_the wall_

_n.kakali_on the tree_
_circle of trust_


_underworld_

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cipo_ γυροσκοπικός γυρολόγος

πλανόδιος μουσικός με οπτική συσκευή (?) laterna magica
κινητική δραστηριότητα και ανάμνηση

Δυνατότητες αναγνώρισης της απτικής αίσθησης με τη συσκευή που επινόησε ο Jean – Baptiste Charcot (1892) η οποία επέτρεπε να διαβάζει κανείς με την καθοδηγούμενη κίνηση του χεριού του. Ασθενείς με λεκτική τύφλωση, μέσω της κινητικής δραστηριότητας οργανώνουν τα ερεθίσματά τους με τη δημιουργία κινητικών εικόνων, γραμμάτων και λέξεων, ενθαρρύνοντας τη διαδικασία της μνήμης τους. (αποκρυπτογράφηση χειρόγραφων χαρακτήρων και τυπογραφικών στοιχείων).
(Israel Rosenfield, Η εφεύρεση της μνήμης, μια νέα άποψη για τη λειτουργία του εγκεφάλου, μτφ. Κ. Ποταγάς, εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, Αθήνα 1992)


Edison's electric pen was the first electric motor driven appliance
Edison's mimeograph

Eye-drawings, are drawings done directly with the eyes, without the slightest interference of the hands - the organ of perception being turned into the organ of expression.
eye tracking device (?)
...an orthosis is a device that is applied externally to a part of the body to correct deformity, improve function, or relieve symptoms of a disease by supporting or assisting the musculo-neuro-skeletal system.
The word is derived from ortho, meaning straight.

In 1642 Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) invented a calculating machine.
Pascal used the following principle:
When a gear with ten teeth made one rotation (tens) a second gear shift one tooth until that gear rotated ten times (hundreds) that shifts another gear (thousands) etc. This principle is still used in odometers in cars, pumps of petrol stations, and your electricity meters at home.
Leonardo da Vinci often made maps, both for military purposes and for canal construction. He therefore designed several distance-recording devices, including an odometer. This is one of several variations on an instrument described by the Roman architect and engineer, Vitruvius, whose works were rediscovered early in the Renaissance.
It was geared to drop a pellet into a box for a given number of revolutions of a wheel, thus computing the distance traveled.
(Δ. Καλλιγερόπουλος, Σ. Βασιλειάδου, Ιστορία της Τεχνολογίας και των Αυτομάτων, Σύγχρονη Εκδοτική, Αθήνα 2005)
...a Pedometer or a step counter is a fitness device which can record how many steps you've taken based on your body's movement, if you are looking for pedometers with FM radio, heart rate monitor or panic alarm....

Etienne Jules Marey - La Machine Animale in 1873 /translated as "Animal Mechanism"/Ζωική Μηχανή

In 1671 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) invented a calculating machine which was a major advance in mechanical calculating.
The Leibniz calculator incorporated a new mechanical feature, the stepped drum — a cylinder bearing nine teeth of different lengths which increase in equal amounts around the drum. Although the Leibniz calculator was not developed for commercial production, the stepped drum principle survived for 300 years and was used in many later calculating systems.

He was inspired by a steps-counting device (pedometer) he saw while on a diplomatic mission in Paris
(Leibniz Stepped Drum) This allows the user to slide the mobile axis so that when the drum is rotated it generates in the regular wheels a movement proportional to their relative position. This movement is then translated by the device into multiplication or division depending on which direction the stepped drum is rotated.
A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principles of angular momentum

MUSICA MECHANICA


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Sun Run Sun explores the individual experience of current location
technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to
(re)establish a sense of personal connectedness to one's environment,
and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new,
future and animal navigation using sound. Sun Run Sun investigates
the split between the embodied experience of location and the
calculated data of position. A series of portable personal
instruments “satellite sounders” developed for the residency,
transform satellite data directly into a sonic composition. This
composition constantly varies in response to the changing location of
the player as they move through their physical environment. 'The
experience of sound is internal, as a process that influences the
relationship between the self and the environment. True navigation
consists of a continuously coherent relationship between the two.'
http://sunrunsun.nimk.nl/ http://www.yolandeharris.net

«PDPal» Bleecker/Paterson/Zurkow
«PDPal» is an ongoing series of public art projects for the Palm™ PDA, mobile phone and the web. It has pushed at the notion of mapping, attempting to transform your everyday activities and urban experiences into a dynamic city that you write. «PDPal» engages the user through a visual transformation that is meant to highlight the way technologies that locate and orient are often static and without reference to the lively nature of urban cultural environments.
In response to the plethora of mapping projects that have utilized GPS and measurable cartography, «PDPal» has been anti-geographic and anti-cartesian, preferring to experiment with the construction of relative, emotionally based systems that ask: what makes social or personal space. «PDPal» responds to the century-old idea of the urban explorer: from Baudelaire's «flaneur» (late 19th century); the Dadaists' public performances of nothing, sometimes called «deambulations» (1921); Benjamin's texts on the urban wanderer (1920's); the Situationists' algorithmic «derives»; Hakim Bey's «Temporary Autonomous Zones» that spring up in the cracks of urban regulations, and are opportunities for brief piracy of a place; and contemporary work in psychogeography—all deliberate projects of ‹getting lost› in the city, thus restoring it to a great dense space of wonder, not just a locus of labors.
(Source: http://www.o-matic.com/play/pdpal/#doc)

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Barney Haynes The Chopping Cart


‘’Ropewalk’’ 1994, Nicolaos Lascaris, street performance from W11 building to N52, Mass Avenue, CAVS-MIT

nora.demjaha

nora.demjaha

GETTING LOST “getting lost means that between us and space there is not only a relationship of dominion, of control on the part of the subject, but also the possibility that space can dominate us. There are moments in life in which we learn how to learn from the space around us. (…) We are no longer capable of giving a value, a meaning to the possibility of getting lost. To change places, to come to terms with different worlds, to be forced to continuously recreate our points of refernce, is regenerating at psychic level, but today no one woud recommend such an experience. In primitive cultures, on the other hand, if someone never gets lost he never grows up. And this is done in the dessert, the forest, places that are a sort of machine through which to attain othes states off consciousness.”
FRANCO LA CECLA,Pedersi,I’uomo senza ambiente, Laterza,Bari 1988.