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Monday, March 14th

6 pm [LA]
lecture: 'Social Fashioning & Deconstructing Networks'
UCLA D | MA (11000 Kinross Avenue; UCLA; Westwood)
info: 310-825-3951
detail: Part of the 'Free Flow' lecture series. Katherine Moriwaki [researcher/ artist; NTRG- Trinity College, Dublin] will discuss ‘Social Fashioning’ via spontaneous, ad-hoc networks that rely upon mobile and flexible infrastructure that dynamically reconfigure based on necessity and circumstance. The integration of these communication devices into intimate personal objects and their resonant contribution to the statement that the people are the network will be explored as she focuses on projects: ‘RECOIL’, ‘Inside/Outside’, ‘Oscillating Windows’, and ‘Umbrella.net’, as examples of ‘socially-fashioned’ networks, utilizing a combination of wearable technologies, varying degrees of network infrastructure, and social behavior. Jonah Brucker-Cohen [researcher/ artist; NTRG- Trinity College, Dublin]will discuss his work on the theme of ‘Deconstructing Networks’, in both physical and online instantiations. He will discuss his projects that attempt to challenge accepted notions of network interaction from software manipulation and rule-based systems to translating virtual processes and conventions into the physical world. Projects to be discussed will include ‘BumpList’, ‘Alerting Infrastructure!’, ‘PoliceState’, and ‘WiFi-Hog’, amongst others.