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<h2>Presenting</h2>
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<h3>Eccentric WiFi: Networks with others</h3>
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-<p><em>Media are not only devices of information; they are also agencies of order.<br/>
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-John Durham Peters, 2015</em></p>
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+<p><em>Media are not only devices of information; they are also agencies of order.</em><br/>
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+- John Durham Peters, 2015</p>
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-<p>Technologies are dynamic agents that coproduce our environments and social structures through material, psychological and (more recently) algorithmic interactions. Inevitably they embody the agendas and priorities of their makers. Yet if we are to adequately address urgent contemporary challenges like environmental destabilization and global inequality, both of which are tightly bound to trajectories of technological development, it is imperative that we re-think our technical systems and infrastructures to address the agendas of those currently outside of their scope of operation. I call work that responds to this challenge – eccentric engineering. Eccentric engineering sees experimental systems built with atypical design agendas and that restructure connections between humans and non-humans fostering mutual relationships. It approaches infrastructure not as a service but as a negotiation and attempts to privilege empathy over efficiency, co-dependence over independence and intimacy over autonomy.</p>
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+<p>As our lives become increasingly networked, we have developed a profound sensitivity to signal topographies. We are mindful of when we’re leaving a wifi network, we prepare for the quiet zone of the subway and we adjust our behaviors in response to fluctuations in data speeds and gradients in signal strength. We have become radiotropic.</p>
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-<p>The Radiotropism project applies an eccentric design approach to network technologies. As our lives become increasingly networked, we have developed a profound sensitivity to wireless topographies. We are radiotropic – we carefully prepare for the quiet zone of the subway and adjust our behaviors in response to subtle fluctuations in wireless signal strengths. The Radiotropism project probes this sensitivity, leveraging it in different ways. The project consists of a series of experimental WiFi routers that attempt to tie their user's network experience to natural phenomena in novel ways. This project explores the potential of creative work to intervene not only at an informational level, but at the level of infrastructure itself.</p>
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+<p>What design opportunities does this sensitivity to wireless connections present? Could our wireless infrastructures and devices be reconceived from being always-on, fast and efficient, to being rhythmic, dynamic? How might they be used to express the perspectives & agendas of non-human systems and lifeforms? In response to these questions I will discuss Radiotropism, a project currently in progress that sees the development of a series of eccentric and experimental wireless technologies. These are attempts to use wireless media to reorder our relationship to the world. Through this discussion I will also consider what it means for creative work to act not only at an informational level, but at the level of infrastructure itself.</p>
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