Dawn is an open concept inspired by new and emerging wireless technologies capable of distributing data, programming interactivity and creating diverse communications between new and traditional media and artforms.


The concept is being developed to promote wireless interactivity for sound and multimedia installation over a range of site specific and/or otherwise diverse public/private spaces using technology that is small, portable and able to be placed out-of-sight in an installation context.

The first wireless technologies within dAWN, the Distributed Wireless Sensor Network were created by the programming engineer Emmanuel Fléty of IRCAM (Paris) and have recently been adapted by Damian Castaldi into an artistic context.

Emmanuel and the hardware team at IRCAM have more recently produced the WiSe Box a pocket-sized multi-performer wireless sensors digitiser. With the use of Max/MSP or Pure Data this new Wi-Fi technology enables intense creativity between gesture and multimedia.


Read how dAWN came about - here

Read the Programming engineer's notes - here   © Emmanuel Fléty

A work in progress - i(k)now (w)here .... so how the hell do I get there?
Below are images of the first RF analog to MIDI wireles digitiser built by Emmanuel and commissioned by Damian in Paris mid 2003.
Detail of one mother and two daughter board confiruration.

Mother board dimension: 5.5cm(w) by 11cm (L); Daughter board: 8.5cm(w) by 11cm (L).

All rights reserved © Emmanuel Fléty

Individual components remain the property of Damian Castaldi.
     
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