WiFi.Bedouin
This is not the web without wires..
By Julian Bleecker
Design by Erik Loyer

Project Credits

Thanks to Eyebeam Atelier and Jonah Peretti for supporting the first version of this project through an R&D Residency during 2002-03, and to Christopher Hanson for his valuable assistance in the Mobile and Pervasive Lab.

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Julian Bleecker   julian@techkwondo.com
http://www.techkwondo.com
AuthorJulian Bleecker is Director of the Mobile and Pervasive Lab, a near-future R&D think tank run by the School of Cinema-TV and Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is an Assistant Professor at USC's Interactive Media Division, and research faculty at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy. In 2005-06 he held a Research Fellowship at the Annenberg Center for Communication. Bleecker has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell, an MS in Engineering from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz where his dissertation topic was on the linkages between technology, entertainment and culture. His art-technology collaboration with Marina Zurkow titled "Pussy Weevil" exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2005.

Erik Loyer   erik@song.nu | http://www.erikloyer.com
Designer ProgrammerErik Loyer's interactive artworks have been exhibited online and in festivals and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Prix Ars Electronica; and Transmediale. Loyer is the creator of The Lair of the Marrow Monkey, one of the first websites to be added to the permanent collection of a major art museum, and Chroma, an award-winning web serial about the racial politics of virtual reality. As Creative Director for Vectors, he has designed numerous multimedia essays in collaboration with leading humanities scholars. Loyer's commercial portfolio includes Clio and One Show Gold Award-winning work for Vodafone as well as projects for BMW and Sony. He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship, and his works have been honored in the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media and the California Design Biennial. Loyer has a B.A. in Cinema/Television Production from the University of Southern California.

Julian Bleecker   julian@techkwondo.com
http://www.techkwondo.com
TechnologistJulian Bleecker is Director of the Mobile and Pervasive Lab, a near-future R&D think tank run by the School of Cinema-TV and Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is an Assistant Professor at USC's Interactive Media Division, and research faculty at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy. In 2005-06 he held a Research Fellowship at the Annenberg Center for Communication. Bleecker has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell, an MS in Engineering from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz where his dissertation topic was on the linkages between technology, entertainment and culture. His art-technology collaboration with Marina Zurkow titled "Pussy Weevil" exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2005.