Color gun

I really like enjoyed this piece because it raises a lot of questions and ideas of what can be done with interactive arts. The fact that they are using a Wiimote as part of the gun brings up the marketing value. With a lot of these interactive arts, it always brings up that this could be perfected and marketed into a interactive video game. I think people could really push some of there interactive art pieces to make it even more interactive, with even plots and more elaborate sets. This is also pretty entertaining too.

Mircocontroller Course

I thought this video was pretty cool. I liked how you can control the lights and how fast the lights go. I also definitely thought the arrangement of colors was pretty awesome. I think it would have been even more great if the controller was hooked up through some kind of instrument that when you played it, the lights would move. Or even if you had it hooked up somehow to a senored wall, that if you threw something at the wall, the lights would move.
-Lori McDermott

LED dj Panel LED lighting panel LED light box

I'm also not sure how involved we will get with hardware. I chose this video because I would like to produce an artwork similar to this. The control of the leds is geometrically calculated and hue control. Gaining the knowledge to produce , or understand, an artwork like this one is what I'm eager to experience.

Daniel Shiffman - Voronoi, Responsive Visualisation 2007

This piece reminded me a lot of the other works we've been looking at. It manipulates an image taken by camera by morphing it visually into a type of mosaic. ( I supposed this is called a Voronoi diagram). It's appealing to look at the ever-changing tiles, making the work successful ing being entertaining. I always love pieces that have cameras that involve the onlookers. It makes something digital more personal and relatable. 

Robotic Fish

I don't what kind of circuit work we're going to be doing in class, but I found this video to be pretty interesting. It's a robotic fish engineered by scientists at Essex University in the UK. The fish is put in a special tank full of water and actually swims around very convincingly. All of its movement is controlled completely independently thanks to special sensors it possesses. The video didn't mention what kind of internal programming the fish has, so I don't have any idea what was used. It did remind me of some of the examples of PD & other similar programs we've seen that responded to stimuli via sensors (whether they were touch or merely motion of some sort). This video is also satisfying in that it shows the completed version of the fish with jeweled scales, as well as a stripped version that allows the viewer to see what kind of internal skeleton controls it.

Impress by Silke Hilsing

The artist created this flexible display to break away from the "stiffness and coldness" of touch-screen technology. the display is made up of foam and sensors which are sensitive to pressure. there are four different applications built in that allow you to explore and play with different object types. It kind of reminds me off some of the graphic animations i've seen in PD. I think its pretty cool, not mind-blowing. I can hardly tolerate touch-screen and this would annoy me.


impress - flexible display from Sillenet on Vimeo.

16 pillars

An interactive installation using both sound and light, a 2006 piece from Dutch media artist Daan Brinkmann. It reacts to motion, so you don't have to even touch it; if you watch the video to the end, even a dog rolling around in front of it gets a reaction out of the wall of lights. The sounds seem at least somewhat calculated so as not to be a random cacophony, and I like that the lights change with a range of colors, rather than only having two options (ON or OFF, or RED or BLUE). I'm not sure what it is that senses the motion...I think the dark circles at the bottom are speakers. Nice, elegant, and simple nonetheless...this should be installed facing out of a downtown storefront window or something, I'd love to see the reactions of random pedestrians.

Interactive Neuro LED Mirror

I thought this was one of the most interesting displays that I've ever seen. It detects motion and transcribes it onto multiple and small LED displays, then uses those coordinates to map out an outline of your body. As you can see in the video, there are many adjustments to change the effect of the LEDs. Definitely a favorite.

Marcos Weskamp's interactive art

I've been exploring the work of data visualization artists and found some interactive 'sketches' by Marcos Weskamp. These are simple but elegant building blocks, and you can spend a lot of time just playing with one 200x200 pixel square. I couldn't figure out how to embed a java doc so the picture posted here is static, but the title link will take you to the page with the interactive work. You should all remember his piece "Newsmap", which Drew showed us in class. If you haven't taken the time to explore all the links off of the reading assignment he gave us on week 4, you should - it's well worth the time.

Electroplankton Experiment #1 with PD Pure Data Software

The amount of collected data that is stored caught my attention. It seems that the software records the strokes and then acts them out. Real time with room for multiple enactment of the interaction. I would like o be introduced to a feature like this. The graphics were good, using characters, but i think they were a little too much. It's great to see just to visualize the possibilities (since we see a lot of linear object in a lot of examples.)

