photosensitivity – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 A living piece of architecture https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/living-piece-architecture/ Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:33:26 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=1672

Julian Jauk (AT)

A living piece of architecture is a conceptual utopian design for housing beyond smart homes, intended to overcome existing dualisms such as digital and material, artificial and natural.

The kinetic, photosensitive and adaptive model shows a type of architecture that constantly changes its morphology to adapt not only to the environment but also to human emotions.

The shape, size and speed of adaptation are controlled by an evolutionary optimization algorithm, which is a bionic technology inspired by nature. But instead of a lifetime cycle, one iteration takes just a few seconds. This algorithm follows biological criteria for life that have been transferred to architecture, such as physical irritability, and growth through tensile materials within a self-regulating system. Participants are invited to stimulate the architecture by setting it to their mood by changing the energy and light sources, as the building is intended to evolve from the climate given in this way—like plants or animals do.

Credits

Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Arch. Dr.sc.ETH Urs Leonhard Hirschberg
Institut für Architektur und Medien, Technische Universität Graz

Priv.-Doz.in Mag.a Dr.in Doris Haas
Institut für Hygiene, Mikrobiologie und Umweltmedizin, Medizinische Universität Graz

Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.nat. Martin Grube
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universität Graz

Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Franziska Hederer
Institut für Raumgestaltung, Technische Universität Graz

Ao. Univ.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.phil. Werner Jauk
Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Graz

Univ.-Ass. Mag. Dr.rer.nat Emanuel Jauk
Institut für Psychologie, Universität Graz

]]> Sempookin Quartette https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/sempookin/ Sun, 13 Aug 2017 16:31:40 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=959

Ei Wada (JP), Megumi Takei (JP), Rinichi Washimi (JP), Keisuke Tanaka (JP)

The Tokyo-based artist and musician Ei Wada started the Electronicos Fantasticos! project, where he revives old domestic electronic devices and turns them into electronic musical instruments, in 2015. Among the various instruments the project has created is the Sempookin (literally, “electric fan harp”).

This instrument was based on the wild idea: “what if the god of electric guitars, Jimi Hendrix, were to play the electric fan as an instrument?” A light source and a guitar strap are attached to the electric fan and the fan’s blades are replaced with original disks with holes in them. The instrument is played by rotating the fan, where the flashing light created by the blades is picked up by a photosensitive device. The resulting electric signal is turned into sound and by calculation the holes in the disk create different scales.

The player carries the Sempookin upside-down – the left hand controls the photosensitive device and the right hand controls the rotation of the fan. Switching the fan strength, high/ medium/low, leads to transposition. The player will be swinging the neck! Once, the mass-produced electric fan was the key to post-war reconstruction in Japan. Now the player has created a deformed rock band by carrying the electric fan upside-down.

Credits: Ei Wada + Nicos Orchest-Lab
Technical Support: Rinichi Washimi, Yusuke Takei (Nicos Orchest-Lab)
Promoter: NPO Topping East

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