Announcing the screening of Screening of Icky Futures: Corporate Visions of the Future 1987- at X Initiatives this Friday (June 26, 2009) at 7:45pm, (map). Natalie Jeremijenko's archive of, Icky Futures, is a dark digital collage that presents a collective commercial vision for the future of technology. The digitally rendered analog tape is a part of the series Half-inch Half-life, curated by Migrating Forms,  in a semi-intimate viewing room showcasing personal VHS tapes from artists, critics, curators, scholars in a 43-hour marathon on a large, media-appropriate television set. The screening is a part of a larger exhibition at X Initiatives entitled No Soul for Sale ...

The xClinic announces it's test of the second prototype of the Hot Rod Hi-Heel Project and experiences catastrophic failure! It broke, time to re-visit the carbon fiber mold. About the Hot Rod Hi-Heel Project: An accessory for the feminine urban athlete, the Hot Rod Hi-Heel Project is the extreme sports shoe for ...

Natalie Jeremijenko and fashion designer Diana Baltazar collaborated with carbon fiber specialist and jewelry designer Adam Weeks to create this first mock-up iteration of the high heel c-spring, hacking a BCBG women's evening stiletto and mounting a carbon fiber plate of custom curvature and variegated weave structure. For the next iteration, we will use a United Nude shoe and fine tune the shape of the spring.  [caption id="attachment_1331" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="3. Bottom View: The spring has been curved slightly to one side to account for the asymmetry of the walking step. 4. Rear View: Fiber changes orientation in this area. This section is reinfoced with 3" of +/-45 fiber instead of the standard 0/90 decree fiber orientation. This makes for somewhat of ...

The MBT (Masai Barefoot Technology) shoe claims to replicate the walking conditions of the Masai of Kenya. Both back problems and shoes are unknown to the Masai, who travel with a hop step over the spongy earth of their homeland. MBT shoes have a curved sole that creates a walking step of slight imbalance, activating muscle groups that normally atrophy in the flat-shoe user. The FitFlop presents a different interpretation to designing the imbalanced step of barefoot walking (without the bare feet). The FitFlop sole is comprised of a synthetic in variegated density, creating what FitFlop calls a "microwobbleboard" effect. The effectiveness of FitFlops were analysed through recordings of 3-Dimensional motions and forces during gait. EMG data were collected on the ...

The only thing more fabulous than fashion is Fashion Technology. Here are a few useful links: Moondial Alison Lewis   <-- In particular check out her links page for a MASSIVE list of resources for all your fashion, physical computing, and conductive textiles needs!!! ZCouture Fashiontech Panel Contest   <-- Coming up this fall! Send them a short essay, win a prize!

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Within its recent history, New York University (NYU) has seen an unprecedented number of student suicides. Never before has the phenomenon of contagion been so prevalent among the undergraduate population or as feared by the administration. In contrast to the three reported deaths within the first sixty-six years of the school’s suicide timeline (“Gained 105”, 1930; “N.Y.U. Student”, 1950, Arenson, 2003), the NYU community has experienced nine student suicides since 2003 (Healy, 2003; Arenson, 2003; Tavernise, 2003; Arenson, 2004a; O‘Brien, 2004; Collins, 2004; Baker, 2005; Burke & Grace, 2007; Chung, 2007; Gendar & White, 2007). The method of choice for six out of nine deceased students was death by jumping from buildings. According to a New York State Office of Mental ...

According to the a Natural Resources Defense Council press release, more than 27 billion gallons of raw sewage and polluted storm water discharge out of 460 combined sewer overflows into New York Harbor annually. New York City’s outdated sewer system can overload with as little as one-tenth of an inch of rain, causing combined sewage from buildings with dirty storm water from streets to overflow in the harbor (2008). Sustainable urban infrastructure design can help alleviate our rivers from pollution of this magnitude. A study by Moran et al. (2005) states that green roofing can relieve up to 60% of all rainwater leaving the roof (as cited in Snodgrass & Snodgrass, 2006, p. 21). In addition to helping clean our waterways ...

Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NYC map Cost: Free and open to the public Topic: Verdant Power Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS) About the speaker: Dean Corren, leads Verdant Power’s technology development efforts, having been the original designer of the Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS) during his time as a Research Scientist at New York University. Before Verdant Power, he consulted on diverse energy and technology projects, as well as researching a wide range of energy technologies at NYU. He also chaired the Burlington Electric Commission, which governs Vermont’s largest public utility, and served four terms in the Vermont House of Representatives. He holds an MS in Energy Science from New York University and a BA, magna cum laude, Phi ...

Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NYC map Cost: Free and open to the public Topic: the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project About the speaker: Mary Lou Jepson, CEO and CTO at Pixel Qi, Former CTO, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) About the respondents: Allan Chochinov - Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute, Partner at Core77, Strategist for Coroflot.com and DesignDirectory.com Idit Caperton - President & Founder, World Wide Workshop, and CEO & Founder, MaMaMedia Gabriella Coleman - Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development    Read the transcript or a summary of the ...

Location: NYU Auditorium, 78 Stuyvesant Place, NYC, 876.897.8900 Cost: Free and open to the public Topic: Interrogating the spatial for the social and political About the speaker: Laura Kurgan - teaches architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is Director of Visual Studies and the Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL) About the respondents: Stephen Zacks - is an editor at Metropolis Magazine and a graduate of Liberal Studies at the New School’s Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. He has reported on architecture, design, and urbanism in Abuja, Ramallah, Beirut, Panama City, Vilnius, Bucharest, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Pristina, Nicosia, and Dubai, as well as Baltimore, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Denver, and Kansas City....

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This is both a question and an imperative. How does one finance art practice? How might one? How could one? This site traces the microfinance, macrofinance and the ownership structures played out in the arts. Case study: Selling the act of sending... Case Study: pawn shop Case Study: chocolates Peter Paul Chocolates, edibles by Paul McCarthy Maccarone Greenwich Village 630 Greenwich Street, 212-431-4977 November 15 - December 24, 2007 Opening: Thursday, November 15, 10 - 8PM Web Site...

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“Workplaces at night” is a three-part project combining performance, investigative research techniques, and creative imaginings. We are exploring evidence of labour during the absence of the workers. Is representation of work/labour possible? While researching we visit workplaces at night with flashlights. We do photographic and video documentation of the left-over, or unfinished tasks resulting from daytime operations. What do we learn about work processes by exploring workplaces after the employees have left? What is production? What are the conditions? Do we find spaces that are not connected with the context of production? What is the state “of being productive”? What does the term “creation” mean within the so-called cultural production? Do we find evidence of “cultural industry” within workplaces that are not connected with cultural production? The project consists ...

NY Times article about urban camoflage in Japan.

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Saxena, D. K., & Kaur, H. (2005). Effect of Cadmium and nickel toxicity on the peroxidase activity and carotenoids content in moss thuidium cymbifolium. Indian Journal of Plant Physiology, 10(4), 397-399. Research experiment exploring effects of Ni and Cd on peroxidase and cartenoids in Thiudium cymbifolium (Fern moss [used in NYU NoPark garden]). Study is not concerned with phytoremediation of contaminated soil, but does mention using the moss' peroxidase and cartenoids content as bio-indicators of heavy metal pollution.

de Araujo, B. S., Charlwood, B. V., & Pletsch, M. (2002). Tolerance and metabolism of phenol and chloroderivatives by hairy root cultures of Daucus carota L. Environmental Pollution, 117(2), 329-335. Experiments done on hairy root cultures, used to screen plants for tolerance to pollutants and the role of the root matrix in uptake and metabolism of contaminants. Cultures derived from Daucus carota (Queen Anne's Lace [used in the NYU NoPark garden]). Cloned carrot roots removed over 90% of the exogenous phenolic compounds from the culture medium within 120 hours after treatment. Metabolism of compounds present in the root tissue correlated with increase in peroxidase activity.  ...

Clar, M. L., & O'Connor, T. P. (2004). Stormwater Best Management Practice Design Guide Volume 1 Basin Best Management Practices (EPA Publication No. EPA/600/R-04/121B). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/pubs/600r04121/600r04121b.pdf Volume 3 of an EPA document concerning urban stormwater management. Provides guidelines for using basins/ponds designed to manage urban runoff.  Gives an introduction to pond types and appropriate basin selection criteria. Also gives construction specifications as well as inspection and maintenance considerations.   

