I’m really enjoying the work in Michæl.Paukner’s Flickr photostream, which includes some of the most fantastical analytical graphics, illustrating scientific/theoretical concepts. Most of his work is just gorgeous, bringing clarity and simplicity to what could otherwise be convoluted diagrams. Some of my favourites are the solar eclipse and the circular periodic table of [...]
Today I spent some time going through earlier posts, making small tweaks or edits to image sizes – bringing the site back up to date with the new theme (courtesy of subtraction.com). Something that came to mind during this was that I haven’t been using this site as a sketchpad or notebook as much [...]
In addition to my involvement with the janus project for the Smart Light Sydney Festival, Joanne Jakovich and I were invited to collaborate with the NSW Department of Planning in an ambitious short term project during the festival. The Department of Planning, along with Metropolis and D-City had the initiative to setup a small amount [...]
Filtration Fields (Joanne Jakovich & Jason McDermott 2009)
Recently Joanne and I were given the opportunity to exhibit in the DAB Lab Research Gallery at UTS, in the Design, Architecture and Building faculty building, as an opportunity to refine and showcase our collective research into realtime responsive architectural environments.
[view from inside DAB Lab Gallery, taken [...]
Interface Edinburgh was produced by Rangituhia Hollis, Jason McDermott and Athalie Moedjoko. It was the culmination of the two week porosity studio in Edinburgh, and has been exhibited in Edinburgh, London and Sydney.
Interface: Edinburgh
The interface only exists between a body and it’s environment.
Come to this place and see that we are outsiders, foreigners in a [...]
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pixelTag is an experimental working prototype for creating digital art using hand-held devices and radio signals.
The current pixelTag prototype uses the Nintendo Wii remote controller, in conjunction with Osculator and Max/Msp. The prototype generates pixel graphics in real time, based on x/y/z motion information sent to Max by the Wii remote. The prototype [...]
The Street as platform – a street rendered in data.
November has been a busy month!
Along with Anthony Burke, Dan Hill and Mitchell Whitelaw, I’ve been running an intensive masterclass studio in the Master of Digital Architecture program at UTS. The masterclass is based on one of Dan’s earlier posts called http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/02/the-street-as-p.html, in which the notion [...]
pixelTag is an experimental working prototype for creating digital art using hand-held devices and radio signals.
The current pixelTag prototype uses the Nintendo Wii remote controller, in conjunction with Osculator and Max/Msp. The prototype generates pixel graphics in real time, based on x/y/z motion information sent to Max by the Wii remote. The prototype has the [...]
The interface only exists between a body and it’s environment.
Come to this place and see that we are outsiders, foreigners in a new land‚ naive and blissfully innocent of this place. We seek to make a connection, an understanding, to learn from the city by touch and by feel. By striking, pulling and tearing. Each [...]
The Chennai Free Information Zone project is exhibited as part of the Continuum: Tactics for Contingent Environments Exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Continuum exhibition is a collaboration between Anthony Burke of UTS DAB Architecture and David Burns of Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.
The google-verse has recently been expanded to include gapminder software as part of the ever impressive Google Docs platform.
Below is an interactive spreadsheet example of the sophisticated motion graphs now available in Google Docs.
The motion graph is based on the Gapminder software first demonstrated to the world by Hans Rosling in his exciting and highly [...]
As a relative latecomer to the twitter-verse, this post may seem a little bit behind the times, but there are some ideas that have been floating around the web over the last month, and I want to add my 2 cents to the discussion.
It would appear that in the last 5 years there have been [...]