PD guitar

This is probably one of the coolest things I've seen done with PD. It's stuff like this that make a little more sense as to why PD was created. I knew PD could make use of your web cam but I'm not sure what the kid was wearing on his fingers and how PD picked up on it's movements. Although the sound was a little harsh I could definitely see this perfected and even marketed as some sort of new game. It would be fun as hell, it's like an in between guitar hero and playing an actual guitar.

pd accelerometer (drumming by dancing)

I thought that this clip was really interesting so i decided to blog it. In this video the user moves and the computer turns the physical motion in to drum beats through a drum machine. The video is similar in ways to the dancing with interactive sound video we saw in class. The main difference is in this video the product of the motion is drums instead of recorded sound. I wish i had one of these.

Circuit Bending: Galaga Remix

This is a video of a video game hack. It is based off of an old arcade game, and a remote control is used to control the performance. Interaction with the remote control short circuits aspects of the video game. The end result is an altered display of the original game where the visual feed is scrambled and the audio is sampled in different ways, creating other sorts of noise and sound effects. The video also shows the performer creating the alterations; the visual is projected on top of him, making him seem as though he is an integrated part of the piece.

There are additional videos and stills on this piece at the provided link.

Light responsive objects using Arduino

LightResponsiveDevice from Brian Degger on Vimeo.

Doesn't look like much, but I like the simple stuff. Gives me hope for my future success, as it were...if I can figure this out, I should be good, right?

These lights respond to each other, and create feedback loops. Three colored lights on the "floor" respond to a pair of white lights attached to moving arms, and it seems as though the movement of the arms is in response to the flickering of the lights below. Which influences the colored lights. Which, in turn, continues to affect the movement of the white lights, and so on.

What's weird is how oddly similar this looks to what I've got so far in my Pd project. Colored balls, jerky movements and blinky lights...only this one is in physical space.

From the artist's blurb about his mini-residency with ISIS Arts:
"Dr. Brian Degger is a new media artist and interdisciplinary researcher, with a doctorate in biotechnology.

His investigations (speculative research) occur in the artscience domain (i.e. Biological art, kinetic sculptures and robotics), where artworks are also an open ended experiment. During his mini-residency he was researching interspecies communication, and building devices that communicate with each other using light and movement. The devices were exhibited during CONNECTING PRINCIPLE 08 - DIALOGUE (13-14th November, Newcastle University)."

Brian Degger's blog

Oh yeah, Beth = Bonnie, thx.

Gary Butcher video for "City Port" by Eric Wahlforss

This is a very nice video of audio/video integration. The video was apparently made in Adobe AfterEffects. It looks like it makes heavy use of Lissajous curves being created from various portions of the audio (though I could be way off on this). You can use this sort of method to play around in PD by having oscillators (functions) manipulate the (x,y) coordinates of a point in the gemwin.


Forss - City Ports from Eric Wahlforss on Vimeo.

Here's a much simpler example of Lissajous curves using audio. This is a modular synthesizer plugged into the inputs of an oscilloscope set to X/Y (or Lissajous) mode. You can see the change in audio relate directly to the change in the image.

visual recital

I thought this particular piece was pretty cool. I like how the sound audio controls the different images on the screen. I think it portrays a very cool image of using audio in artwork. It relates to our class by using pure data and incorporating sound into the fact.

Pure Data Advanced Particle Effects

When I first saw this, I originally thought it was made with some advanced visual software, like Adobe Dreamweaver or Flash. I was amazed when I found out it was made from PD/Gem. The effects are spectacular, and the movement and flow of the piece inspires me to work on more difficult concepts and strategies. This piece caught my attention immediately because of its consistent speed and constantly changing window.

Audiovisual Installation

Watch Mogens Jacobsen audiovisual installation | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

I found this to be related to some of the videos we have been watching in class regarding computers searching a database for specific information, which we ask the computer to search, and in turn giving us some kind of sound or visual interpretation of that information. This of course could also pertain to the mouse record patch, where we are telling the computer to record our interaction with the computer's mouse and then spitting that information out using sound or visual interpretations.

~Evan Behmer

Daito Manabe: Electro Stimulus2Face Test(2)

I came across the artist/programmer, Daito Manabe, from Tokyo. don't exactly know the mechanics behind this but i can figure this much; that the attached sensors sends some type of message between the computer and his face resulting in...music. his other stuff is pretty neat

Interactive Art

I thought this piece was really cool. It showed how the light follows the people around and shows their reaction. It reminded me of our assignment of us looking around on the web and the patch recording the mouses movement. I also thought it was really interesting how it uses webcams for the installation. Also, thought it was cool because it targets 1 main person and when the people tried to change it up, it still only followed the one person.

-Lori McDermott

interactive computer graphics

I found this to be a good blog post because its nature as an interactive installation. We have seen several videos in this class about interactive art and computer graphics so I figured this would be nice to show. To interact with this exhibit one must wave their hand in the depth field of the camera. The information is then sent to the projection which captures and renders it in a 3-dimensional fashion on a 2-dimensional projector screen. This installation i found to be very interesting despite the rather short video clip.

