Think - lire dans les pensées...

festival

http://www.1um1.net/

SensitiveWall

The SensitiveWall consists in a large vertical touchless display able to detect hands' presence in real time, and a set of software templates that present digital content on screen.

Liveliness is expressed through a fluid continuous motion of contents: attraction and repulsion of bubbles, spin of towers' discs at different speeds, accelerated and decelerated viewpoint translation on a large landscape. Contents can be dynamically added, erased or substituted at runtime through a remote control server.

People can move contents just by waving their hands in front of the screen; in order to make contents manifest (e.g. play and zoom for a video) it is sufficient to move a hand close to the content. January 2008.

Video at http://naturalinteraction.org/index.php?entry=entry080305-095948

Interactive Fitness

http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/2008/02/g4h-2008-xrtainment-zone-beyond-serious.html

Dr. Ernie Medina and his partners launched their first XRtainment Zone in California last year. The mission of XRtainment Zone is to provide families and kids of all ages a fitness club of their own "where working out is all play."

In addition to dance pads, GameBikes, and EyeToy aerobic games in various flavors, the XRtainment Zone boasts a variety of more unusual exertainment machines including 3Kick, Makoto, Sportwall, Jackie Chan Run, Xavix Run, ATV Fury 3 Tag, Trazer Fusion, EyeToy Kung Fu, and Gamebike variants powered by hand and arm exercise.

Other non-electronic game formats are also included, employing basic elements of interactive game design alongside their more technology-based brethren.

Medina hopes, XRtainment approach will lead to genuine lifestyle change and a lasting enjoyment of health and exercise.

Hard Drive Music

So you've probably heard some form of hard drive music before, but not quite like this. This person used hard drives in conjunction with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (rhythm and lead guitars), an HP Scanjet (bass guitar), and an Epson printer (drums) to recreate a Radiohead song. Video after the break.

Desafio Quentes e Boas?

Desafio Quentes e Boas?

Trata-se de um concurso de imagem e criatividade promovido pela Páginas Amarelas que decorre de Maio a Novembro de 2008 e é apadrinhado por Fernando Alvim.

Os participantes só têm de criar um video, individual ou em grupo, que conte uma história real ou ficcionada, em que um ou mais produtos da Páginas Amarelas sejam os protagonistas. Há prémios para os três melhores videos.

Informações detalhadas sobre o desafio aqui e como participar aqui.

Como modificar a web-cam para detectar movimento

Aqui fica o link para 2 tutoriais de como alterar uma web cam (modelos XBox Live Vision e VX 6000 em específico) para ver apenas o espectro infravermelho - é tendo por base esta técnica que se filtra a luz rgb, por exemplo dos projectores de modo a não interferir, e se aplica algoritmos de detecção de movimento.

http://virtualzm.blogspot.com/2008/05/modifing-web-cam-to-see-infrared.html

Worshop XNA - 30 Maio às 15h

Inscrições em : http://formularios.grupolusofona.pt/xsemana/default.php

X Semana Internacional do Audiovisual

Link para o evento bem como para inscrição nos workshops: http://eventos.ulusofona.pt/semanaaudiovisual/x/

Provavelmente ... a invenção do século.

A Woman With Sound Ideas - Rhizome News

In the late 1940s, Bebe Barron (née Charlotte May Wind) and her husband Louis opened the first electronic recording studio in the United States, filling their Greenwich Village apartment with cutting-edge equipment, much of it self-created. There, the couple created the first electronic composition recorded to magnetic tape, entitled Heavenly Menagerie, around 1950. Inspired by the writings of Norbert Weiner (who coined the term "cybernetics" in the 1940s), Barrons built unique, hand-soldered circuits for each repeating sound (Bebe said each had "a particular sort of nervous system"); since the circuits had limited but unpredictable life spans, the couple recorded hours of raw loops to tape, then composed through editing. Their studio soon catered to the close-knit world of the downtown avant-garde; they cr! eated scores for the experimental films of Shirley Clarke and Ian Hugo (husband of Anaïs Nin, a friend of Bebe's), assisted Teiji Ito with the soundtrack for Maya Deren's The Very Eye of Night, and provided the raw materials for John Cage's first two tape pieces, Imaginary Landscape No. 5 and Williams Mix. The Barrons most famous work was the soundtrack to the canonical atomic-age science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956)-- the first fully electronic score for a feature film. A dreamlike soup of bubbling, organic bleeps and bloops, the soundtrack generated widespread critical praise, but the music! ians' un ion refused to accept the work, so the couple were credited as creators of "electronic tonalites" rather than music. (Despite the Barron's centrality to the art scene, Cage wasn't too generous either: in his 1961 book Silence he states that the Barrons "are not properly termed avant-garde since they maintain conventions and accepted values.") Bebe Barron, who passed away April 20 at age 82, created her last composition in 2000, perhaps tellingly entitled Mixed Emotions; her pioneering career illustrates longstanding difficulties in differentiating art, entertainment and technical experimentation in the world of electronic media. - Ed Halter

