And so was Ana Serrano of the CFC Media Lab, as co-organizer.
On the invitation the event promised, among other cool tech-crossover stuff, “sound installations” by alumni of the Digital Futures program. So I attended. And I am happy I did.
Anne Stevens’ rotary phone installations made me want them for Christmas! As a child, I used rotary phone and I miss the feeling of a circling dial.textDIAL – by Anne Stevens – uses four rotary phones to send text messages to the screen in front. The middle ones are for writing, the one on the right for spacing, backspace and send. the red one is for style -) and listening instructionsmy “writing on the wall” using textDIAL by Anne Stevensthis closeup shows how dial numbers were re-assigned to functions such as DELETE or SEND
The next installation by Anne – stereoPHONEic – must be the best mp3 player I’ve ever seen.
testing stereoPHONEic , a rotary phone mp3 player by Anne Stevens
Have you ever played in your childhood by knocking a wall and waiting for a response? Jackson’s installation allows you to do it not only from 2 sides of the wall, but from 2 sides of the world.Jackson McConnell and one of the 2 panels of his Knock Knock installation.
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Finally, I went to see the DJ – he was moving his hand strangely on top of his kit and I didn’t know why.
DJ Tuno working magic with his left hand – note the two sensors right in front of the mini keyboard at where his right hand is.
Let me/us get to the essence of things …
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“Leo, as the painter of Gioconda is called on the event poster, watches behind an X that would be deciphered during the event by Tom Barker, the event’s mastermind and OCAD University’s Digital Futures Initiative Program Chair.”
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please, could you a little, but just a little ,,, rephrase that … for just us … the people not so native like you with the English language!
If you were to read just one novel about War World I, pick the one by Canadian author Joseph Boyden from this list.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5 days ago
Let me/us get to the essence of things …
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“Leo, as the painter of Gioconda is called on the event poster, watches behind an X that would be deciphered during the event by Tom Barker, the event’s mastermind and OCAD University’s Digital Futures Initiative Program Chair.”
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please, could you a little, but just a little ,,, rephrase that … for just us … the people not so native like you with the English language!
Dan.