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@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.

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