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BioArt Pioneer 2007-06-19 15:11:32 Joe Davis was making bioart before the rest of us knew what it was. A current article/slideshow in Slate, called "Fishing for Paramecia" discusses his practice and profiles several of his inventive projects, including the Audiomicroscope, which makes audible the sounds of microscopic creatures using a laser and a solar cell receiver and Microvenus, in which an image is genetically encoded into ecoli bacteria.DNAgraphy are images Joe Davis made of nudes which use DNA as a photographic emulsion.To learn more about Joe Davis' art/science practice, check out this earlier article in Scientific American "Art as a Form of Life".
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STELARC & NINA SELLARS - BLENDER
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BLENDER by Stelarc and Nina Sellars 2007-06-17 20:31:41 "BLENDER is the first collaborative installation produced by Stelarc and Nina Sellars. Both artists undertook liposuction operations specifically for the purpose of this new work and have succeeded in securing the sanitised isolation and, most importantly, the legal ownership of the remnants of the procedures. The bio-materials are now housed within BLENDER's industrial casing, which was on exhibition at the Meat Market Gallery B in North Melbourne until August 18, 2005.The installation itself stands at just over 1.6 metres high and is anthropormorphic in scale and structure. Every few minutes BLENDER automatically circulates or "blends" its contents via a system of compressed air pumps and a pneumatic actuator. The mixture includes 4.6 litres of subcutaneous fat taken from Stelarc's torso and Nina Sellars' limbs, zylocain (local anaesthetic), adrenalin, O+ blood, sodium bicarbonate, peripheral nerves, saline solutions and connective tissue. Installed under a single, dramatic spotli
Inversion by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck 2007-06-22 15:26:03 From the Press Release:”Houston, TX - April 26, 2005 During the next couple of months, Houston sculptors Dan Havel and Dean Ruck will sculpturally alter two buildings in a Montrose neighborhood.The project Inversion will transform two Art League houses on the corner of Montrose Boulevard and Willard Street. The Art League offered Havel and Ruck the old studio buildings before they are demolished this spring making way for a new Art League building.The adjacent houses have been used for exhibition space and art classes for over thirty years. Havel and Ruck will create a large funnel-like vortex beginning from the west wall adjacent to Montrose Blvd. The exterior skin of the houses will be peeled off and used to create the narrowing spiral as it progresses eastward through the small central hallway connecting the two buildings and exiting through a small hole into an adjacent courtyard.”More pictures here. From 102kflight.
ISO-PHONE by James Auger 2007-06-25 20:42:30 Watch the video documentation."The Iso-phone is a telecommunications concept providing a service that can be described simply as a meeting of the telephone and the floatation tank. By blocking out peripheral sensory stimulation and distraction, the Iso-phone creates a telephonic space of heightened purity and focus."
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Chernobyl Household Nuclear Generator 2007-06-24 15:34:40 Scanned '80s Japanese print ad for an imaginary device called the ChernobylHouseholdNuclearGenerator
. It is unknown if this ad is from before or after the Chernobyl disaster. This ad is widely considered a fake.Here is a loose translation of some of the text in the ad:A gentle source of unlimited energy for the home.Reduce your monthly electric bill by 80% and enjoy a constant, stable supply of energy free from the fluctuations in supply that affect the oil market.A single, user-friendly activation switch makes the Chernobyl Household Nuclear Power Generator simple to operate, even for children and the elderly. One small nuclear fuel rod (about 15 cm long) generates enough electricity to support the average household for six months. To dispose of a spent fuel rod, simply insert it into its special shielded case and discard it along with ordinary non-combustible household waste.Main unit: 1.31 million yen [$5,450 US*] (plus tax)Set of 3 fuel rods: 137,000 yen [$570 US*] (plus tax)Ca
Children Dish Up Street Art 2007-06-30 19:24:57 A man watches from a balcony as satellite dishes are seen on buildings in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The project to 'pimp' the dishes is an initiative of a Dutch artist working with school children in an area of the city referred to as 'satellite city,' inhabited predominantly by first and second generation immigrants. The hooks on the roof are used all over the city to move furniture in and out of apartments using a rope and pulley, as the staircases are narrow.From Fox News.
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SPAMshredder 2007-06-28 12:33:49 Forward your spam here:spam@spam-shredder.deThen watch it be shredded here live:http://www.spam-shredder.deSPAMshredder is a collaboration between Ulf Schmidt, Uwe Jakob, Dirk Neugebauer and myself. In a similar fashion as Spamtrap, SPAMshredder prints and shreds spam email. SPAMshredder is different in that people forward spam email from their inbox to the SPAMshredder and can then watch a live video stream of their spam email being destroyed.Watch the video documentation
ASCII-Code curtains 2007-07-06 22:26:48 "Today our home rely on a network of cables, pipelines and connections. Most of the information we have access to is passing through these "roots." ASCII
-Code curtains, by Dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy, visualize the information network in a tree, using the very codes that represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text."From We Make Money Not Art.
Malawi Youth Builds Windmill to Power Village 2007-07-15 09:34:11 With all the sobering news lately about global warming and war, it’s important to remember all the positive things that are ALSO going on in the world at any given time. Case in point: the story of intrepid Malawi
youth William Kamkwamba who, despite having no formal education or training, recently engineered and built a windmill to power his house. It’s certainly the most inspiring story we’ve read this month, and we think you’ll agree… (more)From inhabitat.
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Oscar Pistorius and Stelarc 2007-07-23 22:44:27 Oscar Pistorius is a South African double amputee sprinter attempting to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing China. He has been drawing some controversy with some saying that he has an unfair advantage with his prosthetic legs over the other runners.When I read this story I immediately thought about the work being done by Stelarc. Below is his "Exoskeleton".
