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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
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natural rejection — Kurt Kaminski
Electronically captured arrangements of matter and energy by Kurt Kaminski.
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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 and, in a two-storey solo exhibition, offer a survey of his enduring yet wide-ranging investigation of the ways and means used to communicate scientific data.
his new work POL (POLE), based on extensive geomagnetic measurements at the North and South Pole. This data is transmitted live to Overgaden throughout the entire exhibition period, where it is converted into colourful, abstract compositions projected on the front of and inside the building.
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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…
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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 definition in their introduction to “Raw Data” is an Oxymoron. Data “has become what is called a mass noun, so it can take a singular verb”
Trevor Owen argues that “data is an artifact or a text that can hold the same potential evidentiary value as any other kind of artifact,” but data itself “is not a kind of evidence; it is a potential source of information that can hold evidentiary value”
Gitelman, Jackson, Owen, and Michael Witmore divorce “data” from the computer. Gitelman and Jackson think of “data as a matter of disciplines”
Jean-Francois Blanchette explains that “bits move up from their grounding as signals in some physical media (fiber optic, magnetic drive, electrical wires) to binary information organized according to units defined by each layer (file, datagram, etc.)”
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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 makes really lovely designed sensors for home and body. Acquired by AirBNB in 2015.
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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 nice confirmation stamp. Thank you for your contribution!
Uses third party facial recog software and collects fingers prints. https://rekognition.com/
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Hiroshi Ishii of MIT Media Lab – Tangible Media Design
Hiroshi Ishii is waging a war against the “pixel empire” — with art and design
Source: WIRED2015: Hiroshi Ishii of MIT Media Lab hates pixels
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Setting up iMac (OSXYosemite 10.10.5)
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install -U setuptools
$ sudo pip install pyserialinstall 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
- Check MariaDB version in brew repo
$ brew info mariadb
- Install MariaDB
$ brew install mariadb
- Run the Database Installer (change the version number in the path to match where MariaDB was installed in previous step)
$ unset TMPDIR
$ cd /usr/local/Cellar/mariadb/10.0.21/
$ mysql_install_db- Start MariaDB
$ mysql.server start
- Secure the Installation
$ mysql_secure_installation
- Connect to MariaDB
$ mysql -u root -p
- Verify MariaDB Version
$ select @@version;
Fabulous source of the above instructions – https://mariadb.com/blog/installing-mariadb-10010-mac-os-x-homebrew
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- $ sudo pip install MySQL-python
$ sudo pip install PyMySQL
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- plug in USB to serial convertor and a sensor. You may have FTDI drivers installed – check using from root dir:
$ ls /dev/cu.*
You are looking for /dev/cu.usbserial or /dev/tty.usbserial (see http://pbxbook.com/other/mac-tty.html )
If not showing up install driver at http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=229&pcid=41 and restart.
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- Change path in conn.py to be correct serial port path:
ser0 = serial.Serial(‘/dev/tty.usbserial’, 9600, timeout=5)
- and fuck me this all worked straight away. I am learning after all.
Update 13th Nov 2015
To get up and running on the command line:
$ mysql.server start
then
$ mysql -u root -p
created nmr db on iMac and created tables using latest schema hosted on github.TODO – export database from pew and install on imac so that nmr_index contains a tag ID that it can match.
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Paper: diff responses by brain to pure motion vs video
J Cogn Neurosci. 2003 Oct 1;15(7):991-1001.
FMRI responses to video and point-light displays of moving humans and manipulable objects.
Beauchamp MS1, Lee KE, Haxby JV, Martin A. -
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Private I – exhibition Signal | Noise
Every day, the data you leave behind is being used to make decisions about, and money out of, you. Your data can make or break your reputation but it also has the potential to help make cities safer or cure diseases. This exhibition asks you to decide, do you accept the terms and conditions?
Check back for list of artists and artworks to add to translatingdata.org DB.
Includes Superflux
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Margaret Atwood: we are double-plus unfree
Our leaders are applying the methods of agribusiness cattle-raising to us: ear-tag, barcode, number, sort, record. And cull, of course.
Source: Margaret Atwood: we are double-plus unfree | Books | The Guardian
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Raspberry Pi Maintenance (Raspian, RPi2)
Update and Upgrade software:
$ sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
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Server Maintenance (RHEL, pew)
Update and Upgrade software:
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum upgrade
OR, use the below is you can’t be arsed to review and accept changes (not recommended):
$ sudo yum -y update && yum -y upgrade
Check services are running – all should be active (running) and enabled to start on boot:
$ service httpd status
$ service mariadb status
$ service firewalld statusList all zones:
$ sudo firewall-cmd –permanent –zone=public –list-all
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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 frameworks (Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.)
Source: Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester
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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 pair.Interupts so that if the motor hits the switch the programme will shut down. This is initiated at setup and sits in the background.
Moulds / 3D printing:
Silicone objects:
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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
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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?
