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Collaborative Arts Practice
Collabarts.org was established in December 2005 as a resource and platform for artists, theorists and art students setting out to offer a source of information, dissemination and discussion about collaborative art practice. The site hosts a number of commissioned essays and interviews including some important published and as yet unpublished essays on collaboration that have been…
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Australian Lyre Bird – KUUKI
e. Menura supurba by KUUKI (ISEA 2009) is an interactive artwork that explores the paradox between our fascination with the exotic, and our potentially dystopic future devoid of many animal species. The work hybridises seventeenth to early twentieth century aesthetics with refined post-consumer waste materials, to create a simulacra of a Lyre bird. The Australian Lyre bird (initially…
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Steve Gutierrez – Exploring the role of Technology and Nature in our society
Interactive CO2 Roamer (Plant Upgrade Series, 2007) slideshow. Using microcontrollers, CO2 sensors, solar panels and rechargeable batteries and motors Steve Gutierrez endows a bamboo plant with the ability to self-navigates, enabling the plant to hunt and search for light and people created CO2 gas. Steve’s work draws attention to social and environmental issues highlighting the connectedness and the…
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Instructables – Using Servos and 2 Instructable Servo projects
Neil and Anthony’s project uses junk mobile phones, adruino and servo motors for the moving parts. This Instructable by Higgs Boson is written by someone who had little knowledge of servo motors and how to use them so it starts from the beginning. Other members of the Instructables community have also added helpful comments and links. 1.…
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Glitch Music
One aspect of Neil and Anthony’s project Escape, creates music out of unwanted sounds. Although technically not Glitch Music or Musique Concrete, their work can be considered in relation to these practices. You can visit these links to find out more about Glitch music and see if it inspires you to make your own Electronica. 1. Glitch is…
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Beginners guides to Programming
Neil and Anthony used coding in their project in order to make the phones ‘talk’ to each other. Here are some links to a number of Beginners Guides to Programming. First up, Arduino, Processing and Scratch – These resources are are also signposted on Hector Leiva’s wiki resource and are good for getting started in programming, creating interactive objects, environments and making…
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Wiki How to – Collage
You can make a collage out of anything – Neil and Anthony’s project Escape uses the collage technique to make the birds from old mobile phones. Wiki How to do anything: A collage is a work of art composed of numerous materials, e.g. paper, photographs, cut up text textiles or other objects attached to background support,…
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Dialtones (A Telesymphony)
Dialtones (A Telesymphony) (2001-2002: Golan Levin, Gregory Shakar, Scott Gibbons, Yasmin Sohrawardy, Joris Gruber, Erich Semlak, Gunther Schmidl, Joerg Lehner, and Jonathan Feinberg) is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience’s own mobile phones (accessed 2012). ResourcesDetailed information about Dialtones is available at its official web site. High quality images of Dialtones are available from this Flickr…
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How mobile / cell phones work
Mobile phones work by using electromagnetic radio waves. Understanding how they work will give you more ideas on how you can use them and manipulate them for your project. This is a useful guide from ‘How Stuff Works’ (accessed 2012) that gives the basic understanding of one of our most common place technologies – the mobile /…
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Lucas Bambozzi – Mobile Crash
What to do with your old Mobile Phone? This is Brazilian artist Lucas Bambozzi’s solution – what could you do? Mobile Crash – ‘four big projections in a room, with its respective direct audio. Once the viewer enters the space the system detects his/her direction and would respond accordingly, by playing a series of video sequences in…
