into the wild

took the robot out to the mean streets of broadway in dt la, where it was kicked around by curious children and trampled by mothers with strollers... improved visibility needs to be taken into account :T

long exposure art

some long exposure shots of the robot taken from my bathroom and kitchen. the paths were drawn with an ultrabright blue led, and the blinking red lights are proximity readings from a capacitive sensor detecting human presence.

the dynamic equilibrium

i've been very interested in this concept of Nervenleben and how I can begin to reintroduce or develop a way to reflect this image-instrument of assemblage back onto society. Nervenleben is described as the psychological base form which arises from the metropolitan personality and is the intensification fo the life of the nerves, resulting from the rapid and uninterrupted transformation of external and internal impressions.

George Simmel | The Metropolis and the Mental Life

disembodied proximities | the random-access self

"we have reached a stage where all synchronic and diachronic knowledge is equally accessible. distance in space-time is collapsing, and everything and everyone can enjoy an unparalleled, if disincarnate, proximity. this collapse of distance is not limited to what we immediately experience as ordinary space and time, but includes complex arrangements of knowledge, behavior, values and social structures."

Marcos Novak | Trans Terra Form

id of hyperreality

these mobile sensory units would act as a perforated interface between the users and their environments. similar to how we are now separated from nature by our own technology/language barrier