From interactive robotics/machine performance master Kal Spelletich: word of a free show tomorrow night featuring a new machine shown on the model below:
"I am in a BIG group show this Thursday in the Lovely Tenderloin with a bunch of really cool robot/hacker tech artists at Rx Gallery aka BLASTHAUS, 132 Eddy Street at Mason in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, Ca, at 6:00 PM on Thursday, August 21, 2003. Come operate my new machine, "Monkey on your Back!" see here and here.
Volunteer puts on backpack and gloves… there are flex and EKG sensors in and on the gloves. Moving or just wearing the gloves activates the monkey, and the EKG inside the gloves picks up a signal from your heart and turns on or off the tail and spine. There is a tilt sensor that activates the top arm depending on which direction you lean, and the hands can pick up all sorts of things."
Also in this show: robotics artist Christian Ristow, whose machine hijinks I phonecamblogged on Sunday. The claw/bullet/hand-like piece he has in this show — sorry, I don't know the actual title — is amazing, beautiful, and will scare the pants off you if you aren't paying attention. There's a snapshot of it here in my phonecamblog.
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