http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design's most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science and technology evolve. Several of them—the Mosaic graphic user's interface for the Internet, for instance—have truly changed the world. Design and the Elastic Mind is a survey of the latest developments in the field. It focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use. The exhibition will highlight examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design. Of particular interest will be the exploration of the relationship between design and science and the approach to scale. The exhibition will include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale. The objects range from nanodevices to vehicles, from appliances to interfaces, and from pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue

ASM05_003_photoresistor2 from chie fuyuki on Vimeo.

"Because the major force components (the internal muscular forces and torques) are not known a priori over time, you cannot use forward dynamics to predict how the human body will walk."ieee

This is the links of output examples, using motors or flexinol wires+kinetic mechanism, Luibo showed us yesterday.

Hussein Chalayand
Boston Dynamics Big Dog
uram.net

ITP Servo Tutorial
Kinetic Mechanism

left
Theo Jansen_kinetic sculptor

->>aslo check out Reactive Void by urbanArch
We refered this architecture project in west coast last semester. They have several cool projects.

ASM05_002_photoResistor from chie fuyuki on Vimeo.

Devorah Sperber 

Deborah Sperber

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https://www.nyas.org/snc/calendarDetail.asp?eventID=11290&date=2%2F16%2F2008+7%3A00%3A00+PM

Opening! Brainwave NYC: Common Senses
Feb 16, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave. at 36th St.
Price: $5 suggested donation

Some of the most exciting scientific research deals with the brain, illuminating the mind's enigmatic inner-workings. Scientists are learning more about the complex network of operations that govern behavior, morality, language, spirituality, memory, perception and intelligence. These responses to outside phenomena often overlap, forming the layered judgments and reactions that texture experience. New technologies have also helped us to gain access to the space inside our heads, the center of consciousness, spirituality, sense, and illusion. We are learning, more and more, that the brain is indubitably the most intricate and mysterious territory of the human body. But what do artists have to say about the brain?
Exhibition features work by: Suzanne Anker, David Bowen, Steve Budington, Phil Buehler, Andrew Carnie, George Jenne, Daniel Margulies and Chris Sharp, Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns, Jamie O'Shea, SERU, Devorah Sperber, Naho Taruishi, Dustin Wenzel.

Part of the BRAINWAVE NYC festival. BRAINWAVE asks how art, music, and meditation affect the brain and offers countless answers in more than a hundred public events, ranging from an exhibition of contemporary art and a cinema series to cutting-edge concerts, performances, talks, and panels.

This "only in New York" cultural festival is organized by six New York nonprofit organizations: Rubin Museum of Art, Exit Art, Science & the Arts at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, The Philoctetes Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the School of Visual Arts, in association with the American Museum of Natural History.

hi

First, the link of Condenser Microphone, what I tried last semester refers to ITP website ...
Condenser Microphone

This semester, I will try this circuit-info by liubo_thanks!
Hardware
http://tinkerlog.com/2007/05/20/cheap-sound-sensor-for-avr/

other site
http://itp.nyu.edu/~mfm317/physcomp/midterm.html

Software
Ess
max/msp/jitter