My collaborative work Smoke and Hot Air with Robin Mandel is now on display in the show titled FEEDFORWARD, at Laboral: Centro the Arte y Creation Industrial in Gijon, Spain.

The show was curated by Steve Dietz and Christina Paul; the form has posted a number of images of the show on Flickr, with a separate album for the opening night.

During August 3-7, 2009, Robin Mandel and I taught a week-long intensive workshop on physical computing at Anderson Ranch. The workshop was titled Physical to Digital (see Anderson's flier).

I created a course blog that includes arduino code, references for working with kinetics as well as videos of the students final projects.

Make Television and Twin Cities Public Television did an additional short segment on my collaboration with Robin Mandel, Smoke and Hot Air.

The wonderful new Minneapolis arts organization Norther Lights is beginning to take off.

An article appeared there today about the installation Smoke and Hot Air, Robin Mandel and myself.

I've been working on some software and electronics for Robin Mandel in order to realize his Storm. First I made a Arduino-MIDI-output-translator application that converted MIDI out of GarangeBand to on and offs on the Arduino's Digital Outputs. Then I integrated the MIDI playback into the translator application.

An arrangement for Arduino + MaxMSP + circuit so that blocking the light will turn on the storm. With the new MaxMSP patch, a photosensitive resistor is used to start/stop playback of a MIDI file that is a composition for Robin's electro-mechanical storm machine.

Demonstration of a little stand alone application for translating MIDI to an Arduino's digital outputs.

The editable MaxMSP patch (and many more things) are a part of aLib. You will find the patch in the "for controllers" folder, within the "Arduino" section.

This application uses
-SimpleMessageSystem library for the Arduino platform.