TAGGED

A SPACE Media Arts commission of four new artworks focused on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology by artist collectives C6, boredomresearch , Processing Plant (Louis Philippe Demers and Philippe Jean), and Mute-Dialogue.

Four commissioned artworks exhibited as part of an ongoing project by SPACE Media Arts investigating the use of RFID technology.

Electronic tagging technologies are increasingly impacting on society and are set to shape the future. Standing for Radio Frequency Identification RFID tags use radio waves and can potentially function without your knowledge and with widespread adoption across many commercial and public industries.

The artist collaborative Processing Plant are working with local shop Hollywood Convenience electronically tagging their grocery items to produce the artwork iTag. Using a portable music device, available to pick up from the exhibition, shoppers can listen to music generated from the grocery aisles.

RealSnailMail is a project in development by boredomresearch, using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology to enable real snails to carry and deliver electronic messages on their own time, despite growing expectations of instant communication.

Mute-Dialogue (Yasser Rashid and Yara El-Sherbini) have created the interactive installation, Origins and Lemons. Arranged as an East End market stall the installation invites you to pick up RFID-tagged items and scan them to receive clues as to their history and origin.

In SWAPOId, evoLhypergrapHyCx (C6) implement RFID technology in the Antisystemic Distributed Library Project, an alternative library of shared books, videos, and music with venues in community centres and bedrooms worldwide, and through this acts as but one site of resistance against a de-humanising, de-dimensional agenda.

Arphield Recordings by Paula Roush records the sound of citizens scanning their Oyster cards in London Underground stations, and outputs them in live performance, installation and public intervention.

An essay by Armin Medosch, The Spychip Under Your Skin, accompanied this exhibition.