In light of class discussion on sharing and distribution of artwork on the Internet, I thought this article was both interesting and relevant. Torrentspy, a popular search client for BitTorrent files, was recently ordered by the MPAA to give the IP address of United States users so as the MPAA could prosecute against said users….

As the skater skates on the board, sensors pick up the acceleration, rotation, and vibration given off from the skateboard. These data are transmitted wirelessly to a laptop computer. Every single one of these sensors triger a sound which are amplified through speakers. In other words, while the skateboarder skates, they are able to create…

I have an interest in machines acting very human-like. With that said, nothing is more human than shitting. At Ars Electronica, Wim Delvoye spoke in regards to his work Cloaca (latin for sewer) in which a series of machines involving wire, tubing, jars, bacteria, enzymes, and acid, digest food and produce artificial feces. Cloaca underwent…

Oh man, my very own spaceship. Back in 1965, Dr. Moller built his first, and very own, Skycar (which is pretty much mind boggling considering the fact that it was built in 1965), but it didn’t really work very well. My first home-made Skycar was better. His Skycars were built to work like a Spaceship,…

As I was in search of an interesting tech topic for this blog, I ran across a couple of things about cell phones. From what i see and have heard, cell phones can cause cancer(a theory unproven), they cause accidents and deaths because of unfocused drivers(a story older than the first cell phone), and now…

Surprisingly, the worlds biggest supercomputer is actually a virus. It’s the Storm Worm Botnet, which currently infects between one and ten million computers worldwide. Thats a ton of computers! Somewhere between 1 and 10 petabytes of RAM, so it has access to a crazy amount of processing power. These estimates came from the computer scientist…

Hey all…I have to apologize for my computer incompetence! I was publishing my posts under a personal blog, I guess, and not the class blog. Anyhow, I finally figured it out, and posted all my blogs in the Responsive Arts blog. These are form the first week forward. Hope you enjoy, and sorry for the…

This piece is called the “Affective Diary.” This diary uses sensor data (such as movement,skin temp., galvanic skin response, and pulse) which is uploaded through one’s mobile phone.This “biodata” is then used to create abstract, colorful shapes. These different colors and shaped represent different movements, moods, and feelings. Then, the user can reflect on the…

So basically this artist named Michael Rakowitz created a portable shelter for homeless people. The idea was inspired by the homeless person’s habit of sitting on warm air vents in winter to stay warm. The city got tired of that, and decided to install vertical vents, so that the homeless would not be able to…

Well it actually isn’t as cool as it sounds. Simply, it’s just a power strip with a shape of a table(or a table with a built-in power strip..). It’s a really good idea. I’m surprised we don’t see something like this in our every day life considering how cheap and efficient it is.

AUDIO BOMBINGI found this to be very inventive and creative for the urban art world. I myself am not a graffiti artist, but I grew up around many of them and appreciate the graffiti scene. This piece amazed me because of its simplicity in materials and because of its low profile presence. Basically, the medium…

Sadly, all of you who just bought the latest iPod video, got all your updates ready, downloaded 1000’s of songs and videos of the iTunes store, a new iPod has just been released. Yeah, you won’t have to redownload anything, but you’ll have to buy a whole new device or wait until yours become so…