The Popcorn Makers

C'était un Rendez-Vous

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:26:00 -0400

A short film made in 1976 by Claude Lelouch, showing a high speed drive through Paris.

Analog Experiment

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:22:13 -0400

Max Frey - Rotor d/64

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:15:54 -0400

A circular light drawing is created through single controlled LEDs on a rotor. On the program discs there are etched drawings which are powered with electricity. For each light source exists a sliding contact. With the contact onto copper, the electricity runs through and a particular light shines.

Max Frey

Untitled Sound Objects

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:00 -0400

The «Untitled Sound Objects» are created by using computer controlled small machines and robots, in combination with different materials which are used as sound sources.

By Zimoun

There are No Forbidden Thoughts

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:15:51 -0400

By Pravdoliub Ivanov

Connect / Feedback-driven sculpture

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:49:00 -0400

Thirteen oscillating spheres of steel are connected to a matrix by rubber bands. A bar with a magnet at either end controls the behavior of each of the system elements. Once a sphere is connected to the bar, it is oscillated by a motor until the bar detaches and makes a new connection to another sphere. No randomness or chaos needs to be simulated, because the constantly rebuilt physical structure of the sculpture becomes its own analog program for non-linear behavior. So the system produces complex behavior even though its structure and rules are simple.

Connect by Andreas Muxel

Ann Veronica Janssens

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:43:26 -0400

Ann Veronica Janssens questions the elusive. She tries less to grasp the impalpable and chooses to experiment with its multiple forms and apparitions instead. Janssens work is based on one’s sensorial experience, the encounter of the body and the space. She uses light, colour and sound to create experiences that heighten a viewer’s perception and awareness of space and movement. The visitor – whom Janssens disorientates by the modification and destruction of the known space – is an integral part of her installations. She engages all senses to render the immaterial visible and tangible.

05-09-2009 > 06-12-2009 - Exhibitions of Ann Veronica Janssens in Brussels WIELS

Tennis for Two

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:26:21 -0400

Tennis for Two was a game developed in 1958 on an analog computer, which simulates a game of tennis or ping pong on an oscilloscope. Created by American physicist William Higinbotham, it is important in the history of video games as one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

Still life

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:48:59 -0400

This ‘still life’, a selection of store bought cosmetic bottles, was cast in pigmented rubber. By stripping the products of their brand recognition, logos, or semiotic labeling, one begins to see the high aesthetic quality of these objects and a latent eroticism is revealed.

By David Baskin

Autoportrait

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:50:52 -0400

In ‘autoportrait’ machine and visitor are placed in the relationship of portrait-maker and model, of artist and subject. Though the act of creation originates with the machine, the function of image-reproduction is itself an image of human creativity.

By Robolab

Scared Cube

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:12:54 -0400

Scared Cube is a two-wheeled, easy to control robot, equipped with five high power leds and covered with a cube of plexiglass. It is the only light in a cubic room.
“Scared Robot” tries to make people perceive it as a simple living creature, an animal that acts on its own according to one of natures most basic concepts, the concept of escaping.

by Sebastian Neitsch and Jan Bernstein. Exhibited in Santralistanbul.

Hit Counter

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:51:00 -0400

Using facial recognition software, Hit Counter narcissistically counts the number of people who have viewed it, and displays that number as the artwork.

It is a throwback to the early days of the internet when hit counters were proudly displayed as signs of social status, re-contextualized into the gallery environment.

Another application by Zach Gage, made with openframeworks

Unify

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:26:00 -0400

Unify is a multi-touch block dropping puzzle game.

Instead of controlling a single block dropping from the top towards the bottom, players control two blocks, one coming in from each side, simultaneously.

As you progress, the colors and music evolve.

by Zach Gage and audio by carlos hernandez

Nearness

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:06:00 -0400

The film Nearness explores interacting without touching.
Made by Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall.

Found on Touch

GPS Beatmap

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:34:00 -0400

Face Removal Services created the Beatmap, a GPS-based music instrument that transforms the face of the planet into an enormous DJ booth.

Looping musical phrases are represented on a map as overlapping circular territories. As the vehicle approaches the center of a circle, the volume increases. In areas of the map where territories overlap the vehicle generates dynamic mixes of the overlapping musical phrases. By exploring a very large map of many overlapping territories the Beatmap creates complex, dynamic mash-ups.

More detail, check this.

The eyewriter.

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:43:00 -0400

Real Time Eye Bombing.

It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus + custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

The Free Art and Technology
Stay tuned for related free software, source code and DIY hardware guide.

OFFF PARIS 2010

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:36:57 -0400

Great news, OFFF post-digital festival will take place in Paris. June 24,25,26 “La Grande Halle de La Villette”
the Mill agency, projector INC and Daniel Shiffman have just been confirmed and will share their creativity.

Pechakucha Paris Volume 9.

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:35:00 -0400

PechaKucha Paris volume 9 was great fun! Some picture can be found here. what is Pecha kucha? Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Tracking

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:10:39 -0400

A Series of 24 A3 drawings investigating vhs image tracking using the rewind, play, pause, record, fast forward and stop icons by Melvin Galapon

OpenCV Ribbon

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:16:00 -0400

Tracking face, built with processing and openCV library by l00oo.oo00l