The website version is updated a bit but not the page on the tests in September

http://www.inxpress.co.uk/exwifi.html

Not a lot has changed. There may be wifi at the Phoenix one day soon. The IT boxes are not being used in the pubs.

the Peter Chalk Centre did have wifi during the Alt C conference but apparently the university has decided against this longterm. Halls of residence are budgeted for students to pay so much a month for bandwidth.

So the Southgate seems to be the best bet for wifi at the moment. Still only reaching a small part of the possible user base though.

BT seem to be in retreat with Openzone, at least in 'wi-fi Exeter'.

The phone boxes in South Street and Paris Street are now decorated as 'Coolrooms'

This links to www.coolroom.com where there are endless promotions for Universal product.

The trailers do load quickly so that broadband is shown to work. The sound is dreadful though, better speakers are required.

Not sure how this will work. There is a theory that the internet works best with access to a wide variety of content. Will people interrupt their shopping to just listen to advertising?

The PC World site near Tesco has still not got BT Openworld installed. This is a few months now so I don't think it will happen.

Meanwhile the Southgate Hotel has still got a Freespot offer. Their coffee is not the cheapest available but the model of free wi-fi seems to be working.

Mobile Content Forum will meet at CeBIT on 15th March 1300 - 1700

Almost all the content is in Japanese but they want to meet othere sources. Content may be available in formats for UK and Europe later.

www.mcf.to

Just a quick note. Access is 4 euros for 15 minutes. Still, it works fast.

Yesterday snow, cold, sleet. Today very sunny, still quite cold.

Lots of wifi equipment on show. One BT satellite van parked up sending something off. Not sure what. So all the stuff previously discussed is working somewhere.

I'm on my way to CeBIT at the moment. Could be interesting, there seems to be a lot of forward thinking.

Connected with Exeter animation, there is a stand representing Scene.org.
"
digitale kultur will have a booth at cebit... join us hall 27, booth 01(right at ati). we will have some more information on our webpage soon...
"
www.digitalekultur.org

SVG Zone - Developer Track - Reflections

This is an explanation of an SVG site that includes animation.

To describe the navigation menu as 'slightly mysterious' is to understate things as I found it.

Still, Flash designers will be happy with this I suppose.

Well worth a look, some screens look interesting when you find them.

Can't see it working oin a phone though.

XML.com: Mobile SVG

This article has a link to the W3 standards and other explanation of how SVG can work on a mobile.

During the Careers Day of Animated Exeter there was discussion on how animation could work on mobile phones. Flash seems to be one option but SVG is another. The people from Channel 4 were keen that the same animation could be shown on TV or phone.

Untitled Document

It turns out that at least two of the animations shown at the Phoenix yesterday are on the web.

This link is to one soundtrack from a London Tale. It should work ok on low bandwidth.

www.dogturpie.com

gets to a file that can be downloaded so only patience is required.

Animex, a digital fringe for Animated Exeter, now has a lot of downloads from scene.org.

This could work with wi-fi but actually cable to screen is more likely.

Probably there will be something at Panasonic Harlequin Centre on Tuesday.

And at the Games Day at the Phoenix tomorrow.

Meanwhile, some links. These notes will be expanded later. Not much time at the moment.
A N ew Canvas at 3.


http://www.dam.org/essays/knowlton01.htm

This short essay by Knowlton on his work is published in Ruth
Leavitt's Artist and Computer, Harmony Press, 1976.

Knowlton reflects on art and the role of the computer.

Permission: sought

http://www.dam.org/abe/geolegend.htm

digital art museum

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http://www.siggraph.org/project-grants/FinalReports/PaulAllenNewell1001.html

permission history

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http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/nude/
graphic

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http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/eat/biography/
photo

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http://pub.exeter.gov.uk/asp/animatedexeter/docs/press/7.doc

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http://www.avantofestival.com/2003/en/film_lillians_2.html
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http://www.constantvzw.com/kris_search/000859.php
bulletin board
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http://www.backspace.org/numinous/filmwaves/

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Title Artificial Sentience
Artist / Source Written and Directed by Pete Gomes
Copyright Pete Gomes
File Name C:\DOCUME~1\VITALS~1\LOCALS~1\TEMP\artsen.ram
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Length 1:47
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Quality 20Kbps
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this clip

recent 98

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http://www.art.buffalo.edu/resources/classnotes/art250/readings/newmedia.html

