This work is a glimpse to new applications for emerging technologies.
   The synthesis includes three key components: Ink in Motion (e-ink), high speed wireless internet
   access802.11a and hybrid membrane. The various parts are fused together resembling a texture
   similar to construction debris netting attached to building scaffolding.
   In this case the enhanced or padded netting becomes an intelligent skin with interactive
   programming.

   The proposed assembly presented to Creative TIme, for Anchorage 2002 Exhibition (Brooklyn, NY).
   This concept evolved soon after 9/11 and it represents a futurist system:
    WOTS2008 , interactive programmable matrix, available free for public content and rented
   space for advertising and institutional data. The nature of the technology as in many systems allow for unsolicited 
   opportunity for postings, and for this simulation,  those outside the due process are described as
   Freewalkers. This aspect of the program does not condone deviant behavior but rather addresses the
   possibility in a real world scenario, where system "error" may occur.

   The simulated program gives participants a search for available WOTS> lat/long coordinates, or
   general available WOTS space. Each participant is allocated one space and one time slot at each login
   - however - it is on a first come first serve basis, so a participant can keep entering and fill an entire
   site if no one else is knocking them off the space. As a standard the space provided includes: two
   lines of text not to exceed 32 characters and a menu icons. The participants can create their own
   icons and add them to the menu for sharing. This is a communication delivery in physical and virtual
   space-adaptable to various conditions and substrates. The design of the matrix is modular, scalable,
   portable , reusable, basically a composite membrane with permanent and disposable parts. As an
   architectural interactive illuminating surface, the design options are endless. For this site specific
   installation, the material synthesis is used as an illuminating membrane surrounding a scaffolding
   configuration similar to a public sidewalk passage- spanning approximately two city blocks in length.
 

   The general specifications include metal scaffolding, debris netting, battery units,eink panels and web
   interface. The industrial parts may appear somewhat crude in this prototype, however the interactive
   components give the audience a near true experience of a future moment.

   Individual participants can upload content directly at physical WOTS via portable
   devices and remotely via wordonthesite : WOTS available> lat./long. coordinates through a network of
   internet portals. This 3D illustration suggest a new breed of public content delivery, and a new urban
   illuminating texture, physically and metaphorically. It is primarily a system designed for text and
   image icons- a modular digital bulletin board - in mammoth scale.
   The innovation of the project is not limited to the technological synthesis, but also to the proposed
   economic model , which is based on an egalitarian system of content dissemination, a current global
   topic. The work as an experiment hopes to further demonstrate freedom for individual participation
   within previously limited resources can only improve the effectiveness of that resource and create a
   more advanced version of the original.

   Ultimately this work will be a tapestry of contributions that illuminate-a new communication forum
   -and a new physical texture in the urbanscape.
 

   Natasha Makowski creates visual experiments by applying emerging technologies with
   industrial materials in new constructs and considerations. The goal is to find benefit from new
   compositions, and to create hybrids with function multiplicity. Soothing effects, tactile appeal, and
   streamline aesthetic are all part of the design vision, however, the prevailing goal is to use design
   methods that parcel advanced technologies and precious materials to the public arena in affordable
   and easy to use morsels, inspired by ideals in 'Connectivism".
 

    Other recent work

   Transition Captured/ something in between can be molded
    (Levagel) prototypes for new modular building blocks

    Hourkeeper/Post Your Hours: how many hours have you existed?

    In progress: Dodo : the vanishing human touch

    What We Say: an animation series w/ text to speech programming
    based on real characters and collected dialogue: a disparate cacophony of what we say