Tuesday, January 20, 2009
After finally getting the chamber out of the crate and onto the gallery floor we wanted to do a quick test to make sure everything was working. No joke, we shot this video not even know if everything was going to work. Amazingly, it all worked right out of the box, and it will run [...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The first thing we needed to do was get our crate onto the second floor of the gallery, and then get the crate open. Here is a short video of it. Enjoy!
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Where in the world is The Neuron Chamber? — it’s in Dublin! Yes folks The Neuron Chamber successfully made its long journey across the pond. We arrived a few days ago and began setting it up. We’ve been super busy here at the Science Gallery getting everything ready for the Lightwave show which is why [...]
Well we are finally finished fabricating for the Lightweight show in Dublin. Hear are some photos from the past few days.
First are some shots of the cover for the control panel. The original instillation did not include a cover because we never imagined we would be leaving it unattended, however, for the month long show [...]
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Ship Name: ATLANTIC CONVEYOR
Ship Type: Cargo – Hazard C (Minor)
Year Built: 1985
Length x Breadth: 292m X 32m
DeadWeight: 51648 MT
Speed recorded (Max / Average): 10.7 / 7.7 knots
Flag: Sweden [SE]
Call Sign: SCKM
Current Location:
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Monday, December 29, 2008
When I last posted photos of the antenna part of the antenna array it was not yet finished. Now it is. And it’s shiny.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Here are some photos of some of the parts I’ve been working on for the Neuron Chambers antenna array. The array is going to go where the argon tank went in the last instillation. It will have at least two lights that signal when the chamber is on-line and when it is off-line. One of [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Attention Almost Scientific readers!
We need your help!
As a regular visitor to Almost Scientific you no doubt already know we have been asked to bring the Neuron Chamber to participate in Lightwave, a fantastic exhibition of art, science and design at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.
Our Irish colleagues have provided some generous financial support, but [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Thanks Benna!
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Well the Neuron Chamber has been released into the wild. The other morning I boxed it up, craned it onto the truck and drive it to South San Francisco where I watched the big wooden box disappear indiana-jones style into a large warehouse of wooden boxes. Hopefully it will be in Ireland (and in the [...]
Saturday, November 22, 2008
In anticipation of our upcoming, month-long showing in Ireland this winter we’ve been reworking some elements of the arc puller on the neuron sculpture to get them to arc more frequently. Here is a test we ran the other night. This is by no means fully dialed in yet but I realised that [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I’ve started fabricating the additions to the Neuron Chamber for our upcoming show in Ireland.
One of the most important additions is the High Voltage Manifold, that will house the high voltage wires running from the neon sign transformers to the axons.
For the last installation we ran the wire through soft, black, rubber tube. This was [...]
Another big announcement!
The Neuron Chamber has been invited to Dublin, Ireland, this winter to participate in Lightwave 2009.
Lightwave is a event at the Science Gallery, which is a science and art space, associated with Trinity College.
Check out some of the fantastic work that was featured at Lightwave last year.
You can see a portion of the [...]
Photographer Michael Rauner took some cool photos of some of my work (The Triaparator, The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator and The Neuron Chamber) at the Fire Arts show. He also as some great shots of the Steampunk Treehouse and KSW.
You can see his whole gallery from the show here.
Below are some of the photos [...]
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They say the night is darkest just before the dawn. Well that was true for the crew of The Neuron Chamber. We had a few long nights of fabracation on this project but none was more intense (or perhaps as fun) as the final night.
This set of photos [...]
