Long line of cars
There’s a long line of cars
And they’re trying to get through
There’s no single explanation
There’s no central destination
But this long line of cars
Is trying to get through
And this long line of cars
Is all because of you
What is Next Nature?
With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Posts Tagged ‘Wild-systems’
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Worm-storm weather report
A short video showing a live outbreak of malware named Small.DAM. Are we looking at the weather report of the future here?
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RFID implant opens doors
Amal has two RFID implants, one in each hand. His left hand contains a 3mm by 13mm EM4102 glass RFID tag that was implanted by a cosmetic surgeon. His right hand contains a 2mm by 12mm Philips HITAG 2048 S implant with crypto-security features and 255 bytes of read/write memory storage space. It was implanted by a family doctor using an Avid injector kit like the ones used on pets. He can access his front door, car door, and log into his computer using his implants, and has written a book called RFID Toys, which details how to build these and other RFID enabled projects.
See pictures, Related: Is your cat infected with a computer virus?
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A mouse can scare the cat away
Animal Nextnature! Using an animal as part of your lego creation. A ‘behaviour block’ can track the behaviour of the animal inside. This behavior is the nused to drive the Lego creation. This way the creation gets alive, and the animal can get enhance possibilities: a mouse can scare the cat away!
This augmented animal project was created by Joris van Gelder, Bas Groenendaal, Philip Mendels and Ivo Vos.
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ALAVs
They make whale-like sounds, they feed, float and flock: Autonomous Light Air Vessels.
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Evolving Logo
Generative graphics and organic information design are making their way into the world of the applied arts. For the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Michael Schmitz created software that creates an evolving logo, by following rules of cellular automata. Different logos are being “bred” and then picked by fitness in relation to the parameters or voted for by the employees. The parameters are coupled to certain factors: number of employees = density, funding = speed, number of publications = activity. Every time the logo is displayed on a website as an animated icon or printed out on a letter, it reflects the current state of the lab as a living organism.
via: we make money not art.
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Real Nature is not Green
At the edge of the woods along the motorway near the Dutch town of Bloemendaal, there stands a mobile telephone mast disguised as a pine tree. This mast is not nature: at best, it is a picture of nature. It is an illustration, like a landscape painting hanging over the sofa. Do we have genuine experiences of nature any more? Or are we living in a picture of it?
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E-volver
The E-volver is an ‘image breeding machine’, which takes inspiration from the methods of evolutionary biology to produce colourful,ever-changing images. The software generates artificial pixel organisms made up of thirteen genes that together determine how the organism will behave on the monitor. The unusual collaboration between an “image-breeding-machine” and a human “gardener” results in intriging and coherent images.
E-volver will be exhibited at the Natural Habitat expo which opens this weekend during the Amsterdam Museumnacht.
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Erkundungen im Nächste Natur (D)
Die Natur verändert sich mit uns (English version: Exploring Next Nature)
by Koert van Mensvoort, published in Entry Paradise, Neue Welten des Designs, Gerhard Seltman, Werner Lippert (Editors), Birkhauser, ISBN: 3764376953.
Fast jeder liebt die Natur. Doch was heißt das eigentlich? Für manche verkörpert sie Harmonie, Konsequenz und Frieden. Für andere ist sie eher wild, brutal und unberechenbar. Natur stellen wir uns als vom Menschen unberührt, unangetastet vor. Paradoxerweise hat sich der Mensch jedoch gerade aus dieser Natur entwickelt. “Die Natur liebt es, sich zu verstecken” behauptete der vorsokratische Philosoph Heraklit [1] schon im 5. Jahrhundert vor Christus. Wenn es einen Ort gibt, der es verdient “natürlich” genannt zu werden, ist es die Welt in der sich die Menschheit vor sehr langer Zeit entwickelte. Diese Welt ist die Grundlage unserer Wahrnehmung von Realität und tatsächlich aller Informationen, die wir aufnehmen. Unsere menschliche Konstitution und unsere Sinne sind völlig an sie angepasst. Heutzutage ist diese Umwelt vollständig unserer Herrschaft unterworfen. Sie hat all ihre Ursprünglichkeit verloren. Wie natürlich ist es geworden, einen nine-to-five-Job zu haben und mit Anzug und Krawatte ins Büro zu gehen? Die Dächer über unseren Köpfen, die Stühle auf denen wir sitzen, sogar die Bäume im Wald – sie alle sind so, wie wir sie haben möchten. Wenn man sich umschaut und versucht, das natürlichste Objekt in der unmittelbaren Umgebung auszumachen, wird das höchstwahrscheinlich man selbst sein.
