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Sculpture to Reflect Campus Wireless Traffic

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the six-kinds-of-cool dept.

prostoalex writes "Ball State University, the top unwired school in the nation according to Intel survey, is set to unveil a sculpture that will reflect the wireless traffic on the campus network. From the article: 'Beginning Tuesday night at 8 p.m., as people log onto the Internet via Ball State's network, their online activity will appear as sound, color, patterns and images projected onto giant screens set up around the base of Shafer Tower, located in the middle of campus on McKinley Avenue.'"

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  1. Re:Cool beans by Allnighterking · · Score: 1, Informative

    Digging further I find. That even though the entire sculpture is made possible by Apple computers and software the dang this is only viewable via Microsoft Media player!. Talk about frustration city. Less effort on their part would have resulted in greater market penetration. Funny too how the sculpture done on Mac G5's celebrates an Intel award.

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  2. Re:I fail to see... by robson · · Score: 3, Informative

    I fail to see... how patterns projected on a screen could be qualified as a sculpture.

    This project could probably more accurately be filed under "installation", but it's not uncommon for sculpture to be a catch-all for anything that's not painting, video, photography, or craft work.

    You can find some good contemporary installation coverage here.