1. 2008-09-17 1 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr PHYSICAL COMPUTING: FIELD, PROJECTS & COMMUNITIES

2. 2008-09-17 2 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Physical Computing From Wikipedia: Building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analogue world. A creative framework for understanding human beings' relationship to the digital world. e.g. use of sensors and microcontrollers to translate analogue input to a software system, and/or control electro-mechanical devices such as motors, servos, lighting or other hardware.

3. 2008-09-17 3 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Physical Computing Prototyping with electronics: turning sensors, actuators and microcontrollers into materials for designers and artists. Design of interactive objects that can communicate with humans using sensors and actuators controlled by a behaviour implemented as software running inside a microcontroller. Interaction: input -> processing -> output

4. 2008-09-17 4 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Physical Computing Experimenting with interfacing the digital and phsycial worlds Finding new ways of interacting with the world and with each other through the use of technology Art, design, research, industry...

5. 2008-09-17 5 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Physical Computing ubiquitous computing ambiant displays alternative controllers (e.g. music) DIY arts & crafts electronic arts locative media interface design rapid prototyping interactive installations social networks circuit bending wearables

6. 2008-09-17 6 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Origins Physcomp as academic subject: Physical Computing course @ Interactive Telecommunication Program, New York University (Tom Igoe & Dan O’Sullivan) http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/ http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/ Physcomp community: Dorkbot: international community of ”people doing strange things with electricity”http://dorkbot.orghttp://dorkbot.org & more

7. 2008-09-17 7 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Katherine Moriwaki www.coin-operated.com http://kakirine.com MIDI Scrapyard Challenge http://www.scrapyardchallenge.com/ Alerting Infrastructures http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~bruckerj/projects/alertinginfrastructure.html Urban Chameleon http://www.kakirine.com/chameleon/ Inside/Outside http://www.kakirine.com/handbag/ Crank the Web http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~bruckerj/projects/cranktheweb.html

8. 2008-09-17 8 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Laura Beloff http://www.saunalahti.fi/~off/off/ Seven Mile Boots: http://randomseed.org/sevenmileboots/ Tratti http://www.saunalahti.fi/~off/tratti/index_tratti.html Spinne http://www.saunalahti.fi/%7Eoff/spinne/

9. 2008-09-17 9 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Tom Igoe http://www.tigoe.net/ Email clock: http://www.tigoe.net/emailclock/mailclock1.shtml

10. 2008-09-17 10 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Eric Singer http://www.ericsinger.com/ Madagascar Institute http://www.madagascarinstitute.com/ LEMUR: League of Electronic Music Urban Robots http://www.ericsinger.com/lemur.html

11. 2008-09-17 11 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Mark Argo http://www.markargo.com/ Gadgets http://markargo.com/gadgets01/

12. 2008-09-17 12 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Jean Baptiste Labrune http://insitu.lri.fr/~labrune/ Tangicam http://insitu.lri.fr/%7Elabrune/web.jb.wiki/doku.php?id=tangicam Telebeads http://insitu.lri.fr/~labrune/web.jb.wiki/doku.php?id=telebeads

13. 2008-09-17 13 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Kanta Horio http://kanta.but.jp/works/ Particles

14. 2008-09-17 14 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers IFTAF: Institute of Transacoustic Research http://www.iftaf.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF8Fhu2Dme8 http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iftaf&search_type=&aq=f

15. 2008-09-17 15 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Juan Fernando Mojica, Alberto Sánchez v*i*d*a lab Prótesis para árboles en peligro http://www.thepopshop.org/Vidalab/I%20sem%202006/projects/protesis/index.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67K1j57CdzA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYG3ZAEeQBI

16. 2008-09-17 16 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Misc. projects & people http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2005/02/knocking- machin-1.php http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/09/gelsomina- by-ma.php http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2004/12/draw-a- clock-to.php http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2005/08/-water-as- physi.php http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/04/rapid- prototypi.php http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/blendie/ (http://www.kitchencontraptions.com/archives/004957.php)http://www.kitchencontraptions.com/archives/004957.php http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/ http://chantinlun.com/

17. 2008-09-17 17 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Communities Conferences / festivals / meetings / workshops: Dorkbot, Interactivos?, Ars Electronica, NIME, Interact, Bend, Burning Man... Online communities MAKEzine, Instructables, Dorkbot... Education ITP-NYU, UQAM, Concordia, Tama, RCA, K3, UDK, v*i*d*a lab...

18. 2008-09-17 18 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Communities Blogs we make money not art, coin-operated, itp-blogblender... Collectives Madagascar Institute... Research centers / medialabs / companies Medialab Prado, Eyebeam, IDEO, Rhizomatics, etc

19. 2008-09-17 19 Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Resources See Resource links on course website! (Soon to be updated!)