Parade

An interactive art installation concevied by ceramacist Laurent Craste and digital agency Dpt. The animated “shadows” are coming from a hidden projector which tracks the movements of the faux light source.
[this is colassal]

Minimum Wage Machine

"The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 4.97 seconds, for $7.25 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine's mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box."

Blake Fall-Conroy

[FB friends]

Blinking City

"Blinking City stencil. Pattern based on a collage of several Hutong neighborhoods of Beijing, stenciled onto a wall of a dilapidated courtyard house in Xianyukou district, located in the core of the city."

Instant Hutong
[Notcot]
 

Noisolation

Alex Braidwood's Noisolation Headphones, "an invention for mechanically transforming the relationship between a person and the noise that immediately surrounds them."
[Boing Boing]

Noisolation Headphones CTRL from Alex Braidwood on Vimeo.

City Sonic from KPCC on Vimeo.

Tape Recorders

"Tape Recorders" (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3m high it crashes and recoils back."

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
[today & tomorrow]

ADA

Karina Smigla-Bobinski
[we make money not art]

Face Full

Daito Manabe and Zach Lieberman
[Notcot]

Surprise Surveillance Theater

Surprise Surveillance Theater from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.

Jason Eppink's video from his Surprise Surveillance Theatre project.

Surprise Surveillance Theater was an interactive theater experience, performed live for hundreds, unbeknownst to the unwitting stars of the show. It was part of the Lost Horizon Night Market, an extraordinary, modular, participatory art party that takes place in unmarked box trucks on low-traffic back streets in New York City.

The goal was to take unwitting revelers and throw them into a narrative about a black market, requiring the target to pass secret notes, have rendezvous, wear a wire, and make a mystery delivery. All of this was watched by a live audience on more than a dozen TVs showing footage captured by strategically placed video cameras, but the scope of the experience was only revealed to the target at the very end when he or she delivered a secret package to the waiting audience.

[urban prankster]

Before I Die

Candy Chang
[rebel:art]

PLAYFUL

MAPT
[rebel:art]

Dead Drop

Aram Bartholl is mortaring USB drives into walls, curbs, and buildings around New York. These dead drops, as he terms them, are peer-to-peer file transfer points with true anonymity.

I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and date. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities. Full documentation, movie, map and ‘How to make your own dead drop’ manual coming soon! Stay tuned.

[Make]

Getting Carried Away

Mark Malkoff
[Boing Boing]

Shadow Monsters

Philip Worthington
[Flores en el ático]

Where?

Fifty People, One Question: London from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.

If you could wake up anywhere tomorrow, where would it be?
50 People One Question
[GL]

Wall of Light

Wall of Light - iink & Maki, Session 1 from makimono on Vimeo.

Tagtool
[Drawn!]

Negative Space

Interstitial Fragment Processor from Golan Levin on Vimeo.

Golan Levin
[TED]

BusTops

London from Arts Council England on Vimeo.

Alfie Dennen & Paula Le Dieu's Bus-Tops project/Artists Taking the Lead
[Make:Blog]

Tug

Rope in Space from Paulo Barcelos on Vimeo.

Rope in Space by Ars Electronica Futurelab

This interactive installation makes it possible to play the game ‘Rope in Space’ with an opponent who is at another location. One end of the rope is in Linz, the other end is in Vienna. The opponent can be seen on a screen and you are able to communicate with them. If there is no opponent at the other location you can also play with the computer.

[today & tomorrow]

Urban Putt Putt

The Putting Lot from Lakshmi Sundaram on Vimeo.

"The Putting Lot is Putting Lot is a nine-hole miniature-golf course in [Bushwick] Brook­lyn. Each hole is designed by a dif­fer­ent team of artists and archi­tects around themes of urban sus­tain­abil­ity. Play­ing a round at the lot is an inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ence, requir­ing golfers to step inside the artist’s visions and the ideas that have inspired them. Through the trans­for­ma­tion of the lot, the con­struc­tion of the holes, and a series of events held in the pub­lic area, we hope to pro­vide a forum for dis­cussing urban sus­tain­abil­ity in a new context."

[Urban Prankster]

Assisted

Jen-Hui Liao's Self-Portrait Machine

[today & tomorrow]