Man and Machine.....Extending the human body
Mark Shepard
"Sentient City Survival Kit"
sentient city project: http://survival.sentientcity.net/
Mark's website: http://www.andinc.org/v3/bio
Mark explores man's relation to the digital world. Many of his projects include the sensing, tracking and networking of humans in urban space. The project "sentient city" explores the idea of near future composed objects that digitally track and monitor the everyday consumer. Such objects include (but are not limited to:
the serendipitor: helps the carrier find something by looking for something else....for example
you put in the name of a location and on the way to the location there are extra
instruction that extend past the idea of finding the final location. for example a direction may say "head toward the heart of the city, if the city does not have a
heart, give it one."
the Ad Hoc Dark (roast) Network Travel Mug: this mug lets the carriers create a portible network wear message can be sent to other carrier. A message can be typed on the screen and then sent via a
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