Interactive art with wooden mirrors

It is amazing how wood was used as a medium to project the image of the sensor with the play of light. Wood dos not come to mind when I think of projecting light, one of the reasons why this interactive art gabbed my interest.

Sparkfun RGB LED with Serial Control

This is a video of a cube with LED lights that is controlled by a program created through Python. I remembered Python was mentioned in class last week because it is a program very similar to PD Gem. This video is particularly interesting because the creator shows how changing the color in the program on the computer corresponds to the change in the cube that you are watching. The uploader also mentioned it contains a Propeller Chip, which is said, "makes it easy to rapidly develop embedded applications" on the uploader's linked site, parallax.com/propeller. It notes this chip is also useful to hobbyists and robot builders. I found this video very interesting to be able to see what a program like PD can do in real time to an object.

Hello everyone. I wanted to show this video because it demonstrate how music artist are using new forms of art and media in Latin America. The name of the collective performing in the video below is Nortec. Nortec, utilizes samples from Mexican traditional music, more specifically from Nortenas, which is music from the north of mexico. The visuals used by Nortec respond to the rythm of the music and help to further engage their public with the performance. Additionally, the visuals that form part of Nortec's performances often talk about the sociopolitical situation of Mexico.

Omar Cardenas

Microsoft Surface

The Microsoft Surface is a new product that allows a lot of the same things that are done on most desktop and laptop computers to be done on a simple touch screen table surface. This technology however isn't limited to the table surface that it's been presented on. It can also transfer over to TV screens, whole walls, and anywhere else imaginable.
One of the many praised things about the Microsoft Surface is it's ability for multi touch processing. That means that it can interact with, not only one user at a time, but many!

Here I will list a few videos that I've found about the Microsoft Surface.
The first two are simple commercials about the Microsoft Surface. The third video is a more detailed presentation about Microsoft Surface and the possibilities for its future.

The second video is a parody of the first video, just for laughs.









Thank you for reading my blog,
David Seitz Jr

Responsive visual art piece

Radiohead - House of Cards

This music video features clips of the faces of Thom Yorke and several other people interspersed with images of suburban landscapes. In lieu of traditional cameras, the video is made with lidar technology which detects the proximity of objects from the sensor. This gives the video a grainy and grid-like appearance. Sheets of acrylic glass and mirrors are passed in front of the lasers to create scenes in which the image appears distorted, partially disappears, or begins to disintegrate as if being carried by wind.

The video was made on a minimal set in Florida. The data used to make the video was released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license and is available at Google Code.

LED Interactive Touch Window

I thought this was particularly interesting because it reminded me of the movie "Minority Report" with the interactive hologram computers and what not. The speed of the display was also fascinating in that there was no delay and everything appeared right away at the touch. The location of the display was also well decided in that anyone walking on the sidewalk can use it at any time. I guarantee that in the future, we will be having these on every street corner, to the convenience of on going patrons.

Hong Kong Light Festival

Last summer I remember visiting Hong Kong which displays every night the largest light show in the world using the entire city as a performance piece. All the buildings participating compete for attention as they're building flashes their lights and logos. I was very impressed by the coordination of all the buildings to be able to compose a light show of that scale. Besides the impressive scale and wonder of the programming involved, I also appreciated the beauty of the entire piece as a whole. With lights in every direction, you get a feeling of the entire city being alive as one living thing. When the lights shoot out of the city, it hits the roof of the clouds above the city caused by heavy industrialization. Even so, it's a very beautiful sight. Although the light show is always more spectacular in person especially on special dates where they have added pyrotechnics and fireworks added, this video displays wonderfully the Hong Kong light show from outside and inside the city which is one of the biggest attractions to the city.

~ Gabe

Thermoesthesia

This is pretty cool. The temperature changes due to whether the color is "warm" or "cold" when you touch the surface of the piece.


~evan behmer, AD406 Browning

Interactive LED dining table

Oh, this is just fun. The LEDs in this table react to motion and shadows, lighting up, blinking, and dimming in reaction to movement. Make your next dinner party a real party!

There's also a PDF outlining the construction of the table, and the design is being given away for free if you want your very own. The first one I saw had multicolored lights, and it's #2 on the list of Top Ten Strangest Kitchen Gadgets on techblog.com. I also found one where it looks as though the LEDs are floating between two panels of glass, which might be even cooler. (Transparent wires, what?)

Internet as "sixth sense"

Though the concept has a ways to go, it's pretty impressive to see this in any sort of usable implementation. The article explains it in more detail, but basically the idea is that you can use a live camera connected to the internet to access info on whatever it sees and project relative information about it on any surface available... portably. This seems like the next logical step beyond iPhones, PDA's, and laptops.

