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==City life and networks==
==Public space as a playground==
Public space is generally understood as a space accessible to all citizens, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age or socio-economic level. It is a free space that anybody could use which doesn’t require any reason or mission. It is a social space to live with other people. Public spaces are mostly the streets, town squares, parks, government buildings. Some buildings and spaces like parks and government buildings have restrictions and protocols. Public spaces are shared for the open usage of the community. 

This view only includes the spaces accessible to all citizens. But there are also sewers, roofs, train rails and all the other inaccessible locations.  These attractive and inaccessible locations are creating their own psychogeographic maps in the cities. As Henri Lefebvre (1) writes, one of the first case of a produce market, transformed into a gathering-place into a scene of permanent festival, is a location creating its own potential.


With this proposal i will be discussing the motivation of an artist in the city and the similarities between the network culture and the urban life.


===Public space as a playground===
A good example for this subject is Jem Cohens “Lost Book Found” (2) fictional documentary. The movie is about the people who are trying to survive in New York with different techniques. A scene from the movie is about a dumpster diver, fishing fallen valuable materials in the sewers. The movie is drawing a hidden psychogeographic view of NewYork. The people are living in corrupt habitats and mutating themselves  with their needs. This portrait is drawing a claustrophobic view for the citizens living in the city. Apart from socioeconomic levels, there is no location to discover anymore. The real discovery and excitement lies behind the insecure and restricted places in the city. The goal of the participant is changing with different Dérives.  Building Climbers, dumpster divers, phreakers, walkie talkie networkers, wireless hackers, fanzine distributers, grafitti painters, network listeners, freerunners, skateboarders, treasure hunters...




Public space can be the public furnitures, machines, parks, restaurants, buildings. These massive structures create an attractive playground to artists. Outdoors without curators, galleries, lightening problems or any kind of standard mediums.
The common point is to find hidden locations in the city which are essential to feed the networks of urban planning. They can be electricity, communication , transportation and pipe systems. These networks are helping to disengage the community with different needs to consume and they are building an organic structure between urban illegal participations. Every new network creates an artistic discovery process. They are becoming underground cultures like skateboarding and street art. My focus point is combining them with internet culture. How do internet and street culture interact with each other in real life and how do they simulate each other?
It is alive with limitless variety of audience and mediums. It is the best gallery which is 24 hours open.  




As wikipedia writes Public space is a space accessible to all citizens, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age or socio-economic level. It is a free space that anybody could use which doesn’t require any reason or mission. It is a social space to live with other people. Public spaces are mostly the streets, town squares, parks, government buildings. Some buildings and spaces like parks and government buildings have restrictions and protocols. Public spaces are shared for the open usage of the community.
===Centralised Networks, Internet and Public spaces===
 
 
The explanation of wikipedia only includes the spaces accessible to all citizens. I think this the key point because a city also includes sewers, roofs, train rails and all the other inaccessible places. Because they are inaccessible not known very well by the people, they are creating their own stories. A good example for this subject is Jem Cohens “Lost Book Found” documentary. He is drawing a portrait of NewYork with a different vision. The movie is like a mystherius notebook revalling small details and hidden  places of the city also shoving the people who are trying to survive in the city with different techniques.
 
 
I think the movie is showing the real face of our touristic life. There is no location to discover in our planet anymore. We can watch any location on the world with different medias. The real discovery and adventure lies behind the insecure and restricted places in the city.
 
 
The people who are feeling claustrophobic in the city are revealing and hacking in to the networks. They are creating their own urban culture inside these networks. There are lots of examples for them. Building Climbers, trash container surfers , phreakers, walkie talkie networkers, wireless hackers, free fanzine distributers, grafitti painters, network listeners, microphone listeners, freerunners, skateboarders, treasure hunters...




