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Hardware and Software Art
Lupulack writes "Worried about where your discarded obsolete technology ends up ? If it's lucky it might be at electronic-ouroborus.com/, where broken - down electronics are transformed into eye pleasing sculpture. Recycling can be art." And yaxu writes "The runme software art repository is now open. Share your favourite piece of software art; whether it be an algorithm, an irc bot, a software app misappropriation, a virus or sendmail exploit..."
Interesting... the former site has captured aesthetic elegance yet not functional elegance, and the second site has captured functional elegance but not aesthetic elegance. IMHO, true "tech-art" would need both of these qualities. Any takers?
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If you find old computer junk glued together eye pleaseing. Don't sell your Picassos yet.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Many of these components are clearly new. Look at the long wires on the resisters. These have never been on a circut board.
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This picture is especially revealing...
http://www.electronic-ouroborus.com
Kind thoughts do not change the world
if i were artistic, i would _SO_ do this...
Sure, the people aren't going to make a lot of money, or become the biggest new artist of the year, but for giving things to people, this is cool stuff!
Which makes this a nice time for a
I wonder what he'll make out of the puddle of muck his server is likely to be when he gets back?
Never trust an atom. They make up everything.
I donated an old full-length year-dot SCSI card to a friend once, and some other stuff, IO cards and things, and he ripped them to bits and used them in a sculpture thing he did. It was a head with a hole in it, meant to reference The Borg. Looked pretty damn good too.
He really was recycling stuff in this case.
Modern art has always confounded me. This is on display at the Tate gallery. I think I've seen this somewhere before... hmm....
Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative
I have seen some interesting stuff done with the
platters inside hard disk drives.
There is a computer recycling organization in town
where they take old computers, test the components,
make new computers for those in need, and then
recycle the defective components.
One of the things they did was to dissasemble the
discarded hard drives that do not work. They did
this for two reasons. One of them was to ensure
that the data on that disk remains confidential.
Who knows what personal information (personal
finances, surfed porn, love letters, etc) is
left behind.
The other reason they broke the drives down is
to make mobiles out of the platters. Those hard
disk platters were really beautifull. They are
very shiny; as if they were made out of glass.
In fact, I first mistook them for glass. They
also ring nicely when they hit each other. So,
a few of those hung on nylon fishing line swinging
in the breeze, make a wonderful sound.
I also heard a story where someone took a bunch
of these and fashioned a skirt out of them. He
attatched them together using monofiliment line.
When he wore that skirt and did a twirl, it would
be an awsome sight and the sound could be heard
from quite a distance away.
Mark
Cleara
For some reason, all the girls there couldn't get their hands off my motherboard, and they kept on fawning about how it was so big and hard. A friend commented about the reason it was green was I had that string tied around it.
But anyhow, that motherboard was how I met my most recent girlfriend. That's pretty damn functional, if you ask me.
I wonder if I'm the only person who uses old hardware to be functional as pimpware...?
Interresting about software art, because I tent to look at demos as art. The word is defined here, and it is a mixture between different algorithms, graphics and music. They put it into a program witch renders pictures in real-time.
For more demos you can look at scene.org or pouet.net.
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
...is when a Windows machine is cleaved in twine with a battle axe.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
--naked
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10 years ago, when I still thought CS was all about programming, I came across three algorithms that really changed my view of the field. Each of them was relatively short, completely non-obvious to me at the time, and a really elegant way of solving a problem:
6 80/cis680Ch18.html#QQ1-50-122) which I found in Sedgewick's Algorithms (now available in modern languages like C and Java but I had the Pascal version)
h tml) which was demonstrated to me on a napkin and introduced me to this guy named Knuth whose books I later bought
1) The merge sort solution to the closest pair problem (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/course/cis
2) The Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm for string searching (http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/node8.
3) Tarjan's linear time solution to the strongly connected components problem (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~herb/cs410f99/scc.htm) that I found flipping through Cormen-Leierson-Rivest and led to an unexpected purchase just so I could read more
(Not that anybody is going to be reading this AC post but I thought I'd share)
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
It looks like the chessboard in mandrake 8.2 under the amusements/toys/animated 3d objects menu. ;-)
I could be full of shit, though.
Gerard Ferrari does ceramic sculpture with other elements, but it still falls under the title of "ceramic" The works from the links would be of the same, the utilize the medium but not necessarily in it's entirity.
Josh
BEAM stands for Biology, electronics, asthetics and mechanics
It is basically the name of a hobby about this very subject, taking trash and creating eye pleasing and working sculptures out of it.
A few links:
Solarbotics, a kit reatiler
A great site, full of links
A nice example of a BEAM robot
puts ("Python r0cks\n");
Beam Robotics guys have been doing this sort of thing for years.
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Ok, it's not the same, but it is robotics as artwork, and their creations actually do something.
Chiu's BEAM site
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/be
Beam robotics tek
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/bushbo/beam/ma
Solarbotics
http://www.solarbotics.com/
Enjoy.
foldplay your photos won't know what hit them.
I did this for two reasons.
First of all, to celibrate gay pride. That is the
fun part of it.
The second, and most important reason, is to
promote my business.
Now that I can't find a decent IT job after one
and one half years, I decided to go into the
fetish clothing business.
What better way to promote this type of business
than to wear the stuff in public.
Between wearing the dress during gay pride and
wearing some of my other clothing at public
function, I have received leads and work.
Look at it this way. It's advertising. Is it
any worse than the stuff you see on TV/Internet/
Billboards/etc?
Mark
Cleara
perl -MIO::Socket -e 'IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>"www.microsoft.co m:139")->send("bye",MSG_OOB)'
ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d rockwellmodemuser.internet.com
The source of the webpage for that NTY webpage hack
a while ago was art also.
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Perhaps instead of runme.org, a name like slashdotme.org would have been more appropriate... ;-)
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Hardware and Software Art!!! more like celda
If i had know it was an AC post I wouldn't have read the damn thing...
Throughout university I had a friend who prided himself in being able to build the best inanimate, non functional circuits in the shape of dogs, cats, mice, people, you name it. I tried once build an insect but it just wasn't in my blood. I recall his Digital Dog v1.0 actually being used to pickup, ahh the days...
check out http://www.poppycockjewelry.com/ for some more neat recycled computer art.
try it.
There are no trolls. There are no trees out here.
Long way from theie simple chip-and-google-eye predecessors. My father actually made a living selling those along side a simple Apple cleaning kit.
Not Art as such, but quite fun nonetheless.
Circuit boards made into useful things. Check them out here.
For you to use it as advertising, sure, whatever, I don't have an issue. It's more a matter of, why are there all these other people, who DON'T have anything to sell, who seem to be trying to make it more difficult for the rest of the gay community to fit in?
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
Like chess jokes, computer art is on the whole simply awful. The people who make up the various buzzword-laden manifestos are so desperate to be hip it's painful.
Asprin... quick!
I hope I dont offend anyone, BUT FUCKING STOP IT! Ok I honestly dont mind recomendations, but dont use a *NEWS* forum to sell stuff. I say this for the following reasons: 1) I'm looking to read news, not billboards 2) You pay nothing to slashdot in return for your advertising, so it is in no way like a bilboard 3) If i see advertising on slashdot I won't buy, PERIOD. I'm glad your proud, but don't whore yourself on a news forum, you're not going to make any friends. P.S. its sad that the IT market is smaller than the market for fetish clothing :(
"I am the Flail of God!" -Genghis Kahn
Sadly, reading typical "M$ bashdot" post stole aproximatly 3.5 seconds of my life. Besides, dont waste good hardware, cleave a windows cd and put Linux or bsd on it. STOP THE SUFFERING OF INNOCENT PENTIUM 133s AROUND THE WORLD.
"I am the Flail of God!" -Genghis Kahn
I have the pascal version too. That book is a treasure trove.
;)
I came across it when I was 10 or so, and I still learn things every time I skim through.
I've always liked minimal spanning tree algorithms myself, but that may just be me
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
The hardware side, that is. I'm the guy who makes functional circuits at short notice to do "something"; dead-bug style is my favourite. Many times have I made a working circuit out of surface-mount parts, usually in three dimensions.
It's actually a very good, robust technique for quick-n-dirty prototypes when there isn't the time for a circuit board (which is typically a two-week turn-around).
I hear you telling me to stop advertising.
I am not advertising. I am only explaining
why I wear my clothing the way I do in response
to another persons query.
I have absolutely no desire to advertise on
this forum or any other such forum.
Mark
Cleara
The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired
warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing
the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker.
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"
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