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Ghost Drummer by Bartek Szlachcic explores graphic qualities in process of playing on a drum kit. Besides being a musician, a drummer when playing is unconsciously engaged in an elaborate choreography. Motion-captured movements become a visual map over a time revealing fragile rhythm structures and invisible notations behind energetic instrumental solo.
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Temperature and Humidity Cycles, National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation. Photo by Dornith Doherty.
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Immaterials : Light painting Wi-Fi explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.
A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.
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Performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound
A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule.
Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, composed of physical objects, patterns of light, and synchronous rhythmic and textural sonic events. Change, sound, and movement converge into a larger form.
Monolake - ATOM (2007)
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Traverse Me by Jeremy Wood is the University of Warwick campus drawn on foot at 1:1 scale with 238 miles of GPS tracks walked over 17 days.
“My shoes turned brown in the dry fields and they turned green in the long grass. The compass rose and the globe were paced out over cricket pitches, and the scale was measured along a narrow tractor rut. I collided with objects and buildings, barriers and footpaths, and traipsed over the tops of multi-story car parks. Security was called on me twice on separate occasions and I lost count of how many times I happened to trigger an automatic sliding door.”
1:5 000 Scale 20”x30” Limited Edition Prints are available for £95.
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Satellite technology reveals how the network of city streets is being pushed to the edge of capacity. Watch the GPS traces of 380 London taxis over the course of a single day.
(via Humanscalecities)
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Data Souvenirs by Ben Hooker are book-like electronic objects that present various forms of information with the goal of supporting reflection, reminiscence, and other restorative behaviors.
They are tourist objects that, like books on a shelf, are designed to enhance domestic space without overwhelming it and are resources that can be collected, casually displayed, and referenced in a range of different activities. They are designed to be “at hand” but not in the way or to draw too much attention.
From helping users reflect on their email use to providing real-time “replays” of travels and journeys, Data Souvenirs create both temporal and spatial heterogeneity in the home.
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“Cloudscape“ by german climate engineering firm transsolar and japanese firm tetsuo kondo architects explores the poetic nature of clouds by controlling the microclimate of a space. A layer of artificial clouds are made to hover above the ground level, remaining in balance above the heads of the viewers.
This is a great piece of work - but I’d love to see this sort of thing being used to hint at or display data.
I can’t say what that would be, but if you take network activity as an example the density of the cloud could be linked to the amount of data being passed through the air over the wireless networks in the space. There’s something about the very literal translation of “The Cloud” and “network weather” in this instance. I dunno. Maybe it’s a bit cheesy but hopefully you get the idea. As opposed to the approach famously described by Dan Hill in The Personal Well-Tempered Environment where networked objects, devices and dashboards can display information about themselves and their surroundings it could be interesting to investigate making the climates of spaces evidence the data being created by the objects they contain.
Just a thought.
(original link via Spime)
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Jochen 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. With our method you can not only design fitting media, but also check existing media for its potential.”
