Beam it
Beam It is an electronic screen meant for public space that is open for user generated content.
Simple text messages, photos or videos can be uploaded to the screen via an online interface. The effect that the new content has on public space can be observed online via a live video streaming.
The project explores issues introduced by new technologies that are deployed in public space. From surveillance technologies to server-client architectures the project questions about who is watching and who has access to what. What happened when information that is typically exchanged in an online context is beamed to a public space? How do online social platforms question the notions of public space and vice versa?
Beam It is developed by INTK and it is integrated in a long term research and development focused on technology and local communities.
10 - 24, Jan 2010: "Beam it" presented simultaneously at Aarhus University, Denmark and Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, the Netherlands.
10 - 24, Jan 2010: Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, the Netherlands
20 May 2010: V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Read a review here:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/2010/05/27/rui-guerra-beam-it/
