Autonomous online video by MTAA
The 1 year performance video presents itself as what could be taken to be a streaming video of two people - the artists - dressed in black, each in his own small, white cell. They…
Interactive kinetic sculpture by Greyworld (2007)
 This huge piece, installed inside a 10-story atrium, has a number of artificial flowers that open and close in response to people moving through the space. The flowers also open up in response to the…
Bio-art project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr at the Tissue Culture and Art project, working at SymbioticA, the art & science collaborative research lab at the University of western Australia.
Inside a small bio-reactor they have grown a tiny leather jacket, using skin…
Dynamic installation by Ola Pehrson
On the table we see a yucca plant in a pot, wired up with electronic sensors. The sensors are in fact biometric sensors that measure tiny electrical variations in the plant. These are interpreted by the…
Yesterday I spent two hours talking to the students at a physical computing course at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). I talked about what physical computing (i.e. the art of “sensing and controlling the physical world with computers”, to…
Director 8.5 (click for larger image)
Adobe Director, formerly known as Macromedia Director (and before that as Macromind Director…) is probably not really Adobe’s best-selling product at the moment. I’m mentioning it here because so many media artists have used it.…
This is a problem I just had (in Windows XP): My graphics card was set to force a TV display, even though I did not in fact have anything hooked up to my TV-out connection. Unfortunately my system chose to…
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The buglabs platform consists of a small PC with a peculiar form factor (tripod mounted!) and a number of square addons (camera, GPS, etc) that just snap on to…
OK, this is just plain embarrassing.
I just spent several minutes trying to figure out how to switch on an iMac. Seeing there is no power switch on it, I figured this was some sort of Apple design decision - probably…
Node.stockholm is a one-month festival of new media arts-related stuff. Read all about it at the site - nodestockholm.se
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David Kjelkerud posted this video from the Man Machine 2 exhibition, now showing at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska Museet) in Stockholm. Enjoy.
Tonight I finally got round to put the Wordpress-driven site online and remove all stuff from the old site. Enjoy. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, just mail me.
I just heard John mumbling quietly to himself: “Today is one of those days when I’m talking to myself…”
No arguing with that.
Interactive animation (2007)
Made at the Insteractive Institute Art & Technology Program.
This is a sketch I made for visualizing what it might look like to “explode” an image into three-dimensional space. A source image is sampled at low resolution and…
Animation made at the Interactive Institute (2007).
This is a quick sketch for a moving logo that I made at the request of Ingvar Sjöberg.
It’s a pentagon with an inscribed shape that moves from a point in the center to…
A cheap embarassing drink that hooks you up with senior dolls
Interactive creativity tool (2005).
Download Excuisite Corpse for Excel
The Exquisite Corpse for Excel is a creativity tool. It is a very crude random phrase generator. When you download it is loaded…
A beating heart in a jar
Kinetic sculpture produced at the Interactive Institute for the exhibition Man Machine 2 at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska Museet) in Stockholm. By artist Cristian Partos, Fredrik Bridell and Henrik Berggren.…
Last week I got loads of what looks like bounces for spam being sent with a sender address something@bridell.com. (Where something includes Largent-Coxwell, mosab.matza, porkwt, Ruquiyah_Hertel and other inventive aliases).
For anybody trying to track them down: I certainly did not send…
You’re this guy, or gal, somewhere where you have a crippled internet access. Probably for security reasons, somebody closed most of the outgoing ports in a firewall. You can surf, and use SSH.
These are some notes I made while trying to get a Java OpenAL (JOAL) application start from a web page. The tutorial applies to Java 1.4.2, but it probably works similarly in newer versions.
There are some things you need to…
