With a little over three weeks left until the Conflux Festival, Angela and I are pushing the further development of our project Under the Level into high gear. In addition to the functionality that has been part of the project since day one, we are creating an interactive map, based on source code for a wordpress plugin created by Steven Jackson (and with his assistance of course) and we are utilizing some audio and video footage taken by Scott Corrigan during the ITP visit to New Orleans this past March. We plan to include the audio (interviews with NO residents) as part of the interaction a user would experience with their phone and incorporate some of the video footage from the Lower 9th Ward on the web site (which is also getting a makeover). We also plan to start a blog, hopefully with other contributors, that not only will provide information about the current circumstances in New Orleans, but also discuss issues relating to climate change and natural disasters.

We are scheduled to give our workshop at Luna Lounge, which is located at 61 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg from 11am to 12:30pm Thursday, September 13th and Saturday, September 15th. After the workshop, we will be conducting a walking tour through the streets of the surrounding area for anyone that would like to experience the project in its intended environment.

In addition to many other very interesting projects at Conflux this year, several former and current ITP students will be showing work. Mike Dory will be showing Concrete Crickets, Dan Phifer and Mushon Zer-Aviv will be showing Shift Space and Christian Croft and Kate Hartman will be showing Energy Harvesting Dérive. Forgive me if I missed anyone.

It should be an awesome time!!