CIA World Factbook: Phonebooth Edition

Custom hardware for agents on the go

“In the Penal Colony”

Written by Franz Kafka, transcribed by robot.

Semi-Automatic Chalkboard

Precise modular plywood parts cut by laser.

Work

Hollowgraphy Machine

Semi-Automatic Chalkboard

From the 2012 UMBC Imaging and Digital Arts MFA Thesis Show, February ...

CIA World Factbook Phonebooth Edition

The Antioch Papers

A website of more than 9000 pages of leaked and discovered documents ...

Critical response

…a spectacular hybridization of open source technology and sculpture.  This exhibit would be a showstopper in any major museum in the country, but I’m viewing it in a derelict downtown storeroom…

– Bruce Adams - http://www.buffalospree.com/Buffalo-Spree/June-2012/Buffalos-actuelle-garde/

Noble’s work is technically complex, much of it based on open-source circuitry and/or programming that he has modified for his own purposes… a show not to be missed.

– Andrea Appleton - http://citypaper.com/arts/visualart/em-imaging-and-digital-arts-mfa-thesis-exhibition-em-1.1268411

The idea of an automatic blackboard seems kind of ancient and sinister, and this one is exceedingly well done.

– John De Cristofaro - https://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/03/18/semi-automatic-chalkboard/

…an inspiring example of the power of open source technology…

– Makerbot - www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/03/16/artist-thinks-outside-the-makerbox-and-we-love-it/