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Niklas Roy, “My Little Piece of Privacy”

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Grafikdemo, Niklas Roy, 2004

Why should virtual reality convince you, if even reality itself is sometimes not convincing at all? Grafikdemo is a physical wireframe model of a teapot inside a Commodore CBM cabinet. more

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Translate Color to Smell with Bouquet

Hope springs eternal for Smell-O-Vision. [Niklas Roy] recently taught a workshop called Communication Devices at ÉCAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Four of his Media & Interaction Design students built a scanner that detects colors and emits a corresponding scent. The project consists of an Arduino connected to a color sensor as well as a SparkFun EasyDriver. The EasyDriver controls a stepper motor which rotates a disc of scent swatches so you sniff the swatch corresponding with the color. The students chose strawberry for red, and blue ended up being “ocean”-scented room spray. With design students involved it’s no surprise the project  …read more http://pje.fyi/P7r9QY

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Niklas Roy: Music Construction Machine on exhibit at the Goethe Institute Pop Up Exhibition in Plac Nowy Targ, Old Town Wroclaw, Poland

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Grote Speeldoos is Groot

Grote Speeldoos is Groot

Speeldoosje is normaal het koosnaampje dat Flepz0r gebruikt voor zijn wisselende roedel stagiaires, maar we hebben het hier wel degelijk over een speeldoos. Een hele grote speeldoos zelfs én jij mag er aan zitten! Het zien van de Music Construction Machine kost overigens je wel een retourtje Wroclaw. En het is niet de eerste speeldoos waarmee Niklas Roy los ging. Eerder gebruikte ie een normaal…

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Niklas Roy

Niklas Roy is a self-proclaimed “inventor of useless things” from Berlin, but also an installation artist, robotics builder, and multimedia artist. The “inventor of useless things” description highlights the fact that a great deal of Roy’s work takes the engineering prowess and abilities needed for “useful” things and places them within the domain of art.

Roy’s work explores or redefines the boundaries between the real world (the world within which installation participants exist), the mechanical world (the physical materials of the installation), and the virtual, frequently digital world (the procedures and code that make the installation function). Roy's installations often have an activist or humorous bent: exploring ideas of human’s relationships to virtual spaces, video games, art, privacy, energy usage, and more. Roy is also very open about his work, more often than not including source code or detailed descriptions of how things function in his projects.

The first work of Roy’s that I came across was My Little Piece of Privacy. This work involves a small curtain on a storefront window that moves left and right, in sync with people walking by on the street, actively blocking their gaze into the storefront. 

A contrasting work of Roy’s is Lumenoise, a fabricated “light pen which turns your old CRT-TV into an audiovisual synthesizer”. The result is a strange and wonderful instrument, with notably interesting visual patterns.

A work that I feel really epitomizes the tripartite exploration of participatory, mechanical, and digital space (this time only alluded to) is Pongmechanik, an electromechanical version of the early video game Pong.

Lastly, much of Roy's recent work has focused on the use of multitudes of small balls in tubes, including the Pneumatic Sponge Ball Accelerator, a nod to the Large Hadron Collider, and an installation at the Goethe-Institut Krakau:

Roy's creative fluidity within the fields of engineering, robotics, and visual and sonic arts is very inspiring.

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Step one, plug in music. Step two, get down! Check out this Jiggety Jigbot from Brent Dixon, built last summer during the Rapid Robotics workshop hosted by Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä.