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    Escape From the Future: Architecture, Language, and the Computational Turn

    Figure 4.pngThe 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 ...

    Process/Drawing

    ReasThumb.jpgWriting 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 ...

    Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation

    Thumb copy.jpgWith 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 ...

    Nothing Is Random: Automason Ver 2.0

    Figure 1.jpg While computers have dramatically changed the way architects design, construction in the US and around the world is still dependent on ...

    Dazzle Topologies

    EVAN copy.jpg 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 ...

    Transmitting Iconography

    GRAND2cropb copy.jpg 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 ...

    Tectonics, Economics and the Reconfiguration of Practice: The Case for Process Change by Digital Means

    sheldon-thumb.jpgThe 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 ...

    Bodies Unfolding

    Bill and Lila Thumb copy.jpgAfter seeing Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World Map, a map projected on a flattened isohedron, we began working on the idea of using computer ...

    Cultural Concerns in Computational Architecture

    perkins 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 ...

    Genetic Architecture

    Genetic Architecture 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 ...

    Automason Version 1.0

    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

    genomic1.gifGenomic 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. ...
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iPhone Finally Free

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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iphone.unlock.no has the simplest, most straight forward instructions. It simply works (took about 15mins). iPhone, welcome to T-Mobile. more at hackint0sh

Interactive 360º Light Field Display

Friday, August 31st, 2007

USC Institute for Creative Technologies presents (at SIGGRAPH 2007), a new low-cost autostereoscopic 3D display.

via core77 + swissmiss

The Virtual Typewriter Museum

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

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The Hansen Writing Ball | The Virtual Typewriter Museum

Morpho Towers - Two Standing Spirals

Friday, March 30th, 2007

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Morpho Towers - Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral. By Sachiko Kodama + Yasushi Miyajima

Anton Perich

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

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Anton Perich, who built his electric painting machine in 1977/78 will be presenting his work at ITP / NYU. The electric painting machine was a predecessor of ink-jet technology and created electric painting years before computer/art works.

721 Broadway, 4th Floor, room 447
Friday, March 30th 2007 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Thanks Timothy.

Perceptive Pixel

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Jeff Han’s new company, Perceptive Pixel, is finally out, hopefully building multi-touch interfaces for commercial applications.

via pixelsumo

Photosynth

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

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Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs is a 3-D image reconstructor that rebuilds entire environments based on hundreds of photos taken from different angles.  The result is a web based photo browser that stitches photos into a seamless  panorama in a true 3d environment.  Think web based QTVR stitcher on steroids.

vvvv : a multipurpose toolkit

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

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Hey…Into generative art and graphical programming environments?  Checkout vvvv, it's like Processing and MAX/MSP had a kid.

Tesla Motors

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

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Tesla Motors has just unveiled the Tesla Roadster, a 0-to-60 in 4 about seconds, electric car.  No, it's not a dead end wish-it-would-be-real prototype.  The car is set to ship to your door late spring/early summer of 2007.

NASA World Wind

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

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NASA World Wind - Like google earth with mars, venus, jupiter and the moon.