Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr PHYSICAL COMPUTING: FIELD, PROJECTS & COMMUNITIES
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.
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
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...
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
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Origins Physcomp as academic subject: Physical Computing Interactive Telecommunication Program, New York University (Tom Igoe & Dan O’Sullivan) Physcomp community: Dorkbot: international community of ”people doing strange things with electricity” & more
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Katherine Moriwaki MIDI Scrapyard Challenge Alerting Infrastructures Urban Chameleon Inside/Outside Crank the Web
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Laura Beloff Seven Mile Boots: Tratti Spinne
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Tom Igoe clock:
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Eric Singer Madagascar Institute LEMUR: League of Electronic Music Urban Robots
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Mark Argo Gadgets
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Jean Baptiste Labrune Tangicam Telebeads
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers Kanta Horio Particles
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Artists / Designers / Researchers IFTAF: Institute of Transacoustic Research
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
Dr. Andreas Kunz © 10/2004 inspire icvr Misc. projects & people machin-1.php by-ma.php clock-to.php physi.php prototypi.php (
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...
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
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