KATRINA JUNGNICKEL - Postgraduate Student

Kat spent the last year in Australia undertaking a multi-sited ethnography of volunteer community wireless networks for her PhD research. Her work aims to develop an understanding of the role and importance of visual representations and practices in the development and use of new wireless digital technologies. She has a blog documenting her study and is currently in the midst of writing up.

During 2006 she also worked with NIna on an Intel funded project - Domestic Space and Interfaces for Located Mobility; Wireless infrastructures and the changing nature of domestic culture in Australia. This project explores emerging wireless technology interfaces, specifically Wi-Fi and WiMax, in domestic spaces in Sydney. It focuses on issues of located mobility through concepts of place, temporality and belonging. The primary mode of investigation is ethnographic, with interviews, visual and online studies.

Most of Kat's work is focused around new technology, place and visual methodologies. She also like maps, a lot. She has a B.A Comms (University of Newcastle - Aust), M.A Visual Culture (University of Westminster - UK) and eight years commercial creative facilitation and management experience. As a freelance researcher she has worked on a variety of commercial and interdisciplinary research projects within the fields of visual culture, art, technology design and sociology.

PAPERS/ PRESENTATIONS

Jungnickel, K. (2006) Home is Where the Hub is: Domestic cultures and wireless infrastructures in urban Australia, Paper presented at , University of Western Australia, Perth.

Jungnickel, K. (2006) Hacking the Home: Technological tantrums and wireless workarounds in domestic culture, paper presented at Wireless Cultures & Technologies Workshop, University of Sydney, Australia

Jungnickel, K. (2005) Ways of Seeing and Researching the Blog, paper presented at Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 6.0, Chicago, USA.

Jungnickel, K. (2005) Visible Bodies, Invisible Technology: The Making and Shaping of Wifi in the City, paper presented at the Visual Sociology Conference, Dublin, IR.

WEB PROJECTS

Making Wifi - Research blog documenting PhD fieldwork in Australia.

Located Mobility - Website for an INCITE/Intel funded project about wireless infrastructures in domestic contexts in Sydney.

73 Urban Journeys - Ongoing research project investigating the use of mobile technologies and senses of place in a mobile social space (ie. the bus) as well as the methological challenges of using a blog and website to gather, analyse and present data. Kat designed a website and blog for this project and there is a small case study about it in this book. 73 urban Journeys builds upon a much larger INCITE study about the consumption of digital content in specific locations in London.

OTHER PROJECTS

Edges - RA (2006) to Genevieve Bell for three week intensive fieldwork trip to Adelaide and Sydney exploring the edges of domestic spaces. At the end of the trip we produced a 42 page book featuring interview transcripts, images and contextual analysis and a series of postcards about the project.

Inside Asia - RA (2003) and Summer intern (2004) to Genevieve Bell in People and Practices Research lab (PAPR). The project explored how culture shaped technology use across seven Asian counties.

Urban Tapestries (2003) - Member of core team at , Proboscis, an arts/research organisation, designing and developing a wireless location based application system. Involved various research methods, evaluation devices, workshops and events.

Mapping Perception (2002) - Co-edited a book with Proboscis to accompany a four year interdisciplinary Sci-Art research project between a filmmaker, neurophysiologist and producer looking at the limits of human perception and issues of ability versus disability.

Sonic Geographies (2002) - Experimental project with Proboscis experimenting with urban mapping devices designed to excavate multi-sensory excursions in the city, primarily using animation, film and soundscapes.

Cell (2001) - Ethnography of an interdisciplinary collaboration, facilitated by Peter Ride, Digital Arts Development Agency (da2), between a UK digital artist and NY stem cell pathologist engaged in representing a major shift in understanding the cell as a component in the body.

email: k.jungnickel [at] gold.ac.uk