The creators of this online journal and forum controversially argue that computation will engender the final stage of development in the relationship between architecture and computers by ...
Writing software is at the core of Casey Reas’s artistic practice. The digital is his medium of choice rather than a means of manipulation. He reflects on ...
With the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, the great spectre that once haunted Europe and the rest of the ...
While computers have dramatically changed the way architects design, construction in the US and around the world is still dependent on ...
One of the great lessons of the 20th Century that our particular generation of architects has inherited is our appreciation of the infra-thin scale: the primal ...
Contemporary telecommunication and computer technologies have fundamentally changed the relationship between sign and space, iconography and matter. While Venturi’s model for the decorated shed grew out ...
The current programming culture in architecture could all too easily be written off as a youthful, geeky obsession with the algorithmic and the parametric among nascent practitioners, who ...
After seeing Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World Map, a map projected on a flattened isohedron, we began working on the idea of using computer ...
G. Holmes Perkins, 1904-2004 In September of 2004 I attended two events that reflect on each other. One was the Non-Standard Praxis conference held at MIT. The ...
With the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, thegreat specter that once haunted Europe and the rest of the world has all but ...
Contemporary architects are judged as much by their buildings as they are by the sophistication of the techniques used in design and construction. A certain fascination with technology is natural ...
Genomic architecture is based on the manipulation of the architectural genome. Like its biological counterpart, this genome is universal and encompasses all architecture — past, present and future. ...Interactive Graffiti on Architecture
Monday, August 21st, 2006
Interactive Architecture (video) is an illustration of the concept that digital projections can interact with the surfaces upon which they are projected.
Shadow Monsters
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Learning Retinal Implant System
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Intelligent Medical Implants AG (IMI), has successfully implanted two patients with its camera to retina transmiter with a unique ‘learning’ capability.
via Medgadget
Cybertouching : Transmitting Tactility
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
Pervasive Gaming
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
The world of online gaming is creeping into reality as elaborate games like The Beast exploit the various digital networks to envelope reality with a coat of mystery, suspense, fun, fear, and even exercise. [article] (more on pervasive games at Cloudmakers)
via networked_performance
Translator Tech
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Alex Waibel’s “translations goggles” displays virtual subtitles.
Stan Jou’s translator captures electrical signals from facial muscles translating silent mouthing of one language to speech or writing in another.
Implantable Miniature Telescope
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
The prosthetic telescope, by VisionCare, is permanently implanted into one eye in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to reduce the ‘blind spot’, drastically improving vision (in over 200 patients in the phase 1 study).
Virtual Augmented Plantlife
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
1st Ave Machine’s beautifully rendered augmented plant life in “Sixes Last” (music by Alias) [video]
P.E.A.R.T. : The Robotic Drum Machine
Thursday, August 11th, 2005
The P.E.A.R.T or Pneumatic and Electronic Actuated RoboT reads MIDI inputs to control a set of pneumatic cylinders for a fully automated analog drum machine. Monkey Drummer lives. [video page]
via hackaday
Remote-Controlled Humans
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
NTT Communication Science Lab is showcasing a human-controlling device at SIGGRAPH 2005, appropriately titled Shaking the World: Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation as a Novel Sensation Interface. Simply put, this is “a device that controls a person’s movement by remote control.” [article] [video]
National Geographic article on remote controlled rats (2002)
via slashdot
