Mood-O-Meter!

Check this out, Tone-O-Meter by Tony Thompson.

This Arduino-powered mood meter monitors an online chat conversation, IRC channel (holyshit IRC!) and displays the current "mood" of the maker. The components you needed to build this is an Arduino, a servo and some tape. Check out Tony's site for the Arduino and Ruby source code.

As long as computers have existed, we've tried to represent the physical world in the virtual one. This trend goes as far back as the punched cards and tabulating machines used in the 1890 United States Census, but it doesn't end there. When computers became common enough that regular people -- without specialized training -- may use them, interface designers went straight for spacial metaphors. We pulled more of the physical world into the machine.

What I find fascinating about hardware hacking, and platforms like the Arduino, is that we can reverse that trend. We can interact with computers through the physical world, rather than interpreting the physical world through a virtual one. And we can do it trivially. (quote from here)

Might try this out for experiment purpose, noww i just need to find the servo and the right time. (If only the Google SMEs can send their information faster and i can settle it faster...GAK)

Links.

Some sites that are interesting:

MgFest

humanresource

I wish everyone have a

Merry Jolly Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Pecha Kucha.

The things i prepared to share for my pecha kucha presentation that i dint get to share with my mates, so here it is:

Experiment with Pachube and Arduino with the input and output of data simultaneously.

Thx to Anwar for experimenting together! (Pardon my lame simple explanation)

Look out the clear and easy to understand tutorial here!

Some of the things you can do by collecting data or using input and output information on physical objetcs (not just with Pachube, maybe some other data collecting methods):

Pulse. Which i posted last time when i stumbled upon this.

Pulse, visualize the emotion of human feeling in weblog like blogger. Then the list of emotions are compared to Robert Plutchik's theory of emotion. Each time a emotion was detected, the shape shifter machine will transform itself in a way that that the new volume represent the state of emotion in the Internet world. It captures this current emotional condition and gives it a physical representation.

or

This is a data sulpture by swedish duo artist called - Tomorrow's weather. The sculpture is fed by the forecast data of weather and the hues of the globe change colors and the light that shine in the building is like the premonition of tomorrow.

Tomorrow's weather combines modern technology with one's of nature most basic expression, the weather, the sculpture elaborate visual expression changes forever, just like the volatile nature of climate and future. (more info here)

or a more simple ways:

The balloons form the 3 dimensional digital data which composed of physical particles and show in a dynamic 3d display experience, Electric Moons:

Users can control the movement and lighting of each balloons.

Morphing 3d shapes and patterns. More info here.

Or it can be like sound experimental-performance thing, Atom ( by the same people from Electric Moons):

Is more like a sonic sounds performance art, manipulated in real-time.

The room is filled with helium balloons and evolve according to 4 channel of noises.

Through the placement, positioning and illumination of the balloons, the dynamic display of the sculpture is formed, which consists of physical objects (balloons), pattern of light ( led in the ballons), synchronize rhythmic sonic sounds. Check it out.

Must watch the videos:

Robert Henke & Christopher Bauder - Atom @ STRP07 from mediateletipos on Vimeo.

Atom 3 from melissa galicia on Vimeo.

Something that i look forward to see (or do?) here. I wan to do this!!

Oh ya. Pecha kucha is ペチャクチャ . Why not click this external link to know more about pecha kucha? Click HERE. Yesh the presentation above supposed to be just pure images and talk for 20sec for each slides with images, since i posting it in a blog so i added the notes. Have fun exploring!

Holy heart!

Oh my. This guy pawned me! I love it! Similar to mine (the heart part or maybe not) but different execution.

pulse from Markus Kison on Vimeo.

Check out his other projects too at here:

Emotions today cannot only be discovered in our own body parts or those of high developed animals. They also rush through another network that is not made of nerves and synapses but of wires and servers. On the Internet separate developing components contribute to a complex evolving system, that is far more than the sum of its parts and therefore very similar to an organism.

Twitter in real space!

Just now Anwar (Cheese) shared a very interesting website with me, is about Twitter Art Projects. Two of the projects caught my attention:

'Loud Tweets', Why tweets online when you can show off in real public space (works like internet btw):

Tweet Bubble Series 'Loud Tweets' from aram bartholl on Vimeo.

Low cost and simple LED display! I think this is very fun, but if i were to wear this out with my tweets..i might feel weird if people keeps following me around. (like twitter follower! haha)

Another one is the 'Where is your art', a kinetic sound installation with talking roboto! The robot will talk about the twits that have the word "art" extracted from the twitter space, and it will dance too :

Where is your art? from nilseuropa on Vimeo.

This is cool too! Similar to something that i want to do...in a way. I think twitter is a very good place to extract information :)

All videos and information are from CreativeApplication.net. Click here to find out more on Twitter Art Projects.

Abstract for Idea 3.

Technology metaphoric as a wormhole, hypothetical tunnel (Maccone, 1995) connecting two different paradigm of time, like a time machine intertwine the past, the present and the future in a linear experience of time.

With the invention of mechanical clock in the thirteenth century inaugurated a new representation of time which embodies a homogenizing representation of time and place. (Lorenzo, 1995) Technology giving us more time, rendering us closer to being perpetual, by minimizing the time needed to achieve a goal which allows us to take time for granted and “rendering us less vulnerable to what occurs in time, to the vicissitudes of time” (Lorenzo, 1995).

At the current state, new media art are mostly embodied with digital technology. There are ways of managing knowledge and visualization in image culture, and in cultures deeply affected by the use of digital technology (Chiu,Chih-Yung,2006). Art in the age of digital in “new technological form such as photography and cinema, have already raised questions about art”(Stephen, 2002). Art has reproduced; reinvent to create new contexts and purposes. Meaning and technology are forced to interact with each other.

References:

Maccone, C. (1995). Interstellar travel through magnetic wormholes, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 48, No. 11, 453–458.

Lorenzo Charles Simpson. (1995). Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity. Chapter 4 Meaning and time: An Essay On Technology, pp. 43-62.

Donald L. Day, Diane K. Kovacs. (1996). Computers, Communication and Mental Models. Part 1: The Communication Process, pp. 11-13.

Chiu, Chih-Yung. (2006). The Work of Art in the Age of Digitized Culture, http://dspace.lib.ksu.edu.tw:8080/dspace/handle/123456789/3151

Stephen Wilson. (2002). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology. Chapter 1.1 Art and science as cultural acts, pp. 2-30.

*part of my thesis' abstract

Interesting.

Stumbled upon this during my internship period, a very interesting way of showing the data. In the WeFeelFine, they've been harvesting human feelings from blogs in the internet. The system search and retrieve any post entry that consists the phrases " I feel" or "I am feeling". All the data will then represent by different particles with different colors.

Nuff said, check out the site!:

http://www.wefeelfine.org/

Another amazing interactive installation from Jonathan Harris, collaborate with Sep Kamvar:

For more information check it out here:

http://iwantyoutowantme.org/

I love how he shows human's feelings with unique movements.