Floating Forecaster

Floating Forecaster from Richard Harvey on Vimeo.

A floating display that reinterprets weather information via hovering patterns and flowing movements. The user is invited to create patterns and sequences using either an iPhone interface or a sequencing program

Made with: 30 airbed pumps, a lightuino, max msp, c74 app

Adaptive Bloom

Justin Goodyer: Adaptive Bloom - Bartlett School of Architecture from Ruairi Glynn on Vimeo.

Justin’s work is a prototype responsive screen proposed as a speculative stage set. Blooming mechanical flowers are used as pixels in a grid formation responding to movement. It draws on the balletic tradition of a choreographic poem combining narrative, choreography and score.

The piece is conceived as the backdrop to a holistic improvised performance featuring an aleatoric score, with the dreamlike behaviour of the screen responding to the interplay of a male/female dance pair. It is framed from a narrative taken from the song “Busby Berkeley dreams”... http://www.constructingrealities.com/?p=5

Kinetic lights

"Kinetic lights" consists of a flexible arrangement of remote controllable cable winches with attached LED light modules. Each light module can be adjusted individually in height and luminance by the control software. By synchronizing position and light animation, complex shapes and light patterns can be generated within the array. Any number of winches can be arranged in any spacial configuration. Various LED modules can be attached to the system to form individual custom solutions. White, colored or full RGB LED modules can be attached to the flexible system to produce individual custom solutions.

kinetic lights is a product by WHITEvoid

http://www.kinetic-lights.com
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Crowbot Jenny

Crowbot Jenny is a shy and reclusive girl preferring to spend time surrounded by animals rather than with humans. One day she creates the Crowbot, a robot which vocalizes a variety of crow calls to control and converse with her newly formed bird army – but just what exactly will she do with her new powers?

Inspired by the book “When Species Meet” by Donna Haraway, the project sets out to explore the world of animal intelligence and animal-human interactions. Sputniko! worked with two world specialists in crow intelligence, Prof. Nathan Emery and Prof. Nicola Clayton, who provided her with samples of rook calls (the ones flocking in London parks are usually ‘rooks’, not crows) The calls were reproduced to communicate, attract, repel and engineer the behavior of rooks in Finsbury Park and Hyde Park, London.

 
 The robot makes four different crow calls - "I'm dying" "I found food" "Hello" "I'm in a fight so please come help me" in an attempt to communicate with the crows in urban wild life.

A video from Sputniko!’s initial tests conversing with crows in Finsbury Park

Prepared Turntable

Designed by Yuri Suzuki 2008
A turntable that focuses on actively composing and playing music.This record player has 5 tone arms, each of which can have its volume controlled by its own fader.
This is an analogue answer for the digitalized DJ. Filmed by Ben.