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Make your own swine flu!

Posted by mang on April 30th, 2009 filed in General

You can use my Post-It Note DNA Synthesizer applet to make swine flu in your very own home (some assembly required).
The applet visualizes genetic sequences in colours matched to the popular sticky notes. It can be used as a guide for making your very own stick-up sequences!
DNA Synthesizer applet with first line of recent [...]

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Page St Garden Spring Gigapan

Posted by mang on April 29th, 2009 filed in General

Click on the image below to go to my Page St Garden Spring Gigapan. This is a relatively small one from the front of the garden — it’s composed from only 55 images. In the GigaPan you can see the native garden and Strange Attractor on the right and the area with succulents [...]

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Strange Attractor Opening Pictures

Posted by mang on April 29th, 2009 filed in General

Here are some pictures from the Strange Attractor opening at the Page St Garden. The opening for humans was on Saturday but the insect visitors decided to come on Sunday!

Thanks to the garden for continuing to host Strange Attractor and particularly Michael and Gabriel! The garden is interested in [...]

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Found Connections Video

Posted by mang on April 29th, 2009 filed in General

A short video of our installation of Found Connections at the TV of Tomorrow Show 2009.
Found Connections lets participants discover the social relationships between characters in a narrative (in this case a TV show) by interacting with each other through a “virtual mirror” augmented reality display. The relationships between the characters are shown using [...]

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Opening for Strange Attractor at Page St Garden

Posted by mang on April 23rd, 2009 filed in General

There will be an opening / garden party for the Strange Attractor installation at the Page Street Garden in the Haight this Saturday following their Spring Workday. The ongoing installation is a chance for Strange Attractor to interact with the urban ecosystem — animal and human.
Strange Attractor Opening
Page St Community Garden – Page St [...]

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Artists’ Reception for Found Connections at Yerba Buena

Posted by mang on March 9th, 2009 filed in General

The Artists’ Reception for Found Connections and other artists’ projects at the TV of Tomorrow Show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will take place from 5:30-6:30pm on Tuesday March 10th. This event is open to the public and is your chance to see Found Connections! Found Connections will be installed for [...]

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Found Connections at TV of Tomorrow 2009

Posted by mang on March 2nd, 2009 filed in General

An updated version of my Found Connections project will appear at the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco March 10th and 11th.
Found Connections is an interactive installation where users can explore the social network of television characters in an augmented reality video display. Each user is given a “paddle” with a tracking marker printed [...]

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Strange Attractor at Page St Community Garden

Posted by mang on February 20th, 2009 filed in General

I’m in the process of installing my Strange Attractor project at the Page St Community Garden in the Lower Haight in San Francisco. Strange Attractor is a modular system of artificial flowers designed to be visited by butterflies and other animals. By seeing how the animals react to different designs we can get [...]

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Dorkbot talk a success!

Posted by mang on January 20th, 2009 filed in General

There was a huge turnout at last week’s Dorkbot… sorry to those that left for lack of space!
Below is the GigaPan I took during my talk. The GigaPan robot happily snapped away while I showed some of my work and discussed the aesthetics of gigapixel imagery.

This [...]

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Gigapixels Talk at Dorkbot SF

Posted by mang on January 10th, 2009 filed in General

I’m talking at Dorkbot in San Francisco this coming Tuesday (Jan 10). I’m presenting some of my work with gigapixel imagery. If you’re in SF come check it out! Info about the talk below. The other talks are Joe Grand – The Projects of Prototype This, Paul Cesewski (aka Paul da [...]

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