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boattr.uk book published with Mute publishers<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Digital Arts on the British Waterways<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This boat book<\/a> & blog<\/a> documents our journey on our narrowboat \u2018Quintessence\u2019 and the development of the boattr prototype in collaboration with MAZI (for \u201ctogether\u201d in Greek), a Horizon 2020 research project. Boattr connects narrow boats to the \u2018Internet-of-Things\u2019 and allows for open wireless mesh-networking within the narrow boat community, by using affordable microcomputers. The main goal of this project is to provide technology and knowledge that aims to 1) empower those narrow boats who are in physical proximity, to shape their hybrid urban space, together, according to the specificities of the respective local environment, and 2) foster participation, conviviality, and location-based collective awareness of the canals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an edited collection of assembled and annotated boat logs, photographs and video essays, manifested, in a scholarly gesture, as a \u2018computer book’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boattr prototype was built on the MAZI toolkit and the capabilities offered by Do-It-Yourself networking infrastructures \u2013 low-cost off-the-shelf hardware and wireless technologies \u2013 that allow small communities or individuals to deploy local communication networks that are fully owned by local actors, including all generated data. These DIY networks could cover from a small square (e.g., using a Raspberry Pi) to a city neighbourhood (e.g., the Commotion Construction Kit used at the RedHook WiFi initiative) or even a whole city (e.g., guifi.net, awmn.net, freifunk.net), and in the case of boattr the UK canal network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boattr DIY infrastructures offer a unique rich set of special characteristics and affordances for offering local services to the narrow boat community, outside the public Internet: the ownership and control of the whole design process that promotes independence and grass-roots innovation rather than loss of control and fear of data shadows; the de facto physical proximity of those connected without the need for disclosing private location information, such as GPS coordinates, to third parties; the easy and inclusive access through the use of a local captive portal launched automatically when one joins the network; the option for anonymous interactions; and the materiality of the network itself. The prototype integrates existing FLOSS software, from very simple applications to sophisticated distributed solutions (like those under development by the P2Pvalue project, mobile sensing devices, and recent developments in open data and open hardware), allowing it to be appropriated by different non-expert users according to their respective context and use case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Journal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adnan Hadzi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boat Log<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adnan Hadzi & Natascha Sturny<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflections<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natascha Sturny, Rob Canning & James Stevens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Videos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adnan Hadzi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natascha Sturny<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franz Xaver & Anton Galanopoulos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adnan Hadzi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors Collective<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adnan Hadzi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natascha Sturny<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franz Xaver<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anton Galanopoulos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Stevens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob Canning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tech Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris Niavis – MAZI Programmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giannis Mavridis – Micro-Computer Programmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Producers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adnan Hadzi – Format Development & Interface Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panayotis Antoniadis – MAZI Project Manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Gaved – Coordination Creeknet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quintessence Logo: H1 Reber \/ Buro Destruct<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover artwork and booklet design: OpenMute Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright: the authors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Licence: after.video is dual licensed under the terms of the MIT license and the GPL3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/gpl-3.0.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Language: English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assembly On-demand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenMute Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Initiated + Funded by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horizon 2020 – The EU framework programme for research and innovation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mazi project (2016-2018) has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 ICT CAPS initiative under grant agreement no 687983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ushi Reiter – Art Meets Radical Openness, Servus.at, Linz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vince Briffa – Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clemens Apprich – Centre for Digital Cultures, L\u00fcneburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob Canning – School of Art and Design, Coventry University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gary Hall – School of Art and Design, Coventry University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Worthington – OpenMute Press, London\/Berlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digital Arts on the British Waterways  This boat book & blog documents our journey on our narrowboat \u2018Quintessence\u2019 and the development of the boattr prototype in collaboration with MAZI (for \u201ctogether\u201d in Greek), a Horizon 2020 research project. Boattr connects narrow boats to the \u2018Internet-of-Things\u2019 and allows for open wireless mesh-networking within the narrow boat…Read more boattr.uk book & blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,13,15,16,21,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazi","category-news","category-other-blogs","category-projects","category-publications","category-reports","category-research","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}