Technology and Art
Embedded Camera-Eye
By cdharris at July 10, 2011 | 2:42 pm | 0 Comment
After losing an eye in a car accident, Tanya Vlach is trying to raise money to have a webcam fashioned like an eye installed in the non-functional eye socket. The prosthetic camera-eye is designed to be waterproof, capable of wireless HD video transmission at 720p, and will include zoom and still-capture features, activated by blinking. On Vlach's wishlist for the eye -- more...
Bioreactive Media , Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , Geolocation and Psychogeography
BMW Puts Its Logo On The Back of Eyelids
By cdharris at January 2, 2011 | 5:49 pm | 0 Comment
"Persistence of vision" is a phenomenon that allows our eyes to experience a continuous moving picture when confronted with a series of still images or frames that pass by in a fast sequence.?? Recently,? experiments on "closed eye visualization" have been used for advertising purposes,? as when BMW's Dutch ad group flashed the BMW logo in a dark movie theater,? then more...
Professor has camera surgically implanted
By cdharris at November 16, 2010 | 12:17 pm | 0 Comment
From Slashdot: NYU Professor Wafaa Bilal is having a camera surgically implanted in the back of his head. Described as an art project, the camera will take a photograph every minute for one year, and a curated selection of shots will be exhibited in a new museum opening in Qatar. Bilal will also release a live stream of images from the camera. Both NYU administrators more...
Green
By Rhizome.org Artwork at September 20, 2010 | 3:39 pm | 0 Comment
Green explores processes found in nature and in other large and complex systems, and the potential of computer programs to model or simulate such systems within time-based artworks. Within recent interactive installations and performances, patterns of behavior are fixed and defined only by the algorithmic process specified within the computer program embedded within more...
Book review: Container Atlas – A Practical Guide to Container Architecture
By cdharris at September 16, 2010 | 2:41 am | 0 Comment
"Container architecture" refers to a global movement to make use of the huge steel containers that carry shiploads of merchandise around the globe.? These containers are sturdy,? spacious,? and enticing to green architects who are looking to re-use materials that otherwise would go to waste. There are numerous websites now that display "container more...
The Marfa Ring
By Rhizome.org Artwork at December 11, 2009 | 6:59 pm | 0 Comment
The Marfa Ring project is an experiment in colonizing the virtual geography of the small town of Marfa, Texas by creating a "Web Ring" of sites about it. Due to the Ring's interlinking, Google search results are skewed in favor of the ring sites (which vary in levels of veracity and intent) as opposed to Marfa's legitimate web presence. more...
Blog , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Media and Markets , Technology and Art
Artistic License
By Rhizome.org Artwork at December 11, 2009 | 6:55 pm | 0 Comment
Produce your own customized Artistic License in a matter of minutes using your web browser. Instead of biometrics and radio frequency ID chips, Artistic License embraces freedom, collaboration, sharing, and imagination as keys to a more appealing modernity. Your Artistic License doesn't require you to look like yourself, and it does not impose factual restrictions. more...
We’re watching
By cdharris at October 18, 2008 | 1:23 pm | 0 Comment
A Canadian company has developed a technology called Eyebox2 that it says can monitor the gaze of passersby and respond to shifts in attention, even tracking multiple people at once, and even from more than 30 feet away.The company says the advertising potential is large, wherein outdoor or unconventional ad space could be sold "by the eyeball." In more...
Bioreactive Media , Blog , Data Visualization , Emerging Science and Technology , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Media and Markets , Technology and Privacy
How to make “Internet TV”
By cdharris at August 1, 2008 | 2:23 pm | 0 Comment
Simple online guide, sponsored by Participatory Culture Foundation, on how to create and publish video to the net. more...
Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , TechnoActivism , Technology and Art
Biometric + Digital Art at Venice Biennale
By cdharris at June 1, 2007 | 3:24 pm | 0 Comment
Didn't make it to the Venice Biennale, but if I were there, I wouldn't want to miss the installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer called "Pulse Room." 100 lightbulbs are connected to EKG sensors and thus are "controlled by the heartbeat of the public." The exhibit runs from June 10 - November 21 (2007) in the Palazzo Van more...
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Sousveillance
By cdharris at February 20, 2007 | 10:46 am | 0 Comment
Commenting on a decade of silent performances in front of surveillance cameras,? The Surveillance Camera Players have just published a new book.? The major themes are:? right to privacy, the militarization of the police, the ideology of transparency, the mass psychology of fascism, the society of the spectacle, the PATRIOT Act, Rudy Giuliani, September 11th, face more...
Blog , TechnoActivism , Technology and Art , Technology and Privacy
Printing on falling water
By cdharris at January 23, 2007 | 1:25 pm | 0 Comment
BoingBoing reports that "The Jeep Waterfall", a water installation seen at a recent Jeep car show, ?is a 25-foot-high sheet of falling water that can display arbitrary bitmaps in falling water, using a mechanism "similar to an inkjet printer."? A video of the exhibit is on YouTube. Apparently, a professor at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee,? Dr. Pevnick, creates the more...
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If it bleeds, it leads
By cdharris at December 20, 2006 | 10:47 am | 0 Comment
An installation by Caleb Larsen, is a compelling commentary on the public love affair with tragic stories and dramatic deaths.? In the piece, software continuously scans news headlines of 4,500 news sources, looking for mentions of human deaths. Each time it finds an article, an algorithm determines the number of deaths, and relays an instruction to a ceiling-mounted more...
Blog , Data Visualization , TechnoActivism , Technology and Art
Gesture Recognition and Dance
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:46 am | 0 Comment
Recently premiered at the Tate Modern,? the performance piece "Echo" generates a pointcloud via gesture recognition technologies that both represents the dancer's movements and interacts with them.? According to the developers, the team,? UnitedVisualArtists, used an LED screen, the Lighthouse R10 LED screen, 8m wide by 11m high along with Point Grey Lab Bumblebee2 stereo more...
Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , Interactive Video , Technology and Art
Public Broadcasting in a Cart
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:27 am | 0 Comment
Ricardo Miranda Z??iga, instructor of Digital Arts at College of New Jersey, introduces recent immigrants to his Public Broadcast Cart. It is a shopping cart outfitted with all the technical ingredients that enables any pedestrian to become an active producer of an audio broadcast. The audio stream is available to anyone online and simultaneously transmitted via speakers, more...
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