August 2010
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WatchThe “What is a switch?” classroom project is a Tellart favorite – it is meant to demystify electronics for design students and artists by using low-cost materials and familiar design tools to explore the concept of an electrical connection. By abstracting electronics to the simple concept of “connected” or “not connected”, the project helps to expand their conception of designing with embedded...
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“In just a few years, every door lock, card reader, video camera, vehicle, power...”
– Cisco’s Mid-Year Security Report
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Five Things I'm Thinking About
A bit late to the game I know but I’ve been busy, so nur. Here’s five things I’ve been thinking about recently. Don’t expect me to have fully formed ideas or opinions about any of this yet - it’s just stuff I’ve been mulling over for a while.
Complexity, and how it can be a beautiful thing - sometimes.
Texture of experience (for want of a better name for it)....
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Laver's Law of Fashion
James Laver was a museum curator for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from the ‘30s through the ‘50s. He was also a fashion theorist and historian who conceived Laver’s Law — an attempt to make sense of the fashion trend lifecycle.
Here is Laver’s Law:
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WatchJochen Winker and Stefan Kuzaj developed three interactive examples of their principles for enhancing the immersion of data for their bachelor thesis “Experiencing Abstract Information”.
“There are four essential parts in making abstract information experiencable: information itself, relevant senses, fitting emotion and a direct reference of the presentation to the information....
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WatchTHESEUS by Rainer Kohlberger and Thomas Schrott is a analogue/digital generative installation for the Innovation Center Internet of Things at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut in Berlin.
The black shapes are stuck on the wall but everything else is created by vvvv and projected.
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WatchA video showing the build of the Welikesmall iPod wall.
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WatchLatitude asked a bunch of children what they wanted the internet to be able to do - and then illustrated the answers with this video. Some of them are a bit far fetched but you get the general idea. They want an Internet of Things.
A PDF of the study is available here.
They want immersive, tangible, interconnected experiences with “stuff” and It’ll be their internet soon. Why...
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“Head bone connected to the neck bone. Neck bone connected to the arm bone. Arm...”
– MIA (Spotify link)
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WatchNadia by Andrew Kupresanin is a camera that “thinks so you don’t have to”. It doesn’t display what it sees but instead gives it’s judgment of the aesthetic quality of the shot - displaying a rating as feedback about when and what to snap.
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I Am Display is a light installation that plays with the perceptions of its audience. It explores the equilibrium between our senses, our bodies and our surroundings.
There is a sense of inverted communication between man and this man-made machine. It is bigger than our huge screens. It is higher then us and longer than our cars. And instead of doing what we tell it to do, this display does...
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WatchWeeplaces – Foursquare geo location visualizations.
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WatchSoundyThingie is an application that translates drawn lines into audio. Additionally to just drawing lines it lets you modify them in a variety of ways, like moving them around or connecting them.
www.soundythingie.net
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WatchHack Your Life For Fun and Profit - Mitch Altman at Pumping Station One.
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WatchArduino The Documentary
Coming Summer 2010