This is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen (today) . . . . a functioning computer made of cardboard . . . and a USB CD cover . . . very cool art projects.
Check out Matthew Falla.
Month: June 2005
Some amazing scientific art at Princeton where a new annual competition has been set up.
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Media art from Sonar 2005
I’ve been in Spain for the past week running a stand at Sonar 2005, the annual festival of ‘advanced music and multimedia arts’, where I was promoting Australian electronic music etc.
They had some excellent displays of recent net and media art around the theme of landscapes and datascapes . . . . and here are the relevant URLs for the net art pieces.
There are some amazing things here, the datascapes projects use and re-present/manipulate data from various ‘free’ data sources such as political donation databases and senator profiles in the USA to explore the connections between lobbyists and the political process (Exxon Secrets and State Machine); whilst others manipulate news databases (NewsMap) and online storage services (various Flickr projects).
Most need either Flash or Java VM.
LANDSCAPES
– Life: A User’s Manual – here
– American Mile Markers – here
– GPS Drawing – here
– The Degree Confluence Project – here
– Peter Gomes’ Locative Media – here
– Richard Fenwick’s RND#04 – here
DATASCAPES
– FlickrGraph – here
– ZipDecode – here
– ExxonSecrets – here
– 10×10 – here
– Baby Name Wizard Voyager – here
– Flickr Related Tag Browser – here
– Tree – here
– StateMachine – here
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Magpie
Magpie is an experimental tool for interacting with semantic web pages – it enables users to explore relationships and knowledge about interesting concepts found on a web page.
Find out more and download Magpie for Mozilla or IE (yuk)
This is the kind of thing we could really use as part of the delivery of PHM web content for exhibitions, collections, specialist services (eg SoundByte) for communicating specialist information to non-specialist and education audiences.
Museum of Canada has a web public program where a postcard of museum collection object can be sent with message. very simple.
I had been vagulely working on a revamped free after admission soundhouse program with a similar outcome, though not web delivered. Rather visitors make postcard (actually a small quicktime movie) in soundhouse and emails this to home or friend.
Mary in EVS has been selecting potential images for use and has begun enquiring about rights for use.
Would this be easy or hard to re-produce here, given an approved set of images??
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/PM.cgi
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web postcard
Museum of Canada has a web public program where a postcard of museum collection object can be sent with message. very simple.
I had been vagulely working on a revamped free after admission soundhouse program with a similar outcome, though not web delivered. Rather visitors make postcard (actually a small quicktime movie) in soundhouse and emails this to home or friend.
Mary in EVS has been selecting potential images for use and has begun enquiring about rights for use.
Would this be easy or hard to re-produce here, given an approved set of images??
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/PM.cgi?
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seriously cool new screen technology
Sony computer science lab doing some crazy stuff. Hard to describe really, but if you have a look at the video, im sure you will agree its big and its going to change the way we interact with computers..