Two robots, Vincent & Emily, are connected to each other as if deeply in love: where at the heights of romance, every motion, utterance, or external influence is shared in an acutely empathic, highly attuned ’emotional’ response: The creation of German artists Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl, the robots take in sound and motion data–from […]
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Programmed To Love
Posted in Technology
Also tagged artificial intelligence, Carolin Liebl, creation, gallery, human, interaction, love, motion, Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, open, robotics, robots, romance, simple, texture
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Screens
[box]This post originally appeared on the FTMF.info planning blog.[/box] Within the pages of Watchmen, Adrian Veidt, the so-called “smartest man in the world”, esteemed business leader and founding member of the Crimebusters is shown at a wall of televisions, each tuned to a different channel. He uses this clatter of imagery, sound and motion to make sense of […]
Posted in Advertising, Culture
Also tagged business, emergent, information, Media, microsoft, monitoring, motion, new, social, social media, time, view, watch, watchmen, Web, windows, wired, world, youtube
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First Contact with Galactaron
Girl meets synth-rock band from Outer Space; animated weirdness ensues. Well, that’s the elevator pitch, anyway. See for yourself: Galactaron were dreamt up as an art/music project by Owen Dennis, a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation, and are comprised of Singer (centre right), Bass (bottom left), Guitar (centre left), Synth […]
Posted in Music
Also tagged animation, case study, community, cool, facebook, featured, galactaron, guitar, human, information, itunes, merchandise, Music, new, owen dennis, planet, radio, single, soundcloud, synth, twitter, video, vimeo, virtual, visual, visual identity, youtube
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The Skinner Box
In B. F. Skinner’s famous experiment in operant conditioning, a lab rat is placed inside a container and rewarded with a food pellet on completion of a task, triggered by an external stimulus such as a light, a sound or a shock. The pattern of reward becomes increasingly inconsistent, following a ‘schedule of reinforcement’ controlled […]
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Also tagged brand, communication, facebook, food, free, Gaming, human, research, shopping, stimulus, theory, video
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Fifth World Problems
If you’ve ever had the feeling “same shit, higher dimension”, I’m sure you’d fit right in on Fifth World Problems, a subreddit in the key of First World Problems, and a place for extradimensional beings to air their cosmic gripes. Most of the submissions and their respective commentary are childish lunacy, but among the smarter entries lie some fascinating […]