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Inner life of a cell
You know.. cells have feelings too… and friends.. Check the video here
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
by Richard Brautigan (1968)
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammels and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
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N is for Nature
McKenzie Wark, published in Next Nature Paperback, 2005
There are people who think what makes a good wine comes from nature – factors like rain and soil and temperature. Then there are those who think it’s a matter of second nature – of picking and fermenting and ageing. But these days, there’s a whole new world of wine making technology – and a whole new argument as to what is “natural” and what is not.
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Anybody else hear that ringing?
An actress in Atlanta, has tried to answer her phone to the thrrrrup, thrrrrup, thrrrrup of a truck bouncing down a pothole-pocked street. Others say they thought they heard phones ring while taking a shower, using a blow-dryer or watching commercials.
Because cellphones have become a fifth limb, people now live in a constant state of phone alertness, resulting in the phantom phone rings.
Read the whole story at www.nytimes.com
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Save our Next Nature! Buy the book
A critical and visual take on culturally emerged Nature. Full of statements from designers and thinkers from around the globe. Wild systems, Genetic Surprises, Calm Technology, Autonomous Machinery and Splendidly Beautiful Black Flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Editors: Koert van Mensvoort, Mieke Gerritzen, Michiel Schwarz, Design: Mieke Gerritzen.
140 pages, paperback. ISBN 90 6369 093 2
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Plant Sensors
One day you will step into the garden to look at the flowers – and the flowers will look back at you.
Rich Fletcher, Nikolai Slavov, and Hiroshi Ishii from MIT Tangible Media Group are building novel electronic and optical sensors that “take a peek” inside the biological activity of living plants, and explore their use as low-cost sensors. Plants are very common in our world and and contain a vast amount of information. Plants have a great ablity to sense and respond to their environment. The electrophysiology of plants has sparked interest since the late 1800s, but this topic has not been explored recently in the context of modern information technology and electronic devices.
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Sequoiaview – harddisk visualisation
Did you ever wonder where all that hard drive space went too? Sequoiaview generates organic-like views of the files and folders on your hard drives using cushion treemaps. SequoiaView was developed by Jack van Wijk at the computer science department of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
Sequoiaview can be downloaded for free.
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Green Electricity
Electricity itself is a natural phenomena, but as regular AC/DC currency it becomes a commoddity. But Green Electricity is a strange thing. You pay more money for your electricity which the providers say they will invest in environmental friendly energy like windenergy and waterpower. So the ‘green’ addition to the product is purely virtual.
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RFID Chips: Is your cat infected with a Computer Virus?
A group of computer researchers from Amsterdam have demonstrated that it is possible to insert a software virus into radio frequency identification tags, part of a microchip-based tracking technology in growing use in commercial and security applications.
Many pets, as well as commercial livestock, have been injected with a tiny microchip that can identify them if they get lost (pets) or are later found to habor disease (livestock). Up until now, no one thought these microchips, called RFID tags, could themselves be infected with computer viruses. Now researchers at the Vrije Universiteit have discovered that computer viruses in animals, supermarket products, airline baggages and other physical objects are a real.
RFID tags are tiny, inexpensive microchips that can be attached to physical objects, such as products in a supermarket, or injected into animals. When a specialized kind of chip reader attached to a computer sends out a radio wave on a certain frequency, all RFID tags within range respond to it by identifying themselves. The retail sector, for example, is planning to replace the now-familiar bar code with RFID tags in the coming years because RFID-tagged products can be scanned much faster and more accurately than products with bar codes.
