iGarden

This is a musical instrument, or an interesting installation, a living ornament, computer input device, a sensitive toy. In iGarden, a discarded laptop is rescued from its future as a pollution source and re-imagined as a place of growth and life. Each empty crevice in the laptop is filled with soil, planted with grass seeds and watered daily. As the water seep through the keys, circuit boards and dirt, the entire structure - both living and non-living - becomes a conductive antenna. As the grass grows or visitors touch the grass, the electromagnetic fields change slowly. Using simple electronics, these natural changes are transformed into sound and amplified in the installation space.



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iGarden at Quadrilateral biennale

Where is your Art?

Murmur Study #2




"Where is your art?" is a kinetic sound installation based on twitter. Is our whole life based on electronics and information technology? What are we playing with? What are robots for? How did social networks become that common? Who are speaking? Who are we speaking to? What are we speaking about? More writers less readers. We decided to remove the synthetic skin of some robotic toys and take a look under it. Each got a plinth, and computer voice to make a hearable visualization of twitter feads going on real time about art. Where is your art? This is a collaboration with Melinda Matúz, Gergely Kovács and Barbara Sterk. More at: http://pressmeprocess.blogspot.com/
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Murmur Study #1

A live Twitter visualization and archive. A collaboration with Christopher Baker

Murmur Study is a work-in-progress that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook Status Updates. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and indexed digitally by corporations. While the future of these archives are still to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal expression should give us pause.



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These first studies presented at the 2009 Spark Festival and the Experimental and Media Arts Exhibition consider the absurdity of the physical archive by printing live Twitter message from the Minneapolis Metro area during the exhibition. Twenty thermal receipt printers continuously produce and endless waterfall of text, which accumulates in tangled piles at the bottom.
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Talking Flowers

Or as it started Plantogochi is a microcontroller driven communication tool for plants. It uses an online database to identify the needs of the choosen plant, and collects realtime data like soil and air humidity, light, wind and temperature. With this "upgrade" the plant can communicate in short messages through gsm, microblog and e-mail. It has a small screen and a speaker for direct notification. Connecting to a computer via USB she's personality, display and sound can be configured like an avatar.



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Reservoir of Seasons

Some people believe that global warming is just a fiction, but we know it is happening, because we feel it and we see it every day. Reservoir of Seasons is not about presenting phenomena which many people will never experience, like dying polar bears, melting icebergs or the cooling of the Gulf Stream, but about the subtle changes we experience every day. Reservoir of Seasons aims to recreate the conditions found in nature in a controlled environment that is independent from its surroundings. The sphere is a scale model of a much larger environment that is intended to function as a balanced ecosystem of plants and animals, with an adjustable climate. By adjusting the temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind speed, pressure or other climate factors it is possible to create an environment that, in our case, represents spring or autumn.


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Unnamed Droid Project

The UDP is for revealing the origin of different emotions, through obeservation of human behaviour and using genetic algorythms on the generated perceptual database.

Seed of noise

Experimenting with generative music in pure-data, using conductive thread and a hand formed touch sensitive surface.
"The pad was made using conductive thread, wired to an Arduino microcontroller. As a hand is placed on the pad, the human body provides resistance which can be measured to act as a switch. The touch pad can trigger a note, chord or effect that will always relate to the “base note” of the installation. This way the sound can change over time and the sounds will still work well together."


"The theme was communities and our proposal was to make an installation to bring communities together through generating music. We were aiming for something that was easy for people to understand, explore and play with." - J.N. A collaboration with John Nussey and Nagy Ágoston.

THOCA: The History of Computer Art

This is an electronic encyclopedia about the history of computer art in a shell of an old book. We were examining the borders between lowtech and hightech, and tried to vanish it through combining old and new technologies in topic of everyday used items. We used an old album to cut its pages in the shape of two black and white lcd's which are controlled by two mainboards at the front and back covers of the book. The screen contents are synchronized through oldschool serial communication. With commodore joysticks you are able to turn the pages which are hyperlinked to each other, or you can play old networked games. The content starts from early computer driven plotter images through ascii art and leads to the artistic products of demoscene events. You can also listen to 8 bit chiptune music via covox. A collaboration with John Nussey
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We are planning to increase the capacity of the hard drives. After modifying the main style we want to upload more content which are also interesting in the theme. Further goals are the deep examining of lowtech-hightech relations in a perspective of user interface design, and we want to simplify the combined technology to make it possible to use it in schools for education.
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