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on creative engineering and new media art

Super Mario Clouds (2002)

October 24th, 2010

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Hacked NES cartridge by Cory Arcangel.

Arcangel used an original Super Mario cartridge and hacked it so that everything but the clouds was removed.

What I find especially interesting about this piece is that it pisses some many off, and sends them…

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Sans Titre (I Believe I Can Fly) (2006)

October 19th, 2010

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video by Camille Laurelli, www.laurelli.blogspot.com

If you’re wondering whether this is even possible, all I have to say is that it’s not fake, it’s art.

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The Digesting Duck (1739)

October 18th, 2010

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Automaton by Jacques de Vaucanson

Vaucanson’s duck is one of several “automata” made by Jacques Vaucanson (1709-1782). The actual duck has been lost - reportedly lost in a fire while on tour in Russia - and few surviving photographs exist. The…

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Open Burble (2006)

October 13th, 2010

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Open Burble by Usman Haque (and others, see full credits here was a commissioned piece for the Singapore Biennale 2006, in which about 1000 latex balloons, equipped with LEDs and microcontrollers, are assembled to this huge shape that rises like a…

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Flying foam letters

October 7th, 2010

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Giant foam letters that float up in the sky.

At first, I’ll admit, I thought this was an art piece, but it seems it is actually a form of advertising created by a company called Flogos. The video on YouTube…

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