Archived entries for physical computing
Cyril Leclerc & Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes
Slow pixel
A performance ballet for 176 snails and two humans evolving in a plastic and sound installation. Each of the 176 snails equipped with a technical device becomes an autonomous luminous entity.
Straw Camera
Michael (Mick) Farrell and Cliff Haynes
32,000 10-inch black drinking straw “lenses” that each provided the camera with an f/127 aperture.
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self-regulating systems
Feedback Machines
Project at the Köln International School of Design, Cologne.
Feedback loops are one of the main principles in the control and regulation of autonomous machines.
Adam Brown
Records and Tapes which Do Things
Buncefield Records and Tapes is an independent record label which releases photographs.
Simon Weckert
In the shadow of the darkness
The two objects are pointing to the moon and the sun. The LED lights represent the movement and the brightness of the two planets as seen from the centre of the earth in real-time.
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Flexible Sheet Camera
Flexible Sheet Cameras With Elastic Optics
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from – CAVE | Computer Vision Laboratory – Columbia University
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Jesse England
His output comprises a variety of gadgets, books, videos and assorted ephemera which comment on the changing landscape of contemporary media generation and consumption.
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data physicalization
List of physical visualizations:
A chronological list of physical visualizations and related artifacts,
maintained by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen
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Trevor Paglen
Trinity Cube (2015)
Irradiated broken glass collected from inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone forms the outer layer of this sculpture. The work’s inner core is made out of Trinitite, the mineral created on July 16, 1945 when the United States exploded the world’s first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, heating the desert’s surface to the point where it turned surface sand into a greenish glass.
Random International
Study Of Time / I, 2011
Progressing from the monumental stage set to the immediacy of an artwork, the installation can explore and re-interpret the age-old relation between falling light, shadow and time.
Niklas Roy
My little piece of Privacy
The computer sees the pedestrians and locates them. With a motor attached, it positions the curtain exactly where the pedestrians are.
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