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May 10 2012
reaDIYmates are “Fun Wi-fi companions that move and play sounds depending on what’s happening in your digital life”.
May 08 2012
May 07 2012
Patterned by Nature by Plebian Design, Hypersonic Design and Engineering, Patten Studio and Sosolimited.
“10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.
The content cycles through twenty programs, ranging from clouds to rain drops to colonies of bacteria to flocking birds to geese to cuttlefish skin to pulsating black holes. The animations were created through a combination of algorithmic software modeling of natural phenomena and compositing of actual footage.
An eight channel soundtrack accompanies the animations on the ribbon, giving visitors clues to the identity of the pixelated movements. In addition, two screens show high resolution imagery and text revealing the content on the ribbon at any moment.”
Generative fabric pattern for TOVAH Australia by artist Holger Lippmann
Years by by Bartholomäus Traubeck is a modified record player that plays slices of wood.
“A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.”
“ what I really want to do with my life it to get closer to the shaping of the connected world. For me that means getting deeper into the shaping of products and services, showing people the life-enhancing potential of technology, and helping to get those things into peoples’ hands ”— Iain Tait - I Can’t Quite Believe It
“Ugle by Voy is a wooden owl that can be controlled over the internet with an iPhone application. It lets you send colour-messages from your phone to your home. When you change the position of the colors on the owl on the screen, the physical owl turns its head to the chosen color. It is a decorative personal message system where the household has to decide what the colours mean.”
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