Slides 5, 6, 7, and 8 depict DECONference, an annual event, so far held August 2001 and August 2002.
TITLE OF WORK: Decon2 (Decon squared): Deconstructing Decontamination
AUTHOR: Steve Mann
APPLICANT'S ROLE
Author of article, inventor of the technology, and artistic director for
designing and building the world's first Anthrax Ready Mailroom filed
April 1, 2000, and completed (finished construction) July 2001.
MEDIUM: Patent, gallery exhibit, and published article.
FORMAT: Scholarly publication in Leonardo.
LENGTH: 30 pages.
[A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE CONTENT]
This article described my design and implementation of a Panoptic
decontamination exhibit in a gallery having separate men's and women's
entrances into stripdown areas, leading into shower areas, followed by
examination areas where gallery patrons are checked for contraband,
prior to being allowed into the gallery to read the patents, such as
Canadian Patent 2303611, PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY SYSTEM.
TITLE OF WORK: Decon3 (Decon cubed): Decontextualizing and Decontaminating Deconstructionism. www.deconference.com
AUTHOR: Steve Mann (with Derrick de Kerkehove, Arthur Kroker, Julia Scher, Critical Art Ensemble; Chris Aimone, Dylan Crichton, and Francois Lemieux)
APPLICANT'S ROLE: Inventor, artistic director, General Chair of the (de)conference, and Founder of the DECONsortium.
MEDIUM: Interactive video-based computerized panoptic shower column
FORMAT: Exhibition, (de)conference, performance, etc.
LENGTH: Decontamination facility approximately 35 meters in length (800 square meters).
[A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE CONTENT]
An international inverse conference (deconference) and symposium
in which approximately 100 of the world's leading philosophers,
scholars, artists, and social thinkers of our time were required
to remove all clothing, jewellery, and personal effects and take
a shower to make sure that no anthrax was brought into the museum
where the event was held.
Slide 9 depicts a chair that includes the protection of intellectual property, namely through a License to Sit.
TITLE: SeatSale
AUTHOR: Steve Mann.
APPLICANT'S ROLE: Inventor, artist, designer.
MEDIUM: Interactive Internet chair: Spikes retract when credit card is inserted to download a seating license.
[A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE CONTENT]
There was an article about this exhibit in New York Times,
September 25, 2001. Further info: http://wearcam.org/seatsale/index.htm
Slide 10 depicts a lightvector painting.
TITLE: Lightspace
AUTHOR: Steve Mann.
APPLICANT'S ROLE: Inventor of the new medium ("painting with lightvectors"), artist.
MEDIUM: Lightvector painting.
[A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE CONTENT]
This is an example of lightvector painting, from 1985.
This new medium consists of a wearable computing system, that allows
the wearer to see the world differently through special eyeglasses.
This is an example of how a view of a house looks through the computerized
eyeglasses, using the lightvector painting medium. This work is further
described in the applicant's book "Intelligent Image Processing" published
by John Wiley and Sons.