Fill me in!

Hi all,

Sorry I couldn't be there yesterday, I had to go to a funeral in London. I sent Andrea an email but I am unsure if she recieved it. Is the post about yesterday's minutes below all that I missed? I would appreciate if someone could let me know if anything important was missed as don't want to be out the loop! Thanks :)

See you around soon,

Sophie

Don't have time next week to get any work done, so thought I'd do some today instead. Quickly filmed tops of buildings a la katy and messed about with it, sped it up, put several screens together, so you end up with a dynamic shape that can be moved about. VERY rough video, but if you use ur imagination you get an idea (oh, and ignore any subliminal swastikas):



I think it was thomson/ thomas cook that did a series of ads on busstops where a country was shown like a world (extreme fish-eye view) with its landmark on top. Can't find a picture, but if anyone remembers? Also, anyone remember the car advert on E4 - red car that split up into computer-squares + lines?

You could also see how this can be incorporated into steve's motion-traker program? How about the video moving as fast as people walking through the building? Or the shape getting bigger when you move towards it?

Thursday 29 Oct - Minutes

Temporary.
Ideas:
Spyros - Krank, speed up slow down, playing with medium to create this slick advertisemtn look. - Adding an animated character, or quite simply something so tie all the threads of our work.

Katy- Manovich's split screens, incorporating different stills and footage in a random sequence on one projection so that it doesn't become repetitive and creates different relationships.

Steve- Interface linked with interaction. Movement in the space changes and manipulates the selection of footage or stills.

Sid- Projecting two screens across from each other. Creating a more conceptual space for interaction that doesn't need sensors or much hi-tech attention.

AIMS:
Can everyone bring in content for next thursday!! with the topics/themes:
- The City
- Movement/Motion
- Time
- Colour/Black and White

Please generate some images and footage for next week that link to these topics!
- Its all about bringing stuff in and starting to play. Then once we get an idea of what we are interested in individually we can maybe break into groups and start focusing on different areas.

- Have a think about some more permanent ideas for the space as well.

Things to keep in mind and that also need research!
- Site permission, what can we actually do on princess street.
- Cost for equipment, will it be sponsored, what are we looking at using?

Right thats all, hope it all seems right.

Mat.the.w

This was being shown over in york last weekend. people draw something using a home-made interface + then you can move the drawings around.

Tagtool

Hint

And a hint given from a friend that successfully manages an interesting blog about contemporary and media arts. It would be more helpful and easier for the categorization of posts in the blog if we added tags to our posts that would direct us to each subject.
See ya today!

Motion Tracking and Capturing Brain Activity

These are two videos that I found and are actually really interesting each one for different reasons. We can actually discuss more about them today :)


Interactive Art: Playing with Light-Camille Utterback

NeuroCinema-MindSign Neuromarketing

Contact Theatre: View Event

check this out - a sound residency on our doorstep.
Contact Theatre: View Event

liverpool design symposium‏

http://www.liverpooldesignsymposium.com/
who's up for a trip to Liverpool

Points to Think about.

Here is a brief layout of what me and AD thought we should focus on for creating the temporary installations:

General
- Set Goals
- Time Management

Sections
- Interface (eg Carousel, Last FM layout)
- Content (eg Photos, videos, documentation of all our previous work)
- Technical (What are we using technology wise)

Do we want this up in a week so we can then focus on working on something more permanent and interesting? - Main thing is to keep it simple and work get something in the space soon as.

Looking forward to seeing you all on thursday.

Mat.the.w

Thursday 22 Oct - Minutes

52 Princess

Temporary Installation.
- Focusing on a unique interface to display/showcase our work in the foyer.
- A screen saver type display
- Steve: Carousel interface
- Florin: Table with notebooks that can be opened with viewing of videos and photos inside.
- Sid: Interaction between two screens facing each other inside the foyer.
- Spyros: The layout of Last FM's CD casees that spin 360
- Katy: Mirror spinning projection over the walls.
- We want to make someting informative, slick, but in someway subversive and not run of the mill.
- Slapstick Advertisement - playing with a satirical advertisement.
- Creating an intercae then playing with it possible content.
- What can our content be.

I hope this is helpful - its a quick run down.
By the way katy i lost your number, could you repeat it for me again pls.

See you all soon!

Matthew

Good, ill see you at the media Lab around 4:30 then right? Anyonelse up for it?

52 Tuesday

yes I am up for that, meet in the lab after 4.30?
how do we add comments to a post?

52 tomorrow?

Hey there. right i am up for meeting tomorrow after 4:30 if you want. Anyone else down with that? Ill get the notes from last weeks meeting up in a short while today. Im very sorry for the delay, ive been in Nottingham and its not been easy to find time! See peoples tomorrow then???

Matthew

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I got time next monday or tuesday after 4.30 if anybody is doing anything re 52
Can't totally remember what was said......... as things is a bit hazey today.
have a good weekend
ade

projections. sensors, sculpture

Dear all, here is some footage I dug up from just messing about with shapes. It's a fairly simple idea - two circles that I transformed /morphed according to random keypoints. I thought about it when we were at 52 as we mentioned motion-tracking- what if we could find a way of translating these changes to the movements of an individual/ group of people? I know there are programs that allow you to edit 'live'. This is only a sketch, and we could use different shapes, colours- anything u like really. Never mind the 'twitches', I wanted it glitchy at the time.




Untitled from Sid Volter on Vimeo.


Also, sorry to ramble, but I found this diy : very simple idea but pretty, adds a sculptural element, and also fits into the analogue-digital theme:





256 wires suspended, projector projecting horizontally to correspond with them. Personally I think it would be too frustrating + fiddly - you have to register the pixels with each wire. Eek! Search 'wiremap' and theres loads of tutorials on how to make one, and the code is open-source! People are doing all sorts of things with the idea, including moving 3d objects - a bit like a hologram.

52: Media Artists

Hello one and all,

Ive been doing some reasearch into artists that work with sensors and projections and i stumbled acrossed these two british artists called KMA. Heres a link to one of their pieces in Liverpool. They were actually "Abandom normal devices" festival that i think andrea said is comming to manchester nezt year. Take a look, very hi-tech, but beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMaz2SjgP1E

By the way me and Spyros are meeting in the Media Lab at 2 today to braintstorm, come along if you can find the time.

Mat.the.w

52

I have droped off a disk of the images and 360 into the lab.

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I've got the 'lurgy' so I couldn't make it in .. I didn't think you'd want to be contaminated, now I've missed loads of stuff :/ Any chance of a brief update anyone? Thanks for the blog Spyros - I got inspired by the David Shrigley shorts on your other page.

First Post

Wer-hoo, Sid gets the first post!
Thanks a lot Spyros, I think this will be a great way of keeping up to date on things.
Thought I'd mention this, if anyone's interested:

http://www.meetnorth.com/rule-of-thirds/

A series of talks on 31st October in Ulverston, as part of the AND thing going on round here

"It's a one day gathering of creative thinkers to discuss the impact of digital culture on the creative workflow, and explore the exciting, developing opportunities for how we create, communicate and collaborate."