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shake a wrist
master cyber-seamtress leah buechley showed her ‘bracelets‘ at the siggraph 2007 unravel fashion show. amazingly she can make circuits completely soft, such as this supple LED-studded bracelet with ...
polypopolis
public display of affection
i taped barabara layne’s ‘jacket antics‘ at the siggraph 2007 unravel fashion show - a set of jackets woven with LED marquees on their backs. the displays are an ...
graspable interfaces
jenny chowdhury presented her notorious ‘intimate controllers’ at the siggraph 2007 unravel fashion show. even though the piece is seems meant to help transgress shyness in a twister-like way, ...
The emperor’s new Logo-T
i taped connor presenting his kameraflage at the siggraph 2007 unravel fashion show. from the catalogue description:
kameraflage™ is display technology that is invisible to the naked eye, yet ...
robo-fabric
the shape memory alloy nitinol has the ability to spring back to its original forged shape when heated, allowing soft actuation without motors. italian fashion designers grado zero ...
underdog tech
tad hirsh of the medialab’s smart cities group is a remarkable techno-artist whose work subverts the oppressive nature of computer technology to defend people in need. a quick ...
logos past
hyperspaces
another theme of this blog appears to be the ways that physical spaces can take on hyper-functionality like software. one example is architecture vs. virtual environments: how can real spaces ...
silhouette art
kara walker has long made provocative wall pieces with life-sized silhouettes cut from black paper. despite the sparse palette, her work always directly addresses racism and/or sexism. the murals ...
wizard of oz
where i work, at the medialab, we all know this one trick: whereas interactive technology demos break, movies of interactive demos are always reliable. we call this the ‘wizard of ...
squiggler
jason nelson’s game, game and again game, is crazy. beautiful. squiggly.
mini-people
tony oursler’s video installations have haunted me since i first saw them in 1995 - by simply projecting animated video of faces onto dolls whole and disembodied the appearance ...