Boys and Their Toys explores the close relationship that designers have with technology. Every piece constructed varies in production from digital cameras to laser cutting and CNC Milling machines to subverting software programs. The show is a mixed media exhibition showing the work of emerging architects and designers from around the world, curated by nous founder Melissa Woolford and presented at LOT. The show will be on view until November 8, 2009.
Binaural is an attempt to ‘visualize’ and physically manifest, aural information. The intent was also to draw attention to opportunities that may lie within a domain of digital design.
The music file used: ‘reflection’ by Jan Hiddink a custom-coded ‘audio node’ enables playback of audio and extraction of audio information including frequency spectrum, amplitudes, beats etc. Aural information being sharply punctuated needs some amount of ‘smoothing’ to be applicable to geometric operation. This ‘smoothing’ of frequency spectrum is achieved and visualized by storing information as color and standard color-interpolation methods. this ‘smoothed’ data is then used to generate / deform geometry.
