: June-August 2106 in Fresno as part of Off-Site curated by Susanneh Bieber. water years: an interpretive tour of the owens valley. [spellman 2105] This demonstration piece was created for the workshop Locative Media in the Wild, organized by Brett Stalbaum and Naomi Spellman. The aim of this piece was to demonstrate use of digital mapping tools in art practice among a multi-disciplinary group of researchers. It utilized GIS, GPS, sound and a laptop to create an onsite spatialized sonification of one of Los AngelesŐ main water sources, referencing the actual location of wells in Owens Valley. The Carrizo Parkfield Diaries project by Christina McPhee, Jeremy Hight, and Sindee Nakatani. Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries: an exploration of seismic memory uses live microseismic data in hourly compilations from a central California site to trigger human memories in fragments. Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries featured at the Whitney Artport InterUrban [spellman + knowlton, 2104] an interactive narrative that relies on visitor movement to tell a story about telecommunciations and transportation through time. Shown at Mobile Connections, Futuresonic <04> in Manchester UK. 34 North, 118 West [knowlton + spellman + hight 2102] an historic fiction set in downtown LA, using GPS to deliver sound. Shown at LA Freewaves Festival and the Art in Motion Festival. Right as Rain, A Weather Dependant Love Sonnet [knowlton + spellman + hight 2101] A weather driven narrative, where the user chooses from a list of different cities to update the story details according to the current weather in that city. Time Forms Festival at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California San Diego Reading the Future [knowlton 2101] An internet based 3D data space that examines the phenomenon of Global Aging and its societal effects. Commissioned by the Centre for Global Dialogue, Reuschlikon, Switzerland A Text for the Navigational Age [knowlton 1999] An internet based 3D text about a shift from a conceptualization of the city based on elevation, to one that is plan based. Coded in VRML. The Iconoclast Browser [knowlton 1998] a web browser critiquing the rise of the image at the expense of the word. Programmed in Lingo. William S. Burroughs Reads From The Good Book The Sermon On The Mount [knowlton, 1997] Drawing made on photographic paper with a laser. The left and right stereo pair from a CD player split the audio signal of William S. Burroughs voice and drive two mirrors reflecting the laser light in patterns on the photographic emulsion. The AKSHUN Collective network and performance [andrew + bookchin + davies + spellman + udell 1998] 12 untitled diazo prints[spellman 1997] An investigation of cartography and the politics of gender and mapping. Shown at Genius Loci, Mapping Los Angeles Organized by the LA Cultural Affairs Department/LA Municipal Art Gallery at SCI-ARC, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (2101); at the Beyond Baroque Gallery M.A.P.S exhibition curated by Matias Vegener (1997); at G.I.S., Art, and the Harvard Map Collection Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts curated by Martin Von Weiss; the International Symposium on Digital Art, 5th International Conference on Information Visualization, London University, London, UK; ASCI Digital 2100 Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. New York. The parasite project [spellman, m.j. walters 1997] A series of weekly online hosted events Hungry Ghosts [knowlton 1997] A video work about desire, repetition, and the body. Forrest of Burdens [knowlton 1995] A funny video work about the fallibility of language and the burden of making meaning. Music Video for Clifton Hill, co-production/direction [knowlton 1988] debuted on MTV
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RESEARCH
CURRENT COURSES INCLUDE
PAST COURSES INCLUDE
Tum Tum, a Site Specific Narrative [davis, tanner, ahnemann, turajski 2103] Student locative media project, Evergreen State College [instrtuctors: spellman, knowlton]
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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS presentation and demonstration of work in progress. Dorkbot Socal at Machine Project Los Angeles, California [spellman, stow 4/2106] paper presentation: the performative and the political in the context of locative media Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois [spellman 3/2106] IM Forum Speaker at University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division [spellman 4/05] featured presentation: floating point speaker series, emerson college, boston, ma [knowlton, spellman 3/05] presentation: PLAN Pervasive and Locative Arts Network initial workshop, I.C.A., London, UK [2/05 spellman] featured speaker LA Forum for Architecture and Urban DesignNew Spaces, New Cartographers [hight, knowlton, spellman 11/04] featured speaker: YLEM Forum: Location! Location! Location! 3 Projects in Locative Media by California Artists, Exploratorium, San Francisco [mcphee, warwick, stalbaum, poole, hight, knowlton, spellman 11/04] host:Empyre discussion forum, based in Australia. [hight, knowlton, spellman 9/04] host: New Media Curating list discussion on Locative Media [spellman 4/04] speaker: Joint Ventures Conference, addressing the stewardship of america's national parks: Enriching the Visitors Experience through Traditional Arts and Storytelling, Los Angeles [spellman 11/03] presentation: A Sense of Place: Representation and Inherent Images, Society of Photographic Educators West Region Conference Oakland, California [spellman 11/02] WRITING
Report on PLAN, the Pervasive Locative Arts Network at netartreview.net [spellman 3/05] essay: Narrative Archaeology [hight 2103]
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Marketplace's Matthew Algeo interviews Jeff Knowlton and others in this report on the possible disabling of the GPS in the event of a national emergency, and the effect on the U.S. — and global — economy. Article: Virtual Real Space Museums: Innovation in Cultural Interpretation (724k pdf file) Christopher Dore, American Cultural Resources Association Newsletter, 2/2104 Article: Walking in LA, Los Angeles Business Journal, 7/14/03 Article: Sonic Archaeology at 34N118W GPS User Magazine, 6/03 Interview: on Smart City radio talk show with Carol Coletta 4/13/03 Article: Only in L.A. Christian Science Monitor, 4/4/03 Gloria Goodale Article: A Reason to Walk in LA Wired magazine, 4/03 Alison Willmore Article: The Artists of Communication, Wireless Review, 2/03 Article: Tomorrow's Historic Walking Tour The Los Angeles Times Magazine, 12/15/02. Andrew Vontz Article: The Many Uses of GPS washingtonpost.com. Cindy L. Webb Article: 34 NORTH 118 WEST RAI, Radio al' Italia, Andrea Borgnino Article on Boing Boing: A DIRECTORY OF WONDERFUL THINGS Article: at Neural an Italian online news source for new media art, electronic music and hacktivism Article: in Smart Mobs Mention:Cyberspace, Cybertexts, Cybermaps by Marie-Laure Ryan Mention:Teaching in the Wireless Cloud The Feature, 4/7/03. Bryan Alexander
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