The Image Fulgurator from volker racho on Vimeo.
Short Documentary about Julius von Bismarck and his Image Fulgurator.
Chapters:
1: Intro
2: Holy Obama
3: Magritt and Mao
4: Politics powered by O2
Director:
Richard Wilhelmer
Kamera:
Richard Wilhelmer + Linda Kuhn + mixed footage
more information:
juliusvonbismarck.com
richardwilhelmer.com
Emotoscope is a device that gives you an experience of missing time.
Recent digital recording devices such as digital cameras or video cameras make it possible for us to take thousands of pictures or videos with high quality image, but as much as it becomes convenient, we are losing the opportunity of looking at things more carefully.
For this reason, I sometimes use an analog film camera to shoot my everyday life and play the films with a projector. Every time I watch film, it gives me nostalgic and emotional feelings. Then I start to miss the moment that I was there. The experiences become very precious to me. Why couldn’t I see that the moment was precious to me? If I can see present time as if seeing past experience, how would I feel by that?
http://www.kenichiokada.com/projects/2007/emotoscope.html
Sonicity is a responsive installation, a sonification of the data space. The sounds you hear are the sound of the changing environment, ie the changes of noise, light, temperature of the space is turned into a real time sound stream using dozens of wireless sensors.
This project investigates the real time space and the experience of the gallery visitor as they interact with the space, using data gathered from new technologies. The system monitors the space (the building) and the environment (the city) and captures live real time data ( light , temperature, noise, humidity, position) to create an ambient sonification, an acoustic responsive environment, literally the sound of the micro incidents of change that occur over time.
http://stanza.co.uk/sonicity/
hacking the virtual and real representations of Google Earth (as many artists have done before him), Dutch artist Helmut Smits follows in this continuum with "Dead Pixel in Google Earth". The project is a physical landscaping alteration that burns an 82 cm x 82 cm size square in a field of grass, which measures the equivalent of one pixel of data at an altitude of 1 km when seen with Google Earth.
http://www.helmutsmits.nl/english/deadpixele.html
Artificial Smile
The camera „Artificial Smile“ is an apparat, whose pictures show in principle only smiling people, irrespective of their former emotional state. The camera uses a pool of pictures with smiling faces, which was created beforehand, to replace the mouthes of the pictured people with smiling ones.
http://digital.udk-berlin.de/en/hauptstudium/artificial-smile
Quello che non sapete su Gaza di Rashid Khalidi (NYTimes, 7-1-09)
Quasi tutto quello che siete stati portati a credere su Gaza è sbagliato. Alcuni punti essenziali sembrano mancare dal discorso, svoltosi per lo più sulla stampa, circa l’attacco di Israele alla striscia di Gaza.
http://www.danieleluttazzi.it/node/373
spinCycle is a turntable that allows you to arrange and play colors visually and musically.spinCycle is fitted with a camera that takes the place of tonearm on a normal turntable. Rather than a needle playing grooves in a record, spinCycle creates sounds based on colors that the camera sees.
http://www.spencerkiser.com/spincycle/
The "Logo_Wiki" project by Wayne Clements catalogs some of the institutions (companies and government agencies) involved in editing Wikipedia pages in order to expose how these entities are skewing the information on the free, online encyclopedia. Clements adds the logos of the offending corporations where the Wikipedia logo is supposed to be in order to drive his point further. This form of viewing the special interests editing public websites was made possible with "WikiScanner", a software tool written by Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith.
http://www.in-vacua.com/logo_wiki.html
Nel 1984 Klaus Maeck girò un film underground che diventerà profetico. Con una colonna sonora straordinaria per l'epoca - Soft Cell, Einsturzsende Neubauten, The The - e un cast di attori eccezionale - W.S. Burroughs, G.P. Orridge degli Psychic TV, F.M. Einheit degli Einsturzende Neubauten e la vera Christiana F. (dello Zoo di Berlino) - questo film sintetizzò l'innovazione trasgressiva che il punk portò nel campo della comunicazione e intuì la rivoluzione del cyberpunk.
http://www.ngvision.org/mediabase/83
Double-Taker (Snout), Interactive Robot from Golan Levin on Vimeo.