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Erkki Huhtamo (SF), B.A., M.F.A. Phil. Lic., University of Turku,
Finland. Associate Professor, UCLA. Researcher, Writer & Curator.
Specialities include media archaeology and the history of media art.
Writings translated in 11 languages. Books (in Finnish) include "The
Archaeology of Virtuality" (1995), "The Archaeology of the Moving
Image" (1996) and "Phantasmagoria" (2000). Curator of many
exhibitions, including Digital Mediations (Art Center, Pasadena 1995),
Unexpected Obstacles - Perry Hoberman (ZKM Karlsruhe, 1998) and Alien
Intelligence (KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 2000).
Creator of the installation "Ride of Your Life" (SurroGate2, ZKM,
Karlsruhe, 1998). Director and script writer of TV series for YLE (The
Finnish TV). Member of media festival organizing committees and
juries, including Interactive Media Festival (L.A., 1995) and
Portraits in Cyberspace (MIT Media Lab, 1996).

http://www.aec.at/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=12320#

WEB STALKER SEEK AARON
Reflections on Digital Arts, Codes and Coders

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http://www.stichting-mai.de/hwg/amb/aai/art_as_inquiry_03.htm

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http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/timeline2.html

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http://artstream.ucsc.edu/art80f/History%20of%20Electronic%20Art/tsld042.htm
powerpoint slides

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http://artscilab.org/expandedcinema/part4.pdf

http://artscilab.org/expandedcinema/book.pdf

goodstuff

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JOHN STEHURA

http://www.avantofestival.com/avanto2001/2001_screenings/fv_vintage.html
one image

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http://www.kinetica.org/K4/

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http://www.uturn.org/Arttech/arttech2.htm
about the net

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Every fourth Friday of the month at 9 pm the Edith Russ Site For Media
Art broadcasts artists videos on Oldenburg's open access television O
Eins.

Next broadcast on Friday, 25 February 2005, 9.05-11 pm

Video Visions archive

http://www.oldenburg.de/edith-russ-haus/english/visionen.html

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http://www.constantvzw.com/vj5/
current web design

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http://dbn.media.mit.edu/whatisdbn.html

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http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0105/msg00317.html
actually about fimmuseum in brussels

2.- Filmmuseum
Musée du cinéma

Rue Baron Horta 9 Baron Hortastraat
Bruxelles 1000 Brussel
Tel : 02 507 83 70

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http://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/program/anihist.html

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www.arteleku.net/secciones/ enred/zehar/zehar2/45/Zehar45Bonet.pdf

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http://www.geocities.com/cyberanimation/
http://www.geocities.com/cyberanimation/news.htm

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http://www.cyberneticcinema.com/
graphics

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Mythical Creature
Quicktime Movie(1.2M)
Download it!

image two

Butterfly Dance
Quicktime Movie(1.4M)
Download it!

image three

Lost Fish
Quicktime Movie(1.3M)
Download it!

These three works were done between 1970-1973. It was an interactive
system. The objects' movement axis of rotation were controlled using
buttons and switches. A light pen device was used to generate a path.

http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/profile/csuri/

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http://csuri.wmc.ohio-state.edu/dbhome.cfm

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http://www.csurivision.com/csuri/index.html

contact@csurivision.com

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http://www.csurivision.com/web.html

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Lillian F. Schwartz

E-mail: lillianschwartz@lillian.com

http://www.lillian.com/contact.html

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http://www.well.com/user/cuba/index.html

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http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=/demos/compilations/awards/2003/scene.org.awards.2003_hiq_%28divx52%29.zip&fileinfo

Since Acrobat 7 is now out, wifi is not really so crucial. Adobe seemed to assume broadband as a future when designing Acrobat 5 and 6. Not sure of the dates here, but see 'Network Publishing' as an idea. Now with 7 the comment features in Reader can be activated offline. Also forms can be completed offline and the data sent as XML so the files are small. Maybe server software really needs little bandwidth but my previous impression was that Adobe assume people are online all the time, an aspect of broadband.

wifi and satellite have been a possible solution for rural broadband. However in the UK, BT have eventully decided to activate all exchanges anyway. Maybe wifi helped to encourage this.

By the way, PC World have moved from Exe Bridge to near Tesco and the M5. This is still part of Exeter but not city centre. As of earlier this week BT have still not installed their wifi access, I think it is called Openzone. Lots of home networking including wifi. So Exeter is moving backwards at the moment. PC World was the only site with wifi and technical support.

Plan A is still to work on Animex, a digital fringe for Animated Exeter. Based at Life Bytes, 24 Paris Street. Mostly stuff that has already been downloaded, stored to disc, copied to CD.

