Awareness: Artistic Experiments in Revealing Invisible Networks

Kati London researches, designs, and develops technology for interactive crowdsource and disruptive experiences. Her work includes hardware for networking plants and people (Botanicalls), game structures that connect residents of Gaza City and Tel Aviv or Baghdad and New York (You Are Not Here), and wearable devices that detect personal space (Urban Sonar).

Her collaborative projects have been featured at Where 2.0, Come Out & Play and Conflux, and have appeared on Good Morning America, the BBC, NPR, and in The New York Times. She currently works as a senior producer and game designer for area/code in New York.

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Régine Debatty (BE/DE) studied Classics in Belgium and England, worked as a teacher of Latin and ancient Greek, then moved to media, working as a documentary director for the Belgian national TV, as a reporter for the radio Onda Cero in Spain, then as a consultant for the MEDIA programme of the European Commission in Italy.

She writes about the intersection between art, design, and technology on her blog we-make-money-not-art.com as well as on design and art magazines such as Art Review (UK) . She also curates art shows and speaks at conferences and festivals about the way artists, hackers, and interaction designers (mis)use technology.

Selection of lectures: Mobile Music Workshop, Amsterdam. Conflux, New York. Get It Louder, Beijing. Documenta, Kassel. Pixelazo, Medellin. PSFK conference, London. Medialab Prado, Madrid. Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin. Design Academy, Eindhoven. Triggered by RFID workshop at Mediamatic in Amsterdam. O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. LIFT, Geneva. SONAR, Barcelona. Futuresonic, Manchester. Fabrica, Treviso. ITP, New York University. PicNic, Amsterdam. Bauhaus University, Weimar.

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