Rodent Activity Transmissions (RAT) systems

Julie Freeman

Rodent Activity Transmissions (RAT) systems ,
Co-workers & Funding
Collaboration with Dr. Chris Faulkes, Marcin Ignac. With Sonia Blair, Matt Jarvis, Lorna Ellen Faulkes, Herrik Wollik, and Colony Omega. With special thanks to Prof. Mark Sandler, Prof. Geraint Wiggins, and Prof. Kaspar Althoefer.
Additional thanks to Hannah Redler, the Utopia crew: Grace Perrett and Karishma Rafferty at Somerset House, Tony Bailey, Helge Wurdemann and Lukas Lindenroth (for soft robotics inspiration), Yodit at OpenSensors.io, Stephen Wolff, the Open Data Institute, and staff and students at the Media & Arts Technology DTC at QMUL.



In partnership with New Scientist Live, Somerset House.


Sponsored by the Centre for Public Engagement at Queen Mary University of London and Arts Council England.
https://rat.systems
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Description
This multipart work uses real-time data gathered from a colony of naked mole-rats, allowing a peek into their lives. The project reflects Julie Freeman’s fascination with their cooperative lifestyle and how it differs from human social organization. Mole-rats thrive within colonies, while lone individuals have little chance of survival. RAT.systems embodies a broad series of unconventional approaches to working with data to examine different structures and forms of life. It also pushes the material possibilities of data.
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Technology & Material
Installation Requirements / Space
A Selfless Society (2016)
Online audio-visual artwork

This is Nature Now (2016)
Real-time data-driven silicone kinetic sculptures (documentation version)
3 x single channel HD digital video
Duration variable

Colony Omega Redacted Portraits (2016)
24 C-type photographs; 26.6 x 40cm each
Portraits by Lorna Ellen Faulkes, commissioned by Julie Freeman and Dr Chris Faulkes
Exhibitions & Events
Festival Panoràmic
DIGITAL POWER: ACTIVISM, ADVOCACY AND THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN ONLINE
The New Observatory
Technology is not Neutral
Utopia Treasury
Technology is not Neutral
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