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Solformørkelsen 11. august 1999, projisert gjennom løv på fortau, originally uploaded by Eirik Newth.
this is the eclipse 1/2moon pinholes
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SCOTT BURNHAM is the creative director of Montreal’s Biennial (2009). He is working with Droog on Urban Play:
“Urban Play is designed to take back the street… to give us the tools that let us install ourselves, our friends, our families, our games and our desires in what should be the space we all own collectively. Urban Play is the most promising experiment in not urban design, but designing the urban I […]
Throughout almost every major city in the world, individuals are taking it upon themselves to change their cities in ways that make them more creative, interactive, personal and fun. From small interventions such as a series of stickers that turn the London Underground’s Northern Line map into an interactive game to bold projects that transform chain-link fences in Chicago into public message boards, these actions fall outside of traditional notions of urban activity, and are quickly relegated to the margins, often labeled as subversive, underground, or even illegal.
Urban Play is an international project that believes this street-level inventiveness, energy and innovation is a window into a new form of creativity in the city. Launching in Amsterdam in 2008, …
Chekol, T., Vough, L. R., and Chaney, R. L. (2002). Plant-soil-contaminant specificity affects phytoremediation of organic contaminants. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 4: 17-26.
Recognizing pause potential, pedestrians use infrastructure to alleviate legs from the force of gravity.
The Environmental Health Clinic’s mobile office.
GOOD Magazine: Natalie Jeremijenko
Model Urban Development(MUD), a permanent installation on the roof of Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea, provides infrastructure and facilities for high-density bird cohabitation in an environmental experiment in interaction with the New York City bird population.
OOZ, Inc. (…for the birds) is a 1,000 square-foot garden including architect-designed bird housing projects (multi-family dwellings), water systems, and other amenities to improve the quality of life for urban birds. The installation creates conditions to observe birds’ adaptation to human-engineered technologies, testing formal and ecological theorems for high-density lifestyles, sustainable resource sharing among urban organisms, and the play of public/private division in cross-species interaction.
Date: September 2006 – October 2006
Medium: installation, experiment
Dimensions: 10,000 square-feet
Location: Postmasters Gallery rooftop @ 459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue) NYC
TreeLogic is an inverted avenue of 6 sugar maple trees growing upsidedown, suspended 30 ft in the air. This projects frames the trees as a dynamic adaptive system and as visual forms that display their histories. It emulates the neat regular spacings of urban street trees, often used to ‘beautify’ urban environments. However, the slow gymnastics of these trees invites interpretation and speculation on what they will do, could do, how much they have grown or changed, and what birds think of them. Trees are icons of the natural, however, uprooted, they display a logic that redefines our own.
see it at Mass MoCA
Tree Logic at Mass MoCA
To view Full Frame, just click the button in bottom left corner of the video. To download the video, click the xDesign Project Vimeo link and scroll down until you see “download quicktime version” in the bottom left of the vimeo page.
20 minute Demo
20min demo of Natalie Jeremijenko’s Projects from xDesign Project on Vimeo.
3 work samples: LAX, Bit Plane, Suicide Box
1) LAX
LAX 2004 from xDesign Project on Vimeo.
2) BIT Plane
BIT Plane from xDesign Project on Vimeo.
3) Suicide Box
Robotic Geese are remote controlled goose robots that enable participants or robotic goose drivers (aka goosers) to interact with actual geese in urban contexts. The robotic goose interface allows people to approach the birds, follow them closely and interact in a variety of ways that would not otherwise be possible without this interface. The goose drivers can ‘talk to’ the geese, issuing utterances through the robotic interface, delivering prerecorded goose ‘words,’ their own vocal impersonations, or other sounds (such as goose flute hunting calls). Each utterance via the robotic goose triggers the camera in the robot’s head to capture 2-4 seconds of video recording the responses of the actual biological geese. These video samples upload to the public web-based goosespeak database that the participants can annotate, i.e. “the goose was telling me to go away,” “he was saying Hi.” As this database of goose responses accretes, redundancy and correlations in the annotations may provide robust semantic descriptors of the library of video clips….
