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SPIO
a de-generative installation
by Lucas Bambozzi
We invite you to the opening of the exhibition to view the work and to
meet the artist in person.
Artists Private View 6- 9pm Tuesday 5th April 2005
then open to May 1 2005
Friday- Sunday:12 noon- 5pm
Getting to HTTP
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities
for further information contact: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827
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In the UK, one of the most visible interactions of place and
high-technology communications systems over the past 10 years has been
the installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV). Designed to
improve the economic fortunes of public, commercial street systems, such
technologies are so widespread that it has been estimated that the
average UK urban resident is now monitored more than 300 times a day,
making Britain the most visually surveilled nation on Earth.
Artists working in digital media are increasingly exploiting the subject
of CCTV. Lucas Bambozzis SPIO, now installed at HTTP gallery, is an
autonomous vacuum cleaner equipped with high sensibility and infrared
CCTV cameras. SPIO scans the exhibition space through pre-defined
movements and triggers sound and visual events in the ambient. The work
is making an ironical comment on the self-surveyor apparatus, based on
apparently innocent gadgets that will be filling our homes and habits
more and more.
SPIO is a ‘self-surveilled’ system based on a robotic device designed
for capturing and processing images from a different perspective.
An autonomous vacuum cleaner equipped with high sensibility and
infra-red CCTV cameras scans the installation space through pre-defined
movements and triggers sound and visual events.
Credits and technical details
Concept, creation and direction: Lucas Bambozzi
Hardware and technical production: Fábio Seiji Massui
Software development: Caio Barra Costa
Support: Itaú Cultural
About Lucas Bambozzi
Lucas Bambozzi is an artist and curator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil
His body of work is constituted by a wide variety of formats, such as
installations, single channel videos, short films and interactive work.
Has been frequently awarded and constantly screened inside and outside
of Brazil, in solo and collective shows, in more than 30 countries.
For a full bio including lectures, papers, awards and prizes of Lucas
Bambozzi please contact [log in to unmask]
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Getting to HTTP
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities
for further information contact: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827
Press release for print (322k) http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib4/spio.pdf
Gallery website http://www.http.uk.net
Getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm
HTTP:// is a non-profit organisation run by artists and curators of
Furtherfield.org & Dosensos
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.dosensos.org
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