Trashy first version of Drawing Bits
Recording in ‘People’s Palace’, aka House of Evil. Jason Singh and a beautiful sound.
The testing of prototype for the collective textile-sound-instrument. Sampler Cultureclash in Bucharest, 20-27 June 2010.
Now that I know how the People’s Palace looks like, here a video mood of it by night.
Sampler Cultureclash Workshop in Bucharest
David has kindly invited me to participate the Sampler 1-week-workshop in Bucharest.
We will be 10 (or so) artists from textiles and sound and work together on the connections of both. As usual, David set up an amazingly interesting line-up!
David Littler: http://sampler-cultureclash.blogspot.com
Jason Singh: http://www.myspace.com/jasonsinghmusic
Berit Greinke: http://www.beritgreinke.com/
Romania:
Cosmin Tapu / Rokolectiv: http://www.rokolectiv.ro/
Carla Szabo: http://www.carlaszabo.com/
Catalin Matei: http://www.myspace.com/sillyconductor
Museum of the Romanian Peasant: http://www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/
MNAC: http://www.mnac.ro/
Turkey:
Pinar Basoglu representing c-u-m-a: http://www.c-u-m-a.org/
Gozde Ilkin: http://www.myspace.com/gozilk
The project has been very kindly funded by the British Council’s Creative Collaboration project, the British Council Romania, MNAC and with the support of the Museum of the Romanian Peasant.
It will be an amazing time, please watch out for updates here, on Sampler’s Facebook site and blog.
Lacking any imagination of how Bucharest will be, I just attach a photo of the secong biggest building in the world, Palace of Parliament, containing the must-see biggest carpet in the world (I have a trustworthy source for that information..).
First session with Eric to try the response of the camera.
The camera is not too bad only the prgress of the soaking of the water takes ages.
After two day it has been soaking 20 cm and apparently it stopps there.
I am drawing a copy of Carsten Nicolai’s grid index.
Minimal, pretty or a just a complete waste of time?
FutureEverything Award winner: Eyewriter.
Tony Quan, Chris Sugrue, Theo Watson, Zach Lieberman, Evan Roth, James Powderly, The Ebeling Group, Graffiti Research Lab, OpenFrameworks and FAT Lab
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies.
It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
Serendipity City at The Hive (FutureEverything)
A planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe)
, 3D Nylon Print
Thursday at FutureEverything
I visited FutureEverything in Manchester yesterday (and unlike three quarters of the audience (and panel) didn’t post it with zero latency).
Couple of highlights:
GP Dr Amir Hannan. He largely promoted ‘real-time Digital Medicine’ to support the ‘partnership of trust’ between patient, doctor - and computer. According to Dr Hannan the share of medical data would increase the patients’ knowledge about their medical history as well as help patients whose lifestyle doesn’t allow regular GP visits (or rather spend an hour beneficial self-healing than in a waiting room). ICMCC (International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics)
Interesting talks by Chris Osbourne (ITO) and Toby Barnes (Chromaroma) about pretty and playful graphical data visualizations. Though flashy maps, I liked that real world gaming plays a main role in Toby’s design thinking.
The Future of Music, mixture of brainstormy ideas from Alex Mc Lean (Slab, Dorkbot), and John Matthias. Alex said: ‘we relate musical instruments to our own voice using syllables’ and he aims to bring ‘computer programming back into shape and movement’.
