joanna – lookingOutwards – 1
Knitting hacks are super popular for the last years. And therefore are the expectations quite scaled up. NeuroKnitting transforms affective states while listening to Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” recording with an EEG headset into a knitting pattern. Openhardware knitting meets quantified self… I worked on both topics and maybe that’s the reason why it’s hard to impress me. For me it would be nice to have various scarfs where different music is visualized. Then the data would be more “readable” or “comparable”.
A nice fact is that the artists were inspired by an old “programming language”: knitting.
Related work: http://fabienne.us/
Access Marie Sester
It’s an an interactive installation that lets web users track anonymous individuals in public places, by pursuing them with a robotic spotlight and acoustic beam system.
I’m suprised how impressive and meaningful a very reduced work could be. Even the work is now 10 years old it is still relevant and up-to-date. Google glasses or PRISM, surveillance and privacy are important topics especially we as artists should discuss.
Related work Seiko Mikami Desire of Codes
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Avena+ Test Bed – Agricultural Printing and Altered Landscapes
This project brings landscape, agricultural and digital fabrication together and carries the possibilities of digital fabrication over into farming. The experiment applies algorithms to partition and create an environmentally beneficial structure into a standard biomass/energy production field.
I really love how Benedigt Groß brings art, political statements and digital fabrication together.
Related work Hortus.Paris