TransDanube

Current TransDanube position: Lat 47.4857, Lon 19.0656

TransDanube is a networked object, a spime, a blogject, a "thing that thinks". It is a home-made boat equipped with technological stuff that flows randomly along Danube river according to its unpredictable dynamics. It's our Balkans' Voyager I spaceship. No way to control it. We can just collect data from TD's boat as they come. Right now it should be located somewhere between Budapest and the Black Sea. Google him. Or watch what's going on around the tiny and fragile boat. Our "thing that thinks" will compose daily his travel log, using informations on acrossed locations and environment conditions that will create the base of the discourse. That is a discourse of a blogject. An object that blogs. [ more... ]

Project

TransDanube project was kindly powered and supported by...

KiBu

The spicy innovation lab
Kitchen Budapest, opening in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.


Research fields
What happens to the net once it meets the urban space? How does private space relate to the saturating wireless networks? Where does user created content gain authority? How does our use of cities alter as we get more and more real time feedback of its dynamics? What makes a home smart? Street-smart?

We would like to rethink and remix the possibilities of new media in our everyday lives and to augment connections between new technologies and our society.


[ Read more on http://www.kitchenbudapest.org/en/ ]

Pictures

The background pictures were taken from the "Danube River" Flick'r group.
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