Clar, M. L., Barfield, B. J., & O'Connor, T. P. (2004). Stormwater Best Management Practice Design Guide Volume 2 Vegetative Biofilters (EPA Publication No. EPA/600/R-04/121A). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/pubs/600r04121/600r04121a.pdf Volume 2 of a document put out by the EPA concerning the best management practices (BMP) of mitigating urban runoff's effects on the environment. Provides design guidelines for use of vegetative biofilters. Manual identifies and describes three vegetative biofilter BMP types and their variations: 1. grass swales (tradition grass swales, grass swales with media filter, wet swales) 2. vegetated filter strips 3. bioretention cells Also gives a brief overview of major design considerations in using vegetative ...

Title: How 'How Stuff is Made' is Made / WritingintheInformationAge Course number: E90. 1952 - Adv Proj Ditigal Art I / meet with E90.2952 001 Professor: Natalie Jeremijenko Distinguished Visiting Course Advisor: Colin Beavan aka Noimapactman Time: Thursday, 08:55AM - 02:15PM Place: BARN 402 Example Curriculum: Current classes working on HSIM Madrid:[how architecture is made] London: New York: Course Structure: HowStuffisMade is a 6 - 8 week course introducing college level engineering and design students to the social and political constraints, organizational innovations and global context that inform manufacturing decisions. This course complements introductory engineering and design curricula by providing a dynamic, flexible platform for case-study based content and student-led industry investigations not otherwise included in current engineering and design programs. HSIM modules are applied to / taught ...

The article linked below describes the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and suggests that this is driven by the demand for Coltan-- the metal that conducts heat in Sony Playstation. It begins with the assertion: "This war has been dismissed as an internal African implosion. In reality it is a battle for coltan, diamonds, cassiterite and gold, destined for sale in London, New York and Paris. It is a battle for the metals that make our technological society vibrate and ring and bling, and it has already claimed 4 million lives in five years and broken a population the size of Britain's." Congo: The War the World Ignores by Johann Hari, UK Independent http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3245293 War-Devastated Congo, Your Remote Control, Playstation and ...

That visual essays are potentially “read" by more people, more quickly, and contain "more" information, is a reasonable claim, moreover that we live in a visual culture. Why then, in this powerpoint age, don't we learn the craft of "writing" visual essays at schools and universities in the cross disciplinary manner that we learn written essays? What is a visual essay; just some snaps in temporal order; your photos album up on flickr? What are the techniques used by visual culture production professionals, and how do these strategies adapt to the web; and to the analysis of how stuff is made. Lana Bernberg, a commercial and documentary television cinematographer, photographer and director before her graduate degree in ...

Dr. Tracy Ore, an associate professor of sociology & anthropology at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, has been teaching a 'Sociology and the Politics of Food' class featuring an informative website: "This website is put together by students from St Cloud State University in a "Sociology and Politics of Food" class. Students in the course examined how the production, distribution, preparation, consumption, and/or representation of a particular food or consumed item creates reinforces, or challenges structures of power among specific groups of people. The goal of the class was to make the information gathered both available and useful to those outside of the class. This web site is the result, serving as a “clearinghouse” of information on the politics ...

Martin Hendrijks show called Enough Room for Space about "Displacement of residents, whether they are gentrifying artists priced out of Soho or the poor and unemployed excluded from New York altogether, is no random by-product of gentrification but its structural condition. Decay, disinvestment, abandonment . . .prepare the way for profitable reinvestment . . . Like all the social relations that art supposedly transcends, housing is one of the historical circumstances of its existence". Rosalyn Deutsche, "Alternative Space" "And howsoever oppositional we architects may be, as long as we fail to challenge basic elements of society, such as the concept of private property, nothing will improve. This is a great paradox for me". Achim Felz, "IKAS: An ...

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 ...

This case looks at the presentation of curatorial information through the traditional format of text mounted on the wall; the relatively recent genre of audio tours that have been introduced into the museum context over the last 15 years; and a located sound system Natalie Jeremijenko developed and implemented in a New York museum space, Art-in-General. People read at their own speed, and the social convention dictates we provide silence for other readers. This inhibits the possibility of exchanges between spatially proximal viewers reading and interpreting the same information and subdues interaction between people. The museum maintains a hushed and quiet atmosphere without anywhere specifying or instructing viewers of this as the required or appropriate behavior. In ...

Having set up initial party conditions, SML researchers intervened by wrapping socially connected individuals with yarn. 05/2006 Caroline Woolard suggests this reference: “So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon'tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglassI'veneverlov edanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme…. There was a time when it wasn't uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. Shy people carried a bundle of string in their pockets, but people considered loudmouths had no less need for it, since those used to being overheard by everyone were often at a ...

