http://technoetc.net/blog Andrew O'Malley's electronic art, music, and technology blog Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:55:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_414" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption=""Electric Tenement" reacting to Tweets @ OpenOttawaLibre 2011"][/caption] On Sept. 28 2011 I was fortunate to partake in OpenOttawaLibre 2011, an “unconference” that brought together a diverse group of “creatives” from the business, technology, and art sectors in Ottawa. Although the agenda of the day wasn't ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/10/15/openottawalibre-2011/ [caption id="attachment_418" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption=""Mountain of Gold" by The Latest Artists (photo by Ming Wu)"][/caption] Background Chinatown Remixed is an annual, art festival in Ottawa's Chinatown district.  For one month each spring, the merchants and restaurants of Chinatown welcome artists' exhibitions and performances. Having exhibited lighting installations back in the 2010 and 2009 ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/06/25/mountain-of-gold-chinatown-remixed-2011/ [caption id="attachment_407" align="aligncenter" width="449" caption="GigaTera prototype wall lamp"][/caption] Last week I traveled to Philadelphia to attend Lightfair International 2011, a huge lighting conference featuring an immense trade show floor and a full schedule of lighting-related seminars. While there, I was guest blogging for Philips' LightCommunity on their new Events blog.  My first ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/05/25/lightfair-international-2011/ Intro Urbana is an annual fundraiser hosted by Dharma Developments where proceeds raised support community programs with the goal of preventing homelessness in Ottawa. This year, URBANA is helping Action Housing / Action-Logement, an Ottawa-based charitable organization that assists low-income individuals and families to find and ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/04/27/urbana-2011/ New "big font" time display If you haven't already, it's time to update your DOTKLOK!  When you plug your DOTKLOK in, the software version will briefly be displayed (if there is no display, you are running code version 1.0 or older).  The latest release is version 1.3, now available at the ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/04/26/dotklok-software-1-3/ DOTKLOK's been getting lots of blog love since the official launch in January.  Noteable appearances include Make, Create Digital Motion, Laughing Squid, CunchGear, Hack A Day, and a print feature in Korean trend magazine, Metatrend: The first customer-created review vid also surfaced this week: I keep an on-going list of press on ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/03/18/blog-love-2/ This past week I wrapped up version 1.1 of the DOTKLOK firmware, adding 3 new animations: Analog mode: a minimal depiction of a standard analog clock face. Morse code mode: hours, minutes, and seconds represented in Morse code glide across the screen at random velocities. and Game Time, where the screen is randomly ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/02/15/new-dotklok-animations/ Phenomena is a group exhibition @ CUBE Gallery featuring seven artists' take on climatic, astronomical, or geological phenomena. Alongside work by Aili Kurtis, Paul Schibli, Guy Lavigueur, Jennifer Gibbs, Reid MacLachlan, John Roth, and Tony Broderick, I'm debuting work exploring new themes for me: a light piece controlled by the colour ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/02/08/phenomena-cube-gallery-feb-1-27-2011/ As you may have noticed from the sidebar on the right of this page, DOTKLOK "unofficially" launched before Christmas when I quietly put it up on Etsy, planning to spread the word during the beginning of 2011 . . . Well, things got started for me when it was picked up ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2011/02/02/dotklok-launched/ After making my own PCBs for several projects and finding the process sufficient for small runs and prototyping, I've decided its time to make the leap to professional manufacturing.   The first design I sent off was a carbon copy of the Electric Window 4 single-sided PCB that I've been home ... http://technoetc.net/blog/2010/12/07/pcbs/