Real Snail Mail

(collective) Boredomresearch

Real Snail Mail , 2009 – ongoing

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Last updated: 2010-10-02

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New Chinese Snails
A Real Snail Mail™ live enclosure is on show in the exhibition Stadt am Rande at the Today Art Museum, Beijing. The new Chinese recruits Wang, Ming Mei, Cheung, Tao, Manchu, Sheng Li, Shu Fang, MIng Yue, Fei Yen & Genji are working for us from the 15th -28th August 2010.

Inspiring creative learning
We are using Real Snail Mail™ as a vehicle to enrich a school's curriculum. Educational workshops and lesson plans are being built around the RSM Educational kit to encourage creative interrogation of en-grained paradigms in an effort to promote innovative thinking regarding future technologies. The first pilot project is launching on the 19th February 2010 at the Gloria Fuertes Infant School located in Gijón, Asturias supported by Laboral Centro de Arte y Creatión Industrial, Gíjon, Spain

Keywords

genres
- bioart
subjects
- Technology and Innovation
  - artificial life

Technology & Material

Software

How it works
Our snails are equipped with a miniaturised electronic circuit and antenna, enabling them to be assigned messages. Your message is collected from a despatch centre at one end of their enclosure. Once associated with the tiny electronic chip on the snail's shell your message will be carried around until the snail chances by the drop off point. Here more hardware collects your message and forwards it to its final destination.

Exhibitions & Events

El proceso como paradigma

2010

Bibliography

Boredomresearch. »Snail Mail Gets Literal.« Time Magazine 172, no. 5 (August 2008).
Boredomresearch. »The Wired Campus: Real Snail Mail.« The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 2008).
Boredomresearch. »Real Snail Mail Slashdot.« Slashdot (Online) (June 2008).
Boredomresearch. »Real Snail Mail Slashdot.« Slashdot (Online) (June 2008).
Brucker-Cohen, Jonah. »Real Snail Mail Turns Email into Slower Email.« .
Boredomresearch. »NETworking Net Art.« In Computer Fine Art Collection, edited by Illana Tenenbaum and Christiane Paul, 20. Haifa: Haifa Museum of Art, 2007.
Boredomresearch. »Eternity´s Sun Rise.« In Tumbling Dream Chambers Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Paul BrownBerlin: [DAM] Berlin, 2007.
Boredomresearch. »RealSnailMail.« .
Boredomresearch. »Faustian Bargains and Pineapple Shampoo.« Metamute.org/Mute (January 2007).
Boredomresearch. »Theatre of Restless Automata review on boredomresearchs' solo exhibition at Peterborough Digital Arts.« furtherfield.org website (2006).
Boredomresearch. Freefall, Arts Council England international artists fellowships 2001-2003. : Arts Council England, 2004.
Boredomresearch. »New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004 .« In New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004, edited by Lucy KimbellManchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2004.

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