Putting together temporary installations for Conflux this year in collaboration with Doris Cocailo and Sonali Sridhar. Come see you around NYC’s Washington Square Park on the 12th, 13th and 14th of September from 4pm to 8pm.
These installs are of our first wildernet: a portable 150 square feet of night sky and nature sounds that’s currently being crocheyed.
More on Conflux.
Finished work with Work AC on the PF1 a few weeks ago. Solar generator, cell phone chargers, night skies and sound tours are up and running. They can be seem during regular museum hours or at the Warm Up parties on Saturdays.
Working on a few thematic stations and a large scale solar generator for the Public Farm 1 project by Work AC.
“Public Farm 1 is a project designed by WORK Architecture Company for MoMA and P.S.1’s Young Architects Program. Public Farm 1 will be on view in P.S.1’s outdoor courtyard beginning June 20, 2008 for the 2008 WARM UP music series. Public Farm 1 will function as an urban farm while providing an outdoor social space for the summer.
Constructed from large inexpensive cardboard tubes, the Farm will be a folded plane plane that creates multiple zones of activity and diverse experiences. The tubes will be filled with vegetables and supply the on-site farmers market.”
More details also on the PF1 site. And pictures online as well.
Presented the Power Cart at Conflux over the week-end. Lots of pictures online. Working on documentation and pictures myself. Thanks to everyone who trusted me with their electronics and electrics.
We run the first ever personal powerplant workshop at Eyebeam last Saturday as part of the sustainable scrapyard challenge. It was success and fun and 10 power plants where built from scratch and working by the end of this 8 hour long day.
Some details and instructions online.
Finished dressing-up Room 15C at the Carlton Arms Hotel a few weeks ago. A few pictures and details on the different parts of the room.
* The music gears
Built large wooden gear to turn a small music box playing a loop of original music by Patrick Watson.
* Chinatown meets Todd Bjoonte hack with a twist
This laser cut paper lamp is built on top of a 10$ disco ball from chinatown and twirls when you turn it on.
* My first 2 layer laser cut stencil
* Color changing window stencils
Painted the windows with UV sensitive ink. The graphics appear translucent white at night and turn bright blue when a ray of sunlight hits them in the morning.
All the graphic work except for the flower stencil reproduced from the fabric are orginal visuals –They can be downloaded in Illustrator format and used under a CC licence. Details & instructions to come on electroniccrafts.org (i’m on it).
First project series created for Montreal’s annual Souk@SAT. A place for artists and designers to showcase their work and sell it.
The overall scene:
Magic Scarves: change colors in the sun. Series of 15, wool and fleece + silkscreened original prints.
Redux on the Dark Light (4 pieces) and a new jewlery piece in rubber and silicone (first edition of 12).
New candle lights in plastic, resine with led (candleds?) –12 peices.
Series created under the name electroniccrafts.org in collaboration with Sonali Sridhar.
Results of thesis and documentation of projects are now on:
Shortcut to some pictures just for fun:
images as they come
The pan is to build an MP3 player based on sparkfun’s module.
Main parts:
1. VS1002 MP2 decoder chip
. sparkfun breakout board here
. board schematics here in pdf
. datasheet for VS1002
2. CF card reader
. sparkfun breakout board
3. PIC chip
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PLAN is to adapt “super-simple MP3″ design:
1. code around here
2. parts and schematics
3. make VS1002 backwards compatible with older VS1001 that is in the original design.
Travelling
A series of electronic devices that emulate issues of travelling and the presence of the rest of the world.
Where friendster and other social networking tool fail, travelling bring you the real experience of distance to your everyday life