Created By: Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown
Project Home: http://www.sabinegruffat.com/BIKEBOX/
BIKE BOX is a participatory locative
media project and database created by Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown. Using
open-source software, participants will be able to listen to and contribute
geotagged audio that relates or responds to specific locations in Brooklyn, New
York: Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and along the waterfront. The audio can take
any form, including (but not limited to) sound art, personal anecdotes, field
recordings, radical histories, experimental music, or audio interviews.
BIKE BOX will be at
Devotion Gallery in Brooklyn from July 16th – 25th, 2010. Three technology-enhanced
bicycles available to the public will allow users to connect to the project
database and hear sounds geocoded for specific locations in the target area.
People with iPhones may also download the free BIKE BOX application at the
gallery. An installation inside the gallery will allow visitors to listen to
audio from the BIKE BOX database and to track the progress of BIKE BOX users in
real time as they ramble and roll through Brooklyn.
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Bike Box is a
mobile-media bicycle library and interactive installation housed at Devotion
Gallery, allowing participants to check out cheap, durable,
technology-enhanced bikes and a free open source iPhone application developed
for this installation. As participants pedal around central Brooklyn,
they are able to contribute site-specific audio through the iPhone application,
as well as listen to a curated collection of geo-specific sounds provided by a
variety of local land-use experts, historians, poets, artists, and other
interpreters. Bike Boxhopes to explore and give participants
access to the layers of lived experience, personal anecdote, and history that
are piled up invisibly on every street corner and city block.