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Light Lunch Box by Craig Hickman 2007-08-06 20:49:10 Physical Computing art by CraigHickman
.From Craig:When left on its own the display randomly displays patterns and alphanumeric characters that dissolve by way of some random shenanigans...... I am also using a QT113 Touch Sensor from Parallax. This ended up being an easy sensor to incorporate. You connect the QT113 to something metal and when it's touched it responds. In my project, it's hooked up to one of the alligator clips so anything metal put in the clips, when touched, makes the LED Matrix respond.From Make.
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Anti-Decision Machine by Ryan Ross 2007-08-09 18:40:01 Anti-Decision Machine
functions by inviting a user seeking assistance to press a big red button on top of a grey box in front of the light installation. The installation then randomly lights up boxes providing answers to the user's question.This is part of Ryan Ross' Decision Analysis Series.
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Mutant golden frogs and Dmitry Bulatov's fluorescent tadpoles 2007-08-19 14:16:22 Four mutant frogs with gold skin and red eyes, found by children in a grassy field in the town of Shimanto in Kochi prefecture, have gone on display at the nearby Shimanto River Gakuyukan science center. According to a center spokesperson who says the golden specimens are highly unusual, the 2.4-centimeter (almost 1-inch) amphibians appear to be black-spotted pond frogs (Pelophylax nigromaculata, a.k.a. Rana nigromaculata) whose skin turned gold because of an albino mutation that prevents the formation of pigment cells. (more)From Pink Tentacle.This story reminds my of the work being done by the Russian artist Dmitry Bulatov. I was fortunate to be in the RESURFACING Exhibition earlier in the year at Ohio State with him. He displayed at the exhibition his work on genetically engineering tadpole appearances by making them fluorescent colors. Below is an example of one of his tadpoles:Static form of chimerical design of Xenopus laevis tadpole.
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Multitasking 2007-08-23 07:20:59 Cory Arcangel, "Data Diaries", 2003Multitasking has recently become a widely discussed term. The synchronicity of today's media-backed daily life means that the phenonemon multitasking penetrates into almost all spheres of life and has a particular influence on our perception, communication and interaction.Lars Siltberg, "Ambidextrous Performance", 2006The NGBK Berlin, Germany organizes an exhbition and interdisciplinary symposium on "Multitasking – Synchronicity as cultural practice". The artistic positions focus on the cultural practice of simultaneous activity and reception.Artists:CORY ARCANGEL, PETER FISCHLI/DAVID WEISS, IRENE HUG, BERNADETTE KLAUSBERGER/JANA KRAUSE/HANNAH STRACKE, CONSTANTIN LUSER, WARREN NEIDICH, YVES NETZHAMMER, STEFAN PANHANS, ADRIAN PIPER, BILL SHACKELFORD, LARS SILTBERG, LARS TUNBJORK, MARIUS WATZ/CHRISTINE WOLFEMarius Watz/Christine Wolfe, "Slogan Machine", 2004Exhibition: Sept. 1st – Oct. 7th, 2007Symposium: October 5th and 6th, 2007
Your body moves the record 2007-09-01 13:05:12 Vinyl Workout, by Theodore Watson is an audio/video floor projection piece that is interactive with how participants move on top of it. See Video of the piece in action. From the artist, "I designed this piece for the inaugural Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival. The idea is pretty simple. A giant record is projected on the floor and it can be played by running around its surface in the direction you want it to go. If you run slow the record plays slow, if you run fast the record goes fast etc.. Next version will have scratch mode." Additional interesting interactive works on the artist's website.
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INBOX by Alex Dragulescu and Timothy Jaeger (Respam) 2007-10-01 21:42:34 RESPAM (premiered) their performance entitled Inbox, using custom made VJ tools that query and retrieve messages, images, and text from a database that contains over 50,000 spam messages.RESPAM is a project started in April 2004 acting as a net art platform for the collection, implementation, and cultural integration of unwanted, abject data in the form of solicitous messages (heretofore referred to as spam) by artists Alex Dragulescu and Timothy
Jaeger.The focus of RESPAM is multifold. The first is to create a repository of extremely large sets of spam data that aren’t filtered or organized but left in their natural, untouched state. This repository will be publicly available, for both cultural and technological probing. We encourage Internet users to participate in this endeavor and send us their spam to submit@respam.com. The second is to tap into this data to create visualizations, electronic music, multimedia performances, net.art projects and other artistic interventions. The t
Interactive Video Art Cyclorama Installation in London 2008-04-21 15:09:58 Shawcross and Jason Bruges designed the memory project, which is touring the UK.I found this to be an interesting installation of real-time recorded in an installation. It provides a level of interaction and a method of exploring time in a group as well as a separate individual experience for a different experience. It is this type of installation that the public could see a value in when it comes to community importance. The community sees a personal value to their own greater environment.
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Japanese Construct a Developing Space for Artist 2008-04-23 00:18:56 Klein Dytham architectureCommunity based art projects for Columbus needs a bit of work. I saw this on-line and I thought that I should share. Part of me is super envious of Japan open embrace of all space having the possibility of being a space of expression. Construction site are inevitable, and any city that is growing in population or commerce is probably also growing in development. These construction sites have to be secured and the public has to be kept at a distance while these structures are being built. It is a marvel to see the build grow from skeletons, to nerves and muscle (wiring and walls), into a full body of a building. At time depending on the project this can take a while, and the sites protections for the public interrupt the natural flow that exist prior to Read more:Japanese
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