Here is a short video that my friend Sean Donnelly made for Time Video. It is an interview with Megan Prelinger of the Prelinger Archives in San Francisco. She talks about the reciprocal relationship between the evolution of our technology … Continue reading →

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I know that this blog is dedicated to highlighting artwork and related topics. Nevertheless, I feel that situations like Fukushima and the multiple revolutions & wars being waged all over the planet are precisely the things that we should be … Continue reading →

The rebels in Libya have been transforming various mechanic shops and work spaces in their cities into weapons facilities to fight Gadaffi’s forces. Two things come to mind when I watch this video. The first is how similar this seems … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago sculptor Katherine Dewey pulled me deeper into my latest obsession with this photo of her latest sculpture. The catch?  It’s not clay but a digital rendering–an image of a computerized 3D model that Dewey created in a program called ZBrush.  The program excels at both hard surface modeling and organic sculpting.  It’s [...]

The work of Pe Lang
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I’ve got some ideas for kinetic sculptures involving genetic algorithms. The specifics of of the sculptures are still in flux, and I’m waiting to see which ideas gel.  In the meantime, however, I’ve started build a code base to begin to see what I can do with GA.  Here is one of the [...]

My friend and former classmate from the Maine College of Art, Vivian Beer, was written up in the American Craft Magazine this week.
Check it out.

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Each year all of the finishing grad students at SFSU give a brief public talk about the work they made.
Here is mine:

MFA Thesis Talk 2011 from Benjamin Carpenter on Vimeo.

   Contemplation, Reflection, and Refreshment 16 Chris Morring, Operor Vos Sentio Tutus? Archival Pigment Print 36 x 44 inches 2011 It’s Spring, and the month of May, and commencement time rolls around, once again — which means an opportunity … Continue reading →

I installed this piece for my MFA Thesis show. It expresses the growth of our population in three layers of sound.
Video still to come.

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Come see me at Noise Bridge Hacker Space (2169 Mission St. SF) next Thursday @ 8pm for their monthly Five Minutes Of Fame lecture series. I’ll be speaking about making the transition into the the world of interactivity as a … Continue reading →

Come see me at Noise Bridge Hacker Space next Thursday @ 8pm for their monthly Five Minutes Of Fame lecture series. I’ll be speaking about making the transition into the the world of interactivity as a maker of static objects. … Continue reading →