Godot Machine 3.0 demo in March this year. Uncut short video showing Enric Ruiz-Geli using the machine to keep an ant in one location on top of a ball.
Category: Blog
Waterfall
For some reason this fairly old photo of mine has been picked up and set loose on the blogosphere recently. It’s from my solo hitchhike around Iceland in 2006, and available to buy and license on Getty Images.
ZSL Teachers and Biodiversity Day
I gave a talk on ants and ballet at London Zoo‘s Teachers and Biodiversity Day in October 2010.
This involved a few conversations about pheromones, a demonstration of bug-tracking software I’ve built (using a very passive cockroach), and an adaptation of this experiment for classrooms.
Thanks to Seirian Sumner and Ruth Desforges for inviting me, the ZSL staff for being welcoming and accommodating, and all of the teachers for engaging and showing patience with a passive cockroach!
Plymouth University
Along with my friends Ian Laurance and Cristiana Camisotti, I ran a workshop for 50 Plymouth University Masters Architectural students, including rapid prototyping of devices to enable a non-visual mapping of a series of spaces.
The workshop was called “Mapping space with augmented perception”, and involved students designing and building devices to augment their perception, then using these new prostheses to map spaces they already knew – e.g. areas of the university campus. The point of the workshop was to explore the subjective nature of perceiving space.
Video by Ollie Palmer | Music by Lucky Dragons| CC BY-SA 3.0 License
Credits
Run by Ian Laurence and Ollie Palmer with Cristiana Camisotti
Invited by Krzysztof Nawratek
Plymouth University Architecture Programme, Masters level
5-6 November 2010
Thursday Club
Ollie Palmer will be presenting Physical Virus project at Goldsmiths University’s Thursday Club this week (aptly, on Thursday). Also presenting is Artemis Papageorgiou with her Fabrique project.
The talk is in the Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Ben Pimlott Building at 18.00 on Thursday 28th October.
Transforming Architecture by Maxine Pringle
I spent a couple of days at Area10 with Maxine Pringle to help set up and document her installation Transforming Architecture earlier this year. The performance was incredible – transforming an entire warehouse room into an immersive, womblike experience.
Performance:
The complete structure was fabricated by Maxine in what must have been a series of marathon sessions at the sewing machine. What doesn’t come across in the video and photos is the level of detail and high quality finish of the piece, or the hidden structure – it utilises a sophisticated set of structural supports in the form of large kevlar rods, and has a set of 36 counterweights dangling from the roof of the warehouse.
Timelapse:
Photos:
A Framework for Affordance by Dave Diduca
I edited this video recently for Dave Diduca. All credits for the design, build, programming, photography, and pretty much everything else goes to him.
Music by Squeak E Clean
A Social Exchange by Kim Walker
I spent a day taking photos and recording time-lapses with my friend Kimberly Walker in July, as part of her Masters in Architectural Design. I’ve finally had the chance to watch the final edit – it’s a documentary about the process of making the film. Trailer below, full documentary here.
Photos:
Schrödinger’s radio
The radio in my room has started to develop a phobia of me. It works perfectly, except if I am in the room alongside it. Standing on the left hand side of the room produces crackling, and the right side just kills all of the signal. Tuning it in is a bit like seeing if the cat is dead…
I rarely work without Radio 4 harping away in the background. My ‘office’ will thus have to relocate to bars, cafés and other more sociable places.
Copenhagen Workshop
Unit 14 went to Copenhagen earlier this year. Here’s a video of the installation we built, along with students from Bartlett’s AAC course and the Royal Danish Academy‘s Unit 1.
I also made this rough video of my journey home. It’s a time-lapse and shows an approximate location, mode of travel, and what I saw (through the “eyes” of a Canon G9). It shows my travel by plane, train, bus and foot, and finishes with the first thing I do when I get home: make a cup of tea.
Waterfall
For some reason this fairly old photo of mine has been picked up and set loose on the blogosphere recently. It’s from my solo hitchhike around Iceland in 2006, and available to buy and license on Getty Images.
ZSL Teachers and Biodiversity Day
I gave a talk on ants and ballet at London Zoo‘s Teachers and Biodiversity Day in October 2010.
This involved a few conversations about pheromones, a demonstration of bug-tracking software I’ve built (using a very passive cockroach), and an adaptation of this experiment for classrooms.
Thanks to Seirian Sumner and Ruth Desforges for inviting me, the ZSL staff for being welcoming and accommodating, and all of the teachers for engaging and showing patience with a passive cockroach!
Plymouth University
Along with my friends Ian Laurance and Cristiana Camisotti, I ran a workshop for 50 Plymouth University Masters Architectural students, including rapid prototyping of devices to enable a non-visual mapping of a series of spaces.
The workshop was called “Mapping space with augmented perception”, and involved students designing and building devices to augment their perception, then using these new prostheses to map spaces they already knew – e.g. areas of the university campus. The point of the workshop was to explore the subjective nature of perceiving space.
Video by Ollie Palmer | Music by Lucky Dragons| CC BY-SA 3.0 License
Credits
Run by Ian Laurence and Ollie Palmer with Cristiana Camisotti
Invited by Krzysztof Nawratek
Plymouth University Architecture Programme, Masters level
5-6 November 2010
Thursday Club
Ollie Palmer will be presenting Physical Virus project at Goldsmiths University’s Thursday Club this week (aptly, on Thursday). Also presenting is Artemis Papageorgiou with her Fabrique project.
The talk is in the Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Ben Pimlott Building at 18.00 on Thursday 28th October.
Transforming Architecture by Maxine Pringle
I spent a couple of days at Area10 with Maxine Pringle to help set up and document her installation Transforming Architecture earlier this year. The performance was incredible – transforming an entire warehouse room into an immersive, womblike experience.
Performance:
The complete structure was fabricated by Maxine in what must have been a series of marathon sessions at the sewing machine. What doesn’t come across in the video and photos is the level of detail and high quality finish of the piece, or the hidden structure – it utilises a sophisticated set of structural supports in the form of large kevlar rods, and has a set of 36 counterweights dangling from the roof of the warehouse.
Timelapse:
Photos:
A Framework for Affordance by Dave Diduca
I edited this video recently for Dave Diduca. All credits for the design, build, programming, photography, and pretty much everything else goes to him.
Music by Squeak E Clean
A Social Exchange by Kim Walker
I spent a day taking photos and recording time-lapses with my friend Kimberly Walker in July, as part of her Masters in Architectural Design. I’ve finally had the chance to watch the final edit – it’s a documentary about the process of making the film. Trailer below, full documentary here.
Photos:
Schrödinger’s radio
I rarely work without Radio 4 harping away in the background. My ‘office’ will thus have to relocate to bars, cafés and other more sociable places.
Copenhagen Workshop
Unit 14 went to Copenhagen earlier this year. Here’s a video of the installation we built, along with students from Bartlett’s AAC course and the Royal Danish Academy‘s Unit 1.
I also made this rough video of my journey home. It’s a time-lapse and shows an approximate location, mode of travel, and what I saw (through the “eyes” of a Canon G9). It shows my travel by plane, train, bus and foot, and finishes with the first thing I do when I get home: make a cup of tea.