Robot With a Rat Brain

A robot controlled wireless by a rat's brain cells.

Robot With a Rat Brain

A robot controlled wireless by a rat's brain cells.

Recursion

recursion: mathematics, programming
When a function (or procedure) calls itself. Such a function is called "recursive". If the call is via one or more other functions then this group of functions are called "mutually recursive".
If a function will always call itself, however it is called, then it will never terminate. Usually however, it first performs some test on its arguments to check for a "base case" - a condition under which it can return a value without calling itself.
The canonical example of a recursive function is factorial:
factorial 0 = 1 factorial n = n * factorial (n-1)
Functional programming languages rely heavily on recursion, using it where a procedural language would use iteration.
See also recursion, recursive definition, tail recursion. (courtesy of dictionary.com)

- I decided to post this because i was clueless as to how recursion is is defined programing. I feel that by reading a definition of what we are studying, defined within its context (computer programing) it can help to achieve a better understanding.

Pd Pod

I thought this one is pretty cool. I'm a big fan of Ipods, and I think there the best mp3 player on the market. Even though this was an older generation of Ipod, I would love to learn how to do my own homebrew using pd on my ipod. I just think it's really creative and cool to make use of systems and create your own programs for them.

Christmas decoration

I thought this was a pretty cool Christmas decoration scene. Using pure data it made Christmas characters peak out and wave. It seems like every time you look at a different patch or structure, you learn something new that pure data can do. To me, it just seems pretty interesting.

Protect Protect

The exhibit “Protect, Protect” by Jenny Holzer impacted me profoundly and illustrated how an artist can make a work of art from something as simple as an email while providing a powerful message about America’s Capitalist Imperialism. The first pieces that I saw were the painted emails in the main hallway, but I did not look at them at the moment because a lot of people were reading them. Consequently I was lost about the meaning when I saw Jenny Holzer’s “Monument” in the south gallery. Nonetheless the piece was very impressive, a great example of the potential of electronic visualization and new media. Monument was the vertebral column that connected pieces like “Purple”, which was more poetic, with pieces like “Thorax” or “Red Yellow Looming”, which was much more political. All pieces were aesthetically pleasing, yet the brightness of the lights often made me feel disoriented—at moments like an out of body experience—when I stared at them for a long time, but it was a good way of making the spectator become aware of its physical existence within the galleries. Additionally the minimal environment surrounding the pieces increased their presence and powerful meaning in a society of spectacle. Here is a summary of the exhibit.

Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár (music video)

A great example of video syncing with audio in the same vein as Chris Cunningham and one of my favorite music videos.

Pleo the Robot Dinosaur

Pleo was engineered by a group of scientists, biologists, programmers, animators, specialists and technologists. The design combines sensory, articulation, and neuronetics to create lifelike appearance with organic movement and adaptable behavior. It was designed by Caleb Chung, the co-creator of the Furby. It is software-upgradable, and modifications to it's firmware is also encouraged. There will be an API for programmers called "PDK".

Drancing Accelerometer

This video incorporates the Nintendo Wii remotes with a program written with the help of PD to make a drum sample. It also mentions that the "drancer" is wearing a sensor suit. It's interesting to see PD incorporated with something most of us are familiar with (the Wii).

There's more information on the drancing software in the title hyperlink. It appears that the software has been under development for over a decade.

Just thought this demo i found on youtube for pd gem was necessary to post since we have not yet gotten to incorporating pd sound with pd gem.

bitforms gallery

This is the gallery that represents Golan Levin's work, some of which we saw in class.

"bitforms gallery is devoted to emerging and established artists who embrace new media and contemporary art practice - resulting in new languages and artistic experiences."

The show is titled Unpredictable Forms of Sound and Motion. If you click on "Exhibitions," you can view the current show. There are photos and video of pe lang + zimoun's Untitled Sound Objects, and photography, video and sculpture from the Tim Knowles “Walk” series. The Untitled Sound Objects repurpose items that make noise in what seems to be a repetitive fashion, and the sounds almost demand attention. Tim Knowles' work creates art from out of information gathered from the outside world. His bio states that he "incorporates chance operations and performance into his mark making" and uses otherwise unnoticed phenomena as the data to help create his work.

I enjoy both art that uses repurposed items in interesting ways as well as art that points out or reminds us of those sorts of little things that surround us but we usually just tune out. I won't bore you with extended descriptions of these projects, but you can check out more than what's on the gallery site at http://www.timknowles.com or http://www.untitled-sound-objects.ch/.

Advanced PD Graphics

This production caught my attention because it seemed different from the others that I had watched. Everything was in one constant stream of graphical data and it consistently changed from one field to the next.