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NIKLAS ROY – My little piece of privacy

Redazione — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:10:29 +0000

My workshop is located in an old storefront with a big window facing towards the street. In an attempt to create more privacy inside, I’ve decided to install a small but smart curtain in that window. The curtain is smaller than the window, but an additional surveillance camera and an old laptop provide it with intelligence: The computer sees the pedestrians and locates them. With a motor attached, it positions the curtain exactly where the pedestrians are.

The whole setup works really well. But in the end, it doesn’t protect my privacy at all. It seems that the existence of my little curtain is leading itself ad absurdum, simply by doing its job very well. My moving curtain attracts the looks of people which usually would never care about my window. It is even the star of the street, now! My curtain is just engaged. And because of that, it fails.

Niklas Roy - My little piece of privacy

http://www.niklasroy.com/project/88/my-little-piece-of-privacy/

JONATHAN HARRIS – The Whale Hunt

Redazione — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:29:55 +0000

“In May 2007, I spent nine days living with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost settlement in the United States. I documented their traditional whale hunt with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, taken at five-minute intervals for seven days, and at even higher frequencies in moments of high adrenaline. This established a constant “photographic heartbeat” that more or less matched the changing pace of my own heartbeat, and which recorded every moment of the hunt. I then developed a framework for experiencing this story, allowing the viewer to rearrange the photographic elements of the story to extract multiple sub-stories focused around different people, places, topics, and other variables.”

thewhalehunt.org

http://www.number27.org/whalehunt.html

TRISTAN WURST – The WURSTable

Redazione — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:25:09 +0000

WURSTable – Multitouch controller with Max/MSP/jitter & Ableton Live

WURSTable Demo @ Le Bon Accueil from Tristan Wurst on Vimeo.

http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/7328/