Would you like a flying video-taking pet that follows you around? Here is a fun visionary video on the future of mobile technology for teenagers by Microsoft found on RoomWare
Video: Career in Computer Science – MS Research
Author: Julie Knight
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18AprFlying video-taking pet?
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16AprCan a lamp blush?
BlushCan a lamp blush because of your phone conversations? Apparently yes and this by being responsive to your emotions. Pitch detection during phone conversations triggers a red halo around the lamp shade.
I love objects with moods, with apparent intelligence and most especially responding emotionally. They seem to always exemplify our anthropomorphosis relationship to products. Now that objects can pretend being responsive with a technology seamlessly integrated, this relationship between people and tech-products can completely be taken advantage of.
Blush is an example I think of this nature, made by Nadine Jarvis + Jayne Potter.
The light blushes in response to the emotional pitch of a mobile phone conversation. It is activated by the EMF emitted from a mobile phone. It continues blushing for 5 minutes after the call has ended, prolonging the memory of the otherwise transient conversation.
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15AprMary Farbood, harpsichordist
Morwaread Farbood. Photography by Susan Wilson.Presenting a harpsichord/piano sculpture in my previous post, I thought it would be nice to attend an authentic harpsichord concert. My friend Mary Farbood is performing in Cambridge and in New York this April.
Morwaread Farbood, American harpsichordist of Iranian and Japanese descent, is quickly becoming recognized as one of the rising young stars in the harpsichord world. She was selected for the Pro Musicis International Award in 2006 and won First Prize at the Prague International Harpsichord Competition the previous year.
An excerpt of her playing J. S. Bach, French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816 – Allemande
An excerpt of her playing J. S. Bach, French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816 – Courante
An excerpt of her playing Louis Marchand, Suite in D minor, Pices de clavecin
An excerpt of her playing Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in D Major, K. 119
The audio exerpts are unedited and from a live performance at the MIT Chapel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Recorded April 12, 2006. Engineer: Mike Fabio.
When and where?
Saturday, April 21st, 2007 at 8:00 PM – Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge
TicketsWednesday, April 25th, 2007 at 8:00 PM – Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York
TicketsProgram
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Pices de Clavecin from Suite in D minor
Les Tendres Plaintes
Les Niais de Sologne
Les Soupirs
Les CyclopesFranz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sonata in E minor, Hob.XVI/34
Presto
Adagio
Vivace moltoJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903Hubert Ho (1976 – )
Manual Labor (World and New York premieres)Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939 – )
Fantasy for HarpsichordDomenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata K. 502 in C Major
Sonata K. 1 in D Minor
Sonata K. 119 in D Major
Sonata K. 455 in G Major
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15AprHarpsichord by Basserode
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Partitions 2000, Harpsichords in oak, ebony, bone realized with the organ-maker Pascal Gourrat, 109,5 x 150 x 18,2 cm 9 photographs 13×18 cm eachWhen Marcel Proust writes about having tea and cookies, he is inspired by having the experience himself, which brings back memories to his mind. With my past work Textable Movie, I wanted to recreate this same phenomenon, by presenting instantly to the users, videos from their own footage. By immersion into their own memories, they could become engaged into telling rich, and passionate stories, based on past experience.
Russian poet Joseph Brodsky – “any new aesthetic reality helps man to specify his own ethical reality …/… an aesthetic choice is invariably individual, aesthetic suffering is invariably personal suffering. Any new aesthetic reality turns the person it has affected into an even more private person, and this private character, which at times takes on the form of literary or other taste, may per se, be, if not a guarantee, then at least a form of protection against enslavement”
I recently discovered partitions by Jérome Basserode. This object is very disconcerting by being a piano with only 5 white and 4 black keys, piano that is not large but thin and long. Made structurally out of oak, ebony for the keys and bone for the white keys, built based on the harpsichord technique, it creates very unusual sounds. The partition is a picture of a forest that the player can choose to play. The spectator becomes musician by following memories driven by the image.
The installation Partitions, shown in the 6th chapter of the exhibition comprises two objects that formally resemble a fragment of a grand piano but use the musical technique of a harpsichord. Each harpsichord has a keyboard that counts 9 keys ( 5 white, 4 black, in alternation). The unusual sound of these keys determines the initial playing situation. Two series of 9 photographs act as partitions, representing various motifs from the natural and urban environment. The spectator can use the motif of his choice from the photographs as a partition, sit it on the intended stand and begin playing. The visually activated memory can thus express itself musically through the spectator’s playing the harpsichord. Basserode chose to use the sculptural and architectural elements at his disposal to present the photographs. He installed them so that their placement in relation to the harpsichords would produce a certain tension. The dynamism conferred upon the exhibition space by the position of the objects presented and the harpsichords finds an extension and resonance in Kretzschmar’s music and Basserode’s nomadism. Juliane Wellerdiek
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03Aprperformative constructions
short cut Images Elmgreen & Dragset, courtesy Galleria Massimo De Carlo – Short Cut was commissioned by the Fondazione Nicola TrussardiI am a big fan of the big picture outside the box: when pieces from an artist are put together in an ensemble. A catalog, a museum brochure or a web site. The nature of the work to be experienced is missing for sure, but some intellectual participation is taking place. I like to understand and connect with the artist maybe more than the piece itself.
I think that the art pieces don’t need to be obvious, but they need to give you hints, and like a detective the viewer carefully inspects a site and experiences.I found that to be especially the case with the work of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset. Their web site presents visuals that communicate with the viewer very efficiently. I like their site-specific famous Prada Marfa, Public Art Project in Marfa, Texas, USA in 2005. A Prada sculpture-store installed in Texas in replacement of a Gas Station. Apparently the Prada Marfa building was made biodegradable to slowly melt back into the landscape …
Prada MarfaI love their powerless structures series. These artists seem to always challenge the conventional structural space.
