The Listening Machine is an automated system that generates a continuous piece of music based on the activity of 500 Twitter users around the United Kingdom. Their conversations, thoughts and feelings are translated into musical patterns in real time, which you can tune in to at any point through any web-connected device.

"Fair use offers an extraordinarily important opportunity for educators, researchers, and others to make reasonable and limited uses of copyrighted materials. Clipping, cutting, pasting, uploading, posting, and many other activities that are common at the university may be copyright infringements or may be within fair use."

The Fair Use Checklist is quite nice.

Poster-sized prints of airport runways.

A number of important people and musicians talk about what sound means to them

Many people have used random number generators in their programs to create unpredictability, make the motion and behavior of objects appear more natural, or generate textures. Random number generators certainly have their uses, but at times their output can be too harsh to appear natural. This article will present a function which has a very wide range of uses, more than I can think of, but basically anywhere where you need something to look natural in origin. What's more it's output can easily be tailored to suit your needs.

Some cool landscape-looking things drawn by computer.

Similar to photos of snowflakes, each and every beverage is unique, while observed below when zoomed about 1, 000 times under a high tech lab microscope

removing the figurative and compositional elements from an image,
what is left behind is the color, allowing one to more objectively appreciate the palate and its harmonies.
using color extraction software and adobe illustrator, buxton has created a number of charts that reveal a surprising amount of information,
imparted by the colors alone.

Small wooden clock with exposed circuitry and veneered PCB boards.

These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place (like Tjentište, Kozara and Kadinjača), or where concentration camps stood (like Jasenovac and Niš). They were designed by different sculptors (Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, to name a few) and architects (Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković...), conveying powerful visual impact to show the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic. In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year, especially young pioneers for their "patriotic education." After the Republic dissolved in early 1990s, they were completely abandoned, and their symbolic meanings were forever lost.

From 2006 to 2009, Kempenaers toured around the ex-Yugoslavia region (now Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.) with the help of a 1975 map of memorials, bringing before our eyes a series of melancholy yet striking images.

The Arduino microcontroller is a malleable tool used in art and design. Started as an educational prototyping tool it contiues to expand due to the thriving community and open source nature. Because open source initiatives allow for modification, derivatives, and sharing of intellectual property, artists and designers can evolve new Arduino-based microcontrollers specified to their work.

Could 9eyes be any more sublime? It’s a perfect project, and a perfect piece of art, for the year 2010. Here’s why: It deals with the enormity of the internet not by lamenting that we’re adrift in a sea of data, etc. etc. (that’s such a boring response) but by using it—by taking something as mind-bogglingly massive as the Google Street View database and recognizing it, rightly, as a tool, in the same way that oil paint is a tool—and then doing something uniquely human with it. And that’s a big deal. We’ve realized pixels are tools for art; screens, too. But we’re still working on using scale as a tool for art. Jon Rafman is breaking new ground.

Will a computer ever be able to automatically recognize the sort of moment that he finds and shares here? It’s hard to imagine. I mean, I’m sure there’s some sort of non-human intelligence waiting for us in a hundred years, something built out of qbits or biobricks or both… so maybe some far-future descendant of that intelligence could curate this cleverly. But I’m not betting on it. This is a project that’s worthy of not just exaltation but exultation. We should, as humans, rejoice that we’ve build wonders like Google Street View—and that we’ve got minds like Jon Rafman’s to navigate them.

 

The Most Pixels Ever is an open-source Java framework for spanning Processing sketches across multiple screens. We are also developing a C++ client for use with openFrameWorks.

Graffiti GIFs, lettering by INKIE and backgrounds by INSA.

found at dvdp

Records a person's heartbeat and plays it back as a series of lights.

DAMN. 90s-era color cycling with JavaScript.

i can't get enough of these here voronoi drawings!

The piece will fill the 14th Street Passage with sound recordings of bells taken from all over New York City and beyond.

During park hours an individual bell will ring each minute from speakers placed throughout the tunnel. A chorus of the selected bells will play at the top of each hour, filling the space. The sounds will be represented on a physical sound map that identifies the location of each bell, allowing the listener to follow the geographic journey of the recordings.

Gadget Wrangler at Bug Labs

Sun Boxes are an environment to enter and exit. It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving.

threewalls is dedicated to increasing Chicago’s cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse, and by creating a locus of exchange between local, national and international contemporary art communities through a range of programs.

Photography by Joe Gavin

Even though the dashed line has emerged from a designer’s shorthand and from the limitations of monotone printing techniques, it has a clear and simple visual magic, the ability to express something three- or four-dimensional in two dimensions.

CANDY is an independent venture developed to showcase exceptional creativity worldwide through original innovative formats.

Amazing poster design.

Interesting work decoupling the land from the landscape

: Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to softwar

2D animation suite for Linux

Maps of energy comsumption, life expectancy, etc projected on a globe

The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture.

download high res album art from iTunes

Beautiful Screenprint Designs

Processing is a programming language for creating stunning works of digital art with a few lines of code