Tomorrow night (Thurs. Nov 13) at 7pm: Workshop on using the Arduino microcontroller to control and sense the physical world.

Arduino made it into the most recent issue of Wired magazine.

Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?

Sensing / Acting workshop
Instructor Sam Sheffield

Who says your artwork has to sit still and be unresponsive to viewers. This workshop will introduce students to microcontrollers, a small computer you can use to detect, motion, heat, light touch or many other things. These devices can also allow you to control movement and talk to more traditional computers to control video, sound or whatever else you would like. In particular we will look at the Arduino microcontroller.

Media Installation

Next Thursday @ 7pm in the Grad Lab

So you spents weeks or months creating video, audio and other multimedia artworks. How do you go about showing it? We will cover some important aspects of display media based work in exhibitions. What equipment is available to you for exhibitions, how to loop a DVD, what if I have more than one screen, projector. How do I deal with sound are all questions we will answer.

The hours for printing, checkout and grad lab TIs are now posted on our hours page.

The new Radiohead video is shot completely without a camera using advanced live action 3D scanners in development at UCLA.

Here is the making of video.

And the finished product.

The idea apparently came from electronic artist and UCLA researcher Aaron Koblin, whose work was featured in Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA.

This Scientific American post has more details.

We have a much more primitive device available at the lab that can scan small objects (No movement.) If you interested talk to lab coordinator, Kelly Egan. 

A new art and technology group has formed in Baltimore: Dorkbot.

Don’t be scared of the name. Originating in New York the group is a meeting of artists, engineers and scientists interested in the crossover of their fields. Currently the group is meets once a month on Tuesdays at the Creative Alliance. The next meeting will be August 19th.

The meetings are mix of formal presentations of various art, science and engineering projects. In addition there is always an open forum at every meeting for impromtu presentations, annoucements and calls for help.

The website can be found at : http://bmoredorkbot.org/

A new art and technology group has formed in Baltimore: Dorkbot.

Don’t be scared of the name. Originating in New York the group is a meeting of artists, engineers and scientists interested in the crossover of their fields. Currently the group is meets once a month on Tuesdays at the Creative Alliance. The next meeting will be August 19th.

The meetings are mix of formal presentations of peoples various art, science and engineering projects. In addition there is always an open forum at every meeting for impromtu presentations, annoucements and calls for help.

The website can be found at : http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotbmore

This is an interesting web project. It is a way to map and network sensor data from various locations world wide. Individual attach their sensor devices to the network, to let others view. Perhaps taking room temperature of a flat in London, or humidity off the California cost. This project seems to provide a lot possibilities for collaboration and reuse.

The project is called Pachube (http://www.pachube.com/).

Originally from the Make Blog.

"New research that makes creative use of sensitive location-tracking data from 100,000 cellphones in Europe suggests that most people can be found in one of just a few locations at any time, and that they do not generally go far from home.

“Individuals display significant regularity, because they return to a few highly frequented locations, such as home or work,” the researchers found.

That might seem like science and mountains of data being marshaled to prove the obvious. But the researchers say their work, which also shows that people exhibit similar patterns whether they travel long distances or short ones, could open new frontiers in fields like disease tracking and urban planning."Read More

Here's some music we created from converting remote control signals to sound.

Better than watching TV.

"H.P. Unveils New Memory Technology"

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