prosthetic knowledge
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GIF-TY
Design concept for a camera that can print out a series of small prints to create a flipbook - video embedded below:
Via Yanko Design:
This unique camera allows you to print out short flipbook animations, so that you can physically keep the memories of precious moments alive in a fun way. GIF-TY’s Animations can be physically edited, and clipped on a separately designed module. Nametags can be attached to those clips just like old videotapes.
Technologically: GIF-TY is a combination of a burst-shot camera, and a ‘Zero-Ink’ Printer.
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Clouds
Art installation by Christian Moeller in Utah college library made of blank books, to be filled of any notes from any borrowers:
The location is in the lobby of the new Library of the Dixie College in St. George. Cloud consist of a bookshelf 28’ wide and 22’ high made of custom extruded aluminum in a natural silver color. The bookshelf is holding approximately 12,000 empty sketch books bound in custom dyed linen hardcovers in different colors. The spines of the books read as an abstract composition of color from close proximity and as the image of a dessert cloud from the distance. Students and faculty can borrow books of the Cloud to use them as personal note or scrapbooks and they will be restocked into the Cloud after returned to the library. This way generations of students can actively engage with this art work, it will stay alive and increase its intrinsic value over time.
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Paper Computing Technology
This relates to my previous post in a way; a ‘paper computing’ technology developed by the University of Tokyo in which you can edit a piece of special sheet by hand or by computer interface - via DigInfo:
At the University of Tokyo, the Naemura Group is developing paper computing technology, which can automatically erase, copy and print hand-drawn sketches on paper.
As well as using a camera and computer, this system uses a laser and UV light, making it possible to work directly with the hand-drawn sketches using the computer.
So for example, the user can leave only the edges of hand-written characters, creating 3D like text, or draw a figure by hand and color it in automatically.
You can find out more at DigInfo here
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KindleGlitched by Recyclism aka Benjamin Gaulon
A collection of physical Glitch Art on Kindle E-Readers:
The Aesthetics of Planned Obsolescence / Readymades Glitch Art
KindleGlitched is a series of glitched kindles donated, found or bought on eBay, signed by the artist.
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World Map Of The Physical Internet
Where all the fiber-optic cables connect in the real world, put together by Nicolas Rapp:
If the internet is a global phenomenon, it’s because there are fiber-optic cables underneath the ocean. Light goes in on one shore and comes out the other, making these tubes the fundamental conduit of information throughout the global village. To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable’s copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a 600-pound bluefin tuna.Once a cable reaches a coast, it enters a building known as a “landing station” that receives and transmits the flashes of light sent across the water. The fiber-optic lines then connect to key hubs, known as “Internet exchange points,” which, for the most part, follow geography and population.
Interestingly, one of the highest congregation of cable points are in Manhattan.
More info here - Hi Res version of World Map here
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Richard Banks: Assailed on all sides by digital/physical bits
The images above are cartoons that were used in this blog post, highlighting some articles about the shift from physical to digital tech:
Three things crossed my screen in rapid succession, all ruminating on the issue of the shift on our lives from physical to digital, and the changing nature of our sense of artefacts.
First up is this article in the NYT by Carina Chocano on “The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg”, in which she says:
This is the dilemma of being a cyborg: It’s not just that everything we once committed to memory we now store externally on devices that crash or become obsolete or are rendered temporarily inaccessible due to lack of coverage. And it’s not that we spend a lot of time storing, organizing, pruning and maintaining our access to it all. It’s that we’re collectively engaged in a mass conversion of what we used to call, variously, records, accounts, entries, archives, registers, collections, keepsakes, catalogs, testimonies and memories into, simply, data.
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3D Marching
3D printed zoetrope with strobe effect creates convincing animation effect:
Latest addition is the 3Drehkino disk showing a small figure (ca. 18mm tall) walking in an endless loop. The video below gives an idea, but the original 3D look in real is stunning.
Here is a video of the piece in action:
More about the project (including links to help create your own) can be found at drehkino.de
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Hurricane Noel by Nathalie Miebach
Reed, wood, plastic, data, 32”x32”x36”, 2010
3D Musical Score of the passing of Hurricane Noel through the Gulf of Maine, Nov 6-8, 2007.Sculptural / physical work created using data
There are many more examples of the artist’s work here
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(via auan)
