Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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Thanks to everyone who donated to the project. I am making the plaque this week and will be posting pics soon. I am very grateful to everyone who contributed. Thank You!
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
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Real Time approximation of the name scaling.
The Donor Plaque Project
UPDATE: Only a few days left before the deadline (May 3) for donations. Get in while you still can! Click the ChipIn widget below to contribute.I am working on a new project where I am taking donations to make a brass donor plaque with the names of those who contributed. The more you donate, the larger you name will be, scaled to the largest donation. So if you give $20 and that is the highest donation so far, your name will be the largest. If someone donates more that your donation, your name will get a little bit smaller. Please consider contributing. This piece will be shown in my Thesis exhibition in May, the more participation there is, the better it will be. All of the money received will go directly into making the work. Essentially, it is a plaque made to thank those gave money to make the plaque.
The above image is a realtime mockup of the plaque that will be made with the names and size proportions. (the total on the ChipIn above is a little off for technical reasons, sorry). If you want a bigger name, you gotta do better than the largest current donation.
Click the ChipIn Widget below to contribute
Labels: art exhibition, projects
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Monday, April 20, 2009
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A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) is a sculpture that perptually places itself for sale on eBay.com. I have mentioned it a couple of times on blog and the lovely Jen Graves of the Seattle Stranger has made a post about it. Well it is currently in an exhibtion at the Sol Koffler gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design.
You can see the current eBay Auction here: http://atooltodeceiveandslaughter.caleblarsen.com
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Monday, February 23, 2009
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Right now I am up to by eyeballs in writing my thesis, preparing work for my thesis exhibition in May, applying for jobs and residencies (I am attending the CAA conference this week), I just finished teaching a class at RISD, doing a bit of contract work on the side.
The class I was teaching called, "Table Fights", was in the Furniture department at RISD. I taught with two fine folks, Anne Evelyn and Shaun Bullens. In the class students built tables that fought each other in a public tournament style event. (Yep, they fought each other.) They were weaponized, mechanized, remote control tables. It sounds a bit silly, but it was a wonderful opportunity for students to learn new technologies, building techniques, and other skills in a very fun and playful environment. None of the usual "Here is a new technology, learn it and make important art with it." Instead students were introduced to technologies (electronics, motors, mechanics, physical computing, and programming) and got a chance to play with it and have fun and learn at the same time!
For those who don't know I have been involved in a sort of Moped (the small motorized things with pedals...like scooter, but different) subculture for a long time: the Moped Army. Additionally I design, program, fix, trick-out, and do some of the marketing for the the online store for 1977 Mopeds. It is probably the best place of Puch, Tomos, Sachs and Minarelli mopeds..at least it is my favorite place. When my friend Dan Kastner started it, he and I lived in the back of the store for several months. If you want to know more, check them out.
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The class I was teaching called, "Table Fights", was in the Furniture department at RISD. I taught with two fine folks, Anne Evelyn and Shaun Bullens. In the class students built tables that fought each other in a public tournament style event. (Yep, they fought each other.) They were weaponized, mechanized, remote control tables. It sounds a bit silly, but it was a wonderful opportunity for students to learn new technologies, building techniques, and other skills in a very fun and playful environment. None of the usual "Here is a new technology, learn it and make important art with it." Instead students were introduced to technologies (electronics, motors, mechanics, physical computing, and programming) and got a chance to play with it and have fun and learn at the same time!
For those who don't know I have been involved in a sort of Moped (the small motorized things with pedals...like scooter, but different) subculture for a long time: the Moped Army. Additionally I design, program, fix, trick-out, and do some of the marketing for the the online store for 1977 Mopeds. It is probably the best place of Puch, Tomos, Sachs and Minarelli mopeds..at least it is my favorite place. When my friend Dan Kastner started it, he and I lived in the back of the store for several months. If you want to know more, check them out.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
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Wikipedia has closed the loop in fictional information generation. In a recent German news story a (long and complicated) name was changed in Wikipedia. When the printed press covered the story, the modified name from Wikipedia was used. When the Wikipedia story was flagged as lacking a citation, one of the print sources was used as a citation, closing the loop.
See it on slashdot:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2211220
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See it on slashdot:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2211220
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
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Happy Holidays World.
I am going to be in Michigan for a while...hopefully working on thesis readings and migrating my site to a better platform.
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I am going to be in Michigan for a while...hopefully working on thesis readings and migrating my site to a better platform.
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
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Opening December 11th I will be in a show titled PATCH DYNAMICS: Six new invasions to the field at Lawrimore Project in Seattle, Wa.
Lawrimore Project has been one of, if not my favorite gallery in Seattle. I am honored and delighted to be a part of this exhibition. I will be going out for the opening (6-9pm Dec 11). Swing by and say 'Hi.'
The show is co-curated by Scott Lawrimore and Yoko Ott. It consists of 6 Seattle artists: Justin Beckman, Matt Browning, Heide Hinrichs, Caleb Larsen, Vesna Pavlovic, Mike Simi.
Jen Graves at the Stranger posted a nice blurb on the Slog: The Stranger Blog: "Work of Art with the Sound of its Own Selling". She talks abit about a piece I have not 100% buttoned up, but it is nice that she got excited about it.
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Lawrimore Project has been one of, if not my favorite gallery in Seattle. I am honored and delighted to be a part of this exhibition. I will be going out for the opening (6-9pm Dec 11). Swing by and say 'Hi.'
The show is co-curated by Scott Lawrimore and Yoko Ott. It consists of 6 Seattle artists: Justin Beckman, Matt Browning, Heide Hinrichs, Caleb Larsen, Vesna Pavlovic, Mike Simi.
Jen Graves at the Stranger posted a nice blurb on the Slog: The Stranger Blog: "Work of Art with the Sound of its Own Selling". She talks abit about a piece I have not 100% buttoned up, but it is nice that she got excited about it.
Labels: art exhibition
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Monday, November 3, 2008
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The show closed in Philly over the weekend. I now have some documentation.
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Finally posting some images of "A Video Game Playing Itself" from last year.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
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In this video I have edited out all of the dialogue segments from the 1962 James Bond movie Dr No.
65minLabels: art video
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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This is a few things that I did in the Spring of 2008.
Three Remote Controlled cars set on an inclined plane. They try in vain to climb to the top (only to be met by hitting a wall) but get stuck in the middle and their tires spin fruitlessly. As their batteries wear down,their tires stop spinning and ultimately gravity carries them back to the bottom.
I attempted to contain the small explosion of a model rocket engine in an acrylic cube. The force exploded the cubes and the result is displayed.
The first iteration of Whose Life is it Anyway? A small LCD display listing my fabricated online life.
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The gallery was not fully cleaned up when I was installing the show in Philly so I was not able to get pre-show documentation, but a friendly person on flickr took some quick pics.
[note: The "fence" on the floor in the photos of the Monument piece is not part of the work. The gallery initially put that there for "safety" reasons without consulting me. We spoke and it has since been removed.]
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