14 Jan 2009 Radio Tests and Camera Traps Today was a day of camera traps and radio tests. Tony and I went out to replace…
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13 Jan 2009 Question: what are the regulations on long-range 2.4GHz and associated bands in this area? 25-30 animals in a group typically, although spider…
Comments closed12 Jan 2009 It’s getting a little easier here, for a few reasons. My stomach is getting stabler (still a ways to go), Tony and…
Comments closed11 Jan 2009 Not much to say about today. I spent the whole day in camp, and much of it in the bathroom, getting intimate…
Comments closed10 Jan 2009 Went out to observe wooly monkeys with Tony, Mauricio, Peter. Attempted to track groups G and Y. They used radio collar receiver,…
Comments closedI’m currently in the rainforest in eastern Ecuador with NYU primatologist Anthony Di Fiore and his team, learning how they track monkeys, in order to…
Comments closedThanks to Jeff Gray for this most excellent link to a project describing how to attach your blender to a motion sensor to scare yoru…
Comments closedThis weekend I went down to Austin, Texas for Maker Faire Austin, the 2008 edition. ITP resident researchers Rory Nugent and Hyeki Min went with me, as did recent alums So-Young Park and Young-Hyun Chung.  Between us, we took eight ITP projects: Young-Hyun’s Digital Wheel Art, So-Young’s Music & Fashion Coordinator, Tom Gerhardt’s FireLight, Christian Cerrito’s Brushbots, Che-Wei Wang and Kristin O’Friel’s Momo, Rory’s Square Band, Alex Reeder’s Butterfly Dress,and Eric Rosenthal’s Liquid ID Spectrometer. It was exhausting showing work for two days straight, but a lot of fun as well.
Comments closedThis summer I got to assist on a project by artists Matthew Belanger, Sean Riley, Ven Voisey, and producer Marianne Petit on a neat project called Lumens. Actually, they did all the work, I just offered a little guidance to get things started. It’s an installation of 160 networked lamps situated in two galleries in the towns of Adams and North Adams, Massachusetts, and the online arts organization turbulence.org. The lamps in each gallery react to visitors walking through the space, as well as responding to movements in the other space. In addition, visitors online can turn on the lamps as well.
Comments closedHC Gilje’s wind-up bird(s) is an environmental sound work installed in a forest in Lillehammer, Norway. It’s a flock of mechanical woodpeckers that communicate via…
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