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Pendulum Choir - Complex Polyphonies And Gravitational Force

Pendulum Choir, Complex Polyphonies And Gravitational Force, Cod.Act, André, Michel Décosterd, art, performance, technology, architecture, music, sounds, Neural, Pendulum-Choir,-Complex-Polyphonies-And-Gravitational-Force.jpg Cod.Act's Pendulum Choir explores the relationship between gravity, vocal movement in space and choral composition by placing a 9-piece choir on tilting, continuously moving platforms. A revolving, undulating hydraulic jack supports each singer. These movements have a direct physical impact on the singers, causing  ... [ Continue ]


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Earthcode - Rooted Computing

Earthcode, Rooted Computing, Michael A. Persinger, neuroscienze,  Martin Howse, earthboot, device, land art, piattaforma micro_research, Vito Campanelli, Earthcode---Rooted-Computing.jpg The cognitive neuroscientist Michael A. Persinger formulated a hypothesis that the link between human beings and the earth is so strong that a new geomagnetic field around the Earth could directly influence human conscience. On the basis of this theory, Martin Howse, mentor of the platform micro_research  ... [ Continue ]


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art . robot . surveillance

Zwischenräume, the deviant surveillance

Zwischenräume, Petra Gemeinboeck, Rob Saunders, art, surveillance, Valentina Culatti, Zwischenraume.jpg We generally think of surveillance as a detached gaze, a remote form of watching. The fact that cameras record information continuously and unobtrusively somehow makes their presence elusive. And the idea of data being analyzed only when needed makes these devices feel innocuous. However the gaze of surveillance is always directed and motivated by human desires - it is a form of voyeurism. What  ... [ Continue ]


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Versus, sounding dialogues

David Letellier, neural, chiara ciociola, versus_David_Letellier.jpg Versus is a kinetic sound installation by David Letellier. Its functioning is characterized by an interactive dialogic mechanism. There are two kinetic sculptures that are interdependent and they have to be face to face to make sense. Each sculpture is made out of 12 triangular panels, joining at the center in a flower-like shape with actuators to allow slow movement. In the center of this singular "corolla" there's  ... [ Continue ]


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The Army of Darkness: Embodied algorithms for artificial mindlessness

The Army of Darkness, Gullibloon, Gullibloon_army_of_darkness.jpg In algorithmic composition one frequent problem that programmers are faced with is how to make computers less predictable. The clue to the matter is that there are infinitely more variables in the physical world than in virtual environments. Searching for an audiovisual implementation of this principle and tapping into the culture of hobby robotics, sound-art collective Gullibloon has  ... [ Continue ]


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Troblion, affective silicon sphere

Troblion, Stefan Schwabe, troblion.jpg How can a simple, autonomous object with a universal form become "emotional"? Our ancestral feelings are triggered by very simple mechanisms that came about through a need to improve preservation and reproduction in a natural environment. But when artificial objects start to behave similarly, we risk being trapped by what our brain has been programmed for (instincts). "Troblion" by Stefan Schwabe is  ... [ Continue ]


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Another Soundscape, cable car-like sequencing

Chung-Kun Wang, Digital Art Center Taipei, another soundscape, Matteo Marangoni, another_soundscapes.jpg Sound installations frequently dispense with linear musical time by means of spatial arrangements. In the work “another soundscape” by Chung-Kun Wang, linear time is reintroduced and represented spatially following the model of western musical notation. Exhibited at the Digital Art Center di Taipei, what the  ... [ Continue ]


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Propagations, light robots as cellular automata

Propagations, Leo Nunez, leo_nunez_propagations.jpg The basic mechanisms of artificial intelligence are still around, probably because there are still few real applications able to make a user think that a machine has some kind of "intelligence". So "organic" qualities are not yet generally associated with digital machines. Cellular automata (a grid of cells  ... [ Continue ]


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SoleNoid ß, tap dance robotic concert

Peter William Holden, SoleNoid ß, solenoid_beta.jpg The tap-dance rhythmic lines are the protagonists in SoleNoid ß by Peter William Holden. Eight glossy tap-dance shoes, placed symmetrically in a circle, are animated by a computer connected with circuits controlling electromechanical valves (solenoid valves) and compressed air hydraulic pistons. The "living"  ... [ Continue ]


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Suffering Machine, a robot suffering for your grief

Ricardo Nascimento, Suffering Machine, suffering_machine.jpg Playing off the subtleties of human attachment to animate objects and creatures, Ricardo Nascimento's "Suffering Machine" remains a relevant reminder of the trials and tribulations that we often discover with the technological apparatus and detritus that occupies our daily existence. His "Suffering Machine" is a robot consisting of three arms or  ... [ Continue ]


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Machines that Almost Fall Over, la vita in una metafora meccanica

