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 oz’ demo, where all of the ‘interaction’ is actually cued by the filmmaker(who usually is also the researcher). chriswoebken took this to an extreme with […]
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squiggler
jason nelson’s game, game and again game, is crazy. beautiful. squiggly.
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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 of life is uncanny, especially when the dummy is under a rock, or miniature – it is by far the best augmented reality work i have […]
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fake fire
smokeview is a free application created by the national institute of standards and technology (nist) that can simulate the spread of a fire in any building. there are (at least) three ways to visualize the effect of fire, but only one can be perceived visually at a time: smoke, temperature and flame. to perceive these […]
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immersive hyperspace
for those of us working at the threshold of the physical and the digital, it can be frustrating when one just doesn’t match the other. as in hyperlinks, where one location or piece of data can be reached from a number of other places, without the concept of proximity or time-space continuity. virtual environments often […]
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fusion ping
at siggraph we saw plasma pong, which is crazy because you are in a liquid playing field where you can add sources, sinks, reverse gravity and affect buoyancy – the game above is cool, but by farmy favorite is the sandbox application, where you can visualize these fluid dynamics on your own terms with simple […]
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slice of life
much as columbus’ landing in the new world was once painted as a triumph against flat-earth dogma, historians have long claimed that a papal decree forbade dissection during the middle ages until vesalius boldly defied it by performing dissections in secret. in fact, no such decree ever existed, but the old bad pope, good scientist […]
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