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Bird songs stunningly visualised in animation

As part of the Europeana Creative project, Sound and Vision commissioned Australian artist Andy Thomas to create an inspirational digital sound sculpture re-using two bird sounds from its archive. The result is a visually mesmerizing artwork that has been very well received. If you would like to know more about how this video was made… Continue reading Bird songs stunningly visualised in animation

Thorbjørn Lausten – data art

Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art Thorbjørn Lausten’s 2003 exhibition Datablik (Dataview) and his long-standing, pioneering work at the intersection of art, science and technology. The exhibition format REVISIT is an annual event focusing on some of the significant art projects held at Overgaden in the past. In 2015 we revisit Thorbjørn Lausten’s 2003 exhibition Datablik… Continue reading Thorbjørn Lausten – data art

A Material History of Bits

Jean-François Blanchette, Assistant Professor Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA In both the popular press and scholarly research, the trope of digital information as “immaterial” is invoked with remarkable persistence. In this characterization, the digital derives its power from its nature as a mere collection of 0s and 1s wholly independent from the particular media on…… Continue reading A Material History of Bits

Materiality of Data and Bits – blog post

Source: Materiality of Data and Bits | Home This article is okay – the best bits are that he references some people writing about data that are new to me, so to follow up his sources (which aren’t included annoyingly). i.e. Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson explain partly why “data” seems to have an ethereal… Continue reading Materiality of Data and Bits – blog post

Environment

Source: Environment Lapka started with the ambitious idea to build the most beautiful science ever. We first set out to explore body network and personal environment, utilizing numerous, sensitive environmental factors such as radiation and carbon monoxide. We built tools for self-care and mind harmony, but never saw them as medicinal devices. Russian company that… Continue reading Environment

Sensible Data (art installation)

“Sensible Data” is an interactive installation consisting of three machines that invite to create a passport from your personal data. Take a picture of yourself and a machine will draw your portrait. Send an email and an algorithm will judge your mood, age, gender and beauty. By pressing a dubious button, you can get a… Continue reading Sensible Data (art installation)

Setting up iMac (OSXYosemite 10.10.5)

$ sudo easy_install pip $ sudo pip install -U setuptools $ sudo pip install pyserial install MariaDB as that is what is installed on pew == make sure Xcode is uptodate or install it $ xcode-select –install install homebrew $ ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)” Check Homebrew $ brew doctor Update Homebrew $ brew update… Continue reading Setting up iMac (OSXYosemite 10.10.5)

Rubular: regular expression editor and tester

Rubular is a Ruby-based regular expression editor and tester. It’s a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them. Rubular is an especially good fit for Ruby and Rails developers, since it uses Ruby on the server to evaluate regexes, but should also be useful for those working in other programming languages and… Continue reading Rubular: regular expression editor and tester

Soft robots

Hardware: Calibration button for hardware – bumper switch Software: Arduino Speed – can change the freq, by not using PWM. accelstepper – library to control acceleration. 3 motors ok with arduino – more motors might be tricky if added due to the switching speed. Might be best to have an arduino per motor, or per… Continue reading Soft robots

sepans Cheats – sepans

A cheat sheet containing scripts that I normally use (shell, sql, python .etc) Source: sepans Cheats – sepans contains some nice text sorting reg ex bits

bibliography | Natalie JeremijenkoNatalie Jeremijenko

Refs to skim through: Articles, chapters, essays and pamphlets by Jeremijenko Creative Biotechnology: A User’s Manualby Natalie Jeremijenko & Eugene Thacker Suspicious Images, Latent Interfacesby Benjamin Bratton & Natalie Jeremijenko, in Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk to Things, What Do We Say?… Continue reading bibliography | Natalie JeremijenkoNatalie Jeremijenko

Living Mushtari – 3d-printed and generatively grown microbial factory

Developed at the MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group, Living Mushtari is a 3D printed wearable with 58 meters of internal fluid channels designed to function as a wearable microbial factory that uses synthetic microorganisms to convert sunlight into useful products for the wearer. Source: Living Mushtari – 3d-printed and generatively grown microbial factory /… Continue reading Living Mushtari – 3d-printed and generatively grown microbial factory

