Archive for June, 2008

Friday June 20, 2008

Uncontrol

I stumbled upon this site the other day. For a guy like me who’s half artist, half geek, it’s worth blogging about. It’s basically just a bunch of little Flash apps that take some input and use mathematical algorithms to draw out various patterns. They are generally pretty simple and elegant and therefore have a [...]

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Sunday June 8, 2008

Daniel Rozin at BAM

If you’re not familiar with Daniel Rozin, you should be. He’s one of a small but growing number of artists who are using interactive technologies to creative thoughtful works of art. I was reminded of Rozin’s work because one of his pieces call Snow Mirror has been on exhibit at BAM for the Sundance Institute [...]

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Monday June 2, 2008

Japan’s Media Immersion Pods

Over the weekend I heard an interesting piece on NPR about the phenomenon of immersive multimedia pods in Japan. It’s now something like the third time I’ve encountered these pods in the media. They are the Japanese version of our Internet cafes, but by all accounts ours just don’t rate at all in comparison. For [...]

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