I am currently pursuing an ethnomethodological study of Myspace, the fastest growing online social network. Myspace has been growing exponentially for the past 3 years, and has just exceeded 55 million users. Method: I have created a virtual identity as a researcher and embedded myself within the Myspace community. My virtual identity can be viewed here: www.myspace.com/ethnography My preliminary questions include: 1. What is the relationship between music and identity on Myspace? 2. Why is Myspace the fastest growing social network? 3. Why is Myspace 'fun'? I am interested in the personal public messaging that occurs within 'comments.' This is a communicatory medium analogous to talking loudly at a party, so as to be over-heard. The quanity and quality ...

Authors: McPhail, Clark Abstract: Milling clusters, surges within gatherings, street actions, demonstration marches, and state processions are forms of social behavior with which we mark points along a continuum of collective locomotion. A theoretical framework, field observations, measurement criteria and procedures are presented to systematically describe variations in the complexity of collective locomotion. An explanation for these variations is drawn from the ideas of G. H. Mead and from the cybernetic model of W. T. Powers. Field observations and quasi-experimental evidence are presented in support of that explanation. Implications are discussed for the recharacterization and explanation of and for future research on, other elementary forms of collective behavior. http://aaarg.e-rat.org/index.php/Library:McPhail:Collective reposted from Sean

The Facemask project, a branch of the OneTrees project in conjunction with Biotech Hobbyist Magazine, is aimed at creating a public, networked visual representation of urban air quality. Air quality is often represented statistically or with arbitrary symbols - a column of numbers tells us the concentration of particulates in our city on a particular day; a weatherperson tells us that today is a red or purple ozone alert day. Information relayed abstractly is difficult to assimilate, question or respond to. But how can air quality be visualized in a concrete manner? While air may be invisible, indicators of urban air quality are everywhere: a miasmatic cloud that obscures your city's ...

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Links to Oyster Creek related material and literature review. Understanding the remediation issues.  Organisms; monitoring opportunities

Originally given at San Jose City Hall, Council Chambers, as part of FUSE the presentation was streamed live to Ars Virtua in Second Life [ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/6/77/48] and is available as a podcast. The talk was entitled "The Environmental Health Clinic: on structuring participation in the environmental movement, or more specifically, in re-imagining, refiguring and rebuilding our relationships to natural systems"—intro below. However the presentation in 2nd life, its second life, underscores the questions about participation--what actions are available to your avatar? does it matter who you are? or that you are an avatar in the material and bodily questions involved in environmental health? Intro: Does anyone know what to do about global warming? I am guessing that everyone has a few ideas, ...

Domino: Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY

NOLA: Emergency Environmental Health Clinic. New Orleans, LA.

NY Times article about urban camoflage in Japan.

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 ...

DIY bike trailer instructions here. Future Farmers made these bike wheel barrows.

PLANT LIST Botanical NameCommon Namesizequantlocation BUTTERFLY GARDEN BuddlieaButterfly Bush5 gal3N Salix Tricolor Tricolor Willow3 gal1 N Helianthus angustifoliusSwamp Sunflower2 gal5 N Echinacea Purple Coneflower2 gal9 N FERN GLEN Cornussericea Red Twig Dogwood3 gal 2N Carex tenuis Path Sedge 1 gal7 N Iris Versicolor Blue Flag Iris flat or quart 9 N Polystichum acrostichoides Christmas Fern1 gal70 SHOP Dryopteris SpinulosaWood Fern 1 gal50 SHOP BROWN FIELD GARDEN Panicum Switch Grass 2 gal ...

Sparrows deliver the morning news at intersection of W.4th and W. 11th Streets in NYC http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/junglestream/20070601 051307.wav

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 ...

Videos of the newest feral dogs .... Chemhound: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YjkHFKNUWbQ Electrogirls: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xeBQ1uejveY

I uploaded the files but forgot to post them in the blog! The code for the Wiring board can be found here: http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/feralrobots/idogblog/bean_wiring/ And the Processing code and song can be found here: http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/feralrobots/idogblog/bean_processing/ Yay for a great project! :o)

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Title: How 'How Stuff is Made' is Made / WritingintheInformationAge Course number: E90. 1952 - Adv Proj Ditigal Art I / meet with E90.2952 001 Professor: Natalie Jeremijenko Distinguished Visiting Course Advisor: Colin Beavan aka Noimapactman Time: Thursday, 08:55AM - 02:15PM Place: BARN 402 Example Curriculum: Current classes working on HSIM Madrid:[how architecture is made] London: New York: Course Structure: HowStuffisMade is a 6 - 8 week course introducing college level engineering and design students to the social and political constraints, organizational innovations and global context that inform manufacturing decisions. This course complements introductory engineering and design curricula by providing a dynamic, flexible platform for case-study based content and student-led industry investigations not otherwise included in current engineering and design programs. HSIM modules are applied to / taught ...

