Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Other Worlds
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, around the theme of 'Other Worlds', a collection of independent / student games that veer away from convention, either produced as 'experiences' in another environment, aesthetic exercises that the paths of commercial gaming did not tread.
Proteus



Indie video game with Zen-like experience, with ambient audio music and 3D Atari-cartridge-like visuals. An island is randomly generated for exploration, with no goal orientated action. (PK)
Zenith


Free game by Arcane Kids that celebrates ' ... speed, movement, and Twitter ...', acrobatic skating in a polygon world.
(PK)
Trip





Currently unreleased, when available should be free for all. (PK)
Fotonica
Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Computed Fashion
Virtual Clothing Touch 'Heatmap' Feature Of CLO 3D
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, around the theme of 'Fashion'.
Glitch Embroidery by Nukeme
Clothing with embroidered logos whose sewing machine file has been purposefully corrupted, creating glitched outputs:





CLO 3D
South Korean 3D CAD software developed specifically for industry-class clothing design:




Netstyles
Limited edition T-Shirts designed by net artists:


Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Digital Graffiti
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, around the theme of 'Digital Graffiti'
SWEZA



Berlin-based street artist uses QR Codes in his work, such as his Graffyard project, which is part archive, part graffiti work which accesses photographs of removed graffiti:
I am using QR Codes to preserve graffiti for posterity by photographing the graffiti before it is removed. After the graffiti has been cleaned off by the local authorities or building owners i place a QR Code in the exact location which resolves to an image of the original. In that way a mobile phone with a QR-Code Reader can be used to travel back in time.
Video of artist
Artist's Website
Facadeprinter


Project invovles machine which creates images on walls by firing accurately firing paintballs onto the surface:
PK LinkThe Facadeprinter is a simple robot. Its purpose: shooting out large scale graphics onto walls. Calculating movements based on digital artwork, software controlled motors position an airpressure-marker to fire thousands of colorballs and print the work on a distant surface. The artwork grows dot by dot, like the drawing of a magic pen. An inkjet-printer in architectonical dimensions.
Project Website
Free Art Technology
F.A.T. have produced various projects merging graffiti with new technologies, such as:
QR Code Stenciler
PK Link
Project Page
Graffiti Markup Language
Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) is a universal, XML based, open file format designed to store graffiti motion data (x and y coordinates and time). The format is designed to maximize readability and ease of implementation, even for hobbyist ...
Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The Algorists
Kubo-Oktaeder, 1971 by Ludwig Rase + Georg Nees
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, focusing on a collection of European artists who since the 1960's have independently been creating art with the computer, and in 1995, became known as 'Algorists'.
Below are five artists picked with accompanying animated gifs of their work. For a more expansive investigation, check out the links at the end of the piece:
Definition of an Algorist:
if (creation && object of art && algorithm && one's own algorithm) {
include * an algorist
} elseif (!creation || !object of art || !algorithm || !one's own algorithm) {
exclude * not an algorist
}
Herbert W. Franke

Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Plants
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, around the theme of 'Plants'
Above: Tree Studies by Nicolas Sasson
Plant-In City
Art installation merges gardening and technology, creating Arduino-powered frames with sensors for plants to be monitored, and interacted with via smartphone app. From the project’s Kickstarter page:
We’re creating a space where a community who loves architecture, technology and plants can meet. Our mission is to integrate these disciplines into a new paradigm that changes the way we live and interact with nature. We believe that interacting with plants will improve our lives.
Plant-in City taps into the natural systems that foster plant life to give the plants themselves a voice. This revolutionary planter system contains built-in sensors that are activated by sun exposure, changes in soil moisture, humidity, temperature, and other natural cycles. Once activated, these sensors translate the environmental data into sounds or visuals, creating an imaginary vibrant wilderness.
[Project Page | PK Link]
Data Garden Quartet
A recording of abstract ambient IDM created with a band made up of living tropical plants. Sensors were placed onto the plant leaves to detect conductive biorhythms in real-time. You can hear the whole recorded piece, with spoken introduction, below:
Electric Ikebana
Corporate net-art work is an audio / visual 3D HTML5 generative piece put ...