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christine sun kim is unlearning sound etiquette
Filmmaker Todd Selby profiles Christine Sun Kim‘s performance work. From the description on the Nowness site: Deaf from birth, Kim turned to using sound as a medium during an artist residency in Berlin in 2008, and has since developed a practice of lo-fi experimentation that aims to re-appropriate sound by translating it into movement and [...]
read moreEDGE lab
The Experimental Design and Gaming Environments lab, or EDGE lab, at Ryerson University, works—among other things—on adaptive tech for children with disabilities. Like the High-Low Tech media lab group where I’m taking a course now, EDGE researchers are committed to democratizing materials for maximum customization and replicability. Following the example of the Adaptive Design Association [...]
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urban immune system research
Over at We Make Money Not Art, there’s a long and substantial interview with the Institute for Boundary Interactions and their various prototypes for a large and ongoing project, Urban Immune System Research: The Urban Immune System Research [UISR] project was the culmination of a two day event we ran in December 2010 as part [...]
read moremark shepard’s CCD-me-not
This isn’t the first adaptive umbrella I’ve written about, but it’s certainly as timely, and there’s now a prototype in development. Mark Shepard is creating a Sentient City Survival Kit, “set of artifacts for survival in the near-future sentient city”: As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces [...]
read moredeus ex: the eyeborg documentarian
Remember this guy? I mentioned Rob Spence in this post a while back; he’s now working on several film projects around his own and others’ prosthetic gear. Lots to think about here, in the ways he frames the possibilities and discussion. Thanks, Andrew.
read moremichael kontopoulos’s “water rites”
I had an exchange with Michael Kontopoulos about “Water Rites,” a design fiction where literal and cultural relationships with water are “far less cavalier.” Kontopoulos was intrigued by science fiction narratives like that of Richard Heinlein’s Stranger In A Strange Land; in that story, an arid planet creates social rituals around water—the resource becomes precious, [...]
read moresascha nordmeyer’s “communication prosthesis,” and more at MOMA
Sascha Nordmeyer‘s prosthetic “smile simulator” tool will be part of MOMA’s Talk to Me, a show that opens today. Looks great—and there’s a blog where the curators have also cataloged their process of finding work to include. A whole database of interesting projects there, both under the checked tab and in the queue. “Talk to [...]
read moretalk-o-meter: so many, many uses
The Talk-O-Meter has made the tech rounds already, but I had to post it here. It’s so simple, and so good. This phone app efficiently memorizes the speech patterns of two people at a table. It then can calculate how much each person is talking—giving “gentle bio-feedback” when one party or the other is dominating [...]
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