Solar Collector

During the day, Solar Collector gathers energy from the sun as well as human expression from this website. At dusk, the sculpture puts those together into a performance of light.Twelve shimmering metal shafts rise at surprising angles from a grassy hill. They hang over the landscape, creating a graceful curve that appears to unfold for…

the adventures of toys

I thought this short feature was a good example of how to incorporate toys (like the ones we dissected a week and a half ago) into art. The toys are somewhat standard, but work well with everything else in claymation. It took me back to my childhood with a catchy song. It’s all about fun…

the audio shaker

the audio shaker looks similar to a fat thermous with a cord attached. what you do is remove the lid and say something into it. it then records the sound and then you put the lid back on. if you shake it you hear the recorded noise but in a jumbled up manner. the faster…

One Free Minute

To those of you who have ever wanted to exercise your right of free speech, this is the machine for you. Thanks to Ohio State University, this easily transportable device allows anonymous callers to speak their mind for one minute. After the caller’s message has been recorded on their answering machine, it will then be…

Motivational Sense Organism

This motivational sense organism has similar features to the sensative plants. But different from sensative plants’ shyness, this art makes more responses and greetings to people. When people get closer to the artificial flowers, the sensors on the flowers will track people’s motion and react to them. It looks like this sensative organism has the…

Steve Zieverink’s 12+12

Steve Zieverink founded the Unit 2 Art Collective, is in the graduate program here at UIC, and is my teacher for Introduction to Time-Based Arts. 12 + 12 is an interactive piece that depicts the mathematical relations between sound and light wave frequencies. Viewers can “play” the piece by pressing buttons which correlate with the…

Dee Williams

This is a responsive holograph. It looks like it can happen.

Amazing Animation

This spring I will be getting my degree in Moving Image, I work mainly in video and film but recently have been more and more interested in animation and computer graphics. Anyway while searching around on line I found this trailer for a beautiful stop-motion-animated feature-length horror film from the Czech Republic called “One Night…

“Get a Broken- Heart Robot to accompany you, if you just got dumped!” This is the main selling point for this toy/robot. the name of this object is a bit misleading but, i really believe that this is only a TOY robot. it’s supposed to make you feel better about being dumped or better about…

Coffee Art

I found this and figured it was perfect for my Responsive arts class since ewe all seem to need coffee at 9 when we all stroll in. I think it is interesting how people have come up with so many unique ways to create art. I mean who was the first person to sit down…

flowerbot

Im really interested in censors, it really makes responsive art….well responsive art. Mass producing this into a mass flower army can be another idea as well. A garden of respponsive flowers more or less.

Kinetic Lizard

This is a short cool video that I suddenly found. The cripy kinetic lizard sculpture attracted everyone’s attention on the street. The guy was riding the kinetic lizard using his feet to control its speed. There are wheels on the lizard’s feet which can help it moving faster. I really like this kinetic art because…