Civil Rights Defenders is an independent expert organisation founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1982, with the aim of defending people’s civil and political rights. Everybody heard about the tragical story of Natalya Estemirova, a russian human rights activist, that was murdered on 2009 because she was investigating hundreds of cases of alleged kidnappings, torture and extrajudicial killings by Russian government troops or paramilitaries in Chechnya.
In order to protect human rights defend...
Rensselaer Arts PHD Candidate, Heidi Boisvert, premieres performance at EMPAC that cultivates an expressive virtual world populated by corporeal sounds and generative imagery from dancers' bodies.
TROY, NY - April 8th, 2013 - The Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announces the premiere of a mechanomyogram (MMG) multi-media production, "[radical] signs of life," on May 3rd at 4:00 pm and May 4th at 7:30 pm in Studio 2 at the Experimental Media and Perf...
Playmodes and MID (Media Interactive Design) are both digital research collectives based in Catalonia. They work on interactions between architecture, light & sound, to produce immersive installations thanks to DIY hardware and software developments.
Blaus was created for the Vad festival. It's an in-situ installation tailor-made for Cisterna, the Girona's history museum. "We spent a whole week working on-site, playing with lasers, motors, mirrors and sound, and ...
Beginnings of a conversation between Joel Slayton and Jaime Austin
By: Jaime Austin
Part I
A few evenings ago, Joel Slayton and I stood on the Embarcadero. Before us all was The Bay Lights, a massive public art project by artist Leo Villareal that is soon to become the largest, most famous, and most photographed public artwork in the city. If you’re anywhere near the waterfront at night this artwork is unavoidable. You can’t not see it.
The Bay Lights consis...
We were impatient to discover the Ultra-Lab's documentaries Hello-World.cc about main programming tools used by digital artists, like Processing or Open Frameworks.
First episode "Processing" was released a few hours ago. It gathers numerous video artworks, experts interviews and examples. Its point of view is broader than a simple technical explanation or a basic history of a programming language.
In the end, every one, regardless their programming skills, can watch these...
MYO is a brand new wearable gestures sensor created by Thalmic Labs.
Basically, it is a strap you wrap around your arm between your wrist and your elbow. The strap is stuffed with sensors which detect the muscles activity and the arm motions. It is said to be precise enough to detect the gestures of a single finger. Then, each gesture data are sent through Bluetooth for any kind of control, since the data work as an API. For instance, you may control devices like a camera, a compu...
EMF Planétarium
This article comes from the Digitalarti Mag #11.
Segueing from the realm of virtuality and awaiting the fall of yet another ephemeral new "frontier of reality", telepresence is the latest incarnation of media art magic, as it bridges gaps between protocols and devices with various forms of interactivity.
If the collective unconscious imagines this faculty to be somewhat divine, notwithstanding its duplicitous connotation, the more down-to-earth definition o...
3x3 SMIL Stereoscopy Mapping In Live
International Festival
October 11 / 12 /13 Paris First Edition
www.3x3smil.com
3x3 SMIL Stereoscopy Mapping In Live
Is a natural continuation of festivals held in Argentina between 2000 and 2007: especially, the events of Festival Internacional de Arte Digital which aimed to create an interaction space between novices, artists and professionals of digital art, design, video, photography, music. And also any other event oriented to...
Ibis turn your dreams into artworks. How is this possible? They embedded 80 heat, pressure and sound sensors in a mattress. Data are analysed by an algorithm, translated into moves and sent to the painting robot. The different states of your sleep become "sleep art".
In this making-of video, you can see the process of "Sleep Art":
See more here
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image: Leviathan
NERI OXMAN: MYTHOLOGIES OF THE NOT YET,
storytelling and high-end research in 3D printing
As much inspired from Borges’ imaginary beings as borrowed from coral-like masses of DNA, amidst precious sculptures and organic prostheses for decades to come, Neri Oxman’s “Mythologies of the Not Yet” blurs the boundaries between scientific investigation and fantastic utopia. Transgressing art, science and design, these 3D prints brew...
Two cubes are spinning around the same axis, the big one looks empty and transparent, and contains the little one, which seems full and white. However, only the big one is full, the small one is nothing but a 3D-like projection adapted to the big one rotation and to the location of the head of the viewer (detected with a Kinect). This is just a prototype made by G8 Labs, but it looks promising.
Here are other tests G8 Labs team did for their projection on a spinning cube :
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The Salad team in Japan created a poetic interactive installation for train travels. When the passenger touches the window, a object is projected in the landscape according to the area of the window which was touched. In the background or in the sky : a hot-air balloon or a plane appears. In the foreground : a person or a car appears.
This works with a GPS, Kinect, and a projector, programed with openFrameworks.
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Leap Motion is a 3D tracking technology we introduced to you a few months ago as everyone enjoyed the demo video. Its precision and simple functioning brought it as the next big thing but not many trials had been released yet. Dofl Yun is one of the early lucky guys who first received their Leap Motion Dev Board. Helped by Robert Hodgin and Andrew Bell, he enables us to figure out how this innovation use really looks like. Thanks to Leap and a programming based on Cind...
Dofl Yun Leap first trials 2012
"Show pictures on smoke is a solid idea" is a sentence that must have crossed Tomas Navarro's, Lorenz Potthast's and Fabricius Seifert's minds before they launched their latest own projects. Tomas show a 3D hologram in a smoke halo. Lorenz and Fabricius fullfil soap bubbles with smoke and project an image on them as long as the bubbles float in the air, before they blow up.
Light effects on smoke are nothing new, but these two projects each have a feature making them...
Tomas Navarro, true hologram
