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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Interesting project from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design that captures sound and light into a piece of vinyl, or linyl. As a person who has defined much of my experiences with associated music or sound I find that the merging of visceral and aural senses to be fascinating. The ...
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Vectorial Elevation - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
Vectorial Elevation is a new piece by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that toys with the concept of collaborative environmental art. Light sculptures are constructed with 20 robotic searchlights controlled by a three dimensional interface.
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
Reviewing the page proofs for the book which is exciting, slowly going through the proofs. We have a short foreword from Ken Smith which frames the book nicely and there is a good deal of information for beginning landscape students and professionals that are looking to get their head around ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
The Brain Observatory is currently slicing a brain into very thin slices and preserving the slices between glass slides. Similar to transect recording in the landscape, could be an interesting recording mechanism with playback or navigation along and through the sections. The ability to dive into a space (brain) and ...
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Jeffrey Huang, professor of mine from the GSD, has an interesting talk at the LIFT Asia '08 conference. I find it most interesting that Jef is always searching for interactive methods which change our social interactions within the urban fabric. The projects he showcases use specific analog/digital relationships that contest ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Developing a mediating language through abstraction creates an approach that addresses simultaneous issues in enviro-tech interfaces for sensing, responsiveness, automation, and interactivity. This language exists in the liminal realm between dry {technology} and wet {biology} attempting to embrace a moist medium (roy ascott). Abstraction addresses simultaneous modes of complexity that ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
There have been discussions, within the Lab, about language to talk between machines, environment, and people. This comes in multiple forms, from a design standpoint to a logical interface between chaotically complex components. This lends itself to the development of methods of abstraction, taking infinitely complex organism and finding threads ...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Tags and labels are a big part of understanding and cataloging the vast amounts of data we encounter everyday. Tagging not only allows us to search data more efficiently but it also allows individuals to collectively organize and sort information.
If you are unfamiliar with the tagging of information you ...
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