Category Archives: networks
Monkey Tracking Adventures (part 4)
12 Jan 2009 It’s getting a little easier here, for a few reasons. My stomach is getting stabler (still a ways to go), Tony and co. are only taking me on short baby walks. In fact, it’s quite a pleasant … Continue reading
Monkey Tracking Adventures (part 3)
11 Jan 2009 Not much to say about today. I spent the whole day in camp, and much of it in the bathroom, getting intimate with the local microflora. The researchers use dictaphones to record vocal notes on their observations. … Continue reading
Monkey Tracking Adventures (part 2)
10 Jan 2009 Went out to observe wooly monkeys with Tony, Mauricio, Peter. Attempted to track groups G and Y. They used radio collar receiver, but had confusing time because, as near as I could tell, the two collars from … Continue reading
Monkey Tracking Adventures (part 1)
I’m currently in the rainforest in eastern Ecuador with NYU primatologist Anthony Di Fiore and his team, learning how they track monkeys, in order to see where some of the technologies we work with at ITP can be used to … Continue reading
Lumens
This summer I got to assist on a project by artists Matthew Belanger, Sean Riley, Ven Voisey, and producer Marianne Petit on a neat project called Lumens. Actually, they did all the work, I just offered a little guidance to … Continue reading
The wind-up bird project
HC Gilje’s wind-up bird(s) is an environmental sound work installed in a forest in Lillehammer, Norway. It’s a flock of mechanical woodpeckers that communicate via XBee radios, spread out through the forest. I love this line in the description: “Initial … Continue reading
Michihito Mizutani
Michihito Mizutani is a researcher at School of Design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. His interaction design work is worth checking out…
Worldmeters
Here’s a handy little data source, probably fun for webscraping and visualizations: http://www.worldometers.info/. Thanks to Kristin O’Friel for the link.
Shaping Things
Bruce Sterling’s take on a plausible future in which everything made has a network address, and therefore a documented and documentable history. He takes this vision to its extreme, showing how it changes everything from design to manufacturing to consumption to disposal of material goods.
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IWAR
<p><a href=”http://www.iwar.org.uk/” target=”_other”>IWAR</a> – the Information Warfare site.
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