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Artist David Bowen continues his explorations into a networked world (See: tele-present water) with his latest project Fly Tweet that enables a swarm of common houseflies to speak via Twitter.The flies live inside an acrylic sphere containing a standard computer keyboard and as they...

Although static in its display the Plunge Project by artist Michael Pinsky is a colorful example of using civic space and data to engage the public in a conversation by showing Londoners what their city and landmarks will look like when covered by the...

Natural Fuse is a project developed in 2009 by Haque Design + Research as part of the Architectural League of New York's Exhibition, "Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City" that harnesses the natural carbon-capturing processes of plants as they grow, and uses it in...

These 10 networked art projects show the many ways that using real-time data like weather, pollution sensors, wave monitoring and all the other outputs that are streaming around us can be used to visualize and engage our environment in new ways. 1) eCLOUD...

Instaprint is a networked photobooth designed by Brookly based design firm Breakfast that hunts within Instagrams service looking for specific hastags or locations. If it finds a public photo that matches the parameters that you have set on the backend it will automatically take...

Pulling in data from the National Digital Forecast Database Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg at Hint.Fm have put together a near real-time mapping visualization project of US wind speed and direction. Information for the map is revised once per hour so you are seeing...

Res Sapiens a project by Pieke Bergmans & LUSTlab features common desk lamps connected to the internet. The 13 lamps were exhibited in Milan recently where they used a "continuous stream of (public) digital data and information as...

David Bowen's project Tele-Present installation is beginning to show how art and real-time environmental data can be merged. This installation draws information from movement and intensity of the water in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data buoy station 46075 in the...

Calling itself an "exercise in interface archaeology" the Tworse Key is a portable device created by Martin Kaltenbrunner that interprets your taps and outputs the final message via the Twitter API. It is connected to the internet...

James Bridle as the closing keynote from this year's Web Directions South conference gave his talk titled "Waving at the Machines" speaking about the New Aesthetic. "So what I’m going to...

Developed by Jarashi Suki and the IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group in 2009, the tiles themselves set out to visualize invisible networks physically with electronic devices like dominoes (reminiscent of the Timo Arnall's Touch Project).The piece won an award-winning at the 14th Japan Media...

Last September in San Francisco Facebook held its annual developer conference F8. Creative agency Obscura Digital added a little spice to the event with their interactive physical installation constructed from participants Facebook social graph data they dubbed...