Friday, 30. March 2007, 2 and 4 pm

Annina Rüst: „Rock 'N' Scroll“
Performance in the city centre of Oldenburg

Venues:
2 pm: Loft, Baumgartenstr. 2
4 pm: Woyton, Haarenstr. 56

Rock 'N' Scroll - Throw your mouse up in the air and wave it all around like you just don't care!


Annina Rüst

Mobile wireless computing is usually a rather immobile affair: people working on laptop computers commonly stare transfixedly at the device's screen, typing, and occasionally clicking the mouse: computer work does not usually require much physical involvement.

Imagine walking into a coffee shop or another semi-public wifi-equipped place where people normally congregate quietly with their laptops: instead of working unbudgingly on their computers, they are shaking their office equipment and wildly tapping their cell phones. Joysticks and old mechanical mice serve as maracca-type rhythmic instruments or optical mice are used for DJ-like scratching motions, manipulated using fancier gyro mice, computer keyboards used as drumkits. Both mobile phones and computers are connected using Skype voice-over-IP telephony (VOIP) software. This creates delay effects depending on how good the network connection is. The sound itself is a combination of standard macintosh and windows sounds, as well as sounds that included in the Skype software, and pre-made drumloops.

Rock N' Scroll is a software infrastructure for interventions into wifi-equipped public space.

You can find more info and free Rock 'N' Scroll software download on www.rocknscroll.net



Annina Rüst was born in Switzerland. She holds a diploma in New Media from the School of Art and Design in Zurich and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the University of California San Diego. Currently, she is a research assistant in the Computing Culture Group at MIT Media Lab. In 2006 she received the scholarship of Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art.


Edition Nr. 1
Annina Rüst „Rock 'N' Scroll“
Edith Russ Site for Media Art Oldenburg
The user instructions for Annina Rüst's software “Rock 'N' Scroll” have been printed on a mouse pad. Of this first edition 30 copies, hand-signed by the artist, have been issued. They are available at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art for the price of 25,- € per piece.

You can order Edition Nr. 1 from:

Edith Russ Site for Media Art
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg
Tel.: 04 41/ 235 32 08
Fax: 04 41/ 235 21 61
info@edith-russ-haus.de