Syndicate: Soda: internal pager project - v1

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:51:08 +0000
From: Soda <lucy@soda.co.uk>
Subject: internal pager project - please re/distribute v1

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Soda Internal Vibrating Pager project - seeking partners for autumn 1999
Mail aimed at: curators, programmers of arts and media spaces, academics,
journalists

Project: Soda Internal Vibrating Pager (working title)
Artist: Lucy Kimbell, supported by Soda
Partner organisations: TEST and DA2
Funded by ACE Combined Arts Projects Fund 1999

Contact:  Lucy Kimbell at Soda on +44 171 354 0142 or lucy@soda.co.uk
Summary at 15 February 1999

Project dates - 4 weeks in October/November 1999
Deadline for registration of interest:  March 1 1999

Summary
An interdisciplinary, cross art form piece by artist Lucy Kimbell,
supported by Soda, a London arts group, TEST, a digital research facility
in Huddersfield, and DA2, digital arts development agency, Bristol. Much of
Lucy Kimbell and Soda's work concerns interfaces between the real world and
computer mediated spaces and the flows of information, desire and power
between them.

Project outcomes
national
a limited edition of vibrate-only pagers to be worn internally (no message
facility), for sale
a public telephone interface which triggers calls to the pagers to make
them vibrate
a web interface to the project where pagers can be ordered/issues discussed
local
publicity to distribute the number of the phone system using broadcast/
print media
roadshow of a talk illustrating research into project concerns by artist
Lucy Kimbell

Concerns
The relationship between technology, desire and the media
The dematerialised art object
Sexual practice as performance
The artist as anthropologist

What the project achives
Education - as an intervention into debates about technology and desire,
and public art
New audiences for contemporay art

Schedule 1999
Feb-April*	Soda/TEST - confirm dates for events for project
April- May	TEST/DA2/Soda - additional fundraising for local events
		TEST/LK/Soda - finalise media plan, book ad space
August 		LK/Soda repurpose pagers; build web site; build phone
interface; test
September	Soda/TEST - distribute pagers via web and gallery sales/
media campaign
October/Nov	phone interface goes live/media campaign/roadshow of talks
by LK

Please contact Lucy Kimbell if you would like to host the project at your
venue, and state how you can help:

- generate local media sponsorship eg local newspapers, magazines, TV,
radio, billboards
- host a talk within your education or talks programme (subsidy available)
- distribute cards in your area to promote the project phone no. in
bars/cafes/phone boxes
- distribute cards in your regular mailings for Sept/Oct 1999
- host a banner ad and link for the project on your web site

Bookings (tentative)

LEA (London), ICA (Lingo talks series), Street Level (Glasgow)

Yorkshire - organised by TEST, accompanied by local media ads
Kirklees Media Centre, Lovebytes Sheffield

South west - organised by DA2, accompanied by local media ads

©Lucy Kimbell and Soda



Soda  21 The Ivories, Northampton St, London N1 2HY, UK
Tel ++44 (0) 171 354 0142  fax (0)171 354 8854  http://www.soda.co.uk