The Power Cart and other small projects i’ve worked on during my fellowship at Eyebeam are on display there in a show called Feedback. Until April 19th.

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.

The latest version of the Address necklce is showing at Exit art in NYC until September.
1st. Also, notes on how to are being published on Electronic Crafts.

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).

I’ve been having lots of trouble finding designers, artists, creators who use make source files or instructions available for their creations. Or that use the internet for distributing their physical objects (download, print and make or select, personalize and get your local guy to build it… but surely there are other possible models out there).

If anyone knows of anything like that, please send them my way.

But i did come accross Jules, a little Readymech character designed by graphic design group Fwis. These characters are available for download and fit into an 8×11 page. I printed, folded, glued and had my Readymech ready.

This week’s theme. Open Design.
Research in what is out there, who uses the catch phrase and what comes from it.

First stop: Open Design by Kadushin — I downloaded his Candle Holder 1 design and tried to do it myslef with cardboard instead (post office package).

Getting anyone who wants to join in to participate in this creative sprint for the 28 days of February.

Here’s how it goes:

For 4 weeks starting on Thursday the 1st of February,
Participants create one new work/exercise a day.
Choose your own themes, one per week,
Work in any medium.
And post your work on the group blog every day.
Login to see what people will be doing here: creative act blog.

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.

First few days, i started with making a big mess, just to get things going.

– working on making translucent and flexible circuits and lights. Experiments with rubbers, silicones and resines.