"&&float" by Siddharth Mankad and Sunil Vallu

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Using only Processing and a wide angle webcam, this code base creates an interactive installation. Check out Github.

"Change Your Stripes" by Ann Cleary and Denis Connolly

Change Your Stripes by visual artists Ann Cleary and Denis Connolly will put the public into the picture with an artwork that only comes to life as you walk past. Playful, thought-provoking and promising to be thoroughly addictive, Change Your Stripes references the traditional fairground Hall of Mirrors, optical illusions and abstract art.

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Time-lapse data mining using internet photos

We introduce an approach for synthesizing time-lapse videos of popular landmarks from large community photo collections. The approach is completely automated and leverages the vast quantity of photos available online. First, we cluster 86 million photos into landmarks and popular viewpoints. Then, we sort the photos by date and warp each photo onto a common viewpoint. Finally, we stabilize the appearance of the sequence to compensate for lighting effects and minimize flicker. Our resulting time-lapses show diverse changes in the world’s most popular sites, like glaciers shrinking, skyscrapers being constructed, and waterfalls changing course.

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"Saturday Come Slow" by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanari

"Saturday Come Slow" (2010) by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, featuring an interview with Ruhal Ahmed and footage of the Cambridge University anechoic chamber. To raise awareness for Reprieve's Zero dBcampaign against music torture.

Massive Attack somehow manages to combine politics, acoustics, and pop music.

"Chladni Singing" by Meara O'Reilly

A work in progress by Meara O'Reilly, film by Lisa Foti-Straus. Salt is scattered on a metal plate electronically driven and sung into. Songs are written based on sequences of patterns in the salt.

Chladni patterns were discovered by Robert Hook and Ernst Chladni in the 18th and 19th centuries. They found that when they bowed a piece of glass covered in flour, (using an ordinary violin bow), the powder arranged itself in resonant patterns according to places of stillness and vibration. Today, Chladni plates are often electronically driven by tone generators and used in scientific demonstrations. With carefully sung notes and a transducer driving the plate, I'm able to explore the same resonances. Songs are then written based on sequences of patterns and their associated frequencies. An adaptation of this project was developed as a permanent exhibit for the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. It debuted in 2013.

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Locus Sonus streams soundscapes worldwide

The Locus Sonus Stream Project is a worldwide network of "open mikes" that permanently stream local soundscapes. You can take part using your Raspberry PI, smart phone, or computer running PD.

Scanning Electron Microscope of vinyl being played

There's a short GIF of a record being played making its rounds on social media. This is the full-length video showing how the Scanning Electron Microscope image was made. It's extraordinarily well explained and fascinating!

This also contains an explanation of a Capacitance Electronic Disc, an incredibly obscure analogue video playback format, released by RCA in 1981.