Sensor Projects

Gathering knowledge through sensors

Mediamatic Fabriek is situated in a rapidly changing, diverse area. How can we familiarize people with their living environment, and together gather valuable knowledge about the community?

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Motion sensors - uɐɯʞuǝɯ ɐsoɹ

Edible solarcells

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PhoEf's - Picture taken at Temporary photoElectric Digestopian Worklab #1, Tactile Research Lab, The Hague, Nov.8, 2010. Image found on Flickr's website by Bartaku

Who?

Artist Bartaku

What?

Edible solarcells consist of experimentations on the transformation of light energy into electric energy with food.

Why?

Data and sensor project related with food.

More information about the project on Growing Mediamatic

The art of gathering environmental data

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Ecosystem and environmental monitoring - This study group/cluster of learning opportunities relates to ecosystem theory, sensors and environmental monitoring. Image found on Pixelache's website by Antti Tenetz

Who?

Under the umbrella of ‘The Art of Gathering Environmental Data’, based on Finnish Bioart Society and Pixelversity

What?

Organise a series of events and workshops concerned with collecting, publishing and using environmental data in art&science practice.

Why?

Mediamatic wants to work with artists, activists and people that have been starting to produce, publish and use realtime environmental sensor data.

Aristotle's office

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Aristotle's office performance -

Who?

Tom Keene and Kypros Kyprianou are two artists of the Electric sunset organization

What?

Using office furniture, this performance explores Aristotlean concepts of the ‘essence of things’ in the coming age of the ‘internet of things’. Each object has the ability to detect changes in the physical status of the objects they are plugged into, and, using simple rules, react accordingly.

Why?

Mediamatic is developping itself as a social network. It would be an idea to see how the objects also connect and develop relationships between them.

Brave New Farm

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Robotics and sensing technologies can be used for small-scale farming and food production -

Who?

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, a group of design researchers have been looking into how robotics and sensing technologies can be used for small-scale farming and food production. The remote sensing system, designed by Thomas Lodato, is called Sheep’s Clothing – so named because the sensors are camouflaged to blend in with their outdoor surroundings.

What?

The goal of the project is not to make foragers lazy or to eliminate the human role in wild food cultivation. But the interested is focalized on how technology can support foragers and farmers who make a living from agriculture but for whom industrial-scale technology is not appropriate.

Read more about it here

Why?

Here, the interesting thing is the mixed of sensor project and food.