The alternative way of experimenting the city opens a new way of discovery. Every new underground network creates a new culture without any rules inside. There is no books to learn or no rules to obey. There is none who can spoil the discovery process. Every new network and the possibility is a new artistic way of living.
G. Deleuze (Postscript on the Societies of Control) (3) hypotheses “the key thing may be to create vacuoles of non-communication, circuit breakers, so we can elude control..  




Every new network culture created inside the city without any law starts from scratch by an open source system. Everybody is adding a new way to the system. As an example the first skateboards were made by people who wanted to surf in the city. They were cutting the roller skates in to two parts with a metal saw and they were attaching it to a wood pane which is strong and flexible enough to carry a person. After the skeleton was finished they were attaching a sandpaper to the skateboard to hold the shoe while skateboarding.
These networks are feeding our lives and we are creating our lifestyles on their existence. So we are the people who consume networks.  
 
 
After creating their own tools to surf in the city, they were trying to improve their skills by trying different situations in the city. So one of the first skateboarding group z-boys in West Los Angeles area started to search their own territory to skateboard. After sometime they started to appear on the hills trying to improve their skills but because they are going fast, hard to control and making too much noise, they started to have problems with the police. After they discovered empty pools in the territory which were not being used because of the drought in the city. They were cleaning the pools with vacuum cleaners and carrying the rubbles out from the pools to skateboard in it. But because they were in the public space they were having a lot of problems with the police.
 
 
After skateboarding became a part of the popular culture they started to organise competitions and started to create their own stunts in the city.
 
 
===Centralised Networks, Internet and Public spaces===
 


“A distributed network differs from other networks such as centralized and decentralized networks in the arrangement of its internal structure. A centralized network consists of a single central power point (a host), from which are attached radial nodes. The central point is connected to all of the
satellite nodes, which are themselves connected only to the central host. A decentralized network, on the other hand, has multiple central hosts, each with its own set of satellite nodes. A satellite node may have connectivity with one or more hosts, but not with other nodes. Communication generally travels unidirectionally within both centralized and decentralized networks: from the central trunks to the radial leaves.


The problem why we need to elude the control is lying behind the structure of different types of networks. 
As A. R Galloway’s explains at his‘Protocol’ (4)


The distributed network is an entirely different matter. Distributed networks are native to Deleuze’s control societies. Each point in a distributed network is neither a central hub nor a satellite node— there are neither trunks nor leaves. The network contains nothing but “intelligent end-point systems that are self-deterministic, allowing each end-point system to communicate with any host it chooses.” Like the rhizome, each node in a distributed network may establish direct communication with another node, without having to appeal to a hierarchical intermediary. Yet in order to initiate communication, the two nodes must speak the same language. This is why protocol is important. Shared protocols are what defines the landscape of the network—who is connected to whom.”


“A centralized network consists of a single central power point (a host), from which are attached radial nodes. The central point is connected to all of the satellite nodes, which are themselves connected only to the central host. A decentralized network, on the other hand, has multiple central hosts, each with its own set of satellite nodes. A satellite node may have connectivity with one or more hosts, but not with other nodes. Communication generally travels unidirectionally within both centralized and decentralized networks: from the central trunks to the radial leaves.


The danger of using a centralised network lies behind giving all the control of a social structure to one control point. If the control unit turns off the network, all the network dies. Centralised network style has similarities with the public spaces.


The distributed network is an entirely different matter. Distributed networks are native to Deleuze’s control societies. Each point in a distributed network is neither a central hub nor a satellite node― there are neither trunks nor leaves. The network contains nothing but “intelligent end-point systems that are self-deterministic, allowing each end-point system to communicate with any host it chooses.” Like the rhizome, each node in a distributed network may establish direct communication with another node, without having to appeal to a hierarchical intermediary. Yet in order to initiate communication, the two nodes must speak the same language. This is why protocol is important. Shared protocols are what defines the landscape of the network―who is connected to whom.”


To prevent the danger of being centralized and being a centralized society, G. Deleuze (Postscript on the Societies of Control) 9 hypothesized that “the key thing may be to create vacuoles of noncommunication, circuit breakers, so we can elude control.”. The vacuoles could relate to the distributed networks.


