Swimming Sideways

This is from Pedro Gomes Egana’s MA piece in Bergen Norway.

Swimming Sideways is a a sculpture and 10 minute long performance happening everyday at 16.30. A paper beast is suspended and waiting. A motor is slowly turning next to it - it’s pulling a string. I am sorry I couldnt find any picture of the motor/programmingsystem, a very long string being pulled by a turning motor slowly pulling nails out of bolts and thus releasing suspense in a carefully choreographed movement pattern in which the beast is knealing down/collapsing into a heap on the floor. The movement is controlled by adding weight such as bolts and other metalpieces to the strings. ( sorry for blatant plagiarism Ellen)

Data 30

Great site!

http://www.bellyfull.tv/

Designer Gasmasks

http://www.designergasmasks.com/

Art and Science Resource

This is a great book that I have dipped in and out of over the last few years. Thanks to Joan Healy and her amazing technicoloured dreamcoat for finding this digital bibliography and online reference page for it. And thanks to Stephen Wilson and his amazing technicoloured brain for putting all this together! It has everything anyone ever wanted to know about Art and Science… well alot of it anyway. And since the book is nearly ten years old at this stage its more a historical reference.

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Einfoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html

Great Asimov Quote

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. — Isaac Asimov

Memory Floorplan

http://www.lesliekwok.info/project/memory-floor-plan/

If it works it’s obsolete

Marshall Mcluhan

If it works, it’s obsolete.

[1963]

Big Red Ball

Nuff said

http://redballproject.com/redballpages/redball.html

Spam Architecture

This was posted by Ellen Roed on the ballroom blog. see links

The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.

http://sq.ro/