Co-produced by V2_Lab for UnstableMedia, AZIZ Amsterdam, TU Delft, Banff Center BNMI Canada.
How do we trust each other online?
Do you need to see my eyes? Or do we need to touch?
How do we trust each other as networking bodies?
Tele_Trust creates an engaging agora, researching new parameters for online trust. While in our changing social eco-system we increasingly demand transparency, we cover our bodies with personal communication technology. In a visual, poetic way, Tele_Trust researches emotional and social tension in our contemporary
hybrid cities - between visibility, privacy and trust.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Tele_Trust networked performance-installation takes place in dynamic
indoor & outdoor city public spaces, like train station, museum, festival.
Here the audience meets in an interactive DataVeil:
DataVeil. The DataVeil is a full body covering garment inspired by eastern and western traditions, like a monks’ habit, a burqa, Darth Vader, and a 'trustworthy'
chalk stripe business suit. It is Gender neutral, and One size fits all.
This DataVeil functions a second skin, a membrane for scanning an intimate, networking body experience. Flexible, invisible touch sensors woven into the smart fabric of the veil, transform your body into an intuitive, tangible interface.
Dialogue between a Smartphone and a DataVeil.
By touching your body in the DataVeil you meet strangers online through their smartphones. Inside the DataVeil you may be unidentifiable but before ‘disappearing’ your portrait is added to an online database. By gently caressing their screens, anonymous smartphone users worldwide can unveil your face online. In an intimate body experience and real time audio, you share emotions and statements of trust, about the questions: Am I here with you? Who is watching who? Who is controlling who? In what identity and in whose body?
Database. The DataVeil is a tangible body interface for scanning online trust.
With the DataVeil the artists collect knowledge about ‘privacy’ and ‘trust’ worldwide, in different social and geographical networked cultures. In an ongoing process, user generated content is continuously added to the Tele_Trust database.
Stories from different cities weave together into an exchanging narrative;
- everyone can wear a DataVeil.
ISEA2011 Istanbul
In the context of Istanbuls dynamic history on veil-wearing, we envision the DataVeils to be performed at locations like university-site, Itslakalstreet, indoor exhibition-space. Together with the existing DataVeils we aim to develop a new series of DataVeils for Istanbul, in exchange with designers in Istanbul and Amsterdam. Both series will be shown together. In Amsterdam they will be show with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (curator Margriet Schavemakers), TU Delft and at V2_Lab for Unstable Media.
DETAILED TEXT + DRAWING MODELS + R&D
http://www.being-here.net/page/3051/en
Tele_Trust performance-installations 2009-2011:
V2 Lab for UnstableMedia //
Banff New Media Institute Canada //
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam //
Festival a/d Werf & PSI University Utrecht //
De Balie Amsterdam //
ADA-network Dunedin New-Zealand //
Waag Society for Old&New Media Amsterdam //
TU-Delft //
Lumineus Amersfoort //
Tschumi-Pavillion Groningen //
Exposorium Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam //
Gogbot Enschede
Tele-Trust on conferences:
Shanghai World-Expo 2010 Mobile City & Virtueel Platform at DCC //
Sonic-ActsXlll Amsterdam //
Leonardo@ARS-ELECTRONICA Linz //
NIMK / Montevideo Amsterdam //
Artists-in-residency BNMI Canada //
With generous support of:
Mondriaan Foundation - Interregeling & International Presentations.
Lumineus Amsersfoort; AFK Amsterdam; V2_Lab for unstable media;
Banff Center Canada; Fund BKVB.
