The Empathy Machine from Joanna Hopkins on Vimeo. Artist Joanna Hopkins and programmer Alanna Kelly have teamed up to create The Empathy Machine. The machine encourages people to enter the booth and then engage in conversation with a digital person…
Category: Art
A Raspberry Pi Christmas tree on a lubricating tram
Jiří Zemánek and Martin Gurtner were asked by journalists from technological on-line magazine Technet to place a remote-controlled Christmas tree on-board a tram that lubricates the tracks around Prague. To control the lights, they used a Raspberry Pi to run a string of addressable WS2811 LEDs.…
Raspberry Pi used in new Greek Royal artworks
On 2nd November at Christie’s in London, five new artworks by Prince Nikolaos of Greece were unveiled. They are known as Soundwalls and feature a huge video display powered by a Raspberry Pi. The Pi also provides a soundtrack to the…
Wearable guerilla video projection device made out of a Raspberry Pi
Artist R▲has created the VIDEOBLAST_R which is a wrist-mounted device which allows the wearer to project pre-prepared artistic imagery on any surface. Animation is triggered by a Wii nunchuck controller and the whole thing is mounted on a rollerblade armguard. An…
Raspberry Pi-controlled air pollution art project erected in Chelmsford
Victoria Button has just seen the completion of the installation of her art project at a shopping centre in Chelmsford. The project, which is at the High Chelmer shopping centre, seeks to highlight the issue of air pollution in our environment and…
Art installation uses a Raspberry Pi to show how stupid people can be with their data
Martin Hertig from Switzerland has created an art installation called “Sensible Data” that shows just how easily people give up personal data, and what the pitfalls of that are. You use an iPad to take your photograph and give your…
Pyrite sun discs used to create music on the Raspberry Pi
Dmitry Morozov is a Russian “media artist” and has created this wonderful piece of artwork. Using a custom laser set-up, he scans the discs of pyrite, produced on this planet seemingly only in Illinois, and then sends the data through…
Tracking the position of Boston’s underground trains on the wall using a Raspberry Pi
MIT student Ian Reynolds has a fascination with the Greater Boston transit system, and more specifically MBTA’s T subway. So, he brought together a bunch of LED strips, an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi to create some wall art for his bedroom…
Servos and Raspberry Pis come to life in kinetic sculpture
Sam Blanchard, an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Virginia Tech, has developed SeeMore. SeeMore features 256 Raspberry Pis attached to servo arms. It works as an enormous parallel-processing computer but it is also articulated to show how it works as a…
Art installation in a French railway station uses a Raspberry Pi and over 16,000 LEDs
Fred Sapey-Triomphe and Yann Guidon were hired to liven up the entrance to a temporary railway station in Mons, France. The project is called ElectroSuper and is comprised of a 42m long ceiling screen made out of six sections containing 2800…