The Upgrade! Montreal + [mix_sessions]:: MDCN

5pm
– free

This Upgrade is
full-length! We begin at 5pm with a vernissage for the Mobile Digital Commons
Network (MDCN). Drop in for drinks and beats with DJ tobias
c. van Veen and visuals from VJ Beewoo. The
MDCN Symposium on mobile technologies and their practices begins Thursday evening
and runs until Saturday afternoon with panels and exhibitions open to the public.

The Upgrade kicks
off at 7pm. This May we feature wireless art generated using psychogeographic
techniques with the Sonic Scene project of MDCN/RMNC. Huh, you say? Yes: audio
and video produced to be “drifted” using wireless access points that
are provided free in the city of Montreal by community group Île
Sans Fil. The artists will be discussing their work as well as demonstrating
various pieces.

The Upgrade!
will also feature presentations from two other MDCN/RMNC projects: CitySpeak
by Jason Lewis and the MC3 team. CitySpeak generates real-time
code poetry from wireless network traffic, projected into public environments,
while MC3 offers real-time visualization of geotopological
information as it pursues free creative cultural exchange. These two projects
will be on-hand as installations from May 5th to May 7th.