Experience Design Studio at RISD ID

RFIDB

risdbiketown — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:02:29 +0000

RFID on a paper wasp.

Andrew’s Solder Demo on tape

tinochow — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:51:53 +0000

Soldering Demo
This is my first video from my Kodak camcorder thing, I couldn’t get wordpress to embed my video, but here the link.

old fashion robotics store in providence

Arthur — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:37:58 +0000

http://oldfashionroboticstore.com/

old fashion robotics store for supplies

the stores a bit hidden .. look for signs

14 Cedar Street
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 276-4216

keyboard drum

heesung — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:44:00 +0000

check this out.

http://ronwinter.tv/drums.html

Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck’s Net Derive

Arthur — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:50:57 +0000

“Net Derive is a location sensitive mobile media art piece that calls for an exchange between participants in the gallery and participants in the streets. Deployed on advanced mobile phones, the work seeks to create a kind of musical instrument, thinking of the city as an instrument.”

-arthur

LOCA: Set to Discoverable

Arthur — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:43:38 +0000

“the loca network observes peoples movements by tracking the position of blue tooth enable device that they carry everyday. Each time that a bluetooth device is detected at one of the nodes, a log is created. Over the seven days at the 01 exhibition more than 2500 people were detected more than half a million times. The team can build up detail picture of peoples movements, and draw inferences of their lives without requiring any action from the blue tooth user…” example: LOCA text message sent to detected blue tooth user: “You walked past a flower shop and spent 30 minutes in the park, are you in love?” Using open bluetooh as a surveillance tool and a voyeuristic perceiver to the digital landscape, LOCA builds a new experience to our seemingly unaware digital identity in the world right next to this one.

their website

-arthur

Kate Hartman’s Urban Sonar

Arthur — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:22:00 +0000

“Urban Sonar is a personal space monitoring system that senses an individual’s experience as they move through the urban environment and records that information for review at a later time. [....] Ultrasonic range finders are mounted in the front, back, and shoulders of a jacket, measuring the empty space or proximity to solid forms on all sides of the body. Conductive fabric strips are strapped around the fingers and serve as the contact leads for a heart rate monitor that registers pulse. ” The project looks to map out our anxiety when we move around the countless unfamiliar bodies in an urban environment.

http://www.urbansonar.com/visualizer.php

-arthur

Shape shifting Material by Intel

tinochow — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:45:41 +0000

Faster than rapid prototyping, changes color, shape and form to mimic any material in real life. This technology is developed by intel and the video is fake, but really cool. Imagine the day we can actually make 3D presentations of products instantly.

-Tino

Switch Project 3/3

tinochow — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:16:53 +0000

After a fun and exciting day of video recording our switch projects, I have posted up my photos on Flickr. Enjoy

Fischli and Weiss “The Way Things Go”

Yasemin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:06:07 +0000

The switch assignment reminded me of Fischli and Weiss’s “The Way Things Go”, which is a 30 min long chain reaction. In a way, I percieved every action here a switch for the next action, because they all trigger the start of eachother. But of course a switch is something that closes a loop or a circuit whereas in “The Way Things Go” the chain reaction doesn’t close a certain loop, it is a line of actions following eachother.