Net Portrait(ver 1) in Pulse Technology

February 6, 2012
Net Portrait(ver 1) in Pulse Technology

The piece shipped in safe and now being testing in other side of the planet. The twitter feeds work good, however I found a major issue in sending serial data to the controller board via the mac application format. Pulse technology event: http://telfair.org/museum-events/specialevents/pulse-2012/ After series of testing (here is the error image): I found that...
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Re: Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle

January 30, 2012

Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of Internet by Sherry Turkle p.183: “Yet this new writing is a kind of hybrid: speech momentarily frozen into artifact, but curiously ephemeral artifact. …typographic conventions known as emoticons replace physical gestures and facial expressions. For example, :-) indicates a smiling face and :-( indicates an...
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OpenPath & GPS data

January 27, 2012
OpenPath & GPS data

Just found a site – OpenPaths (https://openpaths.cc/), with the mobile application available for iPhone and Android, it can track your gps location and upload to the server. It can also export to csv, kml and json. You are required to register with username and password. There is API for future apps development. Besides, I...
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HC Gilje – working with screen

January 10, 2012
HC Gilje – working with screen

There is a video projection mapping tool called “VPT”. The applications were originally made for teaching workshops, but has developed into more general projection tools. They are built using maxmsp+jitter, and are primarily intended for people who don´t have these applications. They work both for mac osx and windows xp. Gilje’s main interest on...
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Self tracking data – Laurie Frick

January 9, 2012
Self tracking data – Laurie Frick

Laurie Frick, us-based artist, draws from neuroscience to construct intricately hand-built works and installations to explore the nature of pattern and the mind. Using her background in engineering and high-technology she explores self-tracking and compulsive organization. I especially like her idea in tracking sleep quality/pattern, visualize in various form of sculpture, collage, drawing and installation....
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MoodJam: online diary to document user’s mood

January 9, 2012
MoodJam: online diary to document user’s mood

Moodjam is an online diary that allows people to express their moods and feelings using patterns of color. It has visualizations of your moods and other people’s moods. The portal is developed by Ian Li. I had the concept of tracking the clothing color as well as document my own mood index (number) in...
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Re: Multivariant Narratives by Marie-Laure Ryan

January 4, 2012

extension of digital text / properties of digital system: Algorithm-driven operation -> digital objects with the machine-language instructions Reactive and interactive nature -> Computer code is based on conditional statements (if… then) that execute different instructions, depending on the state of the system or on external input. I call a system reactive when it responds to...
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Loss & found 2011

January 3, 2012
Loss & found 2011

Forest from Forest by Takashi Kuribaysashi Video: Solar by Luxury Logico See interview here: http://www.digiarts.org.tw/ShowIntv.aspx?lang=en&CI_NO=36 Blog: http://luxurylogico.blogspot.com/ Share on Facebook
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Siggraph 2011

January 3, 2012
Siggraph 2011

360- Degree Fog Projection Interactive Display by Asuka Yagi, Masataka Imura, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Osamu Oshiro | Images are floating in the air, an ultrasonic humidifier generates a fog made of tiny water droplets. Rear projection on a cylindrical fog screen gives you the impression as if the images were floating in the air. Wonder...
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Detour 2011

January 3, 2012
Detour 2011

a.k.a (also known as) | Illustrator by Tony Ip Enlightening Garden by Seiki Mori One only needs to walk around in Hong Kong to see that that drinking straws are one of the city’s number most wasted materials. Artist Seiki Mori used them to create this installation. With the symbolic meaning of the life...
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