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(Via Trollbäck + Company.)
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merci bernard
March 19, 2008
Category: art, graphic design
Tags: context, grid, perturbation, reactive, structure, surface, virus, visual
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Tiny Specimens
The ‘nature expedition’ is a tried and true exercise in elementary school science class. Assuming the identities of junior scientists, students embark into nature to collect samples of bugs, plants, twigs and sundry living things for study. The artists Pascal Glissmann and Martina Hofflin, working in conjunction with the Academy of Media Art, Cologne, have updated this model, but with a distinct twist: their samples are solar-powered Electronic Life Forms (2004-2007) or ‘elfs’. According to the artists, ‘elfs are small, analog creatures reacting to light, calling the attention of the observer with their delicate sounds and movements.’ Isolated in glass Mason jars and accompanied by photographic documentation of the machines inhabiting their ‘natural’ environment, the artists present elf ’specimens’ in the gallery much like exotic fauna. The set-up falsely attributes these simple robotic creatures with the characteristics of a living being, thus enduing the elfs with an endearing quality. Glissmann and Hofflin explain the underlying motivation for the project as a questioning of ‘the relationship between technology, nature and humans.’ The elf installation is currently on view in the ‘Urban Living’ exhibition at Pittsburgh’s Wood Street Galleries. – Gene McHugh
February 24, 2008
Category: art
Tags: art, creature, energy, installation, jar, reactive, science, solar energy
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Turbulence, cont. on Vimeo
Turbulence, cont. on Vimeo: “Turbulence, cont. on Vimeo
Whoa! This guy is on to something (and on something).
Turbulence, cont. from flight404 on Vimeo.”(Via Jon Schull’s Weblog.)
February 07, 2008
Category: interaction design
Tags: animation, discoball, generative, reactive, soudn
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Michael Wihart – Soft Architectural Machines
Michael Wihart – Soft Architectural Machines: “
Michael Wihart explored how ecologies of small machines made of nanotechnological and biotechnological elements might be able to swarm together to create architectural space and developed notions of how these spaces might reconfigure over time. Here’s some images of his work and some thoughts of his on the issues he raises.
‘The decadence and redundancy of the integrity of architectural thinking needs to be constantly questioned in order to reveal if architecture can be a source for the sentimental titillation. The embarrassing meanders of architecture into the challenge of the feasibility must be extended into the poetry of spatial mediation. the process of designing can no longer be solely functional and operational. The creation of an architecture which is embedded in the mythical knowledge of the future enables us to extend the sentiment of in-habitation into the realm of co-existence.’
‘Certainly this vision can be engaged to fulfil the concupiscence of a few heroic models but the question if this architecture can establish a casing of affirmative cultural emergence which is the source and site for the engagement of individuals with the fate of their co-habitants, is a different one. Architecture therefore stands for the manifestation of the ambivalence of the transience and the after-effect of the notion of co-existence. But when architects by themselves abandon and forget to realise fantasies which have always already been lost in the dawn of the socialisation, where then will we find the sites for the staging of our sentiments?’
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January 22, 2008
Category: electronic culture
Tags: art, biotechnology, nanotechnology, reactive, robot, sculpture, structure
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p49 ->martinhesselmeier.com
update…meanwhile have a look at my diploma work: The project SARoskop is dealing with the visualisation of electromagnetic waves. In a matrix of 25 objects the installation is composed as an interactive sculpture reacting sensitively to the data of the proximate surrounding, transforming it into movement and interdependent oscillations.
(Via Google – Web History.)
November 09, 2007
Category: interaction design
Tags: installation, mobile phone, phone, reactive, sculpture
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A living structure
The blog of the EPFL/ECAL joint project nicely summarizes the results of a workshop they recently set. A project developed in this context is about ‘How nature can be resumed to a simple mathematical formula’ by Florian Pittet & Margaux Renaudin:
The idea is to create a whole living structure: Using light as a protector and as a living manifestation, the structure interact with the walker that pases threw her by sensors, and glows all around him.
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Light will play an essential role by creating a cocoon that follows the human, by a gradual glowing light cycles, using a new kind of neon tubes that can fade out and have a more organical kind of light. Structures can be supported by a kind of skin that can tense the volume or follows the movement of the structure.Their description is quite interesting (as a work in progress) and there are plenty of pictures and videos to precise their thoughts. More here.
Why do I blog this? this is IMHO an interesting example of ‘landscape as interface’ through glowing lights based on passers-by movements. Kind of an instantiation of a ubiquitous computing environment…
Besides the blog is great to keep track of those guys from lausanne are up to).“
[tags]ecal[/tags]
(Via pasta and vinegar.)
January 09, 2007
Category: architecture, design
Tags: architecture, archive, ecal, interface, light, reactive, structure, video, workshop
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12m4s reactive public display
a visual & architectural intervention, tracking the movements of visitors in real time via image recognition & ultra sound sensors. the main parameters, such as position, orientation & speed are translated visually (in dynamic 3d particles) & sonically (through granular synthesis). the result is a “complex particle synthesis” that is projected on a semi-transparent mirror that combines projection & reflection, so that a common space between the digital & the physical world emerges.
see also interactive waterfall.
[lab-au.com|via interactivearchitecture.org](Via information aesthetics.)
[tags]display, interaction, tangible, screen, reactive, space[/tags]
May 18, 2006
Category: design
Tags: display, interaction, reactive, screen, space, tangible
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