Originally given at San Jose City Hall, Council Chambers, as part of FUSE the presentation was streamed live to Ars Virtua in Second Life [ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/6/77/48] and is available as a podcast. The talk was entitled "The Environmental Health Clinic: on structuring participation in the environmental movement, or more specifically, in re-imagining, refiguring and rebuilding our relationships to natural systems"—intro below. However the presentation in 2nd life, its second life, underscores the questions about participation--what actions are available to your avatar? does it matter who you are? or that you are an avatar in the material and bodily questions involved in environmental health? Intro: Does anyone know what to do about global warming? I am guessing that everyone has a few ideas, ...

Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. Phil Brown described three conditions involved in the organization of a Social Movement around Environmental Health . Community observations are legitimate. Riverkeeper Mobil Oil Spill; noticed oil -- causal issues ... The travels of Spinach

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) presented the Envisioning Development Toolkit at Storefront [PERFORMANCE P], a workshop aimed at demystifying the term "affordable housing" that uses an interactive felt poster to help people understand how the city and federal governments define "affordable," what the income spread is like for different neighborhoods, and who can afford to move into those neighborhoods now. As an agency, CUP makes educational projects about places and how they change, bringing together art and design professionals and community-based advocates and researchers. The xClinic prescribes this and other CUP workshops for structuring community engagement in the complex processes involved in development.

The place on the Web for biotech tinkerers, builders, experimenters, students, and others who love the intellectual challenge and stimulation of hobby biotech ! Dear Biotech Hobbyist Magazine Reader, Biotech Hobbyist Magazine is a magazine tailored specifically for the biotech enthusiast. We recognise that some of the greatest cultural and technological advances have emerged from peoples bedrooms and are therefore committed to transferring the hitech life sciences to the bedroom biotechnician. We are looking forward to offering a range of exciting projects, informative product reviews and fun competitions. Hope you enjoy our magazine. Natalie Jeremijenko and Heath Bunting. As a service to readers, Biotech Hobbyist Magazine publishes available plans or information realting to newsworthy products, techniques and scientific and technological developments. Because of possible variances in the ...

+ The Biotech Hobbyist Micropropagation Kit will contain everything needed (including further instructions!) except the still air cabinet, pressure cooker, and glass jars.

+ The Great LadyBug Animation is a database of photographs of ladybugs that have been ordered in quick succession to create a short animation that reveals the intrapopulational variation in the patterns of spots on the insects' wing covers.

The Solar Awning provides daylighting and is the primary unit of provides a positionable solar array, accessible for adjusting optimal angle seasonally. An additional performance benefit is the reduced solar heat gain though windows. The solar awning strategy does not hide the solar cells on existing surfaces, but produces a highly visible feature that signals the internal systems externally. Internally the feature exploits the shading effects of the solar awning, patterning the interior surfaces and displaying the external conditions.

Silent Observers: Visual Observations & Streaming Media Practices Eyebeam in association with Silent Observers exhibition at CALIT2, 4th Screen Cell Phone Video festival, and the NYU Environmental Health Clinic presents: [t0] Time Series: a streaming discussion on realtime media practices and promises Friday June 15: 5PM-8:30 PM New York/Eyebeam 2PM-5:30 PM San Diego/CALIT2 Fri/Sat June 15 / 16: 11PM-2:30AM Venice; Amsterdam; Stockholm; Kassel; Brussels In the face of environmental and political crises we demand not just more information but more immediate information. We are witnessing an explosion in the forms of realtime monitoring and reporting: air quality data to your cell phones; incessant blogs; streaming images of war zones and conflicts from which we might prefer to be historically removed. A consortium centered at CALIT is launching ...

Sparrows deliver the morning news at intersection of W.4th and W. 11th Streets in NYC http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/junglestream/20070601 051307.wav

A wind study for the San Francisco World's Fair of 2007.

The robotic goose visits Stockholm for the show at Mejan Labs.