Change Agents: Current TV's Max & Jason

Wow, check out these heart throbs!!!

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Sculpture made by Bees ” by Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny

 

Over the course of the fair, 40 000 worker bees were released into the case to complete a wax honeycomb structure over the figure of a martyred christ rising out of the chaos, his weight seeming to be upheld by the mass strength of the swarm. The figure within the vitrine is made of a laser sintered framework in which the industrious bees created a honeycomb skin over before filling each cell with the honey they produce. Then bees worked to remove the honey from the cells and return it to the beehive, cleaning the figure back to the wax cells they originally created.

Slam Poetry by Joaquin Zihuatenejo: Speaking in Tongues

Designing Reality

Digitally modifying the physical world sounds like sci-fi, but such technologies have been steadily tiptoeing into our world.

3D projection on a building

Interactive projection at the London Aquarium


AR (Augmented Reality)

AR is a term for a "live direct or indirect view of a real-world environment where the "physical" real-wold elements are modified by computer-generated input," overlapping the physical with virtual elements. Fancy as it sounds, AR is already commonplace in sports telecasting (ex: the yellow "firstdown" line in football broadcasts). AR tech is already in use and available on iPhone apps, and webcam-interactive greeting cards and magazines.

The ARToolKit program uses a black square emblem as a tracking cue:


Virtual furniture?


Mini tanks!



Of course, current AR visuals can only be seen on the digital screen, but it might not be long before new technology will enable people to directly see and interact with AR in physical space without the aid of a digital screen, adding a new dynamic plane to daily life (ex: virtual public displays instead of physical signs, interactive advertisement, "real-life" subtitles and translation).