The Art and Technology Network, xClinic (the critical and playful Environmental Health project by artist Natalie Jeremijenko) project and Pachube.com communicated a very interesting call. They ask artists/designers to create environmental health projects and lifestyle experiments, using Pachube. Pachube is an application that “enables you to store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that helps you connect to & build the ‘internet of things’”. This innovative application – with a lot of potential in many fields – has been selected for Design of the Year by the Design Museum London.
Now Pachube is searching for creative people who want to think of bottom-up uses of the Pachube platform, namely projects that enable people to take environmental issues into their own hands and “projects that consider very carefully the relationship between all sorts of system, human and non-human alike, technological and cultural”.
The selected project will be rewarded with an amount of $5000 and featured as part of the Out of the Garage, Into the World program at the 2010 01SJ Biennial. The selected project also has the great advantage to be guided during project development by Environmental Health Clinic Director, Natalie Jeremijenko, and the founder of Pachube.com, Usman Haque.
You can find a more detailed call description here.
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