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RealSnailMail was premiered at SIGGRAPH2008 in the Slow Art Exhibition, Hybrid Section at the Los Angeles Conventions Center (11th-15th August 2008). Alongside artworks by Dennis de Bel (Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam), JooYoun Paek (Eyebeam Resident NY), Jason Freeman (Georgia Institute of Technology), Armella Leung (Art and Technology of Images-Université de Paris), Anab Jain & Alex S. Taylor (Microsoft Research).
We exhibited the webmail service on a terminal in the exhibition and visitors could view the live SnailCam and prerecorded footage of the enclosure at Bournemouth University UK.
It was a good opportunity to showcase RSM alongside other research projects and contextualise the work in our artist talk and we had great feedback from participants, visitors and staff during the week.
Leonardo contacted us during the conference in reference to submitting a paper to their journal documenting our RSM research and development. This is an ideal opportunity to publish a paper which presents our findings over the last six months and we are keen to discuss our struggles in avoiding the temptation to make the system more efficient. We will be collating all our project research over the next couple of weeks and aim to submit the paper to the publication before the end of 2008.
A big thank you to Daniel Cox, Sofronis Efstathiou, Steve Harper, Susan Sloan & Adam Vanner from the Visual Research Group, Bournemouth University who spent quality time nurturing the snails and looking after the equipment whilst we were in Los Angeles. We had great fun watching the snails relish their gastronomic delights on the SnailCam during the Slow Art exhibition.
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