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PDVJ Tools Presentation

by Emanuel

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Yves Degoyon and Lluis Gomez and presented their recent pdp development PDVJ “pure data visual junk” – it’s all about image processing and visual work within pd that include helpful objects like a colorgrid to pick a color or a videogrid that shows all the videos of a folder.

also opencv (opencomputervision) will be included in pdp in something like a month. Its in full developement at the moment, they were finishing the pdp_opencv_blob object (a blob detection object) right before the talk, so this is cutting edge information. i can’t wait for this one.

colorgrid

also i’ll finally have to get a new computer because all the pdp stuff is done for linux – it also works on osx, but since you have to run X11 on aqua it will not be as fast as on linux. becaused it seems to be loads of work, it’s not planned to port it to window$ ;)

because of dependency problems it won’t be included to pd-extended, you’ll have to install it on your on.

videogrid

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WAVES – by Daniel P. Jimenez (ES)

by Emanuel

Maybe some of you have already seen this at the Ars Electronica – an elastic rope connects two excenter points that are driven by electric motors and controlled by an arduino – so simpel, so nice. One of the most beautiful installations i have seen within the last years.

The installation uses a long piece of rope to make a 3-D representation of a group of waves floating on the space. These waves generate sound because of the physics of movement, so sound and images are linked, making only one shape: the rope which creates the volume, creates simultaneously the sound when the rope cut the air.

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SALTO MORTALE by Ralph Kistler (DE/ES)

by Emanuel

I liked this one because of ti’s simplicity: Of course you could do this with max, using a micro-controller to synchronize the movement of the mirrors with the video – or you could just connect a photo-transistor via a few resistors to a stepper motor driver and shine on the phototransistor wenn the mirror is supposed to move up, like Ralph did.

This video installation is possible by combining video projection with physical computing. The projected image will be divided in five parts. The light spots in the video are responsible for controlling the movements of the mirrors and synchronizing the movement of the (virtual) video-image and the (real) mirrors


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AROUGATE – by Julien Ottavi (FR) and Dominique Leroy (FR)

by Emanuel

I met Julien at the Piksel Festival last year for the first time: He did a workshop about DIY sinus generators and the at the last evening he did the noisiest and loudest performance i ever attended, no doubt about that. The Installation he did this year is something like a logical consequence for me. Choas, noise, and really loud:

Arougate is an installation that involves the environnement of the space he is invited to hunt in. Arougate is a digital beast who hunts information, tracks it, feeds on it, and generally reacts to it. Arougate behaves like a wolf when he eats his preys ; no one can disturb him without consequence.

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Piksel Festival 2007 started

by Emanuel

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I arrived at the Piksel Festival and i’m about to gather all the documentation material – be sure to come back for more soon..

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Richard Barbrook @ net culture lab – “Imaginary Futures”

by Emanuel

October 24th Richard Barbrooks presented his new book “Imaginary Futures” at the net culture lab in Vienna. Here is the taped presentation, i didn’t manage to sync it with screenshots of the presentation he is refering to yet – you can download his presentation file here.

This is an interview with Richard Barbrook talking about his new book – quite interesting 4:30 abstract:

More Informations are available on the imaginaryfutures.net homepage.
Review of the book (in german) available on thenextlayer.org

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Large Hot Pipes Orchester

by Emanuel


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Flaming Lotus Girls

by Emanuel

while walking around the areal i saw this huge metal snake lying around there earlier, and couldn’t imagine this massive piece actually moves – well, i was proven wrong. this snake is not only able to move but also to burn like hell.

under the supervision of th charming FLG everybody was able to control either the flames or the head of the beast – nice one!

i then decided to go and check out where this noize came from and found out which kind of playground is provided for the kidz:

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Survival Research Lab

by Emanuel

their big performance was quite boring, but this little toy was quite impressive: four nozzles pointing in four different directions to direct this thing through space:

i’m still messing around with the *##+*:(##`g codec from the video snippets from their final show, as soon as i’m through with that i will update this post.


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Robocross latest Piece

by Emanuel

this robot from the robocross crew is so new that it doesn’t even have a name yet. it was built within the last four weeks – three weeks to build all the parts, one week to assemble them and programming the movement actually on site – which means that at every show the robot was able to play some more beats…
thats what i call a drum machine!

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