"Double-Taker (Snout)" (interactive installation, 2008) deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant's trunk, which responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity. Sited on a low roof above a museum entrance, and governed by a real-time machine vision algorithm, Double-Taker (Snout) orients a supersized googly-eye towards passers-by, tracking their bodies and suggesting an intelligent awareness of their activities. The goal of this kinetic system is to perform convincing "double-takes" at its visitors, in which the sculpture appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers — communicating, without words, that there is something uniquely surprising about each of us.
http://www.flong.com/projects/snout/
"scoreLight" is a prototype musical instrument capable of generating sound in real time from the lines of doodles as well as from the contours of three-dimensional objects nearby (hands, dancer's silhouette, architectural details, etc). There is no camera nor projector: a laser spot explores the shape as a pick-up head would search for sound over the surface of a vinyl record - with the significant difference that the groove is generated by the contours of the drawing itself.
http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/scoreLight/
The process of getting used to being constantly watched and monitored by webcams, social networks and unscrupulous invaders of our privacy has certainly had an effect on our expressions and movements. Our everyday gestures have necessarily taken on an artificial quality due to the feeling of always being observed.
http://www.yasminechatila.com/works_stolen_moments.html
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Propagations by Leo Nunez, is an artwork based on cellular automata, but it explores different paths. It's made by fifty robots with a turning light on the top. Users can interact with the robots using a luminous interface, and the whole system evolves via cellular automata rules. The robots are autonomous entities and their simple evolving algorithm is reinforcing this feeling once the spectators are close to them.
http://www.leonunez.com.ar/propagaciones.html
Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
http://www.musopen.com/about.php
There are plenty of scientific facts which testify to the pervasiveness of television, and to the ease with which it affects our consciousness, creating what the author defines as the "image ecology". He focuses on the postwar media art, especially the early video art, not scrutinizing every single major artist of that time, but constructing an analysis of the whole system (a "symbiotic" one he states).
http://www.neural.it/art/2008/12/david_joselit_feedback_televis.phtml
A surveillance camera being used to monitor public space was hijacked and reinstalled in a subway station. The camera was used intentionally to broaden consciousness concerning the problem of increasing lack of privacy. People entering and exiting the station were tracked by the camera, and their “capture” was projected on a station wall.
http://www.environment.pl/interception
Plan your sickness, develop antibodies for the flu and strengthen your immune system the natural way. The INFLU flu collector mask increases the prospect of getting the Swine flu (H1N1) as well as the regular seasonal flu with several hundred percent.
The INFLU flu collector mask has a battery driven micro-fan fitted on the inhalation valve that increases the intake of viruses in ambient air through the respiratory system. The comfortable and convenient mask can be worn in everyday situations such as while commuting to and from work
http://sites.google.com/site/influcollector/
netless. a digital network that is using city public transport as its information carrier. permission-less, distributed and friend-2-friend, netless is an independent communication tactic; invisible digital network that does not need wires or dedicated radio frequencies. alternative communication device that helps its users to avoid such controlled and observed space as the internet. free from governmentally owned medium channels (radio frequency ranges, emission power regulations), proprietary locked technologies and cable networks, netless stays Yours Truly.
http://k0a1a.net/netless/
Although human eyes are marvelous sensors, they don’t tell us the whole story. The effect called persistence of vision limits our ability to percieve rapidly changing light sources. Thus if a light source is blinking or modulating faster than about 20 times a second, it appears continuous. However, there are many types of light around us that oscillate and modulate much faster than that, coming from both nature and technological sources. I’ve been curious to hear these modulations for quite a while.
http://ericarcher.net/devices/sound-cameras/
Do you want to have a great sleep? Do you want to stop your baby from crying? Do you want to mask outside sounds? Do you want to simply relax? You need white noise.
No matter where you are, our free white noise player is always available. You only need an Internet connection. Please select your favorite channel. This free service runs 24 hours a day.
www.whitenoiseplayer.com
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A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records.
http://www.yurisuzuki.com/soundchaser.html
deadSwap is an offline file sharing system where participants covertly pass a USB stick from one to another. The route of the USB memory stick and the identity of the other participants is not known by the users but controlled by local, independently operated SMS gateways that are kept as a carefully shared secret by their users.
http://www.deadswap.net/
