Pigeonblog


 * Project Name: ** Pigeonblog (2006- 2008)


 * Project Credits: ** Beatriz da Costa (Associate Professor of Studio Art, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Irvine) with with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto

Pigeonblog was a collaborative endeavor between homing pigeons, artists, engineers and pigeon fanciers engaged in a grassroots scientific data gathering initiative designed to collect and distribute information about air quality conditions to the general public. Pigeons carried custom-built miniature air pollution sensing devices enabled to send the collected localized information to an online server without delay. Pollution levels were visualized and plotted in real-time over Google’s mapping environment, thus allowing immediate access to the collected information to anyone with connection to the Internet. PigeonBlog was an attempt to combine DIY electronics development with a grassroots scientific data gathering initiative, while simultaneously investigating the potentials of interspecies co- production in the pursuit of resistant action. The project was designed and implemented between 2006-08 in Southern California, which at that time ranked amongst the top ten most polluted regions in the country.
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