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The Sporenspiel is a glockenspiel that is played based on the amount of spores falling from a mushroom in real time.

A new device developed by Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev allows hackers to remotely disrupt data streams coming from major online news sources. This cyberanarchic object/node begs the question: who can we trust for reliable information?

Check out this documentary about Arduino, the open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.

The kinetic, sonic sculptures of artist Zimoun feature armies of mechanical entities that form worlds both uniform and chaotic. He uses simple mechanical devices such as DC and vibration motors combined with other industrial flotsam—speaker arrays, ventilators, PVC hoses, and metal wire—arranged in seemingly simple patterns. Come visit Gray Area this January for the opening of his first solo exhibition in SF.

German designer Stefan Ulrich has designed a conceptual shape-changing object to relieve loneliness, using artificial muscle technology. Ulrich conducted research into plastics that change shape when an electric current is applied, called electroactive polymers. Ulrich suggests that in the future these materials could allow objects to change shape and surface texture.

Last December my friends Gabe Dunne, Ryan Alexander, and Daniel Massey created SEAQUENCE, a social music project that allows people to create and consume short musical compositions in a unique interactive online environment. Play with it!

I’ve wanted to learn physical computing for a while now and finally get the chance. In November at Gray Area we’ll be hosting educator Joshua Noble for a workshop to learn how to create physically interactive applications.

An international team of researchers are working on a biomimetic computer chip for brain stimulation that is programmable, responsive to neural activity, and capable of bridging broken connections in the brain.

What if implantable biotechnologies were to get a computer virus? Dr. Mark Gasson, a British scientist, has subjected himself to the first research pertaining to this new field.

Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments, prosthetics, and the Internet, Stelarc’s transhumanist art makes science fiction seem entirely plausible.