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What to do when you have mechanical trouble in the middle of the desert? Try to fix it with what you have on hand! After the shifter of this Xterra stopped working we were able to get going again by taking it apart and manually shifting the disconnected l
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Rearranging my office. Making some space for music projects, coming soon! The lights were last seen in an installation called The Shack of Senses at the Nowhere festival in the desert in Spain. @wouter.jaspers did a series of music performances, each nig
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Kicking off the 3rd season of Desert Media Art. Can’t wait to see what my students create this semester! Check out desert.nyuadim.com to see videos of past projects #desertmediaart @nyuad.im @nyuabudhabi
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Back in Abu Dhabi with the glow of luminous air #cyberpunk
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Catching the so very golden hour in the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco. I used to go exploring all through here with my motorcycle and minivan
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Muir Woods and Muir Beach. The average age of the redwood trees at Muir Woods is between 600 to 800 years. Gotta ❤️ that California coast!
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Bathed in light. Oculus Bridge by Olafur Eliasson at @sfmoma. Photos by Jon Ross
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@kildall and I had the honour to share our new Sonoglider Duet project at @dorkbotsf with a live demo! Fantastic to see so many familiar faces in the audience - the last time I talked at Dorkbot was 10 years ago! Thanks to @k0re for organizing the special
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All systems are go for today’s Sonoglider performance with @kildall and @moshen. Hope to see you out there!
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The Sonogliders are ready to fly! Each glider is equipped with a custom telemetry system that will broadcast the glider’s movements to a base station that will generate live music from the data. Another great project with @kildall! #mediaart #datasonifica
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More flight practice today preparing for the Sonoglider performance this Sunday near San Francisco. Photos by the multi-talented @moshen who will also be flying one of the gliders! Chucking the glider off the cliff is always a moment! Sonogliders is a dat
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If you’re in San Francisco check out my Dorkbot talk on July 30 - or catch it online! I’m talking about a new project called “Sonogliders Duet” (with @kildall) and my Desert Media Art class. It’s going to be amazing to be back in SF!!! That blue flower is
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Just a taste of creativity bursting out from the last Digital Calligraffiti jam. Always good to get the crew together!!! @kadir_amigo_memis @moestr._ @don_stone1 @harshinijk_ @sahar.homami @parisurteil @decaynews @susa.pop
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Digital Calligraffiti is doing a special performance tonight (Monday) at re:publica! We’ve got a big Berlin crew lined up for lighting up re:publica with some live projected Calligraffiti! XULI, Mhanna Letters, Kadir Memiş, YAT, Naok Write, Susa Pop, Don
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I had the pleasure of meeting one of my favourite synth designers at Superbooth. Tats designed the original Korg Volcas and Monotron that were some of my gateway synths! I got to try Korg.berlin’s latest prototype of acoustic synthesis and geek out a bit
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Berlin - I’m inbound! Who’s going to Superbooth? Any tips? I’m looking forward to @somasynths @moogsynthesizers @korg_berlin and lots more!
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“8hands” on stage at Mutek AE as part of the Performance Lab @mutekae. We met during the weekend hacklab for one performance only. NYUAD meets @analogroom! @mangtronix @tacitmusik @aacarcrash @twstd__
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Epic to have the chance to perform at Mutek AE with some new friends as part of the Performance Lab. It’s a rush to perform live as group! Thanks to @pkirn and @serwithme for hosting! @mutekae
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Excited to be joining the Performance Lab with @pkirn and @serwithme at @mutekae this weekend! Can’t wait to do group a hacklab with a performance on Sunday! The festival line up looks great!
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Great day in the dunes with @ad4x4club. I completed three training to start Advanced dune driving (thanks Roy!) Looking forward to driving in Liwa and some overnight trips!
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Fascinating talk by AI pioneer Yann Lecun about the limits of current machine learning models and research towards machines that can learn their own representation of the external world and make their own plans. Some choice quotes: We think we have gener
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Working on the circuitry for the next version of the String Thing. Each side will have a 3D printed pickup pod with volume/tone control and there will be a bus connection between the sides so you can get individual L/R pickups or a mix on both sides (the
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Abu Dhabi sunset with some rare clouds to catch the light #nephology
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Out desert exploring with the AD4x4 club. The glowing rectangle in the sky is a solar power plant! @ad4x4club
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Some great projects from my Desert Media Art students this year! Here are a few behind the scenes shots from their desert installations. They’re working hard on their documentation videos and getting ready to show the works at the Interactive Media End of
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Congrats to Diaa Allam on the opening of his solo calligraphy show in Dubai! We first performed together with Digital Calligraffiti for the Festival of Tolerance in Abu Dhabi a few years ago and then again at the Louvre Abu Dhabi on their fantastic walls!
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Scenes from the end of the road. Geologic time in fast forward in grains of sand blown by the wind #desertmediaart #scouting
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Saturday scouting mission. Let’s see what it looks like on the ground! #abudhabilife #desertmediaart
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My keynote at Festival X is at 3pm. Come check it out! @festivalx.ae @nyuad.im
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My keynote at Festival X is at 3pm. Come check it out! @festivalx.ae @nyuad.im
