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  • 03MarSculpting Behavior

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    Hayes Raffle not only just had two full academic papers accepted to the first class conference IDC 2007: Interaction design and Children but he is also a talented sculptor and designer. His Super Cilia Skin reflects his aesthetic sensibility and his ongoing passion for kinetic sculpture.

    Video

    Super Cilia Skin

    After co-creating and designing the award-winning ZOOB building system, Hayes joined the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and created Topobo, a 3D constructive assembly system with kinetic memory and the ability to record and playback physical motion.
    Video

    a ZOOB creature


    a Topobo creature

    If you happen to be in the bay area, don’t miss Hayes’ talk, open to the public, that he is giving at the Berkeley Institute of Design, UC Berkeley, March 6th, from 1 to 2pm.
    Information about his talk.

    During the talk, he will explain how with Topobo children can assemble sculptures that dance and walk. He will present Fuzzmail a program that allow children to write a message that unfolds in time. He will show how with Jabberstamp children can embed stories, sounds and voices in their original drawings.

  • 05MarReflections

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    The artist Devorah Sperber recreates paintings by assembling spools of thread. Reflections is a permanent Installation at the Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The artist used 60,000 spools of thread and 23 convex mirrors for the installation.

    “Reflections” is a site-specific work, constructed from 60,000 spools of thread, which coalesce into a photo-realistic image when seen reflected in convex mirrors mounted on an opposing wall. My intention was to utilize the element of surprise to create a brief interruption in the lives of people as they move through the Centro Medico Train Station (…) Because people will be in motion, the images seen in the mirrors continuously change. As people step onto the escalator and descend to the lower platform, the reflections in the mirrors gradually dissolve from seascape to the neutral gray ceiling and blue skies seen through clear glass skylights above.

    Detail

    I discovered the work of Deborah Sperber on V magazine.

    Two days after I posted on the work of Deborah, I found out via cool hunting that the Pulse art fair in NYC last week showed a large number of pixelized works.

    Andy Diaz Hope uses gel-caps for creating images of people in front of their medicine cabinets.



    The occupation 2006, archival photographs, gel capsules, acrylic, 18 W x 15″ H

    William Betts recreate surveillance camera pictures using acrylic paint. This reminds me of Gerhard Richter’s Akt auf einer Treppe. Emma – Nu dans un escalier. 1966 in which the boundaries between painting and photography are blurred and through which comes a new form of expression in the arts.

    Carlos Estrada-Vega combines pixel-constructivism of digital media practices to paint and wood dowels within the canvas.



    Dona Clara, 2005. Margaret Thatcher Projects

    In the Middle of the End, Isidro Blasco uses 2D photos and later turns the them into a 3d experience using board mounted architectural structures.

    The Middle of The End

    Knitoscope Testimonies by Turbulence, are surprising animations created using “Knitoscope” software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation.

    Video



    erica

    An excellent interview on Turbulence featuring Jo-Anne Green by Régine Debatty on we-make-money-not-art

    Reconstruction shown at Artefact 2007 is a matric of LEDs that projects shadows and lights of passerby in a pixelized fashion. More can be read on the show and project on multimedialab



    reconstruction

    Monumental ceramic pixel art found on coolfinds.

    Pixel art by Swedish artist Maria Ängquist Klyvare. The artist has worked with mosaics since the eighties. More on her web site.



    A child’s face on Etsarbron near Gullmarsplan in Stockholm.


  • 26MarCreate your own doll

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    Oh, I Feel Naked!

    Yes, I collect toys, toys that are charged with a period. Maybe this one is charged from the Victorian era, but I love it. It resembles a mix between a voodoo doll and a customizable one. If the author of the work, Eli Gutierrez, commercializes it, I immediately would get one!


  • 27MarThe beautiful people

    The American Look (1958) discovered at paper lily.

    America lifestyle in the 50’s with an *idealistic* sense for design. A must see for any designer.

    In France, we have Mon Oncle made in 1958 by Jacques Tati who portrays magnificently a materialistic lifestyle contrasted with a Mr. Hulot who struggles with postwar France’s mindless obsession with modernity and American-style consumerism. I recommend anyone to watch any of Jacques Tati’s movie. Delight for sure. A must see for anybody!

    The following is an extract from Playtime



    Mon oncle

    I’d like to finish by a welcome into modernity by Jacques Tati. Awesome.


  • 29MarInteractive toy for autistic children

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    LINKX an interactive toy that stimulates the language development of autistic children. Via Idealist

    Helma 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:


  • 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.



    Pogo

    Allowing 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 😉


  • 30Marvideo-cards

    If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed to receive the latest Architectradure’s articles in your reader or via email. Thanks for visiting!

    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.



    Pogo

    Allowing 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 😉


  • 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


  • 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.


  • 03Aprperformative constructions



    short cut Images Elmgreen & Dragset, courtesy Galleria Massimo De Carlo – Short Cut was commissioned by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi

    I 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 Marfa

    I 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