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Category Archives: Research

My HDR Pics

02-Apr-08

I’ve been researching and experimenting with various ways of taking high dynamic range images, this the result of my research so far. Also serves as an opportunity to test the gallery functionality in this version of Wordpress!

There are plenty of glitches still in the pictures, but I’m making some progress.

Zenphoto

25-Feb-08

Researching stuff for the Interactive Arts Wiki, found Zenphoto. Possibly a good thing for Photobombing…

Infrared Pen for Wii

16-Feb-08

I’ve made my own Infrared Pen for use with a Wii controller; interactive white board a-hoy. Hopefully will use it somehow with Zimmy’s feedback project using Johnny Lee’s interactive white board software. See this post for some cool videos demonstrating it.
For anyone’s reference; I got the infrared LED from Maplin. The part is “High Power [...]

Feedback Things

13-Feb-08

I’ve started working with Zimmy on creating an multi-faceted installation based around audio visual feedback. It stems from Zimmy’s experiments with pointing video cameras at projections of what the video camera is looking at… thus creating a feedback loop.
It is hugely fun, and awe inspiring in a way- I really love things that make you [...]

BlogCrossing; Isnternet; Anti-Blogs; Liberation

09-Dec-07

Since I discovered it was possible, I’ve been yearning to make something out of the Webserver on a Stick project (WOS). Components that make WOS are:

A web server; Apache
A database server; MySQL
A scripting language; PHP

For one, I love all the recursive acronyms. GNU, stands for GNU is not UNIX. Witty! And PHP stands for PHP [...]

Build your own Kaleidoscope

18-Nov-07

Lots of fun & clever flash programming.
I’m so jealous!
http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html

Low Fi, Net Art Locator

18-Nov-07

Artists are utilising the net as a medium for developing art projects, however these projects are often hard to find. The range of activity is extensive: artists use the net to experiment; to display and distribute their art projects; to collaborate; and sometimes to intervene critically in the increasingly commercialised and politicised space [...]

Diwali at Platt Fields Park

01-Nov-07

I went to a pre-Diwali celebration at Platt Fields Park a couple of weeks ago. It was fantastic. Not really directly relevant to my artistic practice, but certainly a good thing to do (for me) to keep my mind happy and creative. It was a really nice community event, but the dramatic climax was hugely [...]

Spy Phone

17-Oct-07

I recently purchased a modified Nokia phone, that lets you set it into a “spy mode” - whereby the phone appears to be off but will actually automatically answer any incoming phone calls; without any visible signs. Its designed for un-trusting types to spy on their friends, employers or loved ones. Fortunately, I’m in a [...]

Good Spam-art Feedback

14-Oct-07

I just came across this in a discussion on Plan B Magazine’s forum, talking about my spam art project. Even though I can’t realistically continue it, still nice to see. This is just what I was going for!

Spam Good, Spam Bad; Spam Bad

24-Sep-07

Amazingly, since my last post thing have been going pretty well!
I wrote that yesterday, and things were still okay this morning. However I’ve annoyed one many spam-savvy academics, one too many times (maybe).
I’m not sure exactly what happened, but I was reported to spamcop.net, who notified my ISP who then temporarily disabled my account.
So [...]

Spam Haiku

16-Sep-07

My college pictures
Enhance your anatomy.
Proven effective.
See more Haikus here.

Art Spam, Spam Art, spArt I suppose

12-Sep-07

What is Spam Art?
I have a new harebrained “artistic” scheme. As the title suggests it is to do with spam.
I read about something I thought that was cool; a guy had simply created a dedicated email inbox and ensured that it received lots of spam all the time (not too difficult these days). Then a [...]

Original Spart Email

11-Sep-07

This is the content of the email that I sent in my preliminary spArt tests…..
I’m an Art Student, in Manchester (UK).
I’m mainly interested in working with computers, technology and the web - and finding interesting subjects within those areas to base my work on.
This will form part of my creative process.
I (literally) just had the [...]

Geocaching; Personal Procrastination

10-Sep-07

I’m becoming increasing frustrated with my inability to record my music in a efficient manner. Procrastination is a big problem as is occasional lethargy. Also I find it difficult to defer my desires to mess about with my various other projects that are on-going.
Today’s procrastinative displacement activity is giving some much needed attention to this [...]