Laser\Net involved participants
moving through a field using technology borrowed from the security
and data transmission industries. Sensors triggered aural and visual
events, whose content was drawn from privacy and intellectual property
rights. Laser \ net was a built space in which the occupant intervened
in the dialogue between the analogue and the digital, the original
and the copy.
Laser\net was a collaboration between John
Bell, Adam Covell, Paul Guzzardo,
and Lorens
Holm. John Bell joined the Architectural Association in 2000
after posts at the University of Westminster, University of East
London, Kingston University and the Arts Council England. He has
lectured and exhibited in Britain and abroad, is a trustee of E:vent
media arts gallery London, has a special interest in new technologies
for design and production. John Bell and Adam Covell are partners
in the trans-disciplinary practice fxv.org, London. Adam Covell
is an RIBA Silver Medalist, developed the MA Computer Imaging in
Architecture at the University of Westminster, has a special interest
in film and film theory. Paul Guzzardo is a lawyer and media activist.
He is the founder/collaborator in two St. Louis based media agit
prop groups, MediaArts St. Louis and zio11 LLC, that stage events
and installations in the urban spaces of St. Louis, where he is
working on the development of digital interactive forms of participatory
governance called the media box. He has presented his work in New
York and London. Lorens Holm is the course director for history
and theory in the School of Architecture, University of Dundee.
He writes on architecture and psychoanalysis.
Laser\net is part of Exploring the digital city: space culture politics,
a workshop series funded by the AHRC and sponsored by the Geddes
Institute for Urban Research, the School of Architecture, and the
Department of Geography, at the University of Dundee. Its purpose
is to explore new areas of cross-disciplinary research collaboration
in urbanism, and includes invited speakers and participants in the
fields of digital technology, media ecology, geography, architecture,
and urbanism.
Further information on Laser \ Net can be found
at these web sites and in this publication: