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19 Jun, 2009

Eye of the Storm #EOS2

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18 Jun, 2009

Live Blogging Pecha Kucha Museum Tech #mwpkn

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17 Jun, 2009

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Adam Zaretsky, artist
Does Cloned Animal Safety take into account the effect of Aesthetics on the long-term Ecological effects of Food Chain Design?

17 Jun, 2009

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Roger Malina, astrophysicist, Director of L’Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille
Dark Energy and the Ethics of Curiosity

12 Jun, 2009

my takeaway talk (on slideshare)

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I first saw the friispray system at the MakerFaireUK in Newcastle this year  where they were exhibiting in the same space as me and my Light Responsive Devices. It was great that they were invited to talk at the DIY show and tell at Thinking Digital.

They are building on the wiimote hacks of Johny Chung Lee (johnny lee.net/projects/wii/), to make the prototype electronic grafetti friispray(http://friispray.wordpress.com/).  What is wonderful about this technology it gives to people an intuitive canvas on which to start drawing.   The innovation is modifying a spraycan so that it can be used as an infrared drawing device. This coupled with a rear projection screen, a wiimote , a data projector and some software that they have made produces a cheap whiteboard drawing system.  They have had audiences of all abilities, showing in situations from schools to nightclubs.

One of the amazing opportunities they have had is workshopped this technology with childen with disabilities. These children cannot express themselves using pens and paints. In this instance they made a different infra red stylus that was easy to hold. The no mess/pigment means that Friispray is also applicable to teaching situations where vulnerable people are prevented from using normal pens and paints because of risks to them and others.

 Friispray is an example of open innovation, by publishing the information on the net, they have seeded or inspired other people to ‘go crazy’ with the idea.  For example Derrick Welsh. He has been running a project around sketch messaging, and has been using nokia tablets in collaborative electronic sketching. When he saw friispray at the MakerFaireUK, he ran with the idea, buying a wiimote and hacking a remote control to make novel drawing styluses. Each day his children suggested something else that he should change into a drawing object and he ended up making wonderfull styluses around paint brushes, fishing rods, & childrens toys. Derrick has also worked out how to sketching on his mobile phone using the wiimote.

 I look forward to seeing many more exciting innovatotions coming out of the Jam jar Collective and also  Derrick Welsh.

Ian Forrester, BBC (chair) “Make Epic Shit”

  • lesson of the wiiMote: a piece of technology that is not crippled, has amazing functionality and is cheap +  a community of developers means that we all can make Epic Shit if we want to

Alexandra Deschamps Sonsino, TinkerIT called on us to:

  • consider technology as a tool, rather than something to consume. She argues that we are in a similar place to the pre-industrial time, where ‘ordinary folks’ are making things that help solve there own personal problems, or fulfill desires. (see t!pot a weighing device that tells you when the teapot is empty so you can decide whether you want the last cup)
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On Wednesday the 13Th I attended the Show & Tell: Gadget DIY session at Thinking Digital- Digital University
A number of different speakers with compatable relationships to technology (coming from the Maker/Hacker ethic of If you cant understand it, take it to bits, you dont own it)

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24 Mar, 2009

#CRT09 Annett Dekker and Alex Hodby

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AH I have seen her talk at ISEA2008, and her case study PPS (Public Private Spaces), where she talked about Yolande Harris’s piece SunRunSun and Drew Hemment’s Set to Discoverable.

JS New Institutionalism, trying to generate documentation that does not exist, based upon what else is known of the piece.

Mappings, putting yourself on a 2d map of how do you describe your research area and your methodology.

They also described the aRt&D triangle classification by

Following this was small group discussion and filling in of the 2d matrix. Our group talked about the appropriateness of the map of digital research and methods, and how it needs have some focus on audience. However this may have been hidden in the terms used. For example physiology/user/audience may all be applied to the same concept in curator, hci and other fields.

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Beryl talked about a number of exhibitions currated by Sarah E Cook, Ellie Carpenter, Domnic Smith / Sneha Solanki, Kurator by Joasia Krysa, All Maps Welcome/Chris Dorsett

Paul O’Neill -Spectator Curating Subjects, curating architectures, on getting away from the white cube ideal. He had done that in the past, his curatorial difficulties with this resulted in his later shows on juuxtaposing works.

