Capacitive touch sensors are used extensively in consumer electronic devices like iphones, laptop touchpads and buttons, but they can also be used as localized proximity sensors, or turning non-conductive materials like glass into physical interfaces for all kinds of electronics projects. Here are a couple of sensors I’ve been experimenting with lately:
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I have a new art-crush candidate for 2009. Actually, I have two but I’ll explain that later in the blog.
Last weekend PleasureDome screened “Hold me now all through the Night,” the first program of Michael Robinson’s videoworks to be shown in Canada, along with a few of the artists’ other favorites like Shana Moulton and Kent Lambert.
Landscape in the works Werner Nekes (for example) sets a stage of another event to unfold. I recall older super 8 films by Vito Acconci where the artist would be a speck of dust on the horizon and then walk to the camera, consuming the focus of the lens and the entire piece. Robinson’s use of landscape (on film, with all it’s lovely colours, crackling and popping) plays on both its historical weight and its general nostalgic impulse. Beautiful shots of landscapes from books in his work You Don’t Bring Me Flowers uses the space between history and nostalgia to still provoke an emotional reaction yet point to their own contrivance.
I felt many people reading this blog would be interested in this, and just in case you didn’t see it on Rhizome, or it’s own blog, I posted here:
The End of Television is a video program beginning when analog television ends. On February 17th, 2009 the U.S. television broadcast signal will change over from analog to digital. No television will receive a signal without a special converter box.
On February 17th, The End of Television will air through analog broadcast TV on channel 2 in Pittsburgh. When broadcasters turn off their analog transmitters The End of Television turns it’s analog transmitter on and broadcasts the program. Using a restricted and nearly obsolete medium (broadcast TV) , The End of Television re-imagines the omnipresent idea of “broadcast yourself.” We are accepting all videos submitted before the deadline and there is no submission fee.
The End of Television will hold a countdown event on the evening of February 16th in Pittsburgh (Location TBA) and at midnight we will flip the switch.
contact: ian.f.page@gmail.com
or visit TheEndOfTelevision.blogspot.com for any updates
send videos to:
The End of Television
331 S. Aiken st
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Deadline:
postmarked by January 25th
- Work should be submitted on miniDV or VHS.
- Work will not be returned unless a SASE is included.
*It should be noted that this program will accept all work submitted, but the program reserves the right to not broadcast a video if it is deemed unsuitable.
Here are some of my favourite pieces of online art in terms of creativity and execution:
is a collaborative art project based around creating a seamless continually zooming image of a fantastical environment. You have to see it to fully understand…
is Roxik’s latest masterpiece- a wonderful organic virtual tree with many bizarre animal characters that live in it.
Are producing some really beautiful online worlds. Simple interactivity coupled with detailed hand crafted environments and a sprinkle of humour is a powerful formula which Amanita has refined again and again. I highly recommend checking out the concept art for their upcoming game Machinarium.
Open source experiments into artificial life, and biomimetic programming which embody a consistent aesthetic flavour.
Hack-a-day has a post on the replica of the Apollo Mission Computer.
I often mention this project in my workshops, but the links have seemed dead for a while.
Usually it’s brought up up as an example of universal logic elements. NAND and NOR functions can be used as universal logic gates- you can implement any logic function using only NAND gates, or only NOR gates.
Your ability to do so is limited only by your skill, patience, and sanity.
NOR gates were used in the replica, thousands of them.
Filed under: misc hacks, daily
[Cliff Miller] pointed out this incredible project from 2004. [John Pultorak]’s journey began in late 2000 when he decided to build a 60’s or 70’s era minicomputer. While gathering technical documentation, he found some interesting information on the Apollo Guidance Computer and felt that was the way to go. The AGC was the first integrated circuit computer ever built. Designed by MIT in 1964 it was constructed from ~5000 ICs, almost all 3-input NOR gates. [John]’s version uses late 1960’s 74LS TTL logic which gains him a 10 to 1 reduction in the number of ICs. A good thing when you have to do ~15K wirewrap connections. He also used flipflops and register chips instead of building everything from NOR gates. [John] essentially built the AGC three times: First, he coded a simulator in C++. Then, he imported the logic design into CircuitMaker to verify that it would actually work. Finally, he built the 3 by 5foot machine. He’s provided an amazing amount of documentation for anyone that wants to explore this device and the overview alone is well worth a look.
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