*Bits.Atoms.Neurons.Genes*
Micro_Gestures at the Edge of Invisibility will be an On/Off line space for MFA artists in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD to explore and present works at the edge of invisibility, at the edge of the digital and biological, at the edge of micro-robotics and nano-art, from in-virtu to in-vivo works and back.
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 |
Airwaves is a wireless sensor network interwoven into the social infrastructure
of the street vending organisations at the San Ysidro border. The sensor
network is designed to monitor, store, and react to toxic emissions caused by
vehicular exhaust using mobile sensing devices. This network is designed for
the following:
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 October 2007 )
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 |
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Automated bioMEMS chip filling and handling process on the brink of physical/emotional stability. Addresses issues of sexual repression, loss of identity and unintuitive restraint in the clean lab. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 February 2006 )
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 |
Dr. Caleb Waldorf & Dr. Davina Semo
The B.A.N.G.
TUBE is a mobile laboratory and presentation apparatus that collapses
the distance between science, mysticism, and science fiction. The
B.A.N.G. tube is a sturdy metallic cylinder, mediated by a panel
equipped with three technologies of viewership, specific to the three
aforementioned perspectives, and controllable through a series of
handlebars, by the viewer. The B.A.N.G. tube’s aim is to embody
these multiple perspectives in one space to create a new
mytho-scientific imaginary.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 27 October 2005 )
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Thursday, 10 November 2005 |
borderLands hackLab
"For years, months, days, we networks and communities of individuals have been exchanging knowledge, designing worlds, experimenting with gizmos and devices.
We are the expression of a thousand thoughts, we are migrants across the City and the Net; we are searching for a place where our commonalities and practices can open up space-time discontinuities.
We want to hack reality, and we need a lab to reassemble its basic elements. In a metropolis scared by unreal securities and too real fears, we yearn to give birth to a site of full of imageries made flesh, of bytes resurrecting metal.
Our collective mind is replete with digital/analog technology, info-communication, knowledge-sharing, meme-spreading, participation-catalysis, and much much more.
The four cardinal points are no longer sufficient coordinates. As Mars is closer to Earth than ever in history, there is no better time for a new reticular constellation, for a new geometry of relations that can freely recompile low-entropy bioware, stunning and getting stunned by vivid special effects and lively affects.
Reload, Hacklab Milano, Sept 14 2003"
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 November 2005 )
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 |
A contract laborer who is "in" for 5 years, the NanoJanitor cleans the clean
room in the nanosystems and material fabrication labs.
His nightly ritual is supervised via the school's Always Already Media Stream
(A2MS).
Over several decades, he has worked his way up from sanitorial engineer to
hazmat crew to NanoJanitor, and takes his responsibilities seriously, even as
he longs to be home, outside, with his family.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 November 2005 )
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Tuesday, 25 October 2005 |
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Dr. Caleb Waldorf & Dr. Davina Semo
Perhaps the most significant characteristic of the nano-promise is that of a scale that shrinks technology far beyond any tactile representation we can understand as humans, thus producing new and unadressed questions and fears. Nanophobic.org is a repository for anxieties about nanotechnology. These anxieties may include political uses and potential manipulations, warfare technologies, medical technologies, cosmetic applications, computer technologies, scientific research and technology, human and environmental toxicity, and human extinction. Nanophobic.org will serve as a database for the emerging and expanding array of nanophobias.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 20 March 2006 )
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Tuesday, 25 October 2005 |
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Dr. Caleb Waldorf & Dr. Davina Semo
Perhaps the most significant characteristic of the nano-promise is that
of a scale that shrinks technology far beyond any tactile
representation we can understand as humans, thus producing new and
unadressed questions and fears. Nanophobic.org is a repository for
anxieties about nanotechnology. These anxieties may include political
uses and potential manipulations, warfare technologies, medical
technologies, cosmetic applications, computer technologies, scientific
research and technology, human and environmental toxicity, and human
extinction. Nanophobic.org will serve as a database for the
emerging and expanding array of nanophobias.
coming soon...
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 27 October 2005 )
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 |
Automated finger scanning/cutting mechanism. Connects to your USB port on
your computer as a daily reminder of your painful life.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 October 2005 )
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Monday, 20 March 2006 |
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Plays Well with Others
Mapping Ricardo Dominguez
Ricardo Dominguez & Caleb Waldorf
Digital Print on Paper, 100" x 80"
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 21 March 2006 )
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Wednesday, 22 March 2006 |
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The Moon Is Artificial
The Future, The Past, Speed & the Real
Dr. Caleb Waldorf
This is a presentation that I gave in Ricardo Dominguez's Posthuman class at UCSD. It is just a rough outline and will be developed further in the future/past.  moon.mov (320x180, 5 mb)
moon_big.mov (640x360, 14 mb)
These are QT VR files. Click to go through slides. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 March 2006 )
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
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The border between the U.S. and Mexico has moved between the virtual and the all too real since before the birth of the two nation-states. This has allowed a deep archive of suspect movement across this border to be traced and tagged – specifically anchored to immigrants bodies moving north, while immigrant bodies moving south much less so. The danger of moving north across this border is not a question of politics, but vertiginous geography. Hundreds of people have died crossing the U.S./Mexico border due to not being able to tell where they are in relation to where they have been and which direction they need to go to reach their destination safely. Now with the rise of multiple distributed geospatial information systems (such as the Goggle Earth Project for example), GPS (Global Positioning System) and the developing Virtual Hiker Algorithm by artist Brett Stalbaum it is now possible to develop a Transborder Tools for Immigrants to be implemented and distributed on cracked Nextel cell phones. This will allow a virtual geography to mark new trails and potentially safer routes across this desert of the real. http://bang.calit2.net/sdhacklab/xborder |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 October 2007 )
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