Calendário

Para quem quiser participar: uma agenda para concursos, eventos, etc... para futuras participações com os projectos de mestrado.

CALENDÁRIO

Open Processing

OpenProcessing is a 'flickr'ish place for processing community to share their sketches, comment on each other's pieces, etc..

http://www.openprocessing.org/

Revolução Cinética

Embora não directamente associado com as artes tecnológicas, sugiro-vos vivamente uma visita à exposição actualmente patente no Museu do Chiado. Para mais informações sobre o seu conteúdo leiam este artigo ou, não hesitem, e dêem lá um salto- até porque nós, estudantes, não pagamos entrada.

Para quando apetecer "flashar"

No rescaldo da cadeira de flash visitem este site que um amigo me sugeriu- verdadeiramente delicioso...

site

http://www.ted.com/

oficinas do convento

http://www.oficinasdoconvento.com/

Computer Vision for Artists and Designers: Pedagogic Tools and Techniques for Novice Programmers

Para quem pretender utilizar técnicas de computer vision, aqui fica um blog com um artigo muito bom (contém referencias a obras que usaram as técnicas):

Computer Vision for Artists and Designers: Pedagogic Tools and Techniques for Novice Programmers

http://www.flong.com/texts/essays/essay_cvad/

Inclusivé tem o código em processing para ilustrar cada técnica.

Jogo Perfect Shift (Movlab)

Foi hoje colocado online um jogo realizado pelo Movlab (foi feito no Virtools). Por isso espero que todos joguem um pouco, gostem, e digam da vossa opinião.

Já agora divulguem o jogo. Obrigado.

http://movlab.ulusofona.pt/PerfectShift/index.html

PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA

Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society.
The Prix Ars Electronica, the Ars Electronica Festival, the Ars Electronica Center – Museum of the Future and the Ars Electronica Futurelab are the four divisions that comprise the Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, whose specific orientation and long-term continuity make it a unique platform for digital art and media culture.
The competition is organized by the Ars Electronica Linz GmbH and ORF’s Upper Austria Regional Studio in collaboration with the O.K Center for Contemporary Art and the Brucknerhaus Linz, and the prizes are awarded during the Ars Electronica Festival each year. The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important awards for creativity and pioneering spirit in the field of digital media.
The event calls for entries in seven categories, including a youth competition. And since internationally renowned artists from over 70 countries also participate in the Prix Ars Electronica, it has established itself as a barometer for trends in contemporary media art. Since 2007 Ars Electronica and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research (media.lbg.ac.at) announce the Prix Ars Electronica Media.Art.Research Award, a prize for outstanding theoretical work on the subject of media art.
With over 37.542 entries since 1987 and prize money in 2008 totalling 115,000 euros, the competition offers the largest cash purse for cyberarts worldwide. Each year, six Golden Nicas, twelve Awards of Distinction and approximately 70 Honorary Mentions as well as the Media.Art.Research Award are presented to participants.
Since media art is such a highly dynamic field, criteria for the categories have to be constantly modified and adjusted to societal and technological developments, and so updated to meet new demands.

The Prix Ars Electronica calls for entries and awards prizes in the following seven categories:
Computer Animation / Film / VFX
Interactive Art
Digital Musics
Hybrid Art
Digital Communities
u19 – freestyle computing [the next idea] Grant
Media.Art.Research Award

http://www.aec.at/en/prix/about.asp