18
Jun
2009
hand to mouth video
This is a five minute documentary video of first Hand to Mouth event. June 29th, 2008, Meat Market, Melbourne.
It was organised by Boo Chapple and Adele Varcoe, and when I get a bit longer to gush about how amazing it was, i’ll tell more. In the meantime, look here!
8
Jan
2009
mushroom carpark
I just found a piece of my work published on the VEIL website!
It’s a proposal to reuse multistory carparks as mushroom farms until they are demolished and replaced with something more usefull than inner city parking.
There is more detail on the VEIL site about the project.
“The Mushroom Carpark” – Ben Doherty
This exploration offers an innovative approach to redesigning car parking stations into transitionary resources which could be used for mushroom production. Ben suggests that in the short-term future there will be reduced car use due to high fuel prices and the subsequent uptake of car-sharing schemes and cycling. The ensuing reduction of car use will provide a new wasted space – car parks.
4
Dec
2008
Genetic algorithms lecture
Here are the slides from my talk at UTS last Thursday at the generative components university program show case, about genetic algorithms. The slides don’t make a huge amount of sense on their own, but if you were there, it might jog your memory.
The talk was filmed, and I’ve been promised that it’ll show up on Google video at some point in the future if you want to see what I have to say about blind darts playing pirates and their relevance to heuristic algorithms.
Acrobat butchered some of the text when I exported, but otherwise it’s all fine. There are 2 live demos that aren’t in there, but they’ll show up in the video and I’ll publish the code soon.
19
Nov
2008
gc university showcase in sydney
The culmination of this semester’s hard work from all the students that have been involved in the current incarnation of the Generative Components university program will be at UTS on the 27th and 28th of this month (November)So far it’s shaping up to be a fascinating 2 days, mainly because unlike last time, I won’t be the main presenter!!
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers from LAB, Arup, Woods Baggot, University of Sydney and a few others TBC.The first day will be presentations of the work that the five universities have produced this semester (nearly all of it very very impressive, and I’m grumpy cynical these days). So that’s work from UTS, QUT, university of Queensland, university of Melbourne and Auckland university. Read the rest of this entry »
13
Nov
2008
dda models
this is a collection of the pics i took yesterday at the crits. i’ll do a full post when i’ve had a look through the work properly after the show tonight!