A clever piece of art that is actually fetching a decent price on ebay.
If you want the piece of art, you bid for it. Part of the deal is that you have to plug it in to your network once you take it home. Once that happens, the piece puts itself back on auction again to be resold to the next highest bidder. Read more about it at the artist’s site.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments.
Wikihow has a tutorial.
A couple of DIY Ultimate Machines inspired by Claude Shannon. These machines consist of a box and a switch. You flip the switch and the box opens. A hand emerges and flips the switch back to its original position.
There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing — absolutely nothing — except switch itself off.
Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress)
2008
Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches)
The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine’s mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box.
Designs on foam cups done with a sharpie pen.
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