simple-mechanisms | low-technologies

Michelle Harris organized an online auction towards the creation of a memorial fund in memory of our friend  Ben Schaafsma.

So go and bid on some good stuff by artist such as Mark Tribe, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Terry Conrad, Annie Purpura, Austin Thomas, Zack Prekop and others.

Hexaclock will be presented remotely during Piksel 2008: Code Dreams at the StudioUSF on December 7th.

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Hexaclock is a custom made digital clock created to delay seconds while time travelling. On January 1st, 2008 Jamie O’Shea locked up his self on a time machine: In order to travel in time accuretely, he needed a clock to scale time in a 3:2 scale. The digital time device is based on the shape on an hexagon and splits the time in 3 different planes, to create an unique symbol for every delayed hour in the day, where a minute lasts 90 seconds. The Hexaclock is an useless object with zero vision of the future.

Hexaclock in the time machine. Photo by Jamie O’shea.

Edible Excess by Forays is part of the exhibition “Actions: What you can do with the city” at the Center for Canadian Architecture in Montréal, Quebec.  On view till April 2009.

“An exploration of how everyday human actions can animate and influence the perception and experience of contemporary cities. Seemingly common activities such as gardening, recycling, playing, and walking are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their experimental interactions with the urban environment show the potential of a new level of participation by city residents.”

As part of the forthcoming State of the Art: New York exhibition (opens April 09) artist group Forays have created a satellite exhibit at Shudehill Bus Station in Manchester, UK.  Light boxes display ‘hack charts’, exploring ways to liberate infrastructures of a city, particularly New York and Manchester.

Download the Hack Charts