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Ryan Schoelerman   //  #8  //  #9  
Miasmatic Discourse Network (prototype)

Smog is a by-product of the industry driving the global urban condition, an excretion from our personal tech/nomadic desires and culture that is most spatially visible in conditions of distance, but its’ immediate presence in terms of a person’s social space takes on a near virtual condition. As a result the pervasiveness of air-borne pollutants makes the air we breathe a ‘produced’ and untapped information source of the urban condition. The Miasmatic Discourse Network (MDN) is a system of individual sensing units that analyze and report on air pollution at the pedestrian level. Each MDN unit is equipped with sensors to measure the levels of air-borne pollutants, a synthesized vocabulary and associated “respiratory” condition that changes in relation to the levels of pollutants, and transceiver communications to relay data. The Miasmatic Discourse Network communicates an immediate “now-casting” of air pollution levels to the public and provides telematic data to the gallery with the goal of beginning a discourse on re-imagining our experience of urban space when provided with a new form of sensory information.

Ryan M Schoelerman is an artist/researcher who has completed and shown work in various analog/digital medias to include electronic music, video, robotics and interactive installation. Currently his art/research is centering around non-tangible aspects of the urban condition, particularly the investigation of atmospheric RF emissions occurring both naturally and produced, the ‘produced’ aspects of atmosphere (i.e. air pollution) and how the ‘information’ it contains influences our experience of urban space. His engagement of these concepts occurs in the gallery via telematic information provided from publicly located tactical media device.

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