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		<description><![CDATA[Networked Derive (2010) Networked Performance, Buffalo, NY and Weimar, Germany Networked Derive is a collaborative performance that takes place simultaneously between two geographically-separate locations. Using mobile phones, twitter feeds and a simple mapping system, performers in both locations engage in a series of geographical occupations that coincide with the movements through the other city. Participants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=457</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swinging Suitcase (work-in-progress) suitcase, Arduino board, sound module, accelerometer, speaker The Swinging Suitcase is a series of mobile sound pieces that generate and broadcast the sound of a flock of small birds in response to the act of swinging.  Each piece consists of a vintage American Tourister suitcase containing a speaker, accelerometer, and microprocessors.  When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=446</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citizenband (2009) Citizen’s Band Radio is public frequency that enables short-distance radio communication between individuals. Citizenband is a collaborative performance that senses, intercepts, and rebroadcasts the ubiquitous frequencies that permeate our citizens within urban environments. Radio waves, microwaves, satellites, and cell phone signals will be reimagined through signal processing, handmade electronics and performantive improvisation. Commissioned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=440</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freestyle SoundHack (2008) Workshop and Performance Freestyle SoundKits are wearable sound pieces that generate and broadcast electronic beats as users move through the urban environment.Freestyle SoundHack is a collaborative performance in the form of a workshop. During the performance, the artist will give her project to the public by teaching workshop participants how to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=416</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give It Up (2007, 2008) Networked Performance Give it Up is a live breakdance battle that takes place between 2 geographically separated spaces linked through a live web stream.  Part performance art, part social experiment, the project explores hyper-socialized space of web-based performance through an open-source model of participation, and examines the complex relationship between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=411</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Sound Project: Bike Hack + Soundride (2005, 2007) Workshop and Performance Bike Hack Workshop + Soundride is a collaborative workshop and mobile sound performance. that enables participants to contribute to the acoustic ecology of the city through simple sonic experimentation. During the workshop, participants are invited to construct bicycle-mounted noisemakers made of contact microphones, playing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=403</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freestyle SoundKit (2006) body-mounted sensors, sound module, speaker Circuit design and technical assistance by Ranjit Bhatnagar Freestyle SoundKits are wearable sound pieces that generate and broadcast electronic beats as users move through the urban environment. When the piece is engaged, each step the wearer takes is broadcast as a single electronic dance beat. The piece [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=388</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOUNDBIKE (2005) bicycle, microcontroller, sound chip, speakers, bike computer Circuit design and technical assistance by Dave Kemp and Gordon Hicks SOUNDBIKES are a series of 6 portable sound pieces that use motion-based mini-generators mounted to an ordinary bicycle to broadcast the sound of laughter as the bike is pedaled through the urban environment.  The laughter is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=374</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[walking machine (2003) omni-directional lapel microphones, mini amplifier, headphones walking machine is a portable audio piece designed to enable wearers to move through urban areas hearing the amplified sound of their own footsteps in real time. The piece consists of two lapel microphones modified to clip to low-cut shoes, a mini amplifier and a set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=369</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[walking machine in Acoustic Territories by Brandon LaBelle Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicathompson.ca/?p=234</link>
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