Links

• Chris Burden Honest Labor: physical work, 220-110: user-actuated
• Institute for Infinitely Small Things
• Make Magazine
• Art Interactive
• Meme @ Brown

Electronics

• electrons flow path of least resistance (ohms)
• if we control resistance (RESISTOR), we control electrons
• TRANSDUCTION
• Variable resistor is analog (anywehre from 0 to 5v:: 1, 2, 3, etc)- Potentiameter
• Digital Switch is On/ Off (0v 5v 0 0 5v:: 0 1 0 0 1)
• voltage is higher at different points; it decreases after it is used??
• current is like wave-form
• voltage is more like amplitude
• positive warm/ negative (ground) cool
• reading resistors

Spores

• Online Web Twister, where everyone plays by themselves

Assignment

• 2 pieces of metal touch, will eventually connect to leads
• Map a human gesture to a digital switch

Ideas for Assignment 1

• DmIhitIhate - manhandling the computer

• The love/ hate glove
  

• Finger gun
  

• Sewing, peircing: use metal mesh (a screen) to identify when a material has been peirced by a needle.

Inspiration

• The Way Things Go/ Der Lauf der Dinge
• Chris Burden, Prelude to 220, or 110

• Tools and humans define each other: symbiotically-actuated

  "Manders therefore explores his own legacy of fictive landscapes. Here Heidegger explains that Man, the world and the functional objects around them are all inter-dependant on each other for their existence. "Men alone, as mortals, by dwelling attain to the world as world. Only what conjoins itself out of the world becomes a thing ". Compellingly, both Manders and Heidegger understand a universal scheme that encompasses life and art."
  -Rachael Thomas at Museum of Modern Art Ireland, quoting M. Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking