Simon pope; Identify key contextual themes

Simon pope

Identify key contextual themes

Introduction session- what this year will be about and what work we will have to do.

Film- Fahrenheit 451- primitive version of peer-to-peer networks. The restriction of information
• Distribution of information
• How the film inspired Simon’s project
• Firemen – Information is being policed.
• Illusion of interaction – why didn’t it say the others guys name just like in “minority report” where the guy was walking through the shopping centre and all the screens were saying his name.
• Burning of books, the destruction of information, the length that someone will go to in order to preserve information.

• Knowledge is power

Wireless networks
Airport
Wifi
Bluetooth


Chapter house – Art map. The evolving of previous ideas putting artist into corporate projects - issues concerning survival of artists.
• Working with database,
• Sources of funding
• Mapping
• Communication techniques
• True representations
• Artist and new technology
• Working to a time frame with milestones
• Personal project but still has to report to investors
• Animated character during presentations
• Refugees in legal limbo
• Locative media
• Rural issues