Eye of the Sand was featured in the Campus Exhibition at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria as part of the SENSE_ERR exhibition by the NYUAD Interactive Media program. The festival recorded more than 122,000 visitors and we had a huge number of visitors to our exhibition. Congratulations to all the Read more…
Desert Media Art’s participation in Dubai Design Week was highlighted by local newspapers Al Etihad and Al Khaleej
Desert Media Art participated in Dubai Design Week 2024 in the Dubai Design District. The exhibition of Desert Media Art at Dubai Design Week featured three electronic artworks designed for the Abu Dhabi desert. Dunewind Resonator consisted of electronic sound sculptures that turned a dune into a musical instrument. The Oasis included robotic lotus Read more…
Behind the scenes photos of the Desert Media Art Fall 2023 field installation in the Abu Dhabi desert. Four great electronic artworks were installed for the day. Videos coming soon!
MacOS Sonoma (as of Oct 30, 2023) has a bug that causes delays to writes to certain CircuitPython boards. Writes to the virtual filesystem on the CircuitPython are delayed by approximately 5-30 seconds, which causes strange errors, particularly with autoreload enabled. If your code doesn’t run immediately after saving and Read more…
The area known as Abu Dhabi Desert Road offers an interesting look at the movement of the dunes and the interaction of human construction and desert wildlife. The dunes have been blowing across the road and the fixed reference makes their shape more visible. The irrigated and planted areas at Read more…
Dunewind Resonator by Michael Ang, Scott Kildall, and Tegan Ritz McDuffie is a set of electronic sound sculptures that transform a sand dune into a musical instrument that responds to the wind. The five wind-activated sculptures that compose Dunewind Resonator were installed at the top of a sand dune in Read more…
The Desert Media Art class of 2022 installed their final projects in the desert! We worked out in the dunes for a few hours before and after sunset. Each group installed their project and took some documentation that will be used for online videos and their final installation at the Read more…
Typical NeoPixels have LEDs which each have three colours: red, green, and blue. RGBW NeoPixels have four LEDs per pixel: red, green, blue, and white. Why add an extra white LED? Can’t we make white just by mixing red, green, and blue? Since “white” isn’t a colour by itself, but Read more…
NeoPixels are LEDs that can be programmed to show specific colors. They are connected serially, allowing long chains of them to be easily controlled. You connect the first NeoPixel to a data output from your CircuitPython board, and each additional LED is connected in a chain. Pre-wired strips, rings, and Read more…