Pocket cinema: Maquinas & Almas (Souls & Machines) – Documentary

March 6, 2011

Maquinas & Almas (Souls & Machines) – Documentary is an accompanying film of 33 minutes length that covers the synonymous exhibition held two years ago in the National Museum “Centro de Arte Reina Sofía” in Madrid.

The exhibition and documentary cover high tech and low tech aspects, including innovators and makers such as Theo Jansen and his Strandbeests, media design by John Maeda, robot by David Hanson, or Sachiko Kodama‘s Ferrofluid, among many…

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Theo Jansen: Strandbeest (c)

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Pocket cinema: Reactive Books by John Maeda

September 17, 2010

You know, my digital dad is media artist and designer John Maeda… of course, he doesn’t know that I even exist… I mean, he has lotsa digital kids scattered  around the cyberspace…

Oh, how I like his work, because his books are like the Tao Te Ching for us, digital natives trying to find a glimpse of nature in rows and rows of pixels…

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Photo: John Maeda, taken from karagatan.wordpress. com

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Sound… light…dust… dark…

February 25, 2009

A small reminder for very interesting thing I saw on Touch me Festival. Interactive sound installation ‘From dust till dawn’ by Dietmar Offenhuber and Markus Decker was presented long time ago at Ars Electronica (2006).

dusk1.jpg‘From dust till dawn’, photo by Transform Magazine (c)

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