Rubber robots

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/robot-fish-set-be-deployed-rescue-sea-life-1497314 http://www.rt.com/news/186532-soft-rubber-robot-pneumatic/ http://www.gizmag.com/mit-slithering-silicone-rubber-robot/33838/

Soft robotics company Super Releaser

Super-Releaser is a small collection of hackers, designers, scientists, and engineers focused on improving the technologies behind soft robotics. Super-Releaser is currently developing medical device prototypes, collaborating with universities offering soft robotics manufacturing expertise, and hacking away at making better robots. Source: Blog — Super-Releaser Robotics Works by Matthew Borgetti http://har.ms/

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Turning Data Visualization Into Art: Data as a Muse

Turning Data Visualization Into Art: 7 Artists Use Data as a Muse. Artists are using available technology to create masterpieces out of everything from disease and weather to Wi-Fi and the music of internet chatter. Though we generally think of artists as slaves to a flash of inspiration, to the fickle muse, artistry today is interactive and deeply… Continue reading Turning Data Visualization Into Art: Data as a Muse

Making the work survive the long-term / error handling

Notes: Long form work needs to have plans to keep it running (ref Ken Goldberg’s MementoMori, and LongPlayer and Walter de Maria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Earth_Room) New NMRs and new tags – add system to pick up new tag and log it [detect if tag is in tag db, of not add it. check Primary Key status as… Continue reading Making the work survive the long-term / error handling

Ken Goldberg – Mori and Bloom (real-time seismic data)

Making Art Out of Earthquakes – The Atlantic. Mori http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/mori/ Bloom (in collaboration with Fernanda and Viegas – http://hint.fm/projects/bloom/ ) references http://www.kennethnoland.com/ – an abstract painter. nice. I also think it is very similar to the Wired piece they did in 2008. Hmmm. In this interview, KG talks about making a long-form artwork. This is… Continue reading Ken Goldberg – Mori and Bloom (real-time seismic data)

  • Michelle Hua of *Made With Glove*.

    • Christine Farion ‘s research on

assistive wearables, specifically bags with electronic memory aids.
Ariel Garten, female founder and CEO of Muse, the brain sensing
headband here.

Python tips

Creating the code on Mac OS, to switch to Pi later ensure pip install and upgraded $ sudo pip install -U setuptools $ sudo pip install pyserial $ brew install mysql-connector-c ( on Mac OSX you need the mysql connection lib, will be installed if XCode installed apparently, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16182294/installing-mysql-python-on-mac-os-x) $ sudo pip install MySQL-python… Continue reading Python tips

Raspberry Pi set-up (old)

On mac, Download NOOBS from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/ Unzip Format the microSD using SDFormatter software (I’ve used a 32GB card as I want to be able to backup the NMR data locally, just-in-case. This could be done to a USB stick too I guess). Copy files from root of NOOBS to freshly formatted SD card. Put card… Continue reading Raspberry Pi set-up (old)

Getty vocab usage

Intro to Getty’s cataloguing system. Really helpful page on the difference between Display (text that will be read by the end-user) and Indexing (text that uses a controlled vocabulary (AAT) for finding and accessing the works) https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/intro_to_cco_cdwa.pdf [pdf] DISPLAY VS INDEXING Patricia Harpring © 2015 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not… Continue reading Getty vocab usage

Big Bang Data

Exhibition | Big Bang Data. Use exhibition for the analysis of how data is described in data art.

mechanisation of mental labour – notes

Nice couple of mind maps about mechanising mental labour. These relate to the ideas behind We Need Us (ref the VISAP 2015 paper specifically). GoConqr – Introduction to mechanisation of mental labour.   https://www.goconqr.com/en/p/476668-mechanisation-in-the-mechanisation-of-mental-labour-mind_maps  

Firewalld / iptables

on pew, i removed the iptables and engaged firewalld. These are firewalls that protect the server from unwanted incoming connections. Check status (you cannot run iptables AND firewalld, but firewalld is recommended now to usurp iptables) $ systemctl status iptables Disable and mask iptables $ sudo systemctl stop iptables $ sudo systemctl mask iptables Enable… Continue reading Firewalld / iptables

The Performing Data Project @ FACT

The Performing Data Project – FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology).   14 July 2015 – 21 July 2015 The Performing Data Project presents a series of artworks, informal presentations and a makers session exploring the concept of performing data.

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