Michael Kontopoulos, Machines that Almost Fall Over, machines_that_almost_fall_over.jpg Machines that Almost Fall Over di Michael Kontopoulos é una scultura fatta di diverse tavole angolari con un semplice meccanismo ad orologeria montato su che alza e poi lascia cadere un martello sulla parte piatta della tavola centrale e verticale. Ciascuna delle scultura dondola lentamente su un punto che fa cardine, quasi cadendo in avanti, poi dondolano all'indietro e si  ... [ Continue ]


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Double-Taker (Snout), surveillance meeting humor and randomness

Golan Levin,Double-Taker (Snout), double_taker_snout.jpg Media artist and Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University Golan Levin, has created the "Double-Taker (Snout)", an interactive installation that examines the connections between trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an  ... [ Continue ]


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Totemobile makes Transformers seem tame

Totemobile, Chico Macmurtrie, totemobile.jpg The "Totemobile" by Brooklyn- based Mexican - American artist and roboticist, Chico Macmurtrie, is a kinetic transforming robot that morphs a Citroen DS automobile into a 20-meter tall "totem" with human-like features. Similar in conception to the giant robots from  ... [ Continue ]


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art . book . robot . science . software

(edited by Katharina Dohm, Heinz Stahlhut, Max Hollein and Guido Magnaguagno) - Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst, Art Machines Machines Art

Art Machines Machine Art, Kustmaschinen, Machinenkunst, art_machines_machines_art.jpg book - Kehrer Verlag - ISBN 9783939583400
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The autonomous physical production made by a machine has often been perceived as "magic". The perception that a non-organic entity would produce something "new", when not "original" has already been vastly debated, but the fascination of the results is still a matter of fact, underlying some  ... [ Continue ]


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Spinal Rhythms, autonomous embodied evolution of a biomimetic robot's rhythmic motion behavior

Eva Schindling, Spinal Rhythms, spinal_rhythms.jpg Reflections on artificial life are mostly centered around the dogma of digital representation: only what can be represented on a screen can be tackled and understood. This kind of approach clashes with all artificial lifeforms with a materiality of their own, such as robots, whose physical consistency forces us to  ... [ Continue ]


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Ex Pharao, mechanically manipulating an orchestra

Ex Pharao, André and Michel Décosterd, ex_pharao.jpg Ex Pharao is a re-elaboration of the Moses und Aron serial work by Arnold Schönberg and of the lives of Moses and his brother Aaron, their relation with the people of Israel and the internal struggle that pitted the two brother against each  ... [ Continue ]


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Uokand (Tapelake), playing with a pool of tapes.

Dan Perrone, Uokand, Tapelake, uokand_tapelake.jpg Audiotapes, the medium that offered to millions of users endless possibilities to personally recombine sounds and emotions and introduced the concept of self-produced compilation, look like a distant memory. The MP3 generation, used to process huge quantities of digital data with a few simple clicks,  ... [ Continue ]


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Morpho Towers, Two Standing Spirals

Morpho Towers, Two Standing Spirals, Sachiko Kodam, Yasushi Miyajima, Tetsuhide Hidaka morpho_towers.jpg The famous 'Protrude Flow', permanently exhibited at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, is one of the few spectacular electromagnet sculptures artworks. Its ability to model rounded forms out of a liquid black 'ferrofluid', that stands trembling for a while and then become plain liquid again, was able to  ... [ Continue ]


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art . biotech . mobile . net . robot

Independent Robotic Community, social network for robots and humans

Ricardo Iglesias, Gerald Kogler, Independent Robotic Community, independent_robotic_community.jpg In a special edition of El Pais Digital reporting the Arco festival in 2001, the Spanish artist Ricardo Iglesias, one of the net art pioneers in his country, said that nothing or almost nothing ("only cliché") can be said about net art in five or six lines. However he mentioned a series of isolated topics that  ... [ Continue ]


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Giant Painting Machine

Giant Painting Machine, Douglas Irving Repetto, giant_painting_machine.jpg A huge machine to create abstract paintings. This is the shape of the Giant Painting Machine, a project by Douglas Irving Repetto. It's an electro-mechanic system mainly assembled with waste materials. It  ... [ Continue ]


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The Robotic Percussionist

The Robotic Percussionist, Gil Winberg, Scott Driscoll, the_robotic_percussionist.jpg Let's imagine a typical situation: a jam session where talented musicians play all their creativity improvising, listening to each other and reacting to inputs. However let's think about the trio (AKA triumvirate) consisting of Ellington and Mingus with a variation at the  ... [ Continue ]


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Silverfish Stream, relational sound spheres

Silverfish Stream, Costanza Silva, silverfish_stream.jpg Constanza Silva is a new media artist who creates complex interactive environments where sound and robotic are the essential elements of a connected network. Silverfish Stream is her most recent artwork and, according to the author, 'it is a sensual, poetic,  ... [ Continue ]


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ArtBots 2003, artistic robots

artbots2003.jpg, ArtBots 2003 The ArtBots 2003 festival, held at the Eyebeam Gallery in New York, has just ended. It was the second edition of the successful exhibition of creative robots which, last year, was held at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (New York). This year, the projects  ... [ Continue ]


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