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Mark Shepard Sentient City Survival Kit

Discipline
Emerging Fields
Medium
Subject

Technology

Urbanism
State
New York
Year
2009
Status
In Production

Description

Sentient City Survival Kit is a performative installation and website. The project consists of a series of prototypes for electronic artifacts that subvert marketing and surveillance technologies encountered in everyday urban life: an umbrella studded with infrared LEDs that “blind” closed-circuit television cameras or a mobile GPS navigation device designed for serendipitous encounters. Viewers at the installation of Sentient City Survival Kit will be able to test these prototypes in their cities; the website will include DIY tutorials and diagrams for building each item in the kit.

Mark Shepard

Mark Shepard is an artist and architect. His Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit, an open-source software platform for cultivating virtual s…
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Project Updates

2011: Sentient City Survival Kit wins an honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica interactive art category
2011: Sentient City Survival Kit is exhibited as part of the Enter: Datapolis festival for art and technology in Prague, Czech Republic
2011: Shepard’s book Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture and the Future of Urban Space is published by The Architectural League/MIT Press
2011: Sentient City is shortlisted for the prestigious international FutureEverything Award
2011: Shepard works with V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media to further develop components of the Sentient City Survival Kit
2010: The Serendipitor is nominated for 2011 transmediale Award
2010: The Serendipitor iPhone app is now available as a free download in the iTunes App store
2010: Shepard has the first public display of the full set of objects in the Sentient City Survival Kit at the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Germany
2009: Sentient City Survival Kit is presented at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam