Crazy/Nerdy Computer Art Installations

Gernot Ziegler writes "After having read a report on the fusion of Art and Technology, I somehow ended up on Perry Hoberman's page. I don't know this guy, but I've always been fascinated by techno art, and these ones are clearly intriguing. There is the Workaholic, a pendulum with a bar code scanner over a carpet with bar codes and an attached projector that overlays images on the carpet, or the ZOMBIAC (Zone Of Monitor-Based Inter-Amnesiac Contact) that lures the visitors into thinking that the machines react to them directly. You might also want to have a look at this weird auction (that's where I got this link from) ! :)"

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Check out musical computer art

[jjl]

Check out this band - it consists of old 386DX computer having a SB...
The music is quite fun, as it consists of classics rendered in the adlib-style sounds and top of that the SB speech synthesizer is singing the vocals. :-D

As can be seen in the pages, they have done many "live concerts" which could be defined also quite nice computer art installations - just the computer sitting on street, playing out its music.

Just a little definition for you all...

[Gandalf_Greyhame]

This is an interesting fact which I learnt the other week.

The word "Techno" actually MEANS "Art"

Therefore Technology is infact "The study of art." I was distraught when I learnt this, since I am an engineering student and despise those lowly arts students...

lowtech art

[sparkes]

if you sail on over to lowtech.org you can see a group in the UK using redundant technology both in art and in society.

the group a2rt (www.a2rt.org) are also starting up something similar as well.

The reasoning behind using lowtech computers in art and social projects was given by James Walbank the founder of the lowtech project in this speech to an arts conference with the theme of revolution. James correctly pointed out that you can't have a revolution with a price tag of over £1000.

favourite pieces include redundant array, and the video wall that was reprised in even better fashion here at fort lux

Art is what you make it, found art is what you find and what you make it, lowtech art is finding art in skips.

sparkes