- Real Snail Mail
Real Snail Mail is the name of an art project from
Bournemouth University about the nature oftime in modern society.Snails are used to physically moveemail s at a very slow speed inRFID chip s glued to their backs. The project was commissioned as part of the Tagged Exhibition in London in2006 . [ [http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/10/realsnailmail-e.php Real snail email - we make money not art ] ] [ [http://www.livescience.com/technology/061013_snail_mail.html Snail Mail with Real Snails | LiveScience ] ] The installation version of the project will be displayed atSiggraph inLos Angeles from 11-15 August2008 , with awebcam showing what is happening live in the RealSnailMail enclosure at Bournemouth University [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7458531.stm BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Snail mail' blazes slow e-trail ] ] The project is run by Vicky Isley & Paul Smith (aka boredomresearch) Research Fellows in Computer Animation & Computer Art,National Centre for Computer Animation .External links
http://www.realsnailmail.net homepage of the project.http://www.boredomresearch.net homepage of the artists.http://www.realsnailmail.wordpress.com project blog.
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