Concept and Direction: WeAreOm and AA
Cinematography by David Lee
Music by Mihai Campineanu
Production and Post production by Studioset
Production Manager: Mihai Sofronie
Starring: Dina Rotaru, Costel Bajan, Constantin Bobeiu, Fanel Zainea
Phantom Camera work by SloMoments
Special Effects by Modulab
Many thanks to Sony Proffessional Romania , Bogdan Muresanu

A fluid based scrolling text display.

A long time has passed since I first talked with a friend of mine, Solidox, about controlling solenoid valves and building a similar type of installation.

Now for Rokolectiv festival and with the recent media upheaval from the moderncyberwar/diplomaticscandal involving wikileaks i decided to built this version of a liquid text display which would print news feeds from wikileaks. Working like a text scroll that you see on every news tv station.
Just like the real news gets squeezed through lots of different media channels and gets retransmitted, in this installation the text message as it travels through the tubes gets out of sync and looses it shape, ending up looking like an unrecognizable, unreadable never ending line of morse code and the liquids are collected and reused in a loop.

As for the actual build it was somehow tricky. It took more trials and errors than usual. The valves came two days before the festival, without any fittings. I had to solder them to fit in place. Actualy a day before Rokolectiv i had no ideea if it’s going to work. Another falure came from the valve itself, because I forgot to mention to the kind gentleman from automatic.ro, who gave me the valves, that i’m going to use a paraffin-hydrocarbon based fluid. Which affected the valve sealant, the tubes, all silicon and latex rubber, the plastic glue i was using and some of the skin of my hands. . All that got soaked in the oil eventually got fatigued and brittle. I ended up replacing the valve’s sealant with pieces of rubber that was cut from an engine’s fuel intake. I have to thank my brother for this and for all the help.

One of the fist test once everything was in place.

Installing at MNAC with Mizdan, who helped me with the programming. This is just before we realized that the oil was slowly eating the installation from within.

Test before the festival using red dye.

10x time compression of the very long night in which we made the costumes for DIscoballs.
The outfits wore

presented in the opening act for Faithless in Ciuc Summer Fest 2010.
Made with laser about 30 laser diodes and 10 meters of electroluminescent wire, hot glue, arduino, relays and transistors.

RAPID PROTOTYPING METHOD USING BIOPRINTING

1.Introduction
The project is describing a low-cost and effective method of three dimensional reproduction using the inject propulsion system form a conventional printer, sand and bio Ink.

This printer is using Sporosarcina Pasteuri bacteria as a binder between the sand particles. This bacteria is capable binding together Silicon dioxide particles through the help of Urease Hydrolysis.
When the hydrolysis is taking place in a calcium rich environment, it generates Calcium Carbonate under it's Calcite form. The most stable and hard state of Calcium Carbonate.
For the three dimensional reproduction, the printer will print two dimensional cross-section of the object onto 100-500 micron layers of sand.

A. a small quantity of sand is dispensed by the cylinder in the left compartment.
B. the sand in evenly distributed on the work surface area.
C. the printer head is printing the binder.
And the process repeats it self.


2. Detailed description of the binding process

The hydrolysis of urea by the widely distributed enzyme urease is special in that it is one of the few biologically occurring reactions that can generate carbonate ions
without an associated production of protons. When this hydrolysis occurs in a
calcium-rich environment, calcite (calcium carbonate) precipitates from solution
forming a solid-crystalline material. The binding strength of the precipitated
crystals is highly dependent on the rate of carbonate formation and under suitable
conditions it is possible to control the reaction to generate hard binding calcite
cement (or Biocement). The objective of this thesis was to develop an industrially
suitable cost-effective microbial process for the production of urease active cells
and investigate the potential for urease active cells to act as a catalyst for the
production of Biocement.

3. Project Status

A few images of the prototype. It's still in the test phase but here are the results.

References

- Biosurface engineering through inkjet printing
MohidusSamadKhana, DenieceFonb, XuLia, JunfeiTiana, JohnForsytheb, GilGarniera
- P. Calvert, Inkjet printing for materials and devices, Chemistry of Materials
2001
-Microbial CaCO3 Precipitation fot the production of Biociment

http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/399/1/01Front.pdf

2004
- Bio-Soil Improvement - Soil Interactions
Laboratory http://www.sil.ucdavis.edu/projects-bsi.htm
- Bacteria against desertification - Magnus Larsson http://www.magnuslarsson.com/architecture/dune.asp
2008

Eugen Paul Popescu

ro:3d bioprinter_

A vitual proection screen

Projection mapping

Marker based tracking

but first print this marker for the camera to track and the software to augment, and so on…

Some improv on it:

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Tracking made with ccv
Graphics emotion Particle system
Camera Fire-i with IR bandpass filters
Ir reflector on top to highlight the fish

This is another multitouch interface i made, more on the
MSurface side.

This is a prototype of Tactile i made a few years ago.