A bamboo stick washed ashore on Playa Cocalito / Nicoya Peninsula / Costarica has been cut in 3 modules, smuggled into Europe and endowed with strong neodymium magnets so that modules form a whole again.
The hollow space within the module 1 is used as a contained for the radiation-detecting Müller tube connected to a fully functioning Arduino-based Geiger counter. Hoping that I will never need to use it elsewhere than to measure the radioactivity of uranium-glazed tiles at U-Bahn station Rosenthaler Platz, it's still wiser to be safe than sorry ...
The hollow space within the module 2 contains an Arduino Nano Connect system endowed with a battery, I2C gyroscope, speaker and a microphone. Based on the position of the tube, the microcontroller either records or plays back the audio buffer. The intention behind such "sonic imitation" is to research and establish communication with birds in the most natural way.
Note: Reassembled magic Wand 1 is present on the right side of the previous photo
Personal Primer is an AI-supported “Bildungsinstrument” aiming to harness advantages and possibilities offered by digital technologies for the purpose of education of elementary school pupils, most notably the acquisition of basic literacy (i.e. reading, writing, arithmetic) and promotion of informatic thinking. Currently, we have four prototypes satisfying 11 out of the 23 roadmap properties: embooked, unique, adaptable, modular, circadian, habit-disrupting, multimodal, speech-based, narrative, online-offline and monotasking. A concept of "human-machine peer learning" (HMPL) where human learns something from the machine (e.g. reading, foreign language) in the same time as machine learns something from the human (e.g. speech recognition model adaptation) is deployed in do-it-Yourself, book-like artefact narrating not only fables of ancient India.
Videos:
https://stream.udk-berlin.de/w/gxoTarC9PK3wdumKJ8gDzx (Prix Ars Electronica 2024 submission)
https://kastalia.medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/community/data/13068.fibel_interspeech_subtitle.mp4 (accepted InterSpeech 2023 submission)
Inscription HELP composed of cca 144 dried carcasses of freshly hatched babies of species Lepidochelys olivacea who burned alive they could make it into the water. The reason for such mass extinction most probably being sand significantly more hot than normal.
Playa Ostional, Costa Rica, washed away into the sea during the next high tide.
A little installation displayed at Rundgang 2022 thematized the relation between reality and its representation, of simulation and the thing simulated. A vase filled with freshly cut Phlox and Gladiole flowers juxtaposed to an autostereoscopic holographic display showing a hologram of 3d-scanned vase filled with Phlox and Gladiole flowers next to which there is a hologram of a 3d-scanned vase juxtaposed to a hologram ....
A classical infinite regress feedback loop, but this time with Kinect and light field technology.