February 10th, 2008

Autonomous robotic installation by Frank Fietzek and Uli Winters.
On two white pedestals we see two characters, a cat and a frog. They both look like some sort of odd low-tech cyborg versions of stuffed animals. When you walk closer you…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 2000s, autonomous, Frank Fietzek, installation, kinetic, robotic, Uli Winters, Watschendiskurs
February 7th, 2008

Ergodic video piece by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.
The McCoys have worked with “database pieces” and in In Every Shot, Every Episode they painstakingly cut out and categorized 10 000 clips from Starsky & Hutch shows and put them on video CDs…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with database, installation, video
February 6th, 2008
Responsive installation by Daniel Rozin.
The “mirror” surface consists of 830 small wooden mirrors, each mounted on a servo motor. A camera is hooked up to a computer. The wooden blocks are used as a sort of large, mechanical pixels. They…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 1990s, 1999, art, Daniel Rozin, display, installation, pixel, responsive
February 5th, 2008

Interactive audio installation by Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide
A large loudspeaker is mounted on a motorized arm. The arm rotates at varying speeds, up to 100 km/h. An ultrasonic distance sensor is mounted on the speaker, reading…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 2000, 2000s, Edwin van der Heide, installation, interactive, Marnix de Nijs, Spatial Sounds
February 4th, 2008

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…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with flash, mtaa, online, remake, video
February 3rd, 2008

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…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 2000s, 2007, bloom, flower, greyworld, interactive, kinetic, large-scale
February 2nd, 2008

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…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with Ionat Zurr, Oron Catts, SymbioticA, tca, victimless leather
February 1st, 2008

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…
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Posted in pieces | Tagged with 1990s, 1999, autonomous, installation, money, Ola Pehrson, piece, plant, yucca invest
January 31st, 2008
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…
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Posted in downloads, ramblings
January 29th, 2008
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.…
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Posted in tools of the trade | Tagged with commercial, director, timeline
January 28th, 2008
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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Posted in tutorials | Tagged with catch-22, drag, how-to, off-screen, windows
January 22nd, 2008
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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…
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Posted in tools of the trade | Tagged with buglabs, hardware, platform
January 21st, 2008
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…
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Posted in tutorials | Tagged with mac, power, silly
January 11th, 2008

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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Posted in events | Tagged with art, festival
January 11th, 2008
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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.
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Posted in projects | Tagged with man machine, video
January 11th, 2008
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.
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Posted in ramblings
January 7th, 2008
I just heard John mumbling quietly to himself: “Today is one of those days when I’m talking to myself…”
No arguing with that.
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Posted in ramblings
December 29th, 2007

Interactive animation (2007)
Launch Volumatrix
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…
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Posted in labs | Tagged with animation, processing.org, sketch
December 29th, 2007

Launch Pentamorph
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…
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Posted in labs | Tagged with animation, processing.org, sketch
December 29th, 2007

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…
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Posted in downloads, labs | Tagged with creativity, exquisite corpse, fun