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Blue Flower in MAKE Magazine

Posted by mang on June 12th, 2007 filed in Electronics, General, Living Art, School

My Blue Flower was featured in the Art Work column in MAKE Issue 10. The article is called Illuminated Circuits and focuses on artists who use electronic circuits for both their form and function. I’m in there along with Peter Vogel (one of my personal heroes).

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ITP Spring Show 2006

Posted by mang on May 9th, 2006 filed in Living Art, School

The Spring Show is going to be wild. More than 100 projects. My Blue Flower made it in.

Interactive Telecommunications Program
Spring Show 2006
http://itp.nyu.edu/show/
Tuesday, May 9 from 5-9 PM
Wednesday, May 10 from 6-9 PM
721 Broadway at Waverly Place 4th Floor South Elevators New York, NY 10003
A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical [...]

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Materials Final Projects

Posted by mang on May 1st, 2006 filed in Electronics, Living Art, Materials and Building Strategies, School

The show at Tonic was a success! Hydrobot Mark I presented a short piece and nobody was electrocuted. Video hopefully soon!
The Materials and Building Strategies class at ITP had some great final projects. Also check out the great new Materials for New Media website.
Pictures from ITP Materials Final Spring 2006

Blue [...]

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Blue Flower – Charger Hacking and Coil Construction

Posted by mang on April 12th, 2006 filed in Electronics, Hacking, Living Art, School

My blue flower will use inductive charging. I took apart an Oral-B CrossAction Power Max toothbrush ($18 at K-Mart) to see how it works and see if it would be useable in my project.
Charger hacking and coil construction pics
The toothbrush side is remarkably simple. There is a coil attached directly to a battery [...]

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Living Art – Blue Flower Concept Sketches

Posted by mang on April 12th, 2006 filed in Living Art, School

For my Living Art final project I’m continuing my blue flower. It will be housed in an acrylic vase that is a wireless inductive power source. If the flower is removed from the vase and its nourishing electric field, the flower will droop and dim.
Concept sketches — results of a marathon single sitting [...]

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Living Art – Proposal for a Complex System

Posted by mang on April 5th, 2006 filed in Living Art, School

Continuing in my direction of creating electronic systems which are in some way based upon the principles of nature, I would like to create a system where electronic flowers and electronic beetles interact in a symbiotic relationship.
A number of electronic flowers will be spread around a small “arena”. Each flower will have LEDs to [...]

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Living Art Midterm Pics

Posted by mang on March 17th, 2006 filed in Living Art, School

There were some really fantastic pieces presented at the Living Art (generative art combined with physical computing) midterm. Here are the pictures. Kind of hard to tell what’s going on in those unless you’re in the class (video documentation would be better).
For my piece I continued my work with the blue flowers and [...]

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Living Art – Flower Construction

Posted by mang on February 27th, 2006 filed in Electronics, Living Art, School

Annotated construction pics from my etched copper blue electronic flowers MKII. Also includes testing pics from Todd’s flourescent fibonacci series.

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Living Art — Blue Flowers MKII

Posted by mang on February 27th, 2006 filed in Electronics, Living Art, School

I completed the second version of my blue flower. This time instead of making a circuit board I etched a copper sheet directly leaving me bare copper circuit traces which could then be bent into shape. Soldering to the copper was difficult because of the large mass of copper sucking the heat away. [...]

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Living Art – Blue Flowers

Posted by mang on February 16th, 2006 filed in Electronics, Living Art, School

For this week’s Living Art assignment I created two flowers out of circuit boards, wire, resistors and LEDs. Here are the pictures.
I’ve long been interested in creating organic forms and experiences with technology. Creating these flowers is an experiment in trying to create circuits that connect with us based on our heritage as [...]

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