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      The Apple Barrier: An open source interface to the iPhone

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      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011) (EVA)
      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)
      6 - 8 July 2011
      Apple iPhone, Ubiquitous technologies, Open source, Bio-sensors, Locative media, Hacking
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            Abstract

            This paper presents the ongoing process, challenges and approach of integrating open source hardware with the iPhone. The aim of the project was to create software and an accompanying device using Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-touse well documented hardware and software extensively used by artists. The iPhone was chosen primarily because of it ubiquitous presence but also because of creative possibilities due to computational power, networking functionality, inbuilt sensors and storage capabilities. However, restrictions and complexities to the way we can interface with those technologies mean many of those possibilities are lost. The ecology of open source tools available to digital artists make highly technical environments accessible to low technology users, yet the closed environment provided by Apple, used by the vast majority of owners, force corporate agenda onto the ways we choose to communicate. Users are actively discouraging from understanding how these tools work, be that through hardware interface, technical language, levels of knowledge or literal licensing restriction. The process of building an interface to these technologies reveals the restrictive mechanisms at play and provides insight into ways they may be challenged or subverted.

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            Conference
            July 2011
            July 2011
            : 252-257
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            [0001]Independent Artist

            47 Hardel Walk, London SW2 2QG, United Kingdom
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EVA2011.50
            95b7cec5-5909-46bd-81d1-d751d8f0f3e1
            © Tom Keene. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011), London, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)
            EVA
            London, UK
            6 - 8 July 2011
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Apple iPhone,Ubiquitous technologies,Open source,Bio-sensors,Locative media,Hacking

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