Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

<div class="asset-header"><h2 class="asset-name"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/10/realsnailmail-e.php">Real snail email</a></h2> </div> <div class="asset-content"> <table width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding-right: 10px;" valign="top" width="192"> <div class="metabody"> <div class="asset-meta"> <span class="byline"> By <span class="perma_date">Regine</span><br> on October 11, 2006 6:14 PM </span> <!--<span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/10/realsnailmail-e.php">Permalink</a> <a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/10/realsnailmail-e.php#comments">Comments (2)</a>--> <!----> </div> <div class="entry-categories"> <div class="perma_sep">Categories:</div> <ul class="entry-categories-list"> <div class="perma_categories"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/life_online/">life online</a></div> <div class="perma_categories"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/rfid/">rfid</a></div> </ul></div> <div class="perma_sep">Somehow related:</div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/the-first-panel-of-positions-1.php"> Positions in Flux - Panel 1: Art goes politics - Hans Bernhard from UBERMORGEN.COM </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/the-netherlands-media-art-inst.php"> Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society (intro) </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/04/-tag-ties-and-affective.php"> Tag ties &amp; affective spies, a critical approach on the social media of our times </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/03/ik-rip-at-mediamatic-amsterdam.php"> Ik R.I.P. at Mediamatic Amsterdam </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/03/need-your-recommendations-for.php"> Need your recommendations for the Digital Communities category at ars electronica </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/02/arco-beep-new-media-art-award.php"> ARCO Beep New Media Art Award </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/09/plugin-is-a-space-for.php"> Exonemo solo exhibition at [plug.in] in Basel </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/08/marc-owens-who-designed-the.php"> Virtual Transgender Suit, avatar termination and other online world tales </a></div> </div></td> <td valign="top"> <div class="asset-body"> <p><img alt="0realsnailmail.jpg" src="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/0realsnailmail.jpg" align="left" height="210" width="280"><a href="http://www.boredomresearch.net/rsm/">RealSnailMail</a> is a project currently developed by <a href="http://boredomresearch.net/">boredomresearch</a>. The system uses real snails with pet RFID chips glued to their shells to carry and deliver electronic messages on their own time, despite growing expectations of instant communication. </p> <p>Commissioned as part of the <a href="http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/about/exhibition.asp?id=589">Tagged exhibition</a> in London, the launch of the project will constitute of a projection in the space gallery is a computer model created by boredomresearch, enabling them to test components they will need to build 'RealSnailMail'. </p> <p>Eventually this system will be built into an installation version in 2007/08. You can visit the <a href="http://www.boredomresearch.net/rsm/">Real Snail Mail website</a> and send a message which travels to a server where it is entered into a queue. Here it waits until a snail wonders in range of a hot spot. The hot spot is the dispatch centre in the form of a RFID reader. This reader identifies the snail from its chip and checks to see if it has not already been assigned a message to carry. If the snail is available it is assigned the message at the top of the list. It then slips away into the technological wasteland. Located at the other end of the pond (in the case of aquatic snails) is the drop off point. When, or if, the snail ever makes it here, it is identified by another reader, which then forwards the relevant message to the recipients email address; once again travelling at the speed of light.</p> <p>The tagged exhibition runs until 21 Oct., at <a href="http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/">Space Triange</a>, in London. The artists will give a talk tonight 7PM at [ s p a c e ].</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>