About a year ago, after this early post where I started comparing and collecting old-and-new images indicating wheelchair accessibility, my collaborator Brian Glenney suggested we create something like a stencil to alter existing signs—something that would involve spray paint, since he’s done a lot of graffiti. After a number of conversations, we created this first … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: December 2010
olafur eliasson: your blind passenger
It’s hard not to love Eliasson’s work. Deceptively simple, immersive environments are where he shines. Currently up at the Arken Museum is Your Blind Passenger, a 90-meter tunnel, densely fogged. So visibility is minimal, and participants must use other instincts to find their way. Eliasson says the project “constitutes a possibility that is actualized and … Continue reading »
"Letter on the Blind, for the Use of Those Who See."
Javier Téllez’s film recreates the Indian parable where six blind people encounter an elephant and provide six different stories about what they perceive. In the film, we see and hear what these six modern-day participants understand, both in the actual meeting and afterward, recounting what happened. In this contemporary version, the elephant is likened to … Continue reading »
the terrorism of little changes
Scientific American recently blogged an account of Hugh Herr’s talk at Idea Festival. Herr, himself a double amputee, is among the most optimistic about the promise of the dramatic and sophisticated prosthetic limbs now available: To help himself and others who suffer from the loss of biological limbs, Herr created a discipline he calls “biomechatronics,” … Continue reading »
Jessica Field’s Maladjusted Ecosystem
Jessica Field creates robotic social systems that play out like opera. This one, Maladjusted Ecosystem, has four doomed players: One robot, the light-seeker, is completely absorbed in finding the highest concentration of light possible. It announces its finding of a light source by a sound; that announcement cues a line-drawing robot to make its marks. … Continue reading »
