Perhaps the closest thing to approaching the uncanny valley I’ve seen in a while (besides the face of Hollywood comedienne Joan Rivers lately) is the quadruped locomotion of Boston Dynamics’ BigDog robot. Funded by DARPA, the rough-terrain robot has been designed and developed to mimic the navigational motion of a pack animal. It [...]
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Today is the final official end of the creature walks. A book called Feature the Creature Stroll has been designed and is currently in production. I can’t wait to get it back! It will be my first experiment with online self-publishing.
The pages contain select shots from the experience of ‘Discovering Place.’ As [...]
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Today I walked through a public space in which I was cocooned; an experiment in projecting my private space into the public domain. For this creature walk, I made use of my ipod to send a soundtrack to my brain and construct a private environment that could be seen by the public (those white wires [...]
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This particular creature walk (rather, creature not-walking) project takes its inspiration from an artist named Kim Sooja who performed a piece (with other friends) called Beggar Woman (2001) where individuals meditated in the midst of a public ’space’ in Times Square for one full hour. I was interested in the idea of disappearing public [...]
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This creature walk is about wearing a collar. It’s about being collared, controlled, domesticated and kept.
I chose to make a small modification to the fabric of my daily life for at least five hours. I sustained this behavior modification, the act of wearing a collar as a domesticated animal, as I walked around in [...]
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There are no dogs in our house right now. I love all animals, and I grew up with dogs, but at the moment it wouldn’t be fair to the dog to be left alone all day at our house without proper surroundings and loving attention. For my next creature walk, I was thinking [...]
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Man, I LOVE the INB! My favorite song is Ja Helo and it really gets me going!
The Infernal Noise Brigade, a Seattle-based musical marching band, formed in 1999 to participate, originally, in the protests at the WTO Meeting. Over its 7-year duration, the group performed (participated) as part of several large-scale protest actions, such [...]
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Today I am a non-violent creature.
If you had to walk in the name of someone for something (like a cause), where would you go ? How would you act? How would you walk? People all over the world walk/run in names of those they love to raise awareness or money to find a cure for [...]
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Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist originally from Warsaw, Poland, and who now lives and works in New York and Massachusetts. Since the eighties, he has created more than [...]
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The question posed for this analysis is based on the reading of Michael Bull’s publication: Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life. Bull’s premise is that an auditory understanding of people’s behavior through an analysis of personal stereo use helps to shed light on the understanding of urban culture. [...]
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