Building our own circuits, from the grassroots up
Does the highlighted sentence mean "a way of making our required electronic circuits ourselves from the very first step, and not buying ready-made manufactured devises"?
Context:
In PigeonBlog (2006), Da Costa and her collaborators fitted trained homing pigeons with GPS-enabled air-pollution-sensing devices that could transmit, to an online mapping/blogging environment, real-time data tied to specific locations (Figure 6.5). In this transmission, data on carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide was “called in” by the pigeon on a cell phone-like component to a Google-powered online map. The pigeons were then in a sense “blogging” about the air pollution they flew over. Within the realm of art the PigeonBlog therefore introduces a new technology and approach to gathering and documenting air pollution data that is, as the artist has said, “a way of building our own circuits,” from the grassroots up.
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Hi I'd say that the artist doesn't mean exactly that The 'circuit' that's referred to is the whole network of pigeons, receptors, the GPS and wifi systems, the Google mapping software, and so on It is 'grassroots' because it's interesting, original: a different way of doing things, created by just a few people, without enormous expense Pollution data is usually collected via government bodies using static monitoring stations. It's reliable but, we might say, it's a bit boring. It's done by hundreds of officials and it costs a lot The PigeonBlog is different and - perhaps because of that - makes some interesting art too Dave Beatriz da Costa - image for education only
- Hi I'd say that the artist doesn't mean exactly that The 'circuit' that's referred to is the whole network of pigeons, receptors, the GPS and wifi systems, the Google mapping software, and so on It is 'grassroots' because it's interesting, original: a different way of doing things, created by just a few people, without enormous expense Pollution data is usually collected via government bodies using static monitoring stations.
- It's reliable but, we might say, it's a bit boring.
- It's done by hundreds of officials and it costs a lot The PigeonBlog is different and - perhaps because of that - makes some interesting art too Dave Beatriz da Costa - image for education only
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I'd say that the artist doesn't mean exactly that
The 'circuit' that's referred to is the whole network of pigeons, receptors, the GPS and wifi systems, the Google mapping software, and so on
It is 'grassroots' because it's interesting, original: a different way of doing things, created by just a few people, without enormous expense
Pollution data is usually collecte
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