APAP Media Lab [S.Korea, 2013]

Research blog for a Media Lab/ Hackerspace/ Exhibition in South Korea, 2013.

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Circuit bent, DIY Synth

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Unicef Innovation Lab DIY guide

UNICEF Innovation: Innovation Lab Do-It-Yourself Guide from Christopher Fabian

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New Media Art and Archive

Hurricane Sandy hit New York City with tremendous surprise and have taken away lives of people. West Chelsea was especially vulnerable to the rising level of Hudson river. Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, located between 11th avenue and 21st street has suffered great loss in their equipment and archive. I spent few hours this afternoon to visit Eyebeam and help in restoring archive material. Earlier on it's history, Eyebeam was a post production house for artists. Many renowned artists used Eyebeam's facility and production assistants to complete their moving image work. There were many media in obsolete formats, such as DLTtape, VHS, S-VHS, and few different kinds of video and audio media. Eyebeam's work has not been systematically archived, and few of the current fellows were in the process of initiating archival project. The flood hit Eyebeam's storage facility and damaged much of the archive. I noticed few of the media with its name, and exhibition titled and such.

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theWaySensingGo Workshop 

Daito Manabe http://www.daito.ws/en/work/thewaysensinggo2010.html 

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" What if you could see if someone was behind you, feel how close they are to you? Would that change your notion of the borders of your body, change the kind of social interactions you have with people, open up new possibilities for group games and sports?

In the Third_Eye Workshop each participant will build and take home a 3rd_eye, a small device that can be clipped on a headband, hat or cap. The third_eye uses infrared light to sense your proximity to people or objects and buzzes more vigorously the closer they are. (Often people quickly forget they are wearing them and just incorporate them as a new sense, going from thinking “this thing is buzzing on my neck” to simply “someone is behind me” in less than an hour. )" from - http://machineproject.com/archive/classwork/2012/10/21/third-eye-workshop/ 

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"How can a textile function as a digital object? This is a central question of Infinite Weft, a project that I’ve been working on for a the last few months. The project is a collaboration with my mother, Diane Thorp, who has been weaving for almost 40 years – it’s a chance for me to combine my usually screen-based digital practice with her extraordinary hand-woven work. It’s also an exploration of mathematics, computational history, and the concept of pattern." - Jer Thorp http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/infinite-weft-exploring-the-old-aesthetic 

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"Spectacle of Change is a portrait study created at the ScreenLab 0x01 residency in MediaCityUK, hosted by the University of Salford and organized by Kit Turner and Elliot Woods.  Along with fellow resident Memo Atken, we spent five days experimenting with the displays in Egg space at the UoS MediaCityUK campus. The space contains an array of high resolution Christie MicroTiles on which we were invited to explore the idea "the future of broadcast". During the residency I became interested in a community of artists at the Islington Mill where I was staying. The artists had varied backgrounds and disciplines, but in all our conversations spoke about how digital and networked culture was influencing their practice and visual aesthetics. "

http://jamesgeorge.org/works/spectacle.html

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/110907265/-golan-eta-2012

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Daniel Fishkin is an artist with the kind of tenacity that is mostly reserved for politicians and mountain climbers. When he was in college, he became fascinated with the daxophone, an experimental instrument played by drawing a bow over a thin piece of wood — known as a tongue — that’s clamped to a wooden block. The daxophone was  invented by the reclusive musician and typographer Hans Reichel, so Fishkin e-mailed Reichel, asking to purchase one of the instruments. His request  was ignored. Undeterred, Fishkin began his own course of daxophone tutelage, seeking out a teacher and crafting his own tongues and eventually taking an immersion course in German. Three years ago, he arrived on Reichel’s doorstep and they spent a week together, talking shop and building new instruments. 

http://www.flavorwire.com/128636/meet-the-mad-scientist-of-musical-instruments