Experimental music instruments by Luigi Russolo.
Russolo, an Italian futurist painter and composer, made these wonderful noise-making instruments 1913. There were 27 different versions, each named, and each making some sort of noise or sound; like that of machines, but turned…
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Live video by Ilona Huss Wallin (2002)
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…
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…
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…
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”.…
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…
Polycranium Techne is the Wordpress Theme I made for the Interactive Institute Art & Technology department, where I work. Technically it’s based on my own Polycranium Sleet theme, which is also the ancestor of the theme I am using for this blog:…
kinetic sculpture by ART+COM (2008)
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,…
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…
Responsive video installation by Alvaro Cassinelli and Masatoshi Ishakawa
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…
Responsive wearable by Hachiya Kazuhiko (1993)
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
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Closed circuit TV installation with bronze statue, by Nam June Paik (1974)
A statue of the Buddha is watching its own image on TV. Need I say more?
Lightbox with Duratrans print by Jim Campbell
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…
Interactive media façade by Chaos Computer Club (2001-)
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…
interactive game environment by Pierre Huyghe (1999)
Two people hold game controllers and play Pong using the lights in the ceiling as pixels.
Autonomous kinetic sculptures by Theo Jensen.
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…
Responsive wearable goggles by Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chebyshev.
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…
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.…
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…
