update to 'motion tracking is officially commercial'


The Microsoft Kinect was hacked rather quickly it seems, and ladyada have put up a site guide here, if anybody feels up to it!

two monitors; one playing encrypted video, the other translating to midi via movement & lightest area

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.

CLICK HERE FOR LINK

Zoomings- Mandelbrot + Deep Space

3-D Mandelbrot (infinite fractal) Open source, see here

Somewhat similar to Ars Electronia / FutureLab, 'Deep Space' project:

DEEP SPACE - OVERVIEW from Ars Electronica on Vimeo.

MEDIA ART DISCUSSION PODCASTS:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/gene-pool-podcast/id146401838

A possible future useful resource

a possible future useful resource, based in manchester. bin told they're quite helpful:

arch+ways is a service dedicated to small arts organisations, new start ups, artist led projects, individuals and community organisations. We help creative people and groups successfully deliver their projects, secure additional funding and raise awareness through press and media coverage.

LINK

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!

Packet Garden

Packet Garden. Grow a world from network traffic.

Drawdio+Next Nature

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

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.