At our meeting last Wednesday Richard Briggs, one of Ottawa’s makers from the first Maker Faire and member of the Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa or HPVOoO, brought in some of the electroluminescent wire he had been working with to create an EL-wired human powered train for the Help Santa Toy Parade put on […]
Mod Lab’s November 17th Meeting Recap
November 24th, 2010Firuz Daud on Ottawa International Animation Festival 2010
November 20th, 2010I must apologize that this article is late to the point of irrelevance. Over the last month I’ve been traveling a lot. I had this romantic idea that I could pull out my computer in transit and write in all these weird places, but I fond that typing on the go gave me motion sickness. […]
Paper City @ Electric Fields
November 13th, 2010There were the WORST drivers EVER, at the Electric Fields Mini-Maker-Faire, this weekend! (watch the video for proof!) For those who did not attend the event, I was producing a ‘Collaborative Stop-Motion Project’ which encouraged willing participants to move parts of a paper set, while I snapped photos. Awfully low-tech for an environment as inventive as the Mini-Maker-Faire, but embracing the art in the process of ‘making’, and working to pluralize DIY into DIOurselves
Elektra sur le spot durant Champs électriques
November 1st, 2010Pour la dernière soirée de Champs électriques, Elektra, le festival d’arts numériques de Montréal, présente 3 performances/présentations. Parce les descriptions de projets AV c’est pas toujours sexy, voici quelques mots sur chacunes des pièces tirés du programme puis des liens pour voir des extrais. Ensuite, vous viendrez voir ça en vrai. This Is Not Design, trame00… un […]
Back from Firmament expedition
November 1st, 2010What a great trip. It is one of those things for which some benefits are immediately quantifiable, but for which many will show themselves a few years into the future. On a very basic level, seeing how other countries regard contemporary art and how they situate it within their respective societies is interesiting and, in […]
Mod Lab’s October 22nd Meeting Recap
October 25th, 2010When Paul Mumby mentioned he had made a 3D printer at the last meetup I had assumed he meant he had procured and built a Makerbot. THAT ASSUMPTION WAS WRONG. Paul brought in his homemade 3D printer to our meetup and got it happily extruding before night’s end. In Paul’s words: “I spent about 3 […]
Swedes have it going on
October 24th, 2010The staff at the Digital Art Centre here in Stockholm aplogize for their temporary location and look forward to a shiny new building in which art, industry and the community work together to mutually benefit from technological innovation. And of course their City is fully behind the iniative. In Ottawa we can only dream of […]
On to Stockholm
October 22nd, 2010Cambridge has been great. The Code people at Anglia Ruskin where receptive and interested in what we do and a few of their students/programmers showed up at the demonstation last night at the St. John’s Innovation Centre last night. It’s really great to share ideas with a new audience. We’re off this morning to Stockholm.
Cambridge: Meeting with CoDE
October 20th, 2010Hello all. Eric here. Julie, James, Adrian and I are currently in Cambridge. Had a meeting with members of CoDE (Cultures of the Digital Economy) and got a great studio tour. Here are some pics that I have taken. A productive day for everyone. Tomorrow we will be setting up venue at St. John’s Innovation […]
(sub)Mix: Vibration Sympathique
October 18th, 2010Not sympathy in the sentimental sense. Sympathetic vibration has nothing to do with the personal or emotional. For Helmholtz, it meant transduction of energy, resonance induced in a body – a room, a building, a glass, an eyeball – by an external force. At its resonant, or natural, frequency a body ceases to dampen energy […]