http://rw045.wordpress.com/ Abstract. I remember several science fiction movies in which planes and ships mysteriously disappeared while reaching specific coordinates; their physical presence was gone. Some times radio signals where able to escape, nevertheless the physical presence of these objects was gone, like if they were in another dimension.
It seems that in the year 2012 the number of IP addresses– linking physical locations with virtual universes– will not be enough to maintain the amount of devices connected to the Internet. Another generation of 32-bit technology becoming obsolete, trillions of new IP names waiting to be released and receive as baptism their true name.
In a Boeing 747 nothing would change while crossing the imaginary line that represents the parallel 40 (30 in America). I imagine that the dessert in both sides of el Rio Bravo looks the same; equivalent as if one crosses by train, or walking any border in Europe. A visa line conflict starts, it depends on which side you standing on, to which side do you want to go, and where was your passport issued.
The restrictions for people traveling in the physical world find its counter part in the increasing channels for connection in the virtual sphere. The passage and migration of the physical into to the virtual, the restriction to the physical and the illusion of an IP address that allows you to have ubiquitous presence in the World Wide Web. Chris Marker writes about a dream we all share while being half sleep in the subway: what if that moment of connectedness is being replaced and reinforced by our technological gadgets and our wireless connections always trying to keep us on-line scanning for information or is it the opposite? -Technological hallucination DJ Spooky would say. Then, what kind of text can be created using the fragments of data that these devices can produce while traveling from one place to the other? How the virtual and the real affect the conciseness and the mobility of people in their lives? How can we track this movement through time and what can we read of this data? Numeric names connected to locations in time, sending signals from an unknown place. New technologies, mobile technologies and their impact on how we perceive two different phenomena: IP address and Visa Lines. As I mentioned before, the number of IP addresses have rise exponentially, meaning that mobile devices connected to the web are possibly the mayor communication break-through since the days of the radio. We are sending and receiving messages, creating content, posting our lives, living a false utopia of an egalitarian space; sending signals from an unknown place: from the twilight where mental, virtual and physical meet, but also where commercial and public interest collide. Traveling without moving or moving without traveling. Perhaps, the more appealing part of this phenomenon is not the places visited, but the “trips” we made, the traces we left with this movement or in the impossibility of movement.
No-Argument. About a year ago the idea of [IP Address – Visa line] cross my mind. The usual statement: different legislation applied to different people, was a starting point from where I began to elaborate. At the same time, the fact that IP addresses were running out, and a new generation of the numeric names was coming, catch my attention. What conclusions can be made from this two colliding realities –one restricting mobility, the other conceding- and more important what questions can be ask? People have moved from the beginning of mankind; as they moved and associate, they created new territorial limits. If we think in geological terms all these motion is nothing but a blink over the tectonic plates, moving as well from the beginning of time. Arbitrary borders have drawn the political map innumerable times. In recent years legislation regarding to the mobility of people have become increasingly hard. Nevertheless in parallel, the illusion of a cyber-space available to all citizens became wide spread. We are living in a world where physical territories are being transformed by virtual universes. The world wide web stopped being a mirror were the physical world was reflected, to become an paramount multilayer space where both universes interact with each other, influence each other; mixing themselves until for moments they become indivisible. Mobility, borders, time, space, documentation and our perception of the world can be some of the core elements that this investigation tries to deal with.
This project generically called [IP Address- Visa Line] also wants to test where physical and virtual spaces meet, and the different borders that are shaped in our minds and projected into the world. It also wants to question notions like territory and its limits or limitless. Territory, materiality, borders, connectedness, network are also key elements that will be interwoven in the practical outcomes as in the written reflections.
In this scenario I found myself while writing this lines, while working on this project. To help me organize this vast amount of information, I choose to use narrative as way to give life, context and connection to the issues and facts contain within the research. Then moving step by step, I though about opening this blog and post entrances that dealt with the subjects. In the present state, the blog is presented as pieces in a puzzle to be reorganized, re-written, remix, link together… erased.
The entrances will take the shape of practical experiments; they will be done using different techniques. The short stories are being made using multiple voices, and are an attempt to subtitle reality, one way that I found to make some sense of the world that surrounds me. Subtitling reality, subtitling data. The experiments will not prove anything. The writing will not prove anything. I will not make a point. This is not a science fiction movie. Amsterdam 2011.
http://rw045.wordpress.com/ Abstract. I remember several science fiction movies in which planes and ships mysteriously disappeared while reaching specific coordinates; their physical presence was gone. Some times radio signals where able to escape, nevertheless the physical presence of these objects was gone, like if they were in another dimension.
