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on creative engineering and new media art

Lorem Ipsum Generator: grab the javascript

June 10th, 2009

If you are reading the full entry, there is a  paragraph of fake latin above. It was generated using my Lorem Ipsum Generator. You are welcome to grab and use the javascript here: loremipsum.js.

If you peek at the code of…

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What if I Was a Rat? (2002)

June 5th, 2009

Live video by Ilona Huss Wallin (2002)

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Wallin built a model of a home, in the scale of rats. For five weeks they were living in the model, constantly monitored by video cameras. The video was streamed in real time and…

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Poco Application + OpenFrameworks app

June 3rd, 2009

I’ve been fiddling with OpenFrameworks for a while. If you don’t know it, OpenFrameworks is a C++ framework for creative coding, used by people working with new media art and such.

Since release 0.06 (the current release) OpenFrameworks is built on…

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The world really needs another CSS color name chart.

June 1st, 2009

I generated this file with CSS color names eons ago but I keep using it when I test CSS. The first one to figure out why it’s so good gets a gold star.

Here’s my CSS color name to hex chart…

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Ning.com wants me to be gay

May 13th, 2009

I wanted to check out Ning.com, so I decided to sign up. The signing up is simple: you type in your name, an e-mail address, a password of your choice, your date of birth, and then… type in “I’m gay”.…

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Polycranium Crisp Wordpress Theme

April 7th, 2009

Polycranium Crisp Screenshot

Polycranium Crisp is my own Wordpress theme that I use on this site.

The theme is using images from Windell H. Oskay, www.evilmadscientist.com randomly rotating in the top banner. I will probably add more images later on.

I haven’t released it on the…

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Polycranium Techne Wordpress theme

April 7th, 2009

Polycranium Techne

Polycranium Techne is the Wordpress Theme I made for the Interactive Institute Art & Technology department, where I work. It’s based on my own Polycranium Sleet theme, which is also the ancestor of the theme I am using for this blog:…

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Kinetic Sculpture BMW Museum (2008)

April 7th, 2009

kinetic sculpture by ART+COM (2008)

med_09_bmwmuseum_kinetik

This kinetic scuplture consists of 714 balls (in, I believe, a 15 x 42 grid) that drop down on wires from the ceiling. During a 7-minute run they form various forms; at first just a random cloud,…

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Line Describing a Cone (1973)

March 30th, 2009

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Light installation  (?) by Anthony McCall (1973)

A 16mm projector is projecting a movie on the wall. At first, the movie seems to be just a white point on a black background. Very slowly, it starts expanding, first to an arc, and…

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Khronos Projector (2005)

March 16th, 2009

Responsive video installation by Alvaro Cassinelli and Masatoshi Ishakawa

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Khronos Projector looks like a backprojected image on a wall. But the projection surface is very flexible, and you can push it in with your hands. When you do that, the parts of…

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Inter Dis-Communication Machine (1993)

March 9th, 2009

Responsive wearable by Hachiya Kazuhiko (1993)

interdiscommunicationmachine1993

Two people put on these machines that let you swap your visual and auditory input with each other, so that you “can only see through the other person’s eyes”.

Photo: Kurokawa Mikio

>> artist’s home page

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TV Buddha (1974)

March 2nd, 2009

Closed circuit TV installation with bronze statue, by Nam June Paik (1974)

tv-buddha

A statue of the Buddha is watching its own image on TV. Need I say more?

>> paikstudios.com

>> TV Buddha at medienkunstnetz

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Illuminated Averages #1: Hitchcock’s Psycho (2000)

February 23rd, 2009

Lightbox with Duratrans print by Jim Campbell

hitchcockspsycho

In his series of “illuminated averages”, artist Jim Campbell creates averages of video sequences. Of course (well, I assume)  he makes these using some sort of software, not by hand, but they also refer…

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Blinkenlights (2001)

February 16th, 2009

Interactive media façade by Chaos Computer Club (2001-)

blinkenlights_chatnoir

Project Blinkenlights was a public installations that turned the façade of a building into a low-resolution display, using lights inside the windows. Members of the general public could upload their own animations to the…

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Atari Light (1999)

February 10th, 2009

interactive game environment by Pierre Huyghe (1999)

Two people hold game controllers and play Pong using the lights in the ceiling as pixels.

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Strandbeest (1990-)

January 29th, 2009

Autonomous kinetic sculptures by Theo Jensen.

Array

Theo Jensen is one of those characters that you just have to love. On his CV he lists how he started studying physics in 1968, and then “stops studying physics and becomes a painter” in…

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super-i (2005)

December 16th, 2008

Responsive wearable goggles by Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chebyshev.

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super-i presents itself as a pair of wearable goggles with a camera on front. There’s a little box containing some electronics that let you apply different filters to the image from the camera…

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Pure Data (Pd)

December 3rd, 2008
Example Pure Data patch

Example Pure Data patch

Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. You can download Pd for free from puredata.info. You can also find some tutorials and other info to get you started.…

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openFrameworks

November 27th, 2008

http://www.vimeo.com/921725

OpenFrameworks is a cross-platform, open-source C++ library for creative coding. It seems to be really catching on in the new media field, and a lot of artists and hackers are now using it. Watch the video I posted here, “Made…

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oF syjunta again

November 21st, 2008

The next OpenFrameworks Syjunta is scheduled for nov 26th 2008. This time the venue is Detroit on Roslagsgatan 21.

>> collectiveexperiments.com/ofsyjunta

>> detroitstockholm.com

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