Art
Alzado.net Feb 5,2004
Alzado.net control of spotlights in a public square, operated over the net.
Amorphic Robot Works Feb 5,2004
Amorphic Robot Works Large-scale robotic expression by Chico MacMurtrie & co. Chico does some great kinetic sculpture and performance work.
Arthur Ganson Feb 5,2004
Arthur Ganson has done a number of kinetic sculptures which may change the way you think about animated bodies.
Blinkenlights Feb 5,2004
Blinkenlights Chaos Computer Club of Berlin turned a building into a display surface. Viewers can control the display via SMS and the web.
Blueink Feb 5,2004
Blueink Jen Lewin's project page, including her thesis project, Butterfly. Jen's documentation of her work is very thorough, including descriptions, schematics, code, notes on gears and motors, and much much more.
Chuck Genco Sep 25,2003
I'm really fond of Victorian style mechanisms, built in brass and dark woods. Chuck Genco's work seems to be a great example of it, though I've never seen it in real life.
Computer Vision for Artists and Designers Jan 26,2006
Golan Levin gives a nice introduction to computer vision in this essay, including a little history of the use of CV in art, and examples of some of the tools and problems involved. For anyone beginning to look into computer vision from a non-engineering perspective, Computer Vision for Artists and Designers: Pedagogic Tools and Techniques for Novice Programmers is a good place to start.
Experiments in Art & Technology Sep 27,2004
This biographical note from the Getty site, which details the project well, explains it in a nutshell: "E.A.T., an organization devoted to promoting the interaction between art and technology, developed from the philosophies of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller.... The organization was created after the landmark event "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, " 1966, and sought to continue the artist/engineer relationship forged during those performances.
First Person Feb 5,2004
First Person Sasha Harris-Cronin's thesis and installation plan about violence mediated through television and synthesized in first-person shooter games.
IOBrush Jan 26,2006
IOBrush is a paintbrush that allows you to paint with video. It captures video in one mode, and paints the video back on the screen in another.
Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology Feb 4,2004
Stephen Wilson ©MIT Press; ISBN: 026223209 A fairly comprehensive overview of work bridging art and scientific and technological research in the recent past. Good reference of most of the major art/science collaborations of the last decade, and some interesting opinions on where art, science, technology, and critical theory meet, combine, and clash.
Jim Campbell Oct 18,2005
Jim Campbell does light sculptures using very low-resolution video displays made of LEDs or light bulbs, showing short, silent films.
Kelly Heaton Feb 5,2004
Kelly Heaton Some interesting physical pixel projects at the MIT Media Lab.
Lucas Cueni Feb 9,2006
Lucas Cueni has a blog of various interactive projects, most of which involve multiple physical objects making up a larger image, physical pixel-style.
Michael Naimark Feb 5,2004
Michael Naimark Projects and experiments ranging from how to zap a camera with a laser to the Global Jukebox, a database of one of the world's largest collections of global music and dance.... Michael's Spring 2004 ITP class, "A Nonlinear History of New Media" produced a nice timeline of new media and related work and blog of their reading and discussion.
Natalie Jeremijenko Feb 5,2004
I don't even particularly like robots, but I love the way this project visualizes invisible information (concentrations of toxins on a given site) using a technology that has been domesticated from military and industrial use into a child's toy.... This assignment, given to her design students, has grown into an excellent source of information on how various products are made, including chemical, material, labor, and political issues involved.
Nixie Clocks Sep 11,2003
Here's a great page on all kinds of Display and Counting Tubes, including several sets of instructions on building your own displays using them. More clocks based on Nixie Tubes Clocks and wristwatches based on nixie tubes If you're in intro to physical computing, and looking for a tech research project (comes up in a few weeks), then this might be a good one.
Perry Hoberman Feb 5,2004
Perry Hoberman has done a number of interesting projects turning the computer and user interface around to make the user part of the system instead of conteoller of it.
Public Air Quality Indicator Sep 17,2005
The public air quality indicator is a public display that indicates the quality of the air in a city. It's highly localized, and a good example of an ambient display that has some practical use. The details of its construction are online and openly available as well
Robot Clothes Aug 27,2005
Robot Clothes is James Powderly and Michelle Kempner's company and blog on robotics and wearable technologies. Includes some useful how-to's and interesting projects.
Ruth Ron Aug 27,2005
Ruth Ron has done a number of interactive installations bridging telecommunications technologies and architecture, many of which are focused on dematerializing architectural structures -- walls into windows, windows into views into remote spaces, and more.
Some SMS/public art/public speech projects Feb 4,2004
Related to that, the Hellowworld project: "Send in your message, and see how it is projected by a laserbeam onto a mountain overlooking Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, onto the UN building in New York City, onto the most prominent building in downtown Mumbai or onto a 140 metre tall water fountain in Geneva.... These messages are first parsed according to a code that dictates how the music is created, and then rhythmically drive a speech synthesizer and a picture synthesizer in order to create a compelling, collaborative audiovisual performance.
Technology Grant News Sep 13,2003
Technology Grant News - sources for funding for projects...
Testing... This is Not a Simulation Dec 29,2005
was a one-night event staged by Eric Paulos (Intel Research, Anthony Burke (UC Berkeley), and David Ross (UC Berkeley). It was a party at which all the partygoers wore RFID tags.
Turbulence.org Sep 27,2004
Turbulence is an organization that commissions and develops net art by emerging and established artists.... Their blog is a nice record of current net art work.
YBox: Konfabulator for the TV Oct 16,2006
Tarikh Korula and Josh Rooke-Ley produced the Ybox, a device that produces TV overlays from the web, using a Lantronix Xport and a Parallax Propeller. Very nice project, very simple yet useful.