digitized life

Nov 15

cliched.

Jul 11

Made this for fun over the weekend using Processing and OpenGL. Please leave feedback in the comments. It’s just a simple visualizer intended for house parties and the like.

It was my first foray into the Sonia music library for Processing and my first time working with OpenGL.

musical credit:
Wolves (Song of the Shepard) by Iron and Wine from The Shepard’s Dog

Jul 9

sneak peak of a music visualizer i’m working on. video to come soon.

built in processing with OpenGL

Jun 1

sojamo:

soundflow

by Eva Schindling, 2009. A fluid dynamics simulation using sound as input. Using various soft- and hardware applications, a phyiscal three dimensional object results at the end of the transformation chain.
related frozen

May 27

The winner of the Hybrid Art categors of Ars Electronica.

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ENIGMA

Eduardo Kac

The central work in the “Natural History of the Enigma” series is a plantimal, a new life form I created and that I call “Edunia”, a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of myself and Petunia. The Edunia expresses my DNA exclusively in its red veins.

Developed between 2003 and 2008, and first exhibited from April 17 to June 21, 2009 at the Weisman Art Museum [1], in Minneapolis, “Natural History of the Enigma” also encompasses a large-scale public sculpture, a print suite, photographs, and other works.

The new flower is a Petunia strain that I invented and produced through molecular biology. It is not found in nature. The Edunia has red veins on light pink petals and a gene of mine is expressed on every cell of its red veins, i.e., my gene produces a protein in the veins only [2]. The gene was isolated and sequenced from my blood. The petal pink background, against which the red veins are seen, is evocative of my own pinkish white skin tone. The result of this molecular manipulation is a bloom that creates the living image of human blood rushing through the veins of a flower.

Jun 28

I went to an event at the Art Gallery last night. Look at what I found. The artist is Zhang Huan.

The photographic series comprises nine sequential images made at regular interval from dawn until dusk on one day. Again, they all feature the face of Zhang Huan, the physical trace of his lineage. Throughout this process, the artist dictated to three calligraphers a stream of familiar names, personal stories, learned tales, and random thoughts. Each was transcribed in ink onto the artist’s face until, at the end of the day, he was completely covered in a thick layer of black pigment. Here, the contents and processes of an individual consciousness, learned from forebears and / or organized according to systems of belief conditioned by experience with them, become a mask or second skin. They are inseparable from that which the rest of the world takes to be a unique identity and original producing consciousness.

(via zhanghuan)