today and tomorrow

These 3 Arcade Expressionism pieces by Brock Davis are part of his “make something cool every day 2009″ project. He made these on 4th, 5th and 6th of November 2009.

These are 3 screen grabs of 3 different machine animations pieces by Eddo Stern. You have to see these videos, they’re awesome! You can find them here.

Best…flame war ..Ever (2007) Leegattenby King of Bards v. Squire Rex

Level sounds like Devil (2007) Baby in Christ vs. His Father

Emoticon (2007)

Avatar Machine by Marc Owens is a wearable system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.

found at designboom weblog

Sony redesigned PS3 and asked Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo to develop the campaign for it. They came up with The Playface: “It’s that face you make when you are playing video games and concentrating so much that you don’t even realize the kind of expressions you are making. And everyone has a different one.” They filmed 50 people in the heat of gaming and I must say that the footage cools very good. Just go to the website!
This might actually sound familiar to you. Robbie Cooper did a similar project a while ago called “Immersion“.

Sticky Light is a project by Alvaro Cassinelli, Kuribara Yusaku and Stephane Perrin of the Department of Information Physics and Computing at the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory of the university of Tokyo. Indeed, this should already spark you interest.
Sticky Light is a 3d tracking technology using a laser diode (low power), a pair of steering mirrors and a single non-imaging photodetector. The big difference to other tracking technologies is the fact that the Sticky Light doesn’t use a camera or projector. So what could you do with? It can track the contour of objects and even augment real-time drawings. Or you could build games like air hockey or a pinball game. Or … just watch this video, after 2 minutes they show you the games demo.

Daito Manabe visited the lab recently and added some functionality to the system: sound. soundLight can now generate sounds based on the movement of the laser.

found @daitomanabe

“The Periodic Table of Controllers” by Pixel Fantasy.

Sander Mulder designed this Pong Clock, you can also switch to game mode.

“Rien ne va plus” by Nasan Tur.

In the sculpture of Nasan Tur the Roulette-ball is incessantly moving and clattering all the time. The decision moment doesn`t arrive. The endless spinning of the roulette wheel doesn`t allow the ball to settle down on a
number-slot, the ball keeps jumping in and out of the slots. The game`s key situation, which decides about winning or loosing, euphoria and dejection, does not arrive by Nasan Tur sculpture. It annuls the climax of the game and stretches the instant of tension into an endless absurd loop.

“I, the world, things, life” by Jacob Dahlgren.

photo by Poligon