Tintin Wulia

trick.

4 December 2014 · by Tintin Wulia · in probings, toyhacking

It is funny how I have just learned something that I have been doing since about a year ago. It has just dawned on me that to open a speaker, generally you should open the grill first. I have done…

Meet toy 5, a cable-controlled truck. Ken and I decided to mux it with toy 6, a baby that gurgles while it crawls on its four little legs. Despite promising to let me do the hacking and problem solving, Ken…

the butterfly generator.

26 March 2012 · by · in angles and shadows, the butterfly generator, toyhacking

The Butterfly Generator (2012) is produced in cooperation with ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, artist-in-residence program of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 and Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong. Many thanks to Lysander…

ark.

14 November 2010 · by · in construction of a window, great wallpaper, invasion, nous ne notons pas les fleurs, the window of contemporary art, wanton

Tintin Wulia: Deconstruction of a Wall, solo show at Ark Galerie, Jakarta. Curated by Alia Swastika. Thanks to Ronald Akili, Jason Gunawan, Putri Ayu. Photos courtesy of the artist, which is me.

blue sky.

18 August 2010 · by · in construction of a window, the window of contemporary art

I love to sit before my window, looking out to the world where art happens: Sketch for The Window of Contemporary Art (2010).

bluish.

23 June 2010 · by · in (re)collection of togetherness, construction of a window, definition, dream, great wallpaper, hands-on thinking, nonsense rhymes

Installation view of the Great Wallpaper series. Photo courtesy of Cemeti Art House/Sari Handayani. When I returned, she was still drawing. On the wall. Why, I asked her. Because it is a wall, she said. But why, I asked…

WOCA.

13 May 2010 · by · in construction of a window, the window of contemporary art

The Window of Contemporary Art (WOCA) a proposal for DICA (Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art) by Tintin Wulia King Midas could turn anything into gold. Rumor had it that he had donkey’s ears. After thinking for donkey’s years, I’ve finally…

construction.

3 January 2010 · by · in angles and shadows, construction of a window, toyhacking

In the morning of new year’s day I pondered, horizontally and from my bed, on how I liked my bedroom window. How it has given me joy, and made me wake up happy. Then I thought I should do a…

powerswitch.

1 January 2010 · by · in toyhacking

“Powerswitch,” reminds me of the Singaporean children’s part in The Adventures of Flo and Kat (2003-2005) project. I have been pondering on it for a while. My hesitation of course had something to do with procrastination and chickening out. Somewhere…

digital analog serial parallel.

23 December 2009 · by · in toyhacking

Last Monday I checked out O’Sullivan and Igoe’s Physical Computing from the library and started reading it earlier today. It’s putting my scattered mind into place. Now I know that toy 1 has digital I/O (input/output) and serial events, toy…

As a result of an auction in Sarah Vanhee's The Great Public Sale of Unrealised But Brilliant Ideas, my bio has become a collective bio:

When they were thirteen, Tintin Wulia and Christiane Berndes wished that Peter Pan would lose his shadow in their neighborhood, because they thought that Peter Pan was kinda sexy. Night after night, they would think a happy thought, wishing that Peter would find them if they could fly. Nothing happened – Tintin and Christiane discovered that Peter had much preferred Wendy.

Three decades later, Tintin and Christiane are still discovering many things. One, that Peter Pan is a fictional character invented by James Matthew Barrie. Two, that the fact that Peter is fictional doesn’t mean that he’s illusory. They are also discovering that, three, it is not a happy thought that one needs to be able to fly – it is, rather, the combination of a passport and a valid visa. And also, four, that the fact that one needs a passport and a valid visa to be able to fly is just shitty.