Installations (in galleries etc)
August 21, 2016 — July 13, 2019
computers are awful
diy
making things
A couple of useful links on installing a computer in a gallery/museum/interactive public digital artwork, probably a little computer. (I’m currently installing Oliver Kreylos’s SARndbox for a client, so I need to step up my professionalism.)
If you are doing this for non-3D graphics, you may want a little computer.
1 Robust OS config
2 Kiosk mode
Building an Ubuntu PC in Kiosk mode
#!/bin/bash
# Launch Chromium in Kiosk with specified URL
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --kiosk --app="http://localhost:8080/" --host-rules="MAP * localhost:8080”or there is an extension - what does this get us in addition?
openframe is an open-source app that turns a device into a kiosk-mode what-have-you.