The Odd Economy of The Machines

I’ve posted the slides from by presentation in Waving at The Machines titled “The Odd Economy of The Machines.”

The talk is an attempt to highlight the complexity that’s inherent in our interactions with the Machines. Recognizing the layers of indirection that reveal themselves in these interactions often adds a strange value.

Here are the titles and any relevant links for the slides in the PDF:

• Cloaca
http://gizmodo.com/5145287/cloaca-no5-is-a-monster-pooping-machine

• Minecraft as a canvas
http://ludolik.deviantart.com/

• Mapvertisements
http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id15798-giant-advertisements-that-can-be-seen-from-high-in-the-sky.html

• LOL CODE
http://lolcode.com/

• “Why by realistic?”
http://blog.mutewatch.com/2011/07/07/why-be-realistic/

• Pencil balancing robot
http://blog.makezine.com/2011/01/20/pencil-balancing-robot/

• Cat organ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_organ

• David Byrne – Playing the Building
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pFvOphr9MA

• Supernova Sonata
http://vimeo.com/23927216

• Linux.fm
http://www.linux.fm/

• Singletone hashtags

• Nano guitar
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/july97/guitar.ltb.html

• Nano smiley face
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/24445

• Rat brains robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPiF4-iu6g

• Instagram ride

• Skype family portraits
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/03/magazine/skype-portraits.html

• Screenshots

• Twitter weather report
http://twitter.com/drnic/status/261547325284028416

• Front-facing camera mirror

• JSNES
http://fir.sh/projects/jsnes/

• Music with machines
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/making-music-tech-hardware-8-great-youtube-videos/

• Raspberry Pi supercomputer
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/supercomputer-built-from-raspberry-pi-and-lego/

• The Johnny Cash Project
http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/

• Speaking Piano
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/the-speaking-piano-and-transforming-audio-to-midi/

• Paintings for satellites
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1145342167/paintings-for-satellites

• MS Paintings
http://www.labnol.org/software/ms-paint-tips/9305/

• CSS iPhone
http://codepen.io/dylnhdsn/pen/iphone

• ASCII Star Wars
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/