This will connect with mobile devices, wifi etc. later

'wi-fi Exeter' is on hold thill Jan or Feb. At Life Bytes there are now a lot of large files for animation. Bandwidth is not really on a scale to cope with animation. The plan is to find and sort a mass of stuff and then look at streaming in Feb.

Last year we just had a laptop at the Phoenix with stored stuff. This is still part of the vision of future wifi though.

http://www.acrobat-services.co.uk/animation

Guy Kewney has been drawn into the world of e-books. He is persuaded that a device for reading e-books will be widely available and cheap within four years. This will have a wireless link to the web obviously. See report at Afaics.

Not exactly on topic for Exeter, but it will reach here eventually.

wi-fi works on trains, so it is thought

Guy Kewney reports that wi-fi has been known to work on trains to Scotland, but he has yet to actually find a train he can travel on.

http://www.guykewney.com/articles/041011-gner.html

My guess is that a lot of wi-fi is like this. It can actually work but for a lot of reasons few people use it.

Exeter is no exception to this.

Freespot is installed at the Peter Chalk Centre. Too soon to judge what effect this will have. Paul Burgess is on the KMS stand in the exhibition part but seems to be spending most of his time on technical support. Configuring laptops and PDAs is still a problem.

Paul Burgess is usually at Broadband in Rural Areas-
http://www.broadbandinruralareas.co.uk/
Exeter benefits from being near rural areas where there is some policy for broadband support.

There will not be an organised visit this week. It is clearly working as there were several people using it earlier today. So I think there is a start on 'wi-fi Exeter' but still a lot to learn from other places.

Tomorrow I will be at an Open Source meeting in London
http://www.lasa.org.uk/it/penguin/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
People from Psand suggested I attend. They actually know about wi-fi and satellite broadband, using open source software.

Until recently I thought of Amsterdam as being more or less at the centre of actual broadband in Europe. The Seybold Seminars have had a basis in reality as if people there actually used the technology they speak about.

Now items like this report suggest the reality of wi-fi might be just as far from the claims as in Exeter

http://www.guykewney.com/articles/040910-wireless.html

The Freespot in the Southgate Hotel is working. So as a conference centre it might be an alternative to the RAI.

John Traxler will talk on "Using Handheld Computers to Support Study Skills" tomorrow during Alt-C. There is a PDF on the web that explains some background.

http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/pub/ltsn5/papers/john%20traxler%2014.pdf

I found this through Google. The Wolverhampton search finds several other things for "handheld", including this about games.

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/ijigsconf.htm

There is an internet cafe as part of Alt-C, part of the library on the right as you go in. It is also confirmed that there will be wi-fi in the Peter Chalk Centre.

Not sure how many people might visit Life Bytes. It seems a more self-contained event than the Science Fest. Still, as the library calls itself an internet cafe for the occasion maybe one with actual coffee is within the scope.

Joke. Man walks into a library
Man "I'd like some fish and chips please"
Librarian " You do realise this is a library."
Man (whispers) "I'd like some fish and chips please."

This is to test if the comments are there.

There was the first actual check during Thursday. Actual visit to Freespot at Southgate Hotel ( working fine) , the BT phone box and an IT Box. Both the latter showed a signal but we did not actually use the web. Our impression was that there is not much use made of these. Full report next week.

Freespot seems a good option that may develop. Should be at the Peter Chalk building next week so we may check this also. If you're in Exeter, call in at Life Bytes or else this blog should be updated.

Photos

Meanwhile the claims for wi-fi continue to escalate-

This from 'Good Morning Silicon Valley' archive

Despite much evidence to the contrary, Intel appears to be hitting at least a few of its deadlines. The company said Tuesday that it has begin sampling its new WiMax chip, Rosedale, and expects that it will be offered as an option on the Centrino platform by 2006. Based on the 802.16 WiMax specifications, Rosedale promises to deliver two-way Internet access at speeds of up to 75 megabits per second over distances as great as 10 miles. It's an emerging standard, and one that promises to transform connectivity. "WiMax will be to DSL what cellular was to landlines: a more convenient, lower cost technology,"
. "We predict the same kind of growth for WiMax as was seen with Wi-Fi. By 2008 we think that 8 percent of all internet connections will be via WiMax." said Intel president Paul Otellini

Intel is the source for the idea that Exeter is a centre of wi-fi hotspots. The phrase 'spurious claims' has been used at The Register. Maybe it is just a matter of timing. There will be some wi-fi in Exeter sometime in the future. Something has started already but things are still on a small scale.