{"id":1284,"date":"2007-05-28T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T14:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2009-04-10T20:18:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T00:18:01","slug":"u-ram-choe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"U-Ram Choe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"310\" height=\"255\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dP2cqiB536Q\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dP2cqiB536Q\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"310\" height=\"255\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I found this yesterday, but I&#8217;m glad I did. The above video shows a kinetic sculpture titled &#8220;Ultima Mudfox&#8221; by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uram.net\/\">U-Ram Choe<\/a> which went on display late last year at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitforms.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=71&#038;Itemid=91#id=69&#038;num=1\">bitforms gallery in New York City (Link)<\/a>. The videographer also posted a second video showing another piece titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QG2MmvCLKuA\">&#8220;Echo Navigo&#8221; (Link)<\/a>, and Make: magazine has a pair of videos available as well (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vUtB7L32yVo\">Link 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0DIzM5Vzr5c\">Link 2<\/a>).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nLooking through U-ram&#8217;s portfolio, I couldn&#8217;t help but relate &#8220;Echo Navigo&#8221; to my own segmented, ceramic bonefish pieces from my student days, and the &#8220;Net Plant Project&#8221; to a few industrial design concepts I&#8217;ve seen through the years (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukemagazine.duke.edu\/alumni\/dm28\/style.html\">Zuzu&#8217;s Petals<\/a> by Herbst Lazar Bell, and work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermanmiller.com\/CDA\/SSA\/Designer\/0,1597,a10-c80-b2,00.html\">Ayse Birsell<\/a>, the individual most responsible for the design of the interactive system used by Tom Cruise&#8217;s character in the film &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0181689\/\">Minority Report<\/a>&#8220;; check out &#8220;Resolve&#8221; on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birselplusseck.com\/\">design firm&#8217;s website &#8211; Link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Fun, inspiring stuff. Especially as I&#8217;m wrapping my head around some of the electrical engineering concepts that power these sorts of sculptures. I wonder, how much of this could I (easily) prototype inside a virtual space?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I found this yesterday, but I&#8217;m glad I did. The above video shows a kinetic sculpture titled &#8220;Ultima Mudfox&#8221; by artist U-Ram Choe which went on display late last year at the bitforms gallery in New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1284\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}