skyrail

(collective) Boredomresearch

skyrail , 2006 – ongoing

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Last updated: 2010-10-02

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boredomresearch skyrail

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Description

Have fun creating your own weird and wonderful machines:
click & drag the centre of the component to change size & location. click the 'go' button to watch your machine's mechanics in action, leaving its own trail. click the 'build' button to create a different machine.
click & release the centre of the component to access the tool wheel.
click the 'save' button so the next user can access your machine.
click the 'load' button to see the last machine saved.
click & release a toggle to select an option. Drag toggle around the circle to change the components properties. Then click toggle again to set a property.
Sky-rail has been commissioned by the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, project managed by Cywaith Cymru, Artworks Wales and supported by the National Centre of Computer Animation, Bournemouth University.

Keywords

genres
- bioart
- digital animation

technology
- software
  - software interfaces

Technology & Material

Interface

Sky-rail manifests as a biological timepiece built with the production values of early watchmakers whose skills were translated to the creation of automata, (mechanical lifeforms driven by cogs.) Here these intricacies of engineering are translated to the computer with the tiny cogs and chains replaced by computational mechanisms.

Exhibitions & Events

El proceso como paradigma

2010

Bibliography

Boredomresearch. »Snail Mail Gets Literal.« Time Magazine 172, no. 5 (August 2008).
Boredomresearch. »The Wired Campus: Real Snail Mail.« The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 2008).
Boredomresearch. »Real Snail Mail Slashdot.« Slashdot (Online) (June 2008).
Boredomresearch. »Real Snail Mail Slashdot.« Slashdot (Online) (June 2008).
Brucker-Cohen, Jonah. »Real Snail Mail Turns Email into Slower Email.« .
Boredomresearch. »NETworking Net Art.« In Computer Fine Art Collection, edited by Illana Tenenbaum and Christiane Paul, 20. Haifa: Haifa Museum of Art, 2007.
Boredomresearch. »Eternity´s Sun Rise.« In Tumbling Dream Chambers Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Paul BrownBerlin: [DAM] Berlin, 2007.
Boredomresearch. »RealSnailMail.« .
Boredomresearch. »Faustian Bargains and Pineapple Shampoo.« Metamute.org/Mute (January 2007).
Boredomresearch. »Theatre of Restless Automata review on boredomresearchs' solo exhibition at Peterborough Digital Arts.« furtherfield.org website (2006).
Boredomresearch. Freefall, Arts Council England international artists fellowships 2001-2003. : Arts Council England, 2004.
Boredomresearch. »New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004 .« In New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004, edited by Lucy KimbellManchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2004.

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