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August 26, 2003 mars permalink
posted by bev
 i'll be at burning man until tuesday. don't forget to look for mars this week. it won't be as close again for another 284 years. August 25, 2003 third eye camera permalink
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 a patent for a wearable video camera has been given to Henry Strub and his team of hardware and software engineers, a psychologist who specialized in perception and usability, and a documentary filmmaker. a significant aspect of the patent is "marking technology," the ability to mark areas of the footage to go back to later. marking can be triggered by biofeedback inputs like a sudden jump in heart rate or increase in sweating; and Global Positioning System, for time and location synchronization. August 24, 2003 earth house permalink
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 Peter Vetsch is a Swiss architect who designs homes that are integrated into the land. very cavernous and biomorphic. August 22, 2003 teknolust permalink
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 Lynn Hershman's new film opens tonite in san francisco. according to Helen Varley Jamieson: "The future of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are at the heart of 'Teknolust,' a new film from Lynn Hershman Leeson and starring Tilda Swinton. It's a cyber-fi story about SRAs (Self Replicating Automatons) - intelligent life forms that evolve to the point where they have the capacity to fall in love. Shot with the new 24p digital high definition camera, Teknolust features an artificial intelligent web agent, whom you can also meet in 'real life' on her web site, http://www.agentruby.com/. You are invited to chat Eliza-style with Ruby to help her reach her goal of becoming more intelligent than humans, and you can check back regularly to see how she's improving." August 21, 2003 optical sponge permalink
posted by bev
 just today, "news" is all over the web about the Euplectella sponge which has spicules that are similar to, but better than, our man-made optical fibers. i'm not sure what's so "news" about this, as it has been known and known again. in any case, i'm looking forward to how these spicules will shed light on how to make better fibers. machine art permalink
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 Art of Machines is an art exhibition happening tonite in San Francisco, part of the Rx. some other exhibitions specifically for robotics art: ROBOT, ArtBots, Sentient Circuitry, The Nature of the Machine (Chicago, 1993), 220V Robotics, The Nature of the Machine(1999). August 19, 2003 paradise now permalink
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 Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution is a traveling art exhibition that is currently at the gallery at Art Center, Pasadena. according to Jackie Stevens, "...exposed to shows such as these, the public will be inured to troubling and dangerous corporate agendas, and will more easily accept the latest biotechnological developments." other shows that Joy of Giving Something (JGS) have funded include: Perfecting Mankind: Eugenics and Photography and Foreign Body: Photography and the Prelude to Genetic Modification. August 18, 2003 photomutations permalink
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 Alessandro Bavari's photomontages are a cross between Joel Peter Witkin's and J.K. Potter's. some more digital mutations. (via inertia) August 15, 2003 london fieldworks permalink
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 London Fieldworks is an art/science collaborative group who experiments with "creative interfaces between the human nervous system, states of consciousness, machines and computer software." their interests include: cyclopean perception (Bela Julesz), autostereographic brainwave response, solar flares, aurora phenomena, full-spectrum polarized light. August 14, 2003 kunsthaus permalink
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 the Kunsthaus Graz, in Graz (hometown of Arnold the Governator), designed by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier from London, is an exhibition hall for multidisciplinary modern and contemporary art. the exterior wall is referred to as "skin" and will be a biomorphic projection screen for programmed light/media, a project called BIX. it has extended skylights that look like nipples. visitors move thru the space via travelators, called "the pin." there is a 30-meter-long lounge area called "the needle" that practically hovers above the front entrance. it has a cafe, media lounge, museum shop, library, and countless exhibition spaces. the whole structure is networked like a living organism. supposedly, it will open at the end of october. (via archinect) wearable light permalink
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 Ken Yokomizo's Weair products will be at the 100% Design trade show in London this september. another gadgety wearable that lights up the wearer more than it is useful for lighting the surroundings. at least it looks great. i went to 100% two years ago and thought that it was comparable, in size, to the recent ICFF, which is supposed to be the 2nd largest in the world. it's sad that the recent political events have affected it. August 13, 2003 android girlfriend permalink
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 David Hanson is a sculptor roboticist and doctoral candidate at UT Dallas who crossed the Uncanny Valley and created a robot head that is indistinguishable in form and function from a human head, something that leading AI researchers, like Cynthia Breazeal, dare not tread. August 11, 2003 tree art permalink
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 Donald Lipski and Jonquil LeMaster make artificial tree sculptures. in the spirit of Axel Erlandson, Richard Reames and Dan Ladd pleach trees into forms of their desires. Dan Ladd also has some very interesting molded gourds. Bruce Cannon's (with Paul Stout) slow-moving tree moves just a tad with every presence of a visitor. futurefarmers created a biological robot with photosynthesis as its operating system, CO2 and light as its inputs, and O2 and movement as its outputs. George Gessert breeds new forms in irises (not trees but they are too cool to not mention). Natalie Jeremijenko cloned 100 trees. Jill Reynolds relates us to the mouse, the roundworm, the fruit fly and yeast in her Family Tree. the funniest one has to be the phallic eugenia tree in Santa Cruz. August 8, 2003 seeing sound permalink
posted by bev
 like seeing with the tongue, this way of seeing with sound relies on cameras. unlike a bat that would bounce sound waves off objects to sense where they are, The vOICe translates brighter areas into louder sounds and colors into other sounds. perhaps they learned this trick from people with synesthesia, who are born with sound and sight cross-wired. walking on water permalink
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 we are learning how to climb walls from geckos, locomotion from bugs, and infrared vision from snakes. and now, the same theory once put forth by Robert Suter - that vortices around the spiders' legs help propel them forward - is confirmed and tested by researchers at MIT. they have designed a Robostrider to demonstrate the water strider's talent. what else are we mimicking? August 7, 2003 teletaxi permalink
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 from October 10th to 31st, anyone in Toronto can check out the interactive video in the roaming teletaxi. this taxi will be equipped with a GPS system to change the media artwork, from 7 different artists, displayed on the touch-screen monitor based on its location. (via glowlab) some other location-aware projects: Taxi Art, Grounded, 34 North 118 West, GPS Drawing, unfortunately, 180.north, and more. August 6, 2003 mütter curiosities permalink
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 an exhibition which opened yesterday at the SF Camerawork gallery is a collection of photos taken by various artists from The Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The Mütter is known for their rare collection of specimens and models of medical curiosities like human horns, foetal abnormalities, conjoined twins, and murderers' brains. also at SF Camerawork will be artist presentations by Phil Ross and Laura Splan. August 4, 2003 slick mutations permalink
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 Inka Essenhigh paints distorted other-worldly forms that are provocatively grotesque. there is an interview with her on the artkrush site. her next solo show will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami on December 3. August 1, 2003 virtual instrument permalink
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 James Patten and Ben Recht from the Tangible Media Group at MIT developed Audiopad, a live music composing system that is a projected interface over a tabletop. it uses little plastic shapes (aka "pucks") as knobs - its position tracked by radio sensors - to graphically control the preprogrammed rhythm, bass line, melody, microphone, etc. other fun projects from the tangible group are: Lumitouch, topobo. another interesting "mixing machine" is the DJ I, Robot. |
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