Tower Power: Truss, Trust and Reengineering ParticipationDelusions of immateriality
Database politics and social simulations
OneTree(s) the FAQ(PDF)
Neologisms(PDF)
Source: bibliography | Natalie JeremijenkoNatalie Jeremijenko
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Neri Oxman – Material Ecology
Source: Publications | Neri Oxman
Use refs in some of these papers for the soft robots lit review
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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 / @medialab Mediated Matter
Use of fluid in 3D printed material. Use as a ref for soft robots.
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Bureau of Inverse Technology
Early tech art from Natalie Jeremijenko and Kate Rich
Source: BIT: index(BIT)
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Single entry
No record was found.
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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/
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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 affected by the information age. As we communicate through our computers, tablets or smart phones, artists too are working through a digital lens, using the parameters of scientific data and information design as a source of inspiration.
While the mapping of the physical world is nothing new — think anatomy textbooks, for instance — now data like heart rates and Wi-Fi channels can be transformed into something creative, even interactive. Here are a few projects that use scientific data as their muse.
inc Stanza, Luke Jerram (?), Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen, Di Mainstone, David Bowen (Cloud Piano)
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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 the nmr_data will not accept a tag ID is it isn’t in nmr_tag_id table]
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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 what the NMR pieces will be – as long as the NMR community perpetuate and procreate the work can be ‘fed’ by the data. How do we create online work that has the ability to survive long-term?
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Michelle Hua <https://twitter.com/madewithglove> of *Made With Glove*.
- Christine Farion <http://christinefarion.com/my-work/>‘s research on
assistive wearables, specifically bags with electronic memory aids.
Ariel Garten, female founder and CEO of Muse, the brain sensing
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Michelle Hua <https://twitter.com/madewithglove> of *Made With Glove*.
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The Historic Development of network visualization
POSTER: THE HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT OF NETWORK VISUALIZATION
via Jürgen Pfeffer.
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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$ sudo pip install PyMySQL [alternative called pymysql which is a Python client connection to MySQL , follows same API as MySQL-python and works with Python 3 – this works so far…]
Can’t TCP into the server db so use SSH
sudo pip install paramiko [which also installs pycrypto and ecdsa]>> import serial
>> import MySQLdbFor Pi:
- apt-get install python-mysqldb
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Artificial Nature
Artificial Nature is a research project and an evolving series of art installations by Haru Ji and Graham Wakefield.
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Raspberry Pi set-up (old)
On mac, Download NOOBS from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/
UnzipFormat 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 in Raspi and power up. Follow install instructs.
To enter networking details use Run: wpa_gui BUT I have always had issues when doing this – unless your credentials are perfect the network is likely to mess up, and you’ll need to reset the wpa_supplicant.conf file. ALWAYS make a copy of a working version before editing it, manually or via the GUI.
Making a copy of a file:
Always – Update and Upgrade
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get upgrade
Which version of Debian running?
$ lsb_release -a- Generate SSH key on Pi and add public key to pew.
- Add laptop public key to pi for ssh without passwrd
- Install tightvncserver in case I need to access the GUI on the pi (i.e. for node-red)
Setting up a light sensor on GPIO pins HEREHERE
This is for PEW I think:
To ensure start-up of these services on reboot (ensure you use the .service):
$ sudo systemctl enable firewalld.service
$ sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
$ sudo systemctl enable httpd.serviceOther commands:
$ sudo systemctl status firewalld
$ sudo systemctl start firewalld
$ sudo systemctl stop firewalld- set-up static IP
access port 3306 on pew through frank
$ ssh -NfL 9000:pew.eecs.qmul.ac.uk:3306 USERNAMEHERE@frank.eecs.qmul.ac.ukSet-up Python:
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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 distribute.
- Display refers to how the data looks to the end user in the database, on a Web site, on a wall or slide label, or in a publication
- Information for display should be in a format that is easily read and understood by users
- Free-text or concatenated from controlled fields
- Indexing refers to the process of evaluating information and designating indexing terms by using controlled vocabulary that will aid in finding and accessing the cultural work record
- By human labor, not to the automatic parsing of data into a database index
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Jerzy Kedziora – Balancing Sculptures
Jerzy Kedziora – Balancing Sculptures.
Use this guys as an example of a traditional artist that knows his material so well he can fabricate the fine balancing safely.
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ADA | Archive of Digital Art
Home – ADA | Archive of Digital Art.
Use for analysis of descriptions of dat art
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Big Bang Data
Use exhibition for the analysis of how data is described in data art.
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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
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AVID minitrackers commands
C [67] = continuous read mode ON
c [99] = continuous read mode OFF
B [66] = beep ON
b [98] = beep OFF
[32] = toggle read/stop [will need to send this periodically (every 30 secs?) to stop reader getting ‘stuck’
$ [36] = 3 min warning beep OFF- [35] = 3 min warning beep ON
NOTE: numbers in [ ] are the ascii codes for the characters.
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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 iptablesDisable and mask iptables
$ sudo systemctl stop iptables
$ sudo systemctl mask iptablesEnable firewalld
$ systemctl enable firewalld
Start firewalld
$ systemctl start firewalld
open port for db
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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.