Digital reliquaries
Turned off by the unreliability of DVD players artist Tim Tate developed custom electronics for use in these glass bulb video memorials. See more examples and listen to an interview on NPR’s All Tech Considered. [Thanks, Scott!]
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Stove Necklace
Stuart Breidenstein of Go Robot! gave me a demo of his working stove necklace at Urban Craft Uprising this weekend in Seattle. It’s a hand-crafted brass and copper alcohol burner with a fuel line and tank. Alcohol stoves are popular for light-traveling hikers, as the fuel is readily available at hardware stores and it burns […]
Sound circuits played by video projection
Bruno Mathez and Mike Blow’s art installation, PHOTOPHONICS, presents an interesting relationship between light-controlled oscillators and video projection – PHOTOPHONICS is the first result of Bruno’s 3d video-projection mapping experiments. It is a ‘dispersed instrument’ with a number of electronic oscillators created by Mike, positioned on architectural elements of the dark performance space. Each one […]
Dancing meat … *burf*
Joan Healy‘s sound-activated Meat Market devices explore motions of organic materials under the control of … AGH! It’s freakin’ dancing meat, people!!! [Thanks, Eric!]
3,604 cups of coffee
Large scale coffee art… video here. Leonardo Da Venti latte: A total of 3,604 cups of coffee, each shaded by various amounts of cream or left black, were arranged to form a Mona Lisa for this digital print-out in Sydney.
City of staples
Artist Peter Root’s Low-Rise via jwz. Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.
Meet Cybraphon – the autonomous emotional robot band
Simon Kirby sends word of a hot new group destined for stardom and driven by solenoids. Ladies & gents, put your hands together for – Cybraphon! […] a robotic orchestra in a large display cabinet, inspired by 19th century automata. The unusual feature of Cybraphon is that it is emotional. It’s mood is shaped by […]
