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Sloth-bot

patconley News 21/07/200616/05/2020Arch-OS, Architecture, robot, Temporal

At 6pm on the 22 July, during the Consciousness Reframed, 8th International Research Conference (21 – 23 July 2006) the ‘Sloth-bot’ will be launched as an extension of the Arch-OS project. Sloth-bots are large autonomous robots that move incredibly slowly (between 5mm and 20mm a minute). Sloth-bots, influenced by their interactions with people, imperceptibly reconfigure the architecture. Sloth-bots build on robotic technology developed by Dr Guido Bugmann, famously incorporated into Donald Rodney’s Psalms which was exhibited in the South London Gallery as a part of Rodney’s last exhibition entitled ‘Nine Night in Eldorado’, in October 1997. http://arch-os.com/projects/slothbot/

Sloth-bot

adelmootranto Projects 20/07/200613/04/2020Arch-OS, Architecture, robot, Temporal

22- /07/2006

At 6pm on the 22 July, during the Consciousness Reframed, 8th International Research Conference (21 – 23 July 2006) the ‘Sloth-bot’ will be launched as an extension of the Arch-OS project. Sloth-bots are large autonomous robots that move incredibly slowly (between 5mm and 20mm a minute). Sloth-bots, influenced by their interactions with people, imperceptibly reconfigure the architecture. Sloth-bots build on robotic technology developed by Dr Guido Bugmann, famously incorporated into Donald Rodney’s ‘Psalms’ which was exhibited in the South London Gallery as a part of Rodney’s last exhibition entitled ‘Nine Night in Eldorado’, in October 1997.

http://www.arch-os.com/

Digital Arts Symposium. University of Arizona College of Fine Arts.

adelmootranto News 10/04/200614/11/2018Arch-OS, Arizona, Arts, Digital, Symposium

(10/04/2006). Digital Arts Symposium. University of Arizona College of Fine Arts. Friday, April 7, 2006. Speakers: Peter Anders, Roy Ascott, Elif Ayiter, Martha Blassnigg, Margaret Dolinsky, Cristina Miranda de Almeida, Carlos Nobrega, Mike Phillips, Yacov Sharir, and Diana Slattery. University of Arizona Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Building and Fine Arts complex. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Sponsored by UA Fine Arts Technology & Treistman Center. Thanks to The University of Arizona Libraries & Museum of Art?For information. Free and open to the public. Contact: Lucy Petrovich lucy@email.arizona.edu http://www.arts.arizona.edu/lucy/symposium06.htm

Arch-OS Installation:

adelmootranto News 30/11/200514/11/2018Arch-OS, Architects, commission, Curtin University, i-500, Woods Bagot

(30/11/2005).

Curtin University of Technology – Minerals and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct, Perth – Australia.

Arch-OS Installation: Curtin University of Technology

adelmootranto Projects 01/08/200513/04/2020Arch-OS, Curtin University, i-500, John Curtin Gallery, Nanochemistry, Woods Bagot

2010:

i-500:

Minerals and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct – Perth – Australia.

Arch-OS is to be integrated into the two new buildings that will form the Minerals and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct at Curtin University. Paul Thomas / Chris Malcolm / Mike Phillips have been commissioned to develop the Public Art Work in collaboration with Woods Bagot Architects, John Curtin Gallery and the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). The new buildings will create an internationally significant Resources Research and Education capability in Western Australia and will house the Department of Applied Chemistry, the Chemistry Centre of W.A., links to the expanded CSIRO Minerals Laboratory, and the Nanochemistry Research Institute.

http://arch-os.com/projects/i-500/

Arch-OS.

adelmootranto Projects 20/01/200513/10/2022Arch-OS, Architecture, BMS, Building, model, Portland Square

07/2005:

Arch-OS constructs a ‘virtual’ architecture from the dynamic activities that take place within the Portland Square Development. Arch-OS uses a range of embedded technologies to capture audio-visual and raw digital data from the building through: the Building Management System; its computer and communications networks; the flow of people within it; changing noise levels; weather, light and temperature changes. This vibrant data is then manipulated (using computer simulation, visualisation and audio technologies) and replayed through projection systems incorporated into the architecture and broadcast using streaming internet technologies. https://arch-os.com/

Making a Difference at the University of Plymouth

janeconway Projects 20/09/200417/04/2020Arch-OS, Lucy Kimbell, Residency

11-22/10/2004:

Please join us with the Vice-Chancellor of the University for a breakfast preview at 10am, on Monday 11th October 2004. Making a Difference at the University of Plymouth is a project for i-DAT by Lucy Kimbell. It uses Arch-OS, an innovative digital system embedded in the architecture of the Portland Square building, enabling passers-by to express the corporate mantra of our times. On pressing a special button, the phrase is broadcast over the entire building, beginning with the first clear iteration of sound but increasingly becoming layered and invasive. The wish to make a difference is also automatically sent as an email to the Vice-Chancellor of the University to register this fact. Data is collected and made public but to questionable effect.

Higher education has changed rapidly over recent years, reflecting the general tendency of increased corporatisation of culture at large. Management cultures insist on personal responsibility where the individual employee is supposed to align themselves with the organisation’s brand values. The phrase, ‘I want to make a difference’, reveals something of the tendency towards increased individualisation and a break with previous collective ways of engendering change. Does this demonstrate the view that large corporate and hierarchical institutions are ineffectual, that local and more complex models are at work in the forces of change? Who holds responsibility in seeking positive improvement in the workplace and in terms of the service on offer? Will the number of people pressing the ‘I want to make a difference’ button reveal a true willingness or an empty gesture towards change? The shift from the individual sound to a chorus by the end of the project presents itself as an allegory in this respect.

Lucy Kimbell is AHRB Creative and Performing Arts Fellow at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford.

Making a Difference at the University of Plymouth is a project by Lucy Kimbell, with special thanks to George Grinsted for software development.

Original HTML website can be found here: https://i-dat.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/oldi-DATprojects/makingadifference/index.html

Arch-OS was decommissioned in 2017 and although the infrastructure still exists (including the 3D speaker system and audio servers) the Arch-OS core server is no longer functioning.