Oct 17, 2018
Acoustic Botany (2010), David Benque
https://davidbenque.com/projects/acoustic-botany/
“Desired traits such as volume, timbre and harmony are acquired through selective breeding techniques.”
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Acoustic Botany (2010), David Benque
https://davidbenque.com/projects/acoustic-botany/
“Desired traits such as volume, timbre and harmony are acquired through selective breeding techniques.”
In-vitro kebab - David Benque
Silver Acres - David Benque
Installation based on Acoustic Botany, showing a genetically engineered sound-garden over the course of one year.
HOMESTAY Artist//Host Interaction Survey
"Following the Hack the City HOMESTAY, David and Caroline have been asked to undertake a test to evaluate their mutual knowledge of each other after the event: Points are given for every correct answer, the person getting the most is therefore considered the better HOMESTAYer - obviously having paid more attention to what the other has said, as well as more subtle conversational cues such as body language.
Q. 1) If the person was an animal, what animal would they be?
Answer D - Whichever species has the coolest mother/cub relationship
Answer C - One of the muppets in the percussion session, with a silent but animated laugh.
Q. 2) Given a million dollars, what would they do?
Answer D - Buy a couple of houses and do them up to magazine standard
Answer C - A functional but cheap form of space travel
Q. 3) Last meal:
Answer D - Michelin star molecular gastronomy
Answer C - Full Irish.
Q.4) Most obvious link to home country while living abroad
Answer D - "COOL MAN!" (New Zealand)
Answer C - air of abstract philosophy (France)
Q. 5) You know they've had too much to drink when
Answer D - They test the Science Gallery mediator to make sure they explain your project right
Answer C - They agree wholesale to hand interior decoration of a new apartment to their partner and love match
Following a regression analysis this text concludes that the HOMESTAY experience leads to an optimal knowledge to time ratio amongst a random sample of individuals from different backgrounds and countries."
via David Benque, Hack the City artist, and his host Caroline Gardner.
One of the highlights in my childhood was when my grandfather would tell my sister and I stories about 'The Bush'. As we had no grounding in Colonial Australia folklore (being OS), these stories were always varied, interesting and fantastical, much the same as the stories my mother used to tell us about magical fairies (while consistently inserting Christian morality into them).
So, when I see this iPad app, I melt. Designed by David Benqué, the The Infinite Adventure Machine is a computer program that aims to “automatically generate fairy tale plots”. The project draws inspiration from Vladimir Propp, who developed a formula reducing the structure of Russian folk tales to a series of 31 basic functions.
The program is being commissioned by Microsoft Research, Microsoft Office, and the Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London as a part of the Future of Writing Project.
Way more information over at Portable, whom I <3 for the story