R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence, and Practicing Technological Sustainability

This is a screenshot of the “Wi-Fly” project created at R.I.P. by Amos Latteier. The project placed a Wi-Fi hotspot into a kite made of recycled materials that was flown around the town of Banff giving free Wi-Fi to the masses!

Here is a link to the first in a series of entries on the R.I.P. workshop on my ‘soundblog’. More to follow! … R.I.P. 1: The Francis Cook Landfill and other dumps

Here are some of the pictures I took at R.I.P.

I came across this a few days ago in Yogyakarta. Reminded me of the RIP Workshop. I especially like the small ‘biosphere’ made from an old light bulb.

Here’s a rough cut of some of the footage I shot during the R.I.P. Workshop we ran at the Banff Centre, July 8-15, 2011.

Another RIP inspired T-Shirt I got as a present in BANFF!

ʇnduı oǝpıʌ ou (Low Radiation Color Monitor) Is a kinetic sculpture, built out of several TFT screens and motors of microwave ovens. The screens were disassembled and the filter layer which makes the liquid crystal image visible is slowly moved on top of the screen. The motion plays with Moireé patterns and polarized light. 100% …

An interactive piece about garbage that made its way into an art gallery By P.U.N.K (Gaulon – Roy – Holoubek)

Here’s the updated picture of the workshop participants, courtesy of Garnet Hertz. “My parents had come into Banff and I was out for lunch with them, so I missed out on the group photo – so here’s a re-edit.” – Garnet Group Photo (Names From Left to Right: Marc Bernier, Rob Van Kranenberg, Todd Holoubek, …

Throughout this year I am keeping a sound diary, comprising 10 seconds of sound recorded each day at different hours. The diary is published in weekly editions of Seventy Seconds. Of course last week’s Seventy Seconds were all recorded at the R.I.P Workshop in Banff. Here they are. Sort of an RIP audio postcard. I’m …

Group Photo (Names From Left to Right: Marc Bernier, Rob Van Kranenberg, Todd Holoubek, Amos Latteier, Gordon Savicic, Niklas Roy, Ben Gaulon, Katherine Moriwaki, James Wallbank, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Harold Schellinx, Erin Kennedy (RobotGrrl), Darinka Aguirre, Bill Morrish, Jessica Thompson, Angelo Vermeulen, Laura Seldman, Marc Resch, Mara Marxt, Jean McPherson, Missing from photo: Neil Seldman, Susan …

SCRUMBLEFLIT was all ready to go on display at the Town Hall! Everyone’s creations were on display around town and in a few places in the Banff Centre. Positioning everything is a bigger challenge than meets the eye. Everything has to have a reason for being where it is! The robot was placed on the …

This is a PDf of the final map and art tour for the projects from the R.I.P. workshop held at the Banff Centre.

Some photos of the last day of the working days in the workshop! Tomorrow is the Final Tour! Slide Show + -Full Screen

Photo of the whole group in the workshop.

Today was the final day of building everything before all of our supplies and junk goes away. I can’t believe it is almost the end, and the robot has become very built over the past few days, but it still is not exactly how I want it. I started off by doing some wiring! Found …

Two dozen old computer monitors occupy the center of a gallery floor in a cluster facing the wall. Each screen is controlled with custom electronics to create pulsating and strobing patterns, casting a colored wash across the darkened gallery. Dimensions: Variable (approx 3m x 3m). VGA monitors, custom electronics. 2011. For more project information, see …

4th R.I.P. Workshop day at Banff Centre: Jessica’s ‘Sound Shoes’ & Garnet’s ‘Pixel VGA’ #ripbanff http://t.co/QnveK95 http://t.co/2pDGEKd »

Link to photos of the mobile Savonius wind turbine: Wind Turbine

On this wonderful day three of the workshop, everything seemed to have some hope for the stepper motor and belt construction! The morning was going great, thanks to a wonderful idea of @billgriggs of using a tensioner for the belt (by the way, shameless plug, check out his maker masters website ^^). The only problem …

Some photos from Day 6 of the R.I.P. Workshop! Slide Show + -Full Screen

Some pictures from Tuesday’s hacking in the studios and the BBQ on the Bow River Recreation Grounds Slide Show + -Full Screen

Today I mourned the loss of a poor LM293D. It is on its last legs as a chip, and tries its best but just doesn’t work reliably. Boohoo! This means that only one dual h-bridge will drive the two steppers, entailing no differential drive. Shucks! Yesterday I thought that there probably wasn’t enough force to …

http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=recrystallization:berlin_resource If life itself starts from aperiodic crystals that encode infinite futures within a small number of atoms, then the digital crystallization of the flesh by Capital limits these futures to the point of exhaustion. Recrystallization begins with the double premise that if computers and the minerals from which they are made are considered equally …

Great picture-essay” and collection on the recovery and re-use of materials by Daniele Pario Perra!

Today we started on making our exhibits! Everyone’s ideas are different, but they all share a common excitement in them! I don’t know exactly what I want to make still, but using wheels for a robot seems like a good place to start. Many thanks to Todd and Niklas who helped me get started with …

Some photos from Day 2 of the workshop / hacking portion of R.I.P. Slide Show + -Full Screen

Some pics from the first day of Hacking: Garnet scales the walls: Basketball sculpture MC Slider Dude Junk Room: Building a power cart: Garnet: Monitor Pixel

Erin Kennedy (RobotGRRRL) Talks about her work: Angelo Vermeulen talks about his work: James Wallbank presents about Access Space and “Creative Repair, Reuse and Re-Purposing of Digital Tools”: Bill Morrish talks about urban infrastructure in his presentation: “After The Storm”: Niklas Roy and Darinka Aguirre talk about their work. Jessica Thompson and Harold Schellinx talk …

Zero Dollar Laptop presented by James Wallbank