PURE FLOW 1.0
Free Version
Publisher Description
This App is a miniature, hand held application for a mobile and global audience, that reveals the noise generated between GPS data systems and multiple satellites, 3G networks and Wifi hotspots as a tangible presence in the environment.
These networks lie at the threshold of everyday visibility ... satellites moving persistently through orbit ... phone mast transmission ... wifi connection ... Invisible architectures connect behind screens, to inform, direct and navigate.
The APP visualises the instability and fragility of Live signals, passing through cloud cover and urban architecture; absorbed by bodies, reflecting off concrete and refracting through glass. Once activated, PUREFLOW reveals these signals as a sliver of fluctuating white noise, responding directly to the movement and immediate environment of the device. The user can manipulate the outcomes by touching the screen.
PURE FLOW transforms the GPS system into an instrument of abstraction; a tool to explore the materiality of noise that is normally reduced to enable user-friendly communication. The APP subverts the use-value of GPS as a surveying and navigational tool; revealing these invisible data streams and highlighting their increasing ubiquity, as sophisticated military technologies become key components in daily life.
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‘Our society is constructed around flows of capital, flows of technology, flows of organizational interaction, flows of images, sounds and symbols. Flows are not just one element of the social organization; they are the expression of processes dominating our economic, political and symbolic life.’
Manuel Castells
'The Rise of the Network Society'
'Machines for seeing modify perception'
Paul Virilio
PURE FLOW is generative, open-ended and unpredictable: it exists within systems of flux that oscillate between the near and far, haptic and optic, visible and invisible, revealing new perceptions of the technological systems in which we are embedded.
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‘All images produced by electronic and digital technologies are transformations and combinations of intensities, forces, fields, taking place in the flow'
Maurizio Lazzarato
'Video, Flows and Real Time'
'Life can never be too disorienting'
Guy Debord
PURE FLOW [mobile edition] is available on Android and iTunes
For further information on PURE FLOW and other works, please go to http://www.katyconnor.com
Credits:
Artist - Katy Connor
Producer - Dr Duncan Rowland
made in collaboration with http://www.sentinelweb.co.uk
About PURE FLOW
PURE FLOW is a free app for Android published in the Recreation list of apps, part of Home & Hobby.
The company that develops PURE FLOW is Katy Connor. The latest version released by its developer is 1.0.
To install PURE FLOW on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2013-01-30 and was downloaded 17 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the PURE FLOW as malware as malware if the download link to com.katyconnor.pureflow is broken.
How to install PURE FLOW on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the PURE FLOW is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by PURE FLOW will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- PURE FLOW will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
