Disseny Hub I/O/I Exhibition
I have recently moved to Barcelona and had a chance to see this cool exhibition in Disseny Hub Barcelona: I/O/I The Senses of Machines.
The most strking piece for me was Oasis by Yunsil Heo and Hyunwoo Bang.
It is a surface covered with black sand and when you grab the sand and remove it from the surface, micro-organisms come to life. These creatures are born, they grow and are perished when you put the handful of sand on them again. They recognize their spatial boundaries and obstacles of living and respond to peoples’ touch in various ways.
http://everyware.kr is the website for the development team. They have really good stuff going on.
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Amon Tobin – ISAM Live Stage
Brazilian musician Amon Tobin releases new album, decides to make a 6 city international tour and step away from previous DJ centric performances, instead provide a large scale live audio/visual experience to select cities around the world. Designed in conjunction with Blasthaus, VSquared Labs, Vita Motus Design, Leviathan and others the tour is visiting the following cities. Don’t miss out if you are living in any of these places.
1st June – MUTEK, Montreal
9th June – Astra, Berlin
10th June – AB, Brussels
11th June – Bataclan, Paris
15th June – Melkweg, Amsterdam
17th June – Roundhouse, London
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The Museum of Me
Intel’s facebook application Museum of Me is perhaps the best application I have seen on Facebook so far. And it is a very well designed ad for its i5 processor at the same time. It collects your data, your photos, friends, status updates, wall posts, links basically everything and then turns them into a virtual museum, of you.
In my “museum” wall posts and status updates were a little off but that’s probably because my profile is not based on English completely.
Amazing job. Have a tour here.
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via Kimchi and Chips
A small potted tree has a perpetual conversation with people. Through the use of video projection, a tree is augmented in a non-invasive way, enabling the presentation of volumetric light patterns using itʼs own leaves as voxels (3D pixels).
Kimchi and Chips have developed their own structured light system to scan in the location of every pixel in 3D, allowing a cloud of scattered projector pixels to be used as 3D Voxels. The tree invites viewers with a choreographed cloud of light that can respond visitors motion. As visitors approach, they can explore the immediate and cryptic nature of this reaction. The tree can form gestures in this way, and can in turn detect the gestures of its visitors.
How amazing is this?
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Tags: 3d video mapping
Inspirations 2
Tron(1982) outfits
Annie Lennox
David Bowie
Burning Man Festival Outfits
Random look from Lookbook.nu, AA Bodysuit and tattoos
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Some Inspirations
For our term project in CS 450 – Arts and Computing course, in Sabanci University – Turkey, we are developing customized dresses via virtual world, Second Life. The details of the project are soon to be developed fully but here is a couple of inspirations on the way.
Intimacy, is a project that straddles the world of fashion, wearable technology and the electronic arts, while exploring the relation between technology and intimacy in our contemporary technology-driven society. The ‘e-fashion’ of Daan Roosegaarde works as a second skin that transforms the body of the wearer into an interface. The project consists of high-tech garments made with wireless, interactive technologies and smart foils that can become transparent when electrified. The distance between a spectator and the garments determines the garments’ level of transparency, creating an intimate experience and a sensual play of disclosure. (via V2_ Lab)
Jacket Antics, are two garments that have unique texts and designs scrolling through the LED array on each of the backs. If the wearers hold hands, the LED arrays presents a third, synchronous message that scrolls from one to the other.
Skorpions, a set of kinetic electronic garments that move and change on the body in slow organic motions. They breathe and pulse, controlled by their internal programs.
Electric Dreams, transfers the private and fleeting daydreams into a shifting desgin of light and color through EEG electrodes monitoring the brainwaves of the wearer.
Aerial Jewellery, transforms the aerial patterns of a city into jewellery with the assist of computer assisted drawing and computer fabrication GIS files from a location are imported and its shadows and interstices are engraved into metal, gradually becoming a distinctive piece of jewellery for a location.
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News Knitter
News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data. Done by Ebru Kurbak and Mahir M. Yavuz in 2007, it visualizes Turkish news in a knitting pattern.
News Knitter converts information gathered from the daily political news into clothing. Live news feed from the Internet that is broadcasted within 24 hours or a particular period is analyzed, filtered and converted into a unique visual pattern for a knitted sweater. The system consists of two different types of software: whereas one receives the content from live feeds the other converts it into visual patterns, and a fully computerized flat knitting machine produces the final output. Each product, sweater of News Knitter is an evidence/result of a specific day or period.
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Tags: amber2010, wearable technology
Android Activations
Here is the awesome data visualization of global Android device activations from October 2008 to January 2011.
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Notions of speed in contemporary culture are often tied to technology and its impacts on everyday life were being questioned in Wats:On Festival – SPEED this year at CMU. Curated by Pablo Garcia and Spike Wolff, this weekend it was time to examine speed in in relation to the production and presentation of creative work encompassing a range of interdisciplinary events.
One of the installations, interactive high-speed camera photo booth, where technology allows users to see their fast moving activity played back in slow motion, capturing details not visible to the naked eye.
Videos are available in festivals YouTube channel.
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Clavilux 2000
The Clavilux 2000 is an interactive instrument by Jonas Friedemann Heuer for his course project in Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd. It is a generative music visualization, which is able to generate a live visualization of any music played on a digital piano. The setting of the installation consists of three parts: A digital piano with 88 keys and midi output, a computer running a vvvv patch and a vertical projection above the keyboard.
For every note played on the keyboard a new visual element appears in form of a stripe, which follows in its dimensions, position and speed the way the particular key was stroke. Colours give the viewer and listener an impression of the harmonic relations: Each key has it’s own color scheme and “wrong” notes stand out in contrasting colors.
All stripes stay and overlap each other in an additive way, so at the end a kind of pattern remains – a summary of the music – which will be always unique since the notes of the composition aswell as the interpretation of the piano player are influencing the outcome. Furthermore the piano player can switch between the standart 2d view and an additional 3d view of the visualization while playing.
via jonasheuer.de
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