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Posted by Cefn on 08 October 2005 | 2 Comments
Finished a very dumb little processing app, but my first and quite pleased with how much you can do with so little code.
It’s inlined in the blog if you click ‘more’ below but if this doesn’t work, try here to go direct to the webpage with the embedded applet generated by processing.
Based on what I’ve seen processing can do, I think I might start on hell in a handcar using video support (dynamo, lightbulb, isight, and let’s go to birmingham - I’m sure you can all imagine the arrangement). Then I’ll move on to the pipedreams thing using Sonia.
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Posted by Dave on 05 October 2005 | 4 Comments
We’ve talked a fair bit about different ways you can use a camera feed to interact with a piece -
PIXEL SNOW is a nice example from Francis Lam (MIT, Media Lab) using Processing, as are the projects at www.setpixel.com.
The new version of Flash (version 8) allows you to embed interactive pieces into webpages which is very cool - if you have a webcam, install the new flash and look here.
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Posted by akopa on 04 October 2005 | 2 Comments
Still working on paper sculptures. This is an idea for lamp-nest. The photo doesn’t give too much detail, but the whole piece is made out of shredded documents. I need to consider some structural moments, like not setting the world on fire . . .
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Posted by akopa on 03 October 2005 | 1 Comments
Just saw an interesting installation in Boston at Patricia Doran Graduate Gallery. It was a one-day installation by Jessica Gath.
The only material used was salt.
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Posted by akopa on 30 September 2005 | 0 Comments
News from Boston: today was an amazing opening of collision 8 “El Ocho”, lots of mad technology, and surface video sculpture stuff. I think Jeff Lieberman and Andy Zimmermann stood out. Would try to come back in a day light and document some of it.
Of course if you are in Boston, stop by. See link above!
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Posted by Cefn on 30 September 2005 | 1 Comments
Here are a bunch of fun links related to [Dave’s?] video portrait montage idea.
The idea roughly is to gather an image of the person viewing the artwork, and then generate a matching image out of lots of webcam images taken from around the rest of the gallery. If this could be done in real time, it would create a shifting mass of funky real-time video stuff.
Anyway, here are the links…
http://www.ofb.net/~wtanaka/projects/dcent/ Playful
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/ Tagging - nice
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~michaelt/juggle/ Dave’s original link
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Posted by Orange on 28 September 2005 | 6 Comments
I made an amazing wind generator from really basic things. really quick. most exciting is it’s working and producing electricity. Maybe someone would be interested. picture is coming… 
Here’s the picture: 
Does not look nice but remember:
- it took only two hours to make it
- it’s working
- it’s producing electricity!
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Posted by akopa on 28 September 2005 | 2 Comments
There are a few experiments I did recently: surreal paper tower. I thought it might be of interest as an interactive piece, it can be horizontal tunnel-tower, and the amount of windows-doors-openings is up to the visitors with light changing accordingly.
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Posted by akopa on 28 September 2005 | 0 Comments
My techno peice “Remote Intimacy” is shown at the Boston gallery. It is a gigantic blanket, a combination of iChat windows printed on vellum sewn by threads.
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Posted by Cefn on 28 September 2005 | 0 Comments
There’s a meeting tonight at the Spinney 8pm 28th September 2005.
We’ve got lots of exhibit ideas already documented, many not yet up on the site which I’ve heard from participants face to face, and I’m sure a lot more will come by playing with hardware and materials.
Agenda fairly open but seems to me the main thing is to decide on a series of events, dates and activities to get our hands dirty with building things…
It would be natural for breakaway, project -specific groups to include people who can’t make the Weds meetings. There’s a few lurkers who have never made it to the get-togethers, but seriously want to get involved.
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