E-Traces: Ballet Slippers That Make Drawings From The Dancer’s Movements If you’re like me, then you may have been accused of dispensing some questionable moves in the vicinity of the dance floor. I’ve always maintained that my critics simply couldn’t grasp the subtlety of my particular style of physical expression, and now I just may have a means of illustrating my point with an ingenious piece of wearable electronics by designer Lesia Trubat González called E-Traces. The concept of Electronic Traces is based on capturing dance movements and transforming them into visual sensations through the use of new technologies. To do this we focused on the ballet shoes themselves, which through the contact with the ground, and thanks to Lilypad Arduino technology, record the pressure and movement of the dancer’s feet and send a signal to an electronic device. A special application will then allow us to show this data graphically and even customize it to suit each user, through the different functions of this app. [via Prosthetic Knowledge]
This ingenious musician composes his tubes with sausage Produire de l’électricité avec une patate ou un citron était trop simple. Désormais, on peut faire de la musique avec des saucisses ! Un musicien complètement déluré s’en est justement chargé pour vos yeux ébahis. Regardez ! PRKTRNIC crée de la musique avec des saucisses. Chez nous, c’est plutôt Leslie qui fait de la musique avec son ventre… Quand elle mange des yaourts ! NASA Posts a Huge Library of Space Sounds, And You're Free To Use Them Space is the place. Again. And SoundCloud is now a place you can find sounds from the US government space agency, NASA. Many of these sounds were available before; I’ve actually used a number of them in my own music. Another thing: you’re free to use all of these sounds as you wish, because NASA’s own audio isn’t copyrighted. Let the space remixing begin. European Space Agency, your move. Update: ESA has started posting downloadable sounds on SoundCloud! Have you made music with space sounds? More Sounds Want more? It’s slower to browse, but there’s an even bigger library on Archive.org. NASA Audio Collection They’re all marked public domain (which is almost certainly the correct license for the above, not Non-Commercial Creative Commons). It gets weird. NASA also has a small page of sounds that seems to be the basis of the above, but the Archive.org collection is bigger. The University of Iowa has a selection of space sounds:Space Audio Comments 1. 2.
Panel discussion – (un)natural systems and (de)composition: abstraction, reducibility and audibility | what is sound design…? 27-29 November 2013 Sound is an experience of inhabitation. It is a sign of organisms and materials in interaction, of the formation, flow and dissolution of systems. This experience is historically, culturally, socially, materially situated: our sonic experience is embroiled with the systems in which we dwell. Sound is emergent. Sound is unruly. Against a backdrop of technocracy, of being administered through systems and reductions in which there is depleting democratic involvement, how do workers with sound approach re-animating sound-as-data, to render it a convivial part of a lived and liveable world? This panel will be chaired by Dr. Sandra Pauletto, Chris Watson, Adam Linson, and Marco Donnarumma. Register to attend - www.wisd-day-03-pm.eventbrite.com Panelist Details Chris Watson is one of the world’s leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena, and for Touch he edits his field recordings into a filmic narrative. Marco looks at the collision of critical creativity with humanized technologies.
Visualizing Our Tech Worship With Giant Webs of Circuitry Technological mandala 20 - Resonator, 2014. Leonardo Ulian <div class="slide" data-slide-id="1579293" ><img title="" alt="" width="650px" src=" data-image-width="1200" data-image-height="900" /><p class="caption">Technological mandala 20 - Resonator, 2014.<span class="credit"><img class="photo" width="650px" src=" Leonardo Ulian </span></p><div class="desc"><div class="slide-counter"></div><div>Technological mandala 20 - Resonator, 2014. For Italian artist Leonardo Ulian, this is our universe. Dances With Google Glass | Carla Escoda In June 2013, Google launched a competition on Twitter soliciting bids from people interested in beta-testing its latest foray into wearable high tech. Since 'beta-tester' conjures up visions of bearded geeks in hoodies glued to their Retina displays, some marketing genius at Google coined the term 'Google Glass Explorers' and put a snapshot of a dusky model with pouty lips, a tousled mane, and a sleek band of titanium on her forehead, on the home page of Glass. (Photo: Reuters) The world was invited to pitch its ideas to Google, appended to the hashtag #IfIHadGlass. The winners would have to pony up $1,500 for the privilege of membership in a highly exclusive club of early adopters, but were expected to drive everyone else mad with envy. A year later, several thousand Google Glass Explorers find themselves roaming the earth, muttering "OK, Glass" and tapping their temples vigorously. Does it matter whether the masses think Glass looks dorky?
Bierstadt Drones Drones programmed for light painting in the sky | FlowingData What do you get when you put LEDs on a system of drones and then program them to fly in formation? Spaxels from the Ars Electronic Futurelab. Spaxels are quadcopters equipped with a programmable LED system. See the system in action in the video below. [via Creative Applications] Art, Science and the Sublime: 3 questions with Anna Dumitriu » IAI TV Is the Romantic idea of the sublime still relevant? Yes, says Anna Dumitriu, and not just for art, but for science too. Anna Dumitriu is a Brighton-based contemporary artist best known for her work in bio-art. Her practice encompasses installations, interventions and performances, often incorporating diverse materials such as bacteria, robotics, digital projections and embroidery, Dumitriu seeks to blur the boundaries between the arts and the sciences. Dumitriu is founder and Director of the Institute of Unnecessary Research and lead artist on the "Trust me, I'm an artist: towards an ethics of art/science collaboration" project working with the Waag Society in Amsterdam. Nature has always been one of the most powerful ways of accessing the sublime. Science is a means of study the natural world, in all its forms, and for making predictions about it. Is science is encroaching on art’s territory, or vice-versa? The sublime an experience somewhere between terror and awe.
Idiots: an animated film with robots on planned obsolescence and dependence on mobile - Geeks and Com ' Sur le site on n’arrête pas de parler de l’actualité des nouvelles technologies avec le dernier produit ou le dernier service. Et c’est vrai qu’aujourd’hui, le cycle de renouvellement des produits s’est accéléré parfois en raison des nouveaux besoins que l’on se crée mais aussi parfois en raison de la durée de vie des produits plus courte qu’auparavant. Le film d’animation iDiots joue sur cette double thématique de la dépendance au téléphone et de l’obsolescence programmée en mettant en scène des robots qui achètent massivement un nouveau téléphone. Ils vont alors découvrir de nouvelles applications et services qui les accrochent à leur iDiot 4 jusqu’à la mort de leur téléphone… et l’arrivée du prochain modèle! À noter que les robots présents dans la vidéo sont de vrais modèles japonais vendus en kit. Au fond nous sommes tous un peu des iDiots à certains moments de notre vie et sur certains sujets avec des choses que nous ne contrôlons pas toujours même si on le pense!