October 2010
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WatchCarnegie Mellon University Professor Jesse Schell dives into the “Post Facebook” world of social game development that Ubicomp and the Internet of Things could enable.
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WatchA Visual Study Guide to Cognitive Biases
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WatchSONGDO - Audiovisual performance by AntiVJ, August 2009 New Songdo city, South Korea.
“The importance of technology, the coexistence of the ancient and the new and the presence of the sea as both a calming and menacing elements seem to be the fundamental ideas to the creation and development of this model-city. The city of Songdo is a challenge to human’s ability to plan a large scale...
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WatchVolume by United Visual Artists
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WatchDocumentation of the first public exhibition of the Ocean of Light hardware, Surface, at the Kinetica Art Fair, London, February 2010. Surface uses minimal visuals and sound to evoke the essence of character and movement. Autonomous entities engage in a playful dance, negotiating the material properties of a fluid surface. Ocean of Light uses a 3D grid of individually addressable LED lights to...
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WatchS34sc4p3 bu Grauwald consists of a paper form hung from the ceiling using simple fishing hooks and wire. A video projector is aimed at the paper, projecting visuals rendered through an infrared web cam. The visuals take on various fractal forms that are generated by a Processing sketch, shifting over time in form and colour.
Paper, PVA, fishing hooks, wire, video projector, computer, IR web cam,...
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WatchMatt Webb talking about faces on things, paleofutures, fractional horsepower, artificial intelligence in the Argos catalogue and “making things smaller and nicer” at the Do Lectures.
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WatchMatt Richardson shows us how to hack an old USB keyboard into a pedal for any sort of keyboard shortcut. This one was made for Google Reader, but you can make your pedal send any keystroke you’d like. Just think of the possibilities!
Alternatively, you could buy this lovely pre made USB button.
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WatchReal 3D drawing in Augmented Reality on an iPhone, using multi-touch, by String.
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WatchPaul Neave saw this glitched-up ad screen at Liverpool St tube station.
Much more interesting than ads. I’d love to see these screens showing digital art pieces. They could even be driven by open data generated by Oyster, London Transport - or the city as a whole.
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WatchDigital Hinterlands curated by Ruairi Glynn featured a diverse range of work by some of the best recent architecture graduates from London’s Architectural Association, Bartlett , Royal College of Art, and University of Westminster.
Curated in consultation with Arup, this exhibition revealed how the latest computational design and rapid manufacturing processes are providing new ways of...
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WatchUntitled - By Lauren Elizabeth Javor (IxD) & Kallirroi Pouliadou (ADV) Final work for the week-long Stop Motion Workshop at Umeå Institute of Design. Tutors: Timo Arnall, Matt Cottam and Camille Moussette.
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“Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world,” he said....”
– BBC News - Wiliam Gibson says the future is right here, right now
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Information is a Material was a talk given by Mike Kuniavsky at Kicker Studio’s 2010 Device Design Day.
“This talk will discuss what it means to treat information as a material, the properties of information as a design material, the possibilities created by information as a design material, and approaches for designing with information. Information as a material enables The Internet of...
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WatchMatthew Young visited several major cities, asked people one question (What is ‘The City’ to you?) and then animated the findings.
Excellent.
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WatchMatt Jones talking at Citycamp 10 London about urban computing, vertigo, synecdoche, nearlynets, mujicompfrastructure and how people’s doorways or porches might be a good place to start.
I agree. I think the bottom up approach is almost certainly going to be the way forward unless we want to cause panic. We’ve already had a pretty horrendous top down attempt here in the UK with Chip...
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WatchGetyoo lets you exchange virtual business cards and collect digital information about objects in the real world thanks to a useful device, the Clickey!