November 2011
1 post
January 2010
1 post
First Person Tetris
http://www.firstpersontetris.com/
A classic game remake with an interesting twist. The act of rotating a block rotates the entire screen, shifting your perspective 90 degrees and adding a new dimension of challenge to the 1984 puzzler by Russian engineer Alexey Pajitnov.
April 2009
2 posts
WatchRichard Wilson, Turning the Place Over, Liverpool Biennale 2008
“The most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool’s city centre literally inside out.”
Read more at the Liverpool Biennale’s official site:...
WatchLis Rhodes, Light Music 1975 (two screens and hazer) An installation of this piece was exhibited in the Oil Tanks at the Tate Modern as part of the Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception conference this weekend. I recorded this video on my phone, (hence the appauling quality), and it certainly gives no sense of the scale, atmosphere and presence of this piece. One of the best things...
February 2009
5 posts
Network Art and the Networked Gallery
2006, Charlie Gere
http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry15617.shtm
An excellent paper addressing Net art’s awkward relationship with museums and galleries.
Charlie Gere is a new media theorist and historian, and Director of the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.
Gere’s main research interest is in the cultural effects and meanings of technology and...
WatchlittleBits
http://www.littlebits.cc/
“littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets...
Watch(via oneminuteweek)
“Artist Neville Gabie will be spending the next 4 months in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey as their artist in residence at Halley Research Station. Situated on the Brunt Ice Shelf this is the first time an artist has been allowed to spend the whole summer season at the base. During that time Neville will update this blog with a one minute film each week....
January 2009
10 posts
WatchBurble London (an implementation of Open Burble)
http://www.haque.co.uk/burblelondon.php
“Haque Design + Research specialises in the design and research of interactive architecture systems. Architecture is no longer considered something static and immutable; instead it is seen as dynamic, responsive and conversant. Our projects explore some of this territory.
The Burble is a massive...
WatchProject Blinkenlights
http://www.blinkenlights.net/
Introduced by Tim Pritlove (http://bit.ly/tq12) at Ars Electronica 08, Project Blinkenlights turned a building into a platform. The game allowed the public to directly interact with the building - playing games, and creating and submitting movies and animations using their mobiles.
You’ll find a chapter dedicated to building your own...
ARS ELECTRONICA 08
ARS ELECTRONICA | Festival for Art, Technology and Society | Linz, Austria
Under the banner of “A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY – The Limits of Intellectual Property”, the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival discussed the impact of a knowledge-based society. Since the Internet went global, structures that regulate and govern societies have radically changed. The festival dissects what’s at stake -...
November 2008
1 post
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Welcome to Install Technical Culture. This space offers micro-commentries and re-blogs on art, events, research, conferences, galleries, festivals, symposiums - mostly around art & technological culture.