Edward Ihnatowicz - The Senster. Edward Ihnatowicz was a Cybernetic Sculptor active in the UK in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. His ground-breaking sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience, and reached their height with The Senster, a large (15 feet long), hydraulic robot commissioned by the electronics giant, Philips, in Eindhoven in 1970. The sculpture used sound and movement sensors to react to the behaviour of the visitors.
It was one of the first computer controlled interactive robotic works of art. Alex Zivanovic, a Visiting Scholar at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, has been researching the work of Edward Ihnatowicz and building an excellent archive which is available online. Photo Gallery | System Details including Original Code | Structural Design Ihnatowicz’s interest in the kinetics stemmed from his conviction that the behaviour of something tells us far more about it than its appearance. Oursler_Hello?.mpg. CAVE® - A Virtual Reality Theater - 1993. Virtusphere 3D Game Interface. Humphrey II. RAM | Rethinking Art & Machine. GravityGrabber - SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies. GravityGrabber - Tachi Lab. "Gravity Grabber" provides a new form of ubiquitous haptic interaction that delivers weight sensations of virtual objects. Gravity Grabber is derived from the novel insight that fingerpad deformation provides a reliable sensation of weight even when proprioceptive sensation is absent.
The goal of this project is to meet the increasing demand for realistic haptic feedback with a simple haptic display that can present realistic sensations of objects. The project team focused on the mass of a virtual object, which contributes to weight and inertia in haptic interaction. If the virtual mass is presented by a haptic device, the user perceives a more realistic sensation of the virtual object.
Conventional wisdom assumes that it is necessary to reproduce proprioceptive sensation in order to present a weight sensation, so most haptic displays that present virtual weight are designed to reproduce the proprioceptive sensation with heavy, grounded devices. Does It Make Scents to Have Fun? 17 N x i 9 j f B A | p Conspiratio | f B A | p v U. Black Rain. Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME’s (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth.
Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME’s, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by. As in Semiconductors previous work ‘Brilliant Noise’ which looked into the sun, they work with raw scientific satellite data which has not yet been cleaned and processed for public consumption. Many thanks to: Chris Davis and Steve Crothers at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK + Stuart Bale and Steven Christe at Space Sciences Lab UC Berkeley, USA ← Back to all artworks.
Telematic Dreaming 1992 original documentary. Telematic Dreaming 1992 original documentary. Edward Ihnatowicz - The Senster. Sermon_Turned_table.mpg. Sonia cillari-se mi sei vicino. My demo reel 2010. Bubbles // Wolfgang Münch - Kiyoshi Furukawa. Pranav Mistry: Ekscytujący potencjał technologii "Szóstego Zmysłu" (SixthSense) Sonia Cillari, Se mi sei vicino, Ars Electronica, 2007. Messa di Voce (Performance version, 2003) Levin_Messa_da_Voce.mpg. Vox Populi - video installation by Don Ritter. Boni_hustawka.avi. Bernie Lubell - Conservation of Intimacy.