HTTP//SPIO - Lucas Bambozzi: PV Tuesday April 5, 6-9pm

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Next at HTTP// [House of Technologically Termed Praxis]
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SPIO
a de-generative installation
by Lucas Bambozzi

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition to view the work and to 
meet the artist in person.
Artists Private View 6- 9pm Tuesday 5th April 2005

then open to May 1 2005
Friday- Sunday:12 noon- 5pm

Getting to HTTP
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities

for further information contact: info at http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827
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In the UK, one of the most visible interactions of place and 
high-technology communications systems over the past 10 years has been 
the installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV). Designed to 
improve the economic fortunes of public, commercial street systems, such 
technologies are so widespread that it has been estimated that the 
average UK urban resident is now monitored more than 300 times a day, 
making Britain the most visually surveilled nation on Earth.

Artists working in digital media are increasingly exploiting the subject 
of CCTV. Lucas Bambozzis SPIO, now installed at HTTP gallery, is an 
autonomous vacuum cleaner equipped with high sensibility and infrared 
CCTV cameras. SPIO scans the exhibition space through pre-defined 
movements and triggers sound and visual events in the ambient. The work 
is making an ironical comment on the self-surveyor apparatus, based on 
apparently innocent gadgets that will be filling our homes and habits 
more and more.

SPIO is a ‘self-surveilled’ system based on a robotic device designed 
for capturing and processing images from a different perspective.

An autonomous vacuum cleaner equipped with high sensibility and 
infra-red CCTV cameras scans the installation space through pre-defined 
movements and triggers sound and visual events.

Credits and technical details

Concept, creation and direction: Lucas Bambozzi
Hardware and technical production: Fábio Seiji Massui
Software development: Caio Barra Costa
Support: Itaú Cultural

About Lucas Bambozzi

Lucas Bambozzi is an artist and curator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil
His body of work is constituted by a wide variety of formats, such as 
installations, single channel videos, short films and interactive work. 
Has been frequently awarded and constantly screened inside and outside 
of Brazil, in solo and collective shows, in more than 30 countries.

For a full bio including lectures, papers, awards and prizes of Lucas 
Bambozzi please contact tobi at dosensos.org

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Getting to HTTP

Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities

for further information contact: info at http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827

Press release for print (322k)  http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib4/spio.pdf
Gallery website http://www.http.uk.net
Getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm

HTTP:// is a non-profit organisation run by artists and curators of 
Furtherfield.org & Dosensos
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.dosensos.org