Hello World! by Christopher Baker is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of unique video diaries gathered from the internet. The project is a meditation on the contemporary plight of democratic, participative media and the fundamental human desire to be heard.
Leonardo’s robot could stand, sit, raise its visor and independently maneuver its arms. The entire robotic system was operated by a series of pulleys and cables. Since the discovery of the sketchbook, the robot has been built faithfully based on Leonardo’s design; this proved it was fully functional, as Leonardo had planned.
“As we move away from interaction via screens and into physical space, we have the potential to make the world significantly more magical. We can make the everyday into the any day, especially if we focus on communication and understanding.”
— Zach Lieberman of Openframeworks responding to the question “how will technology become more humanised in the next decade”, in Wired’s March 2012 issue. (via tim)
Impulse 101 by Anthony Antonellis is a diptych, half painting/half beamer, 100% on the internet. The work begins with the 4 foundational font characters of 8-bit Block ASCII, ░ ▒ ▓ █. It consists of two 100 x 100 cm canvases. The left (black) side is acrylic on canvas, while the right counterpart is a beamer projection of ASCII art animations utilizing real and faux copy paste glitches in MS WordPad.
“From an unknown location, I break into IKEA’s computer server. In this nerve centre, the CAD files for every IKEA product are stored and are downloaded worldwide. By infecting the CAD files with the ‘Elephantiasis virus’ I have just designed, I can hack the entire range of products. The virus causes random deformities, like lumps, cracks and humps, which only show up when the customer prints his product at home with his 3D printer.”
MERRICK by Daan van den Berg is a digital file infected with an elephantiasis simulation and then converted into tangible products using a 3D printer. Every lamp that is printed will therefore be different.
“These images were produced by direct, large format, light projection. The projector, powered by a mobile generator, was moved from site to site. All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures. On moonless nights, the landscape was lit with searchlights. The landforms themselves are quite large, requiring the projector and camera to be, on average, 1/2 mile away from the subject landscape.”
The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series by Jim Sanborn
“The point of field upgrades is that your old TV will have all the “new” features — just like my office computers that get regular updates from Apple and Microsoft. But your old TV will also have its 10-year-old CPU, 10-year-old RAM, and its 10-year-old SD card slot that doesn’t know what to do with terabyte SD cards. And the software upgrades will make you painfully aware of that. Instead of a TV that works just fine, you’ll have a TV that works worse and worse as time goes by.”
— Mike Loukides - Don’t expect the end of electronics obsolescence anytime soon (via Bruces)
“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need to copy our sociologisms in order to be social, although what they do in their own social realm may not easily map on to things we do in our social realm”
— Stuart Geiger - The ethnography of robots
(Source: berglondon.com)
This is Molly, the latest addition to the Olly family. She turns your retweets into sweets.
You can fund her on Kickstarter.
“He found this response of “it’s old” (and therefore it’s *good*) quite puzzling. And then got to thinking how as a digital, “new media” person folks would ask him about his work to which he would respond, “It’s digital. It’s *new*.” And by the same token, implicitly, it’s *good.* He realized that neither “new” nor “old” are sufficient rationales to express quality. That the quality of “good” is something more.”
