Moori is an interactive installation combining audience-participatory narrative and audio-visuals. By exploiting innovations in network-based personal devices such as smart phones and tablets as well as SMS, Moori allows users to build real-time collaborative storytelling through exchanging messages. Continue reading
The Kinect camera provides three dimensional data of a person’s movement in physical space. How can this movement be translated into video effects and sound? This class focuses on mapping movement to parameters of video and audio effects. Using jitter and the cv.jit library, kinect data is scaled to create interactive video and sound. Continue reading
It is no accident that GH Hovaginyam chose the idea of Karaoke for this work. Part of the work is a dialog with old media (mass media) represented by the form of pop music and our collective access to it. The Kinect camera is also an extension of many of his previous video performance works but in this case adding an interactive component. There is of course the ongoing position of DIY and Hacker culture that has allowed him to use the camera and create an open source project. Continue reading
Traditional Javanese wayang kulit shadow puppets and gamelan music are used to reenact the Biblical story behind the Jewish holiday of Purim. Benary’s script was inspired by a reading of the Megillah (scroll of Esther) during the 1990’s Bosnian war, and explores the questions: how we in modern times can or should react to genocide and mindless violence? Who is an innocent, and must children suffer for the deeds of their fathers? And must we carry old wars forever in our hearts? Continue reading
Leaders in Software and Art was founded in 2009 to bring together the community of software and electronic artists, creative coders, data visualists, curators, collectors, digital and interactive agencies, and others who make their careers at the intersection of art and technology. They hold an exclusive monthly speakers series and cocktail party, and just had their daylong conference, LISA2012, at the Guggenheim in the fall. Continue reading
Dan Joseph’s Periodicity Piece #6 combines extensive pre-recorded musical/sonic materials, live digital processing, and, when possible, live instrumentalists, in the realization of a strictly arranged time-based score. The goal of the work is to establish multiple rates of periodicity, ranging from short musically metrical repetitions, to longer patterns of recurrence. The resulting experience of these simultaneously unfolding yet unrelated rates of periodicity, is to give the listener a rich and complex sense of passing time on multiple planes. This article also includes a video interview with the composer! Continue reading
The physical world is slowly finding itself deeply interwoven with the digital universe. Human-computer interaction design is accelerating, sensors are being placed almost everywhere, and artists are now better able to combine the real world with their digital creations using the Arduino microcontroller and Processing programming language. THIS CLASS IS SOLD OUT Continue reading
Built on Java, Processing makes learning traditional programming easier by having many built-in functions. Processing is different from a graphical language like Max because you have to write it line by line. Once you understand how to look at all those funny words and symbols without crying, it becomes easier to control, and thats exactly what this class is for. THIS CLASS IS SOLD OUT. Continue reading
Jimmy Joe Roche and Tom Borax (aka HUSBANDS) will be performing a live video and audio set. David Wightman and Jacob Ciocci (aka EXTREME ANIMALS) are using Youtube clips of amateur drummers to create a virtual “drummer”. Continue reading
Alexander Hahn presented four video works in September 2012 that explore the intersections between technology, human interaction, and memory. Shot in various places, ranging from New York to Beijing, his digitally altered videos reveal the sublime nature of even the most ordinary scenes. Continue reading
