"Interactivity” can change the way one experiences art, and it can also change the type of art. The function of interactivity alters the viewer’s position to that of a participant who drives the experience of art. The viewer will become an active participant, and the artist a server, a creator of an interactive system.…like a digital networking system. A system is not a static object, it is a dynamic system reacting to the participant depending on the way the artist created it.

Masaki Fujihata

Chloe will tell us more about this artist, but looks really interesting. He has a couple of books.

looking for a bit of privacy...

After Sid´s post, My little piece of Privacy seems to be a good answer, simple but fun and nice...and moreover...reclaiming some kind of privacy.

A combination workshop and challenge to see who can build the most creative device using only a single button for user interaction. (click image for link)

ALSO:
CALL FOR EXISTING WORKS
Make It Yourself is an exhibition of inventive Arduino and DIY electronic-circuitry projects to accompany the major solo exhibition Recorders by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Manchester Art Gallery between 18 September 2010 and 30 January 2011. Deadline: Monday, 13 September 2010.

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Thinking Through The Body

This is interesting me at the moment. + Sidenote, notice Somaya Langley using the flexible sensors we saw last thursday?

Sonic Wallpaper

i dunno if anyone is interested but i was playing around with a program that visualizes audio [spectrogram] but this one's in real time. It looks a tad retro, but hey.

Anyway I thought it looked like wallpaper. Real time wallpaper. Which you could do, e.g. the walls updating to the sound of people in the room [or sid pissing about on an analogue synth..] Or I dunno, maybe I'll print it out as physical wallpaper for analogue/digital? or something....nah its all been done before - but Somewhere in it there;s a good idea.... i dunno.. i just thought I'd say something... hello!

A project proposal..

I've had a (very technical) project idea in my head for a while + would like to know if anyone is interested in pursuing it with me? I've mentioned it before 2 ppl but don't have a laptop so can't show u how it looks.

The video below is me using sawcutter (a v cool synthesizer). If you see in the top right hand corner, the controller changes the sound in real time. As this has a midi interface I think you could use this via motion tracking - whereby the movements of somebody in a room changes the sound. I've seen someone use this with a theramin (see earlier post). Spatial - audio perception has been done many times before, but it has scope for invention.

You don't have to use this program. Below, I've used the graphical interface for a sketch of the installation. The circle is the person in the room. Basically, the idea is that high tones correspond to space, and low tones correspond to objects. Imagine a large object in the centre, that you are getting nearer and farther away from. All you need here is two audio files playing, and the motion sensor being translated to change the volume of each. Relatively fairly simple.

Any offers - send me an email!

Introduction to openframeworks - for motion tracking

Hopefully people will find this a useful introduction to openframeworks - for motion tracking. I know nothing about programming but there should be plenty of help for beginners out there.


made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo.


Jeff Han's work is useful also- he's collaborated with artists for ars electronica etc. Particularly liked the Media mirror
Ade - that vid you posted of projector callibrating was amazing! Noticed the date was 2004 - wonder if it's been developed yet? Maybe it's because it's in the process of being marketed by microsoft or someone..

P.s. DIVSHARE is a website where you can upload Audio, Video, and also Documents. You can then embed it on another website (see post below for audio) or post a link so people can download the file. Very useful if e.g someone has a tutorial file or video + wants others to access [privately or publicly]. It can then be archived on this blog..... share the knowledge?!

Hi Matt

Hi matt, just 2 let you know I'm still reading the blog! just been busy coz i'm working late shifts..

thanks for that - it's "not my thing" so I wouldn't have looked at it, but I liked it. And in a way it's vaguely similar to the work I'm doing at the moment. Don't you think it's interesting that despite trying to be variant and experimental he still can't get out of the 'old-style' photo colour and the 'old style' furniture etc - which wouldn't have been apparent at the time..

ps. here's something. I just really like the concept - a wooden mirror!

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

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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

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.