The danger of using a network lies behind giving all the control of a social structure to one control point. If the control unit turns off a network, the network  can detach from rest of the network or die. As Paul Garrin (5) writes: “With the stroke of a delete key, whole countries can be blacked out from the rest of the net. With the “.” [root file] centralized, this is easily done. . . . Control the “.” and you control access.”.


As Alan Kay highlights the design dynabook “in every real sense, simulation is the central notion of the Dynabook. Each of the previous examples has shown a simulation of visual or auditory media. ”With this aspect, we can consider the computer as a private house with all the personal materials and tools inside to simulate the real life. We can also consider internet and all the networks inside as a simutation of public space. It has its shops, playgrounds, social spaces.


What we can do to avoid these problems is described as vacules by Deleuze. The vacuoles are individual networks or units that can live with or without being connected to the network. There are two essential points with these structures. They can’t be monitored by the main control system and they can block the water flow to the other networks.


There are limitless possibilities in the city networks...




* How to place an urban culture as a vocule in to the network.
My  previous project “Decentralized Street Light” I tried to create a circuit breaker on the electricity system. The goal was to give the control of a street light to the people so they can turn on or off the street light whenever they want. I build up a mock up with two ropes on it and put it on a street light in Rotterdam Mauristraat. The mock up wasn’t tied up to the street light and it was open for participation to improve it. The mock up was a protest against the centralised public furniture’s. Decentralized Street Light project was an example of creating a physical vacuole inside the network but is it possible to create a fake street art to create a vacuole inside the networks? A fake street art means a work of art which has never existed.
* Digital networks and the outdoor networks are becomming like the chicken and egg.
* Creating urban games in the networks.
* Creating netwoks.
* Embedding different cultures in to networks.




===Referrances===
As Alan Kay (6) highlights the design dynabook (one of the first laptop gui plan released in 1972) “in every real sense, simulation is the central notion of the Dynabook. Each of the previous examples has shown a simulation of visual or auditory media.” With this aspect, we can consider the computer as a private house with all the personal materials and tools inside to simulate the real life. We can also consider internet and all the networks inside as a simulation of public space. It has its shops, playgrounds, social spaces. There are a lot of examples how do internet simulate public spaces but how do public spaces simulate internet and how do street artists use internet?




Lost Book Found (1996) - Jem Alan Cohen
Simulation between two different dimensions and using one reflection to create a visual consideration inside the other world is my focus point. With this subject i would be researching the ethics of the street artists, the reactions of them and the reactions of the audience to create a circuit breaker. The project would be constructed on using blogs, individual websites, pressed materials and any media that can give information about the project. The simulation concept would be a sculpture, a painting, a machine which is open for speculation. It can also include the traces of the speculated artwork. If it is a painting there can be marks on the wall which can boost the imagination of the audience.


Personal Dynamic Media – By Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg
==Referrances==
1 The production of space By Henri Lefèbvre p.167


Löwgren, Jonas (February 23, 2000). “Hacker culture(s): Origins”. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
2 Jem Cohens “Lost Book Found” documentary film


Craft, Terri (Issue 56). “Zephyr – Jeff Ho Interview”. Juice Magazine.
3 On Control Societies: A Deleuzian Postscript, Jia-Lu Cheng (2008), London, p22.


Alexander R. Galloway (2004): Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization: London. p. 4-5.
4 Alexander R. Galloway (2004): Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization: p. 4-5.


On Control Societies: A Deleuzian Postscript, Jia-Lu Cheng (2008), London, p22.
5 Alexander R. Galloway (2004): Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization: p.  11.


