Oliver Smith
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MA work
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Network Ensemble, Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini 2015
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Dowsing, Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini 2015
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Network Ensemble, Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini 2015
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Seance, Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini 2015
Network Ensemble
A tool to uncover and amplify the invisible territory of the network that sits between our online and offline experiences. This network, as a man made force, is much more than the antennae, network names and Free WiFi signs through which we traditionally encounter it.
The Network Ensemble collects the network communications local to it, pulling in the raw packets, the blocks of information that devices send between themselves, and analysing them. This autonomous orchestra plays the network data live on the physical world in which it is situated, via six different categories.
Broken
Lost or corrupted in transmission. Malformed, fragmented, bogus and incomplete packets.
Communication
Organisation and ordering of transmissions. Devices request information and confirm receipt.
Data
Information sent for consumption and use by devices. May or may not be encrypted.
Gatekeeping
Access control. Devices request access and send login details; they are confirmed or denied.
Structure
The make up of the network. Structural packets announce the capabilities and status of each device.
Unknown
Non-standard, unclassifiable packets.
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Communication
Programme
MA Information Experience Design, 2015
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Contact
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+44 (0)7596 090678
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Oliver Smith investigates the undisclosed intentions of technology and thir techno-political impact. His work intervenes in technological systems, networks and environments, aiming for a position of comprehension, rather than one of unquestioning fear or worship.
He runs workshops in the use and abuse of computation, and is an Assosciate Lecturer at the London College of Communication.
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Degrees
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design, University for the Creative Arts, 2010
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Experience
- Assosciate lecturer, University of the Arts London, London, 2013–15; Sessional lecturer, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, 2011–14
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Exhibitions
- Work In Progress, Royal College of Art, London, 2015; Possessed Objects, Royal College of Art, London, 2014; Inventing Temperature, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, 2014; Physics Happens in a Dark Place, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, 2014; Mapping Post Digital Futures, Royal College of Art, London, 2014; No straight line, no true circle, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014; Nodem EXPO, The Museum of Medieval Stockholm, Stockholm, 2013; onedotzero Adventures in Motion, BFI, London, 2010
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Conferences
- Eris–2000: QCon at Central Hall Westminster, 2015
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Publications
- AQT-16 in Written Images, Martin Fuchs and Peter Bichsel, 2011