Art and Technology by Casey Smith
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A piece I made for The Cottonwood Club’s This Machine Kills Fascists show. The machine gun-toting stripper can be actuated up or down remotely, as well as the fire control...
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What runes do you read? The Magic Cuil Ball replaces with normal text response of the traditional Magic Eight Ball with a short video reply, leaving the viewer to interpret its meaning. The videos are sometimes violent, sometimes pornographic, and always bizarre. The term cuil refers to the level of abstraction of a response from...
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Activism and apathy. Flipping the guarded switch reveals the activism...
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Buzz is a mirror that reflects the state of mind of the user. Anyone that has recently had a drink or is mildly intoxicated will see a red glow superimposed on their reflection. Buzz contains a two-way mirror, red LED, alcohol sensor, and various...
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Like Throwies with a message, Subversive Streetsigns are meant to be programmed with subversive text and left in public places. Milled from aluminum and fitted with high-strength magnets, they are designed to be installed in and blend in to an urban environment. Watch video of Subversive Streetsigns...
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Chatterboxen is two wooden and brass boxes with large brass horns; one speaks of war, political corruption, and environmental crisis, the other speaks of celebrity misbehavior, acting awards, and hit movies. The boxen of Chatterboxen contain an Internet-enabled microcontroller reading current news feeds from different sources. They are crafted of birch, acrylic, brass, and...
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with Kennedy and Violich Architecture. Portable Light is a non-profit interdisciplinary research, design and engineering project to provide de-centralized, sustainable lighting and electrical power to serve the large number of people—more than 2 billion—who do not have access to electric light or power. The Portable Light Project began with an idea created and developed by...
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The only function of the Suspicious Looking Device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscrimately in public places. The SLD contains LEDs, a LED array, a character display, an optical distance sensor, capacitive touch sensor, buzzer, and...
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Escapement is a literal embodiment of my official job function as “Clockmaker” according to the legal requirements of the Worker’s Compensation...
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Haiku displays a collections of haikus, written weekly and following traditional forms, based on entertainment news and celebrity...
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