Cell Phone Disco – informationlab

Cell Phone Disco is a recent project by the guys at informationlab. They have created a space to experience the invisible body of the mobile phone. Flashing cells basically consist of one or more LEDs, battery and a … Read More

Feral Robotic Dogs – Natalie Jeremijenko

Since I'm going Robot crazy this week, I thought I'd show another project from a while back that I really like by another one of my favourite artists, Natalie Jeremijenko .

Feral robotics is an open source robotics … Read More

Autopoesis

I thought after a week mainly showing some robotics based projects, I'd post a little about one of my favourite pieces of work by one of my favourite artists, Ken Rinaldo.

Autopoesis 2000 Video

Ken Rinaldo is an … Read More

Ambient Robotany – Breeze

Breeze is an ambient robot inhabiting the body of a willow tree. Unlike us, Breeze can visually sense and react through 360 degrees, allowing her to reach out to you and others wherever you are near. Owing to … Read More

The Mechanized Eccentric Performance Series

Louis-Philippe Demers is a multidisciplinary artist using machines as media. He has worked on the conception and production of several large-scale interactive robotic installations, so far realizing more than 225 machines. 'In a more pronounced way than traditional … Read More

Hysterical Machines – Bill Vorn

Bill Vorn is working in the field of Robotic Art since 1992. His installation projects involve robotics and motion control, sound, lighting, video and cybernetic processes. He pursues research on Artificial Life (and Death) and Agent Technologies through artistic work … Read More

You Move Me – Lara Greene

A project currently in development by Lara Greene , the piece started during a residency at Amorphic Robot Works in New York. See Video of its development .

The figure is a fully articulated machine that moves via … Read More

TouchMe – Blendid

I saw TouchMe by Dutch interaction design group Blendid on wmmna a few months ago but it was a recent video taken at STRP festival in Eindhoven shown on Culturetv that caught my attention showing the vertical screen appear … Read More

Glofab

Torbjorn Lundell's new light-emitting textile, GloFab launched at the 2006 Stockholm Furniture Fair uses light directed through fiber optic cables which are weaved together to create a range of effects.  Fiber optic cables can only be bent so much … Read More

Opposition

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Another interactive kinetic sculpture from Jonathan Schipper , 2 participants are taken from the audience and buckled into the saddles on either end of the machine. The participants are then lifted into the air. Both participants are provided … Read More

Invisible Sphere – Johnathan Schipper

A 5.5 foot diameter sphere covered with video monitors & surveillance cameras. each monitor displays a live video feed from a camera placed on the opposite side of the sphere. the sphere, created by Jonathan Schipper , … Read More

Kubik – Modulorbeat

Three architects and urbanists from modulorbeat have used some 160 conventional 1000-litre water tanks to build a temporary open air night club called Kubik.

The plastic tanks are filled with luminous bulbs so that VJs can turn … Read More

Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design

Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design is Lucy Bullivant's sequel to 4dspace: Interactive Architecture which again looks at some of the work of interactive artists/architects working in the trans-disciplinary field of interactive architecture. Lucy's first book 4dspace was an excellent … Read More

Symphonic House

Symphonic House  is a joint experiment between David Hanawalt, Architect and Bill Close, Sonic Installation Artist; The House explores the integration of site, sight and sound through the creation of architecture as musical instruments.

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Electric Plaid – International Fashion Machines

IFM's Electric Plaid is a unique textile display technology and design material. It is used by IFM to create hand woven, sensuous individual artworks, interior design and architectural surfaces. Electric Plaid combines woven electronic circuits, color-change inks … Read More

Waves – Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler

Waves is a sound installation that uses buoys to connect wading pools in two different locations and create sound compositions generated by the energy of waves in a wading pool. An accelerometer in each buoy measures the magnitude … Read More

The Office For Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau For Responsive Architecture

Filamentosa: An ultra-lightweigh skyscraper using an actuated tensegrity structure exo-skelital frame tethered internal core. (2004)

The Office For Robotic Architectural Media & The Bureau For Responsive Architecture (oframBFRA) is a small, award winning, architectural practice that designs buildings as … Read More

Utility Fog – John Storrs Hall

Imagine it is the year 2100. The population of the Earth, doubling every 30 years or so, has reached nearly 50 billion souls. The price of a comfortable single-family house on one acre in New Jersey, doubling every 10 years … Read More