Jessi Baker is a designer & technologist experimenting with ideas for the future of the Internet and the future of branding. She works as an interaction design creative + technology strategist, whilst being obsessed with open information and the Internet of Things and their impact on advertising and brand behaviour. Here is a log of things that inform the provenance of her ideas. Expect a mix and fusion of the digital & the physical, observations, musings on the future of branding and a heavy bias towards projects supporting sustainability, participation and open data.
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A ceiling made of shifting tiles was a cool addition to NY Design week: “The project aims to answer the question ‘What if architecture responded to our presence?’ This project is a realization of our ultimate ambition, which is to design spaces and objects that expand upon our understanding of the built realm without abandoning its history.”
My friend Choy Ka Fai’s latest project is called the Lan Fang Chronicles. It is inspired by the histories and investigations of the 18th century Lan Fang Republic (1777-1884) founded by Hakka Chinese in West Borneo. The Republic lasted for 107 years before it disintegrated. Today it is nothing more than a fading legend for its living descendants. The project investigates the concept of ‘insignificant histories’, and its obscure parallels with the Singapore story. The Lan Fang Chronicles 2012 presents a site-specific installation exhibition and performance in Singapore.
Choy Ka Fai (Ka5)’s work is amazing, particularly the Prospectus for a Future Body project (see image above), which proposes new perspectives on how the body remembers and invents technological narratives; his final RCA degree piece.
Great to hang out at the Music Tech Fest on Saturday. Loved checking out the soon-to-be-released Ninja Jamm iPad app with Matt Black, produced by Ninja Tune & Coldcut, it’s wicked, watch out for it on the app store in mid June. Impressed by all the music hacks, so many cool ideas, you can find details on the hack camp wiki, run by the Music Hack Space.
I love it - GCSE Physics comes to life! Could be an amazing simulation tool.
(via inter-act)
Video of screen tests of my work at the Taman Anggrek complex in Jakarta, working with StandardVision. Apparently the facade is the longest in the world at 1160 feet (350m) long. I particularly like the clever abstraction of the image in the stretched-out areas with low pixel pitch, it’s an excellent creative solution to a challenge of economy.
Relating this to the #DIGART discusssion, whenever I do this kind of thing the whole issue of art world approval becomes completely irrelevant. The ability to work with images in this scale is sublime.
100,000 LED lights – made to resemble hotaru (fireflies) – float down the Sumida River through central Tokyo
“X-Ray photographer Nick Veasey has been snapping the world using an x-ray machine for a few years now. He’s shot flowers, plants, men, machines, and toys. But, his latest work has turned to the world of fashion. Picking iconic and instantly recognisable pieces of clothing, he reveals the emptiness within, while simultaneously highlighting the beauty of these creations on the surface.”
via APOO
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