Public Space,(2009) Wikipedia, December, 11, 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_space
6 The NewMediaReader, Volume 1 p.26a

Latest revision as of 01:49, 6 December 2010

Final Project

My ongoing project or my project proposal has three options. First one is my uncompleted “the bastard” project. With this project i would like to add new features and new meanings to the ball .Personal protester is a ball that can move around and play a recorded sound at the same time. To be an activist is very easy from now on. Record a protest with a single record button and personal protester can do the activism for you. To use the ball the owner has to record a protest and put it on a flat surface so it can move around and play the protest at the same time...

The bastard
Media:Ozalp_eroz_theball.pdf


  • urban individual activism
  • asocial activism
  • hacking in to personal space


The second option is my first thematic project. The project was focusing on hacking the environments in the city and creating dead spaces in the network. With this project I build up a big mockup to turn on and off the street lights in the city... Decentralized street light
http://www.cocoaboost.com/sl/ street light


  • hacking environment
  • creating dead links
  • hacking and personal protection
  • creating outdoor culture
  • city life
  • legal breathing space


For the third option i wrote down some words with my tutor Aymeric Mansoux to choose an interest to focus on. Then we tried to join the words and build up a list to choose a subject. The third option for my project is focusing on climate changes and renewable energy resources. I choose this subject not because it is a popular subject. Because climate change is a real science fiction experience for everybody. Climate change is like an on going Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio show for people. People are reading, watching, browsing news about climate change and affects appearing all over the world. Climate change creates an absurd alien attack on the people. People are getting in to a short term panic, they are starting create lots of scenarios about how they are going to die and how they can survive.


The list of interests within this subject


  • connection between network culture and climate change
  • renewable energy resources
  • panic reactors
  • survival plans
  • corrupt news
  • consuming the normal
  • alien attack
  • mutation of lifestyle
  • real science fiction
  • controlling fear
  • radio theater


After i write down all my interests can see that my motivation very high with the second option. I would like to go on working on my proposal with hacking the city

The bastard
Media:Ozalp_eroz_theball.pdf

Fear (the sticker project)
http://www.cocoaboost.com/fear/ fear(sticker project)

Decentralized street light
http://www.cocoaboost.com/sl/ street light

Public space as a playground

Public space is generally understood as a space accessible to all citizens, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age or socio-economic level. It is a free space that anybody could use which doesn’t require any reason or mission. It is a social space to live with other people. Public spaces are mostly the streets, town squares, parks, government buildings. Some buildings and spaces like parks and government buildings have restrictions and protocols. Public spaces are shared for the open usage of the community. 

This view only includes the spaces accessible to all citizens. But there are also sewers, roofs, train rails and all the other inaccessible locations. These attractive and inaccessible locations are creating their own psychogeographic maps in the cities. As Henri Lefebvre (1) writes, one of the first case of a produce market, transformed into a gathering-place into a scene of permanent festival, is a location creating its own potential.


A good example for this subject is Jem Cohens “Lost Book Found” (2) fictional documentary. The movie is about the people who are trying to survive in New York with different techniques. A scene from the movie is about a dumpster diver, fishing fallen valuable materials in the sewers. The movie is drawing a hidden psychogeographic view of NewYork. The people are living in corrupt habitats and mutating themselves  with their needs. This portrait is drawing a claustrophobic view for the citizens living in the city. Apart from socioeconomic levels, there is no location to discover anymore. The real discovery and excitement lies behind the insecure and restricted places in the city. The goal of the participant is changing with different Dérives. Building Climbers, dumpster divers, phreakers, walkie talkie networkers, wireless hackers, fanzine distributers, grafitti painters, network listeners, freerunners, skateboarders, treasure hunters...


The common point is to find hidden locations in the city which are essential to feed the networks of urban planning. They can be electricity, communication , transportation and pipe systems. These networks are helping to disengage the community with different needs to consume and they are building an organic structure between urban illegal participations. Every new network creates an artistic discovery process. They are becoming underground cultures like skateboarding and street art. My focus point is combining them with internet culture. How do internet and street culture interact with each other in real life and how do they simulate each other?