It seems that in the year 2012 the number of IP addresses– linking physical locations with virtual universes– will not be enough to maintain the amount of devices connected to the Internet. Another generation of 32-bit technology becoming obsolete, trillions of new IP names waiting to be released and receive as baptism their true name.
In a Boeing 747 nothing would change while crossing the imaginary line that represents the parallel 40 (30 in America). I imagine that the dessert in both sides of el Rio Bravo looks the same; equivalent as if one crosses by train, or walking any border in Europe. A visa line conflict starts, it depends on which side you standing on, to which side do you want to go, and where was your passport issued.
The restrictions for people traveling in the physical world find its counter part in the increasing channels for connection in the virtual sphere. The passage and migration of the physical into to the virtual, the restriction to the physical and the illusion of an IP address that allows you to have ubiquitous presence in the World Wide Web. Chris Marker writes about a dream we all share while being half sleep in the subway: what if that moment of connectedness is being replaced and reinforced by our technological gadgets and our wireless connections always trying to keep us on-line scanning for information or is it the opposite? -Technological hallucination DJ Spooky would say. Then, what kind of text can be created using the fragments of data that these devices can produce while traveling from one place to the other? How the virtual and the real affect the conciseness and the mobility of people in their lives? How can we track this movement through time and what can we read of this data? Numeric names connected to locations in time, sending signals from an unknown place. New technologies, mobile technologies and their impact on how we perceive two different phenomena: IP address and Visa Lines. As I mentioned before, the number of IP addresses have rise exponentially, meaning that mobile devices connected to the web are possibly the mayor communication break-through since the days of the radio. We are sending and receiving messages, creating content, posting our lives, living a false utopia of an egalitarian space; sending signals from an unknown place: from the twilight where mental, virtual and physical meet, but also where commercial and public interest collide. Traveling without moving or moving without traveling. Perhaps, the more appealing part of this phenomenon is not the places visited, but the “trips” we made, the traces we left with this movement or in the impossibility of movement.
No-Argument. About a year ago the idea of [IP Address – Visa line] cross my mind. The usual statement: different legislation applied to different people, was a starting point from where I began to elaborate. At the same time, the fact that IP addresses were running out, and a new generation of the numeric names was coming, catch my attention. What conclusions can be made from this two colliding realities –one restricting mobility, the other conceding- and more important what questions can be ask? People have moved from the beginning of mankind; as they moved and associate, they created new territorial limits. If we think in geological terms all these motion is nothing but a blink over the tectonic plates, moving as well from the beginning of time. Arbitrary borders have drawn the political map innumerable times. In recent years legislation regarding to the mobility of people have become increasingly hard. Nevertheless in parallel, the illusion of a cyber-space available to all citizens became wide spread. We are living in a world where physical territories are being transformed by virtual universes. The world wide web stopped being a mirror were the physical world was reflected, to become an paramount multilayer space where both universes interact with each other, influence each other; mixing themselves until for moments they become indivisible. Mobility, borders, time, space, documentation and our perception of the world can be some of the core elements that this investigation tries to deal with.
This project generically called [IP Address- Visa Line] also wants to test where physical and virtual spaces meet, and the different borders that are shaped in our minds and projected into the world. It also wants to question notions like territory and its limits or limitless. Territory, materiality, borders, connectedness, network are also key elements that will be interwoven in the practical outcomes as in the written reflections.
In this scenario I found myself while writing this lines, while working on this project. To help me organize this vast amount of information, I choose to use narrative as way to give life, context and connection to the issues and facts contain within the research. Then moving step by step, I though about opening this blog and post entrances that dealt with the subjects. In the present state, the blog is presented as pieces in a puzzle to be reorganized, re-written, remix, link together… erased.
The entrances will take the shape of practical experiments; they will be done using different techniques. The short stories are being made using multiple voices, and are an attempt to subtitle reality, one way that I found to make some sense of the world that surrounds me. Subtitling reality, subtitling data. The experiments will not prove anything. The writing will not prove anything. I will not make a point. This is not a science fiction movie. Amsterdam 2011.