The End of Hearing: interacting in the show

The MACD show at the Rochelle School has been attracting great number of people and it is hard to find a moment during the day to do anything else than offering my time in the gallery to the visitors. And it's great! The show is widely praised and especially our Digital Media sector receives some good attention.

The private viewing night was very busy. A lot of visitors were queuing to enter the first floor with our digital and interactive presentation. My work received some publicity both online (https://twitter.com/#!/marekkultys) and real-life while having a number of interesting conversations. Thanks to my sister, Dotty, I managed to conduct over 30 "Hearing Trade-off" tests on that one night. Also a big thank you to Mela (melayerka.com) who took all those photos for me. Well done!

The End of Hearing: private view & friends and family viewing

"The End of Hearing" is now comfortably set up in the Rochelle School in Schoreditch, London. The whole Digital Media section is placed on the first floor of the gallery, making it a nice and cosy place to be around all animating and prototyping mates.

The private view will take place today at 18:00. You need an invitation to get in, so probably if you got one, you'd be considering to come. If this is the case, please do not hesitate any longer—come and see the amazing work of the last year of the good and old MACD.



If, however, you have not been blessed with a magic invitation, please feel free to come on any other day between June 15th and 23rd, 10:00 - 18:00. I will be there every day conducting my experiment (the Rochelle Experiment), and I will be happy to give you a tour around the place.

Another piece of good news: my parents have decided to visit me during the weekend and they will see my work at the "friends and family" opening. Horray!

Art & Science Meeting, Gdańsk 2011

I'm just leaving Gdańsk in northern Poland, where I managed to attend the Art & Science Meeting conference. I should have been sitting home preparing for the final show in less than two weeks time now, but I could not miss this kind of event in my own country.

And it was definitely worth it!

I visited three very interesting shows, each tackling a completely different aspect of art + science theme. "The Pleasure of Light" is a retrospection of work by F Malina and G Kepes work from fifty years ago. "Performing Data" by M Fleischmann and W Strauss reveals the very beginnings of virtual reality and computer interaction projects, as well as the creation of 3d spaces. All this when I was enjoying Mario Bros on my 64 colours Nintendo console in 1992! The last one is "Blue Morph" by V Vesna and J Gimzewski. It is a lovely piece really gaining from being placed in a gothic church.



"Blue Morph" by Vesna & Gimzewski.

In five hours time I will be boarding a plane back to London and going straight to work on my own projects. Nevertheless, I will have very positive memories from Gdańsk in May 2011!

The End of Hearing: realising the obvious

Many things to do and little time to write about them.
I realised what my project really is about. It is not about sound or hearing, but rather about a new concept of the role of a designer. Thanks to Sadhna for helping me formulate this important thought! This was lingering in the back of my head for some time now, but only now did I force myself (was I forced) to admit to what I thought.
But don't worry—sound and hearing are still a theme in my project. After all it's called "The End of Hearing" and I still believe this is a lively issue today.
It's quite late in night again, so my English is worsening with each sentence now.
I will have five more posts today, and then some more photos to show later during the week. Stay tuned!

I'm twitting!

I hate to admit, but I am now on Twitter. I will not be a very often guest there and I am not intending to post more often than maybe... once in a while? Nevertheless, this is where you can find me: https://twitter.com/mrklts

back to live!

Back to live!
For a shamefully long time I neglected this space. I wish to make up for it now... for myself, to be really exact. So there it is—a strong and solemn resolution to summarise the development of my dissertation titled: Lingua Extraterrestris—lessons in universal communication or the designer’s understanding of CETI in science and fiction, to recapitulate on all the experiments I managed to conduct over autumn, and finally to document the progress of my final project this year.

IFs: excercising creative approaches and media

What if machines could read and reastour emotional states?

What if machines had its' own emotions to communicate with humans?

What if machines objectified humans in the same way we personify machines?

What if machines reacted to us personifying them?

What if we could translate non-material and obscure digital content
(e.g. Cellular Automata) using physical and familiarly analog objects?

What if CA rules were defined by specific physical world properties?

What if blogosphere or social networks could be translated into CA?

What if machines were not reliable, could be mistaken or even cheat us?

What if machine and human became integrated on an organic level in which
machine's blueprint became part of human's DNA and development of both
was interdependent?