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Tech Object Seminar: Logitech C200 Webcam with Vicki Smith and James Hope
On the 14th May 2022, both online and at the Refinery Artspace in Nelson, artist and ADA board member Vicki Smith, and ADA board member James Hope discussed the Logitech C200 “eyeball” webcam. This basic web camera with its distinctive rounded shape was released at the end of the 2000s; Vicki discussed its role in […]
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Tech Object Seminar: VIVE VR Headset with Claire Hughes
Held online on the 7th May 2022, artist and educator Claire Hughes discussed the Vive VR headset and her work with the technology. As their complexity increases, the objects of technology that we use everyday become more and more mystifying to the average user. Most of us are able to competently operate our cellphones or […]
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Tech Object Seminar: TC2 Loom with Caroline McQuarrie
Held online on the 23rd April 2022, artist Caroline McQuarrie discussed the TC2 Digital Loom and her work with the technology. Her exhibition ‘This Blasted Heath’ at Jhana Millers Gallery saw her Incorporating landscape photographs hand woven into fabric on a TC2 digital Jacquard loom, ‘This Blasted Heath’ depicts small, overlooked sites in Te Waipounamu, […]
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Tech Object Seminar: Motorola DynaTAC Ultra Sleek 9690 with Pasha Ian Clothier
Wednesday, 27th October 2021 Initially held at Te piere o te rangi, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, artist and educator Pasha Ian Clothier discussed the Motorola DynaTac Ultra Sleek 9690 early ‘brick’ mobile phone and its wider cultural context as a technology of long-distance communication. See the recording below. This was the second in […]
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Tech Object Seminar: Arduino with Kim Newall
Held online, on the 15th October 2021, Kim Newall discussed Arduino’s controversial history and shares his experience working with this platform within his cross-disciplinary practice. As their complexity increases, the objects of technology that we use everyday become more and more mystifying to the average user. Most of us are able to competently operate our […]