Centralised Networks, Internet and Public spaces

G. Deleuze (Postscript on the Societies of Control) (3) hypotheses “the key thing may be to create vacuoles of non-communication, circuit breakers, so we can elude control.”.


These networks are feeding our lives and we are creating our lifestyles on their existence. So we are the people who consume networks.


The problem why we need to elude the control is lying behind the structure of different types of networks. 
As A. R Galloway’s explains at his‘Protocol’ (4)


“A centralized network consists of a single central power point (a host), from which are attached radial nodes. The central point is connected to all of the satellite nodes, which are themselves connected only to the central host. A decentralized network, on the other hand, has multiple central hosts, each with its own set of satellite nodes. A satellite node may have connectivity with one or more hosts, but not with other nodes. Communication generally travels unidirectionally within both centralized and decentralized networks: from the central trunks to the radial leaves.


The distributed network is an entirely different matter. Distributed networks are native to Deleuze’s control societies. Each point in a distributed network is neither a central hub nor a satellite node― there are neither trunks nor leaves. The network contains nothing but “intelligent end-point systems that are self-deterministic, allowing each end-point system to communicate with any host it chooses.” Like the rhizome, each node in a distributed network may establish direct communication with another node, without having to appeal to a hierarchical intermediary. Yet in order to initiate communication, the two nodes must speak the same language. This is why protocol is important. Shared protocols are what defines the landscape of the network―who is connected to whom.”


The danger of using a network lies behind giving all the control of a social structure to one control point. If the control unit turns off a network, the network can detach from rest of the network or die. As Paul Garrin (5) writes: “With the stroke of a delete key, whole countries can be blacked out from the rest of the net. With the “.” [root file] centralized, this is easily done. . . . Control the “.” and you control access.”.


What we can do to avoid these problems is described as vacules by Deleuze. The vacuoles are individual networks or units that can live with or without being connected to the network. There are two essential points with these structures. They can’t be monitored by the main control system and they can block the water flow to the other networks.


My previous project “Decentralized Street Light” I tried to create a circuit breaker on the electricity system. The goal was to give the control of a street light to the people so they can turn on or off the street light whenever they want. I build up a mock up with two ropes on it and put it on a street light in Rotterdam Mauristraat. The mock up wasn’t tied up to the street light and it was open for participation to improve it. The mock up was a protest against the centralised public furniture’s. Decentralized Street Light project was an example of creating a physical vacuole inside the network but is it possible to create a fake street art to create a vacuole inside the networks? A fake street art means a work of art which has never existed.


As Alan Kay (6) highlights the design dynabook (one of the first laptop gui plan released in 1972) “in every real sense, simulation is the central notion of the Dynabook. Each of the previous examples has shown a simulation of visual or auditory media.” With this aspect, we can consider the computer as a private house with all the personal materials and tools inside to simulate the real life. We can also consider internet and all the networks inside as a simulation of public space. It has its shops, playgrounds, social spaces. There are a lot of examples how do internet simulate public spaces but how do public spaces simulate internet and how do street artists use internet?


Simulation between two different dimensions and using one reflection to create a visual consideration inside the other world is my focus point. With this subject i would be researching the ethics of the street artists, the reactions of them and the reactions of the audience to create a circuit breaker. The project would be constructed on using blogs, individual websites, pressed materials and any media that can give information about the project. The simulation concept would be a sculpture, a painting, a machine which is open for speculation. It can also include the traces of the speculated artwork. If it is a painting there can be marks on the wall which can boost the imagination of the audience.

Referrances

1 The production of space By Henri Lefèbvre p.167

2 Jem Cohens “Lost Book Found” documentary film

3 On Control Societies: A Deleuzian Postscript, Jia-Lu Cheng (2008), London, p22.

4 Alexander R. Galloway (2004): Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization: p. 4-5.

5 Alexander R. Galloway (2004): Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization: p. 11.

6 The NewMediaReader, Volume 1 p.26a