Some images from the recently finished ZER01SJ Biennial, including my personal favs from the show:

OutRun – The Video Game You Actually Drive, by Garnet Hertz
Empire Drive-In, by Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark
wind coil sound flow, by Ken Gregory
Maria Del Camino, by Bruce Tomb

Thanks to Tymm Twillman and Chico Macmurtrie and everyone who helped to make this event a success.

This was the first time I used TouchOSC on an iPad to control the machines. We used TouchOSC to drive MAX/MSP which in turn drove an Arduino micro-controller. Fun stuff. iPad as portable multi-touch controller is good.

More Amorphic Robot Works

Chico MacMurtrie, Birds, June 2009, MuAC, Mexico City.
Photo credit: Luise Kaunert, Paris

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Special thanks to Chico MacMurtrie, Sven Travis of Parsons The New School of Design, the National Art Museum of China and the organizers of the Synthetic Times exhibition.

I was honored to participate in the exhibition, and delighted to meet so many incredible artists, including Verdensteatret, Kurt Hentschläger, f18 institute, Edwin van der Heide, Blendid, Herwig Weiser, and David Rokeby.

For more information on 16 Birds, see this page on the Amorphic website and this page from an earlier exhibition in New York City.

I’m very impressed with the direction of Chico’s new work, which has been getting a good deal of press attention lately, too. It’s nice to see Chico’s work getting the attention I think it deserves.

If you are in the city, I recommend a trip to one of the pieces he has up now.

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Speaking of robots, here’s a fun picture of Chico Maurtrie and I from 2002. We were programming the sculpture in the picture, named Skelli, for a video shoot at Chico’s studio in Brooklyn.

Chico’s latest work, the Totemobile, was recently featured in Wired Magazine. Video below. Pretty darned cool.

There are more Amorphic Robot Works images here.

The Amorphic Robot Works Website is here.

http://oldschool.briankane.net/muffatte2000

The image above is Mark 9 and myself setting up show controls.

From an Amorphic Robot Works show at Tacheles, in Berlin. 1996

And may you never go there

This is a picture from 1996, while programming the SDM (Super Dog Monkey) to walk for the Amorphic Robot Works show at The Lab in San Francisco. Plenty of cables for sure.