Digimech clock
Duncan Shotton’s digimech clock via NOTCOT. Numbers are printed on vertical sliders and only reveal themselves when shifted into perfect alignment with the ‘display box’. When not aligned they look like random, alien forms…
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Kosmoscope will abstractly inform you of an earthquake
The “Kosmoscope” is a new installation by artist Tim Redfern that utilizes earthquake data from the publically accessible Global Seismographic Network to form kaleidoscopic patterns in order to create the illusion of an impossibly large, hanging sphere, composed of abstract computer generated graphics. The project will be on display at the DarkLight Digital Festival in […]
Add your own images to other people’s photos with the Image Fulgurator
The “Image Fulgurator” by Berlin-based artist Julius von Bismarck (which recently picked up a Golden NICA at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival) is a device that physically manipulates photographs by implanting messages onto the object being photographed. The device senses if a camera’s flash goes off and synchronizes a projection on the object being photographed […]
Kinetic ring sculpture keeps you on edge
‘Arduino inside!’ After a long day’s work, it’s nice to settle down in a comfy chair and – Freak out with some clanky metal sculpture! A kinetic model made with recycled metal, a bipolar stepper motor (ripped out of an old scanner), a L293D dual H-bridge and programmed with an arduino. In short it makes […]
Uber Ultraman
Artomatic, the gargantuan art free-for-all (1000 artists!), recently closed in DC. I went five times and never saw all ten floors. One “trend” I saw in the art was the use of action figures, dolls parts, and toys in a lot of the work. One guy used the doors of vintage refrigerators, torn open as […]
Taxidermy and plant takeover installation
Plugimi @ We Make Money Not Art writes: Artist and taxidermist Reid Peppard‘s narrative environment Not With a Bang but a Whimper asks what would happen if we just ended today. Set in the office of someone mysterious who had a taste for stuffed rats (or did they conduct experiments on them?), plants are taking […]
Biophonitos breathes new life to zoetropes
Using a combination of the Arduino controller, wood and cardboard cutouts, as well as Processing code, the “Biophionitos” project attempts to generate artificial life through the use of zoetropes that spin in an offsetting motion in order to give the drawings “biological” movements. Download the shapes, print them out, assemble them along with the video […]