Axell Lapp Cat chasing its tail. Addressing what is research, and what isn’t. So a curator can get three rare pieces together, and this is a wonderful research thing eg Subversive Spaces at Whitworth Gallery. This is a novel experience, fascinating. It may not be interesting as a catalogue, but the reality of the show is. There are interesting things done with research, and if is dull we will forget about it.

Uncurated artist works
24Hr museum, Public art, It was destroyed after 24hrs, (())

Jeanne Van Eisb “Blue House”, a place for artsits, philosphers, people interested in finding out about city planning. Artists making cultural institutions.

Acting Curatiationally…rather than being a curator.

Avoidance of defining oneselfs practice.

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About

Brian Degger is a technologist/artist, he writes, thinks and makes around themes of interactivity, biomimicracy, and collaboration

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SuperCache WP and 404
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=11349, is the post that explains why I (and maybe you) were getting error 404s on individual blogposts, the simple solution is to change permalinks back to the standard and then back to the ones you are using. I tried supercache, but didnt get it to work, disabled it and then got into 404 error land. (0)

Robin Price - music for a prepared radio - STEIM microjamboree talk
Robin Price and the Heat Model Taking inspiration from the heat model, Robin is working with a prepared radio that interacts with the radiosphere …. question is what is a good mapping of data to image ?

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Anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

The Book-of-the-Month Club edition of Silent S...
Wired has an article on the inception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book that brought knowledge of the damage DDT was doing to the environment.
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Auto-install of Plugins in WP2.7
Idea for fixing the blank wordpress 2.7 admin page after autoinstalling an incompatible plugin. More... (0)

non-existential angst
at first i didnt know who i was text reads: Mysterious OBJECT, Crisis?! hell i never even had an identity (0)

EEEpc and the removable media
I have a reoccurring trouble with the removable media,  sometimes it says that I don’t have permission to write to the internal card reader or anything removable. The problem is that the /media/ directory has disappeared, you need to go into the comand line/terminal and recreate the directory sudo mkdir /media/ should work if you are in the top directory. I also had a problem where the shortcut to the internal media was corrupted and was showing an old state. To get rid of this, take out the card, and delete the shortcut, it will get recreated when you put the card back. (0)

Eggpass
Eggpass Lo-fi social networking. Rosanne Marshack and Richard Valentin “On Augmented Reality-Enabled Social Network Traces of Pratitya-samutpada (Interdependence)” were tracing their social network with 12 black eggs. These eggs were simple to make, nice to hold, but at some point the paths stopped. The participants had become too attached, the eggs became objects of affection and didn’t go any further. (0)

ISEA - Aceti mediated virtual visions
abstract Aceti and collaborators are developing a technology that can look at how virtual reality affect emotions. It is his goal to get to an experiential idea of how to affect emotions. He is actually trying to measure the responses, eeg, perspiration, etc, the reaction. This is quite a powerful idea, but one that comes into all artworks, but I don’t think it has actually been done for art at a quantitative way. (0)

Ping
In the PING, an alternate reality of control (Eelco Wagenaar, Arjan Scherpenisse) talk (abstract  here). It was exhibited at mediamatic amongst others. Games are about fun rather than winning. They have made a simple ping game, simple in technology, but not content. The structure is two pingpong ball throwing devices and two players, two screens, and a small bit of software. (1)

12 hours and 8 time zones
Ah, Singapore, where the weather is balmy. Its my first Asian country. My fellow passenger David from www.xm-asia.com described it as Asia on Training wheels. It is certainly that. I was at the Sleepy Sams only an hour after getting off the plane, no queing for passport control, bag already on the luggage carousel,  easy to obtain travel card, and quick. Compared to the hours lost in other countries post the plane, this was great. Now to tell my body that it is not 1.30 in the afternoon. So now off to find some food…probably Malaysian. (0)

syntax highlighting of arduino code in jedit

jEdit

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My eeepc has a small screen which some programs don’t handle well. The arduino programming environment (the same as processing) doesn’t always handle it very well (like having the scroll bar disappear occasionally). However, it is possible to use an external editor. Personally, I like jedit and its code highlighting. Problem is that it dosen’t recognise the extension *.pde as a c-like style. More... (0)