Powerless Structures (kunsthall / temporary art) (2001), Installation view, Istanbul Biennial 2001
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01AprThe Youtube of the Avant-Garde
Do you prefer to listen to sounds or to the relationship between two or more sounds? That is the question even though it may not be exclusive …
A new addition on ubu, Four American Composers, Directed by Peter Greenaway.
For those who do not know Ubu, UbuWeb is the YouTube of the Avant-Garde.
UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video holdings to on-demand streaming formats la YouTube, which means that you can view everything right in your browser without platform-specific software or insanely huge downloads. We offer over 300 films & videos from artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Vito Acconci, Pipilotti Rist, Jean Genet, The Cinema of Transgression, Richard Foreman, Terayama Shuji, Paul McCarthy Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, John Lennon and hundreds more — of course all free of charge. Presented in conjunction with our partners at Greylodge.
List of the avant-garde films available.
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01AprFresh, fun and innocent anti-littering ad
wfmu showed a public service announcement by David Lynch (photography Frederick Elmes): “The message is clear: trash creates rats who will gnaw away at your existence with their razor sharp teeth and whip your legs with their heavy, hairless tails”.
video
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30Marvideo-cards
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Children playing with Moving Pictures
Tangible artifacts have been linked to video as a way to support collaborative exploration of a video collection. More recently, Labrune and Mackay designed the TangiCam, a tangible camera made of two cameras on a circular frame to capture both the child and the video of the child. Researchers have worked on token-based access to digital information. See also pioneer research done by Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer.
A broad range of interactive table-tops have been designed for collaboration. From Yumiko Tanakas Plable, a traditional looking table under which children can build an imaginary world, to the DiamondTouch table that allows the collaboration and coordination of multiple users at the same time, designers developed a new concept for movie editing to help children understand the process of editing. In Moving Pictures, children arrange tokens on a table, guided by a GUI, in order to create and visualize the storyboard of a movie.
Plable
The Plable web site has awesome videos both of the process and the final project.
This interesting concept started to take a more “card shape” with Mika Miyabara and Tatsuo Sugimoto, the Movie cards, a set of printed cards that can be re-arranged in any order. Their bar code is used to identify them on a digital screen. Regine Debatty gives more details about this very interesting project.
Also, TVS explores the manipulation of digital video clips using multiple handheld computers.
Movie Cards
Recently, Dave Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi created the Siftables, a set of small displays that can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. I bet that these miniature video cards will lead to very interesting projects …
Paper on the siftables.
The siftables
Philips Design developed Pogo, a system that allows replaying visual sequences using tangible objects with a stationary computer for capturing and associating media to objects. Even though these systems invite capture and editing of the movie segments, they donnot propose the publication of the final movie created and the possibility to share it with peers remotely. For this reason, Moving Pictures integrates a videojockey mode to allow children to perform a final movie as much as inviting them to revisit the movie impact.
PogoAllowing authorship as a design principle in most Tangible Interfaces is rare. It is probably due to the fact that it requires a very flexible interface and a software architecture that takes care of data management. This design principle can allow children to become active participants instead of simply observers. In Moving Pictures, tangible media containers can easily be integrated in mobile technology and also be combined for performance using a video jockey platform. Maybe a new version could use the potential of the siftables 😉
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30Marvideo-cards
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Children playing with Moving Pictures
Tangible artifacts have been linked to video as a way to support collaborative exploration of a video collection. More recently, Labrune and Mackay designed the TangiCam, a tangible camera made of two cameras on a circular frame to capture both the child and the video of the child. Researchers have worked on token-based access to digital information. See also pioneer research done by Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer.
A broad range of interactive table-tops have been designed for collaboration. From Yumiko Tanakas Plable, a traditional looking table under which children can build an imaginary world, to the DiamondTouch table that allows the collaboration and coordination of multiple users at the same time, designers developed a new concept for movie editing to help children understand the process of editing. In Moving Pictures, children arrange tokens on a table, guided by a GUI, in order to create and visualize the storyboard of a movie.
Plable
The Plable web site has awesome videos both of the process and the final project.
This interesting concept started to take a more “card shape” with Mika Miyabara and Tatsuo Sugimoto, the Movie cards, a set of printed cards that can be re-arranged in any order. Their bar code is used to identify them on a digital screen. Regine Debatty gives more details about this very interesting project.
Also, TVS explores the manipulation of digital video clips using multiple handheld computers.Movie Cards
Recently, Dave Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi created the Siftables, a set of small displays that can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. I bet that these miniature video cards will lead to very interesting projects …
Paper on the siftables.The siftables
Philips Design developed Pogo, a system that allows replaying visual sequences using tangible objects with a stationary computer for capturing and associating media to objects. Even though these systems invite capture and editing of the movie segments, they donnot propose the publication of the final movie created and the possibility to share it with peers remotely. For this reason, Moving Pictures integrates a videojockey mode to allow children to perform a final movie as much as inviting them to revisit the movie impact.
PogoAllowing authorship as a design principle in most Tangible Interfaces is rare. It is probably due to the fact that it requires a very flexible interface and a software architecture that takes care of data management. This design principle can allow children to become active participants instead of simply observers. In Moving Pictures, tangible media containers can easily be integrated in mobile technology and also be combined for performance using a video jockey platform. Maybe a new version could use the potential of the siftables 😉
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29MarInteractive toy for autistic children
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LINKX an interactive toy that stimulates the language development of autistic children. Via IdealistHelma van RijnI designed LINKX, a language toy for autistic toddlers. Throughout the process, experts in autism were involved. She tested the prototype with three autistic children in several play-sessions.
The following is the video of her tests:
