Wavecom aims to develop creative solutions (construction of artistic prototypes) to cover / hide the equipment it installs in turn-key mode. Creating new offers at the visual impact level of the equipment needed for the implementation of communication systems. By reducing the visual impact of the box, antennas or other necessary media, Wavecom contributes to the artistic and cultural enrichment of the company's clients by offering creative and innovative solutions from the point of view of communications, but also in their physical aspect.
The intention is to put artists to work the facilities and technological equipment as raw material, provoking the use of a wide range of materials little explored in the artistic field creating installations, sculptures, painting or other structures that personalize the technological facilities.
Invisible agency
The artist wishes to research Wavecom communications equipment and smart city technologies to create an artistic metaphor thats acts as a machine that can be situated in a vision of the future where trust plays a central role. Invisible Agency will become an experimental data visualisation interface connecting real time city spaces (IOT platforms) into a dynamic co creation artwork using data from across the city to question the ethics ownerships and manipulation of data. Once this is made the data streams will be used to make a physical work, a large scale sculpture.
..... Stanza
Stanza focuses on the landscape of monitored and networked real time information flows, and the artworks created reflect this. Underpinning his artworks are a whole series of potential problems about observation, invisible agency, and the ethics of the control space. Stanza's digital artworks are experienced as fused mashed-up data cities and real-time performative city experiences, all re-presented online as systems of control and systems that demonstrate how these systems control. Furthermore the artwork demonstrates how we are complicit and thus entangled in the surveyed and monitored technological layers that the artworks are communicating and fit seamlessly into what he calls panoptic aesthetics. His artworks have won twenty international art prizes and art awards including:- Vidalife 6.0 First Prize Spain. SeNef Grand Prix Korea. Videobrasil First Prize Brazil. Cynet Art First Prize Germany. Share First Prize Winner Italy: His art has also been rewarded with a prestigious Nesta Dreamtime Award, an Arts Humanities Creative Fellowship and a Clarks bursary and numerous international arts residencies.
Invisible Agency is a series of dynamic artistic data visualization interfaces connecting real-time city spaces aiming to investigate data manipulation across distributed technology networks. Working with Wavecom (Portugal) in real-time data from smart cities, as global pollution and environmental data initially, the residency team also investigated WiFi signals in the urban landscape ubiquitous presence.
The artworks created all repurpose data to raise further questions about the fluid, liquid, real-time data space, that now surrounds, envelops, and monitors everyone everywhere. Three experimental prototype artworks that visualize city wide agency as a collective, performative, and collaborative experience were produced. One of this prototype reforms the total WiFi -an area in range- as an orchestra of sounds. With this “sonification”, each time a phone is turned on, it takes part in an orchestra. Another artwork demonstrates and discloses WiFi traffic as an electronic systems artwork, through a map form. And the last one, a mapping data, allows software visualizations of pollution, weather, and environmental data from Portugal. The residency outcomes are, in essence, representation of the WIFI activity in Portugal, a portrait of the country. The software is a 3D living art form that shows the complete data system all at once.
Interview with Stanza at CENTQUATRE-Paris, during the STARTS Residencies Days 2020
