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Networked Identity

2007-02-25

During the half term holiday in London Matt and I worked for the BBC running the Networked Identity project in association with the Science Museum and the Serpentine Gallery. This event was for young people to spend time finding ways of expressing their emotions about the environ

During the half term holiday in London Matt and I worked for the BBC running the Networked Identity project in association with the Science Museum and the Serpentine Gallery. This event was for young people to spend time finding ways of expressing their emotions about the environment that they are in. Working with us for the week was Christian Nold who has developed a scientific art form called ‘Biomapping’. In brief, this is a lie detector mechanism which you wear as you walk around an environment. The detector measures changes in your state of arousal, or your emotional response to your current situation. Combine this with a GPS device and you have the ability to plot your emotional response on a map of your area… Google maps come in very handy here! Additionally, throughout the week we encouraged the participants to blog their experiences, photograph and video where they went and keep a project diary of all of it. The Science Museum hosted a number of events for the participants, including free entry into the Science of Spying exhibition - a wonderful interactive event whcih really captivated the young (and old) alike! Rob Skitmore from the Science Museum also ran a morning’s wo…

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