Ken Goldberg. (Hotlist).Ken Goldberg, an artist and associate professor of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , edited the essay collection. The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2000). LIKE BREAD, data is freshest the moment it's made. Though the Internet can deliver information t nearly the speed of light, most of its data has been stored in memory for days or weeks. We accept the short shelf life of data like news, sports scores, and stock quotes, but there is one category of online data--the Web-camera image--that is made fresh on request. AfriCam www.africam.com Initially set up in 1998 with a single camera hidden in the Djuma Game Reserve in South Africa, the AfriCam site now includes more than a dozen webcams that peer into the brush around the clock. As the site's "About Cams" page says, "Viewing animals on AfriCam is identical to viewing animals in a game reserve--you never know what you are going to see or when you are going to see it." Well, almost identical, but with fewer mosquitoes. GhostWatcher www.ghostwatcher.com Artist June Houston set up a webcam under her bed in 1995 so that others could help her watch out for ghosts. Houston's deadpan site now has thirty-one live black-and-white webcams installed in her closets and basement. Thousands of loyal sentries e-mail detailed reports of what they see--or believe they see. Houston's haunting problem is thus presented for group analysis. Safety in numbers! Around the World in 80 Clicks www.steveweb.com/80clicks This site features data from eighty webcams arranged geographically from Liubljana to Las Vegas. Will jet lag jet lag Period of adjustment of biological rhythm after moving from one time zone to another, experienced as fatigue and lowered efficiency. It reflects a delay in the synchronization of changes in the level of blood cortisol, the major steroid produced by the adrenal cortex be replaced by click lag? Skeptics, take note: As Tom Campanella of MIT points out, variations in daylight can provide the best evidence of the images' freshness: "The most reliable means of checking the veracity of our telepresent landscape may well be the sun itself--the most ancient of our chronographic chron·o·graph n. An instrument that registers or graphically records time intervals such as the duration of an event. chron aids." Interactive Model Railroad rr-vs.informatik.uni.ulm.de/rr This installation presents the joys of model railroading rail·road·ing n. The construction or operation of railroads. Noun 1. railroading - the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads rail technology . You play the engineer. Choose a locomotive and destination and watch via video as your train moves around the track. The unpolished interface goes beyond cool formalism to the aesthetics of function, where variation is minimized and banality flourishes. Canon's WebView World www.x.zone.canon.co.jp You can test whether an egg is fresh by spinning it. Same goes for webcams. There are now a number of robotic cameras online, but Canon's system is especially agile: It allows viewers to pan, tilt, and zoom. If your browser supports Java, visit this collection of webcams. There's a long list of robots waiting to serve you. For example, the Mission Beach webcam in California can be scanned across the seashore, offering a Rear Window perspective on unsuspecting sun seekers. Diller + Scofidio's Refresh www.diacenter.org/dillerscofidio Like this design firm's patron panopticon Pa`nop´ti`con n. 1. A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. 2. A room for the exhibition of novelties. Noun 1. at New York's Brasserie bras·se·rie n. A restaurant serving alcoholic beverages, especially beer, as well as food. [French, from brasser, to malt, brew, from Old French bracier, from Vulgar Latin , Refresh smiles inwardly at our appetite for voluntary surveillance. This site offers a dozen images, some fresh, some preserved with the double-edged precision of the adoring taxidermist. "[Web cameras] appear unmediated Adj. 1. unmediated - having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote" direct . Despite this apparent innocence, cameras are willfully willfully adv. referring to doing something intentionally, purposefully and stubbornly. Examples: "He drove the car willfully into the crowd on the sidewalk." "She willfully left the dangerous substances on the property." (See: willful) positioned, their field of vision is carefully considered, and behavior within that field cannot help but anticipate the looming presence of the global viewer." Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace telematic.walkerart.org This exhibition for the independent Curators International was organized by the Walker Art Center's Steve Dietz, whose specialty is placing artistic practices into historical context. His "open source" timeline starts with telegraphs and telescopes and moves through satellites to the work of Nam June Paik Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist.[1] He is considered by some[2] , Chris Burden, and Robert Adrian, offering freshness as our best antidote to the pathos of distance. Visit www.artforum.com for links to Hotlist A listing of the best of something. It typically refers to the most popular Web sites. (World-Wide Web) hotlist - (From hypertext "hot spot") A document on the World-Wide Web or a user's browser configuration file containing hypertext links, often unorganised and websites. |
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