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07.26.10FILE Festival in Sao PauloCurrently I am in Sao Paulo Brazil to attend the FILE electronic arts festival. The event is about interactive art in public spaces, game design and sonification, which exactly matches my interests. By now there is not much to say: everyone is busy in setting everything up, adjusting projectors and de bug last parts of the applications at the SESI theatre which is the main venue. The whole festival opens on monday with an award ceremony and opening night, where all the objects can be used and tested. On tuesday a lot of public art projects take place on Avenida ...
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01.29.10Bio circuit by Holly Schmidt and Dana RamlerAnother wearable project combining sound and textile computing comes by Holly Schmidt and Dana Ramler from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver. The project is about capturing the mood of the wearer and displaying it with ambient sounds. The Interface is a vest to be worn over your all day cloth and integrates a polar rate heartbeat monitor designed by Danjuliodesigns with elements avaiable via sparkfun. By detecting the rate an somehow according sound will be played by a little speaker sewn in the collar right next to the ear. Depending on your mood, the sound varies. The more active ...
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01.27.10Art + science panelRight now the panel discussion is over and everyone is waiting for the closing keynote by Vik Muniz. The panel, consisting of John Frazer, Natalie Kuldell, Tavares Strachan and Vik Muniz was interesting in case of the ways of thinking that unites and devides artists and scientists. How do artists think, act and see the world? And how it is with the scientist? Collaborations come up between the two. How do problems occur? How do they get solved? Is there a "common" sense of true, false, beautiful? How do beasty B and beasty A get together? These and other questions are ...
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01.27.10Gallery from conference on FlickrThis entry will just shortly introduce to you the Flickr Photo Stream of Jean Baptiste Labrune, PhD student at the MediaLab and one of the conference organisers. He has a wonderful feeling of capturing the right moment, the mood and feeling of the event. You definitely have to have a look on it!!
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01.27.10Brygg Ullmer´s paper on Cartouche"Cartouche" might be tangibles that fit! Maybe that´s one of the main phrases of Brygg Ullmers very interesting talk about his work, concerning the great spectre of tangible interfaces and their diversity in design and function. He sees the the problem of multiplicity in languages, frameworks and technical setups used while designing tangible interfaces. His aim is to set up a kind of standard setting (covering physical and software conventions), what makes it easy to desing tangible interaction and to transfer physical components from one to another application without bigger problems. And that is where it´s getting interesting. How are tangibles ...
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01.26.10TextDraw by Travis KirtonThis will be just a short feature about Travis Kirton, researcher at the Banff centre in Alberta developed a software that allows painting with text. The text can be loaded in to the program and is than mapped to the movement of the mouse or pen on the graphic tablet. The system reacts on pressure and turning of the pen and allows using all installed typefaces. It is stil a bit shaky and the appearance looks quite crappy on the first sight but I can imagine to see beautiful artworks made with it. He is currently hosting a studio at the ...
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01.26.10Kinematics by Leonhardt Oschütz and Daniel WessolekThe Kinematics project by the students of the Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany explores the combination of active and passive building blocks for toy use. It is a set of small, hand sized blocks as seen in the picture above, consisting of shape changing elements and non-moving blocks containing micro controllers or characterising objects. Least do define the movement possibilities of the passive blocks. Because of the similarities to common construction games, such as re-combination and assembly of complex structures, it is quite intuitive to use. And here is the main advantage of this project: by combining different kinetic junctions ...
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01.26.10TEI°10 reportingComing back shortly to the keynote by John Frazer (his talk showed very close his work and development of his "intelligent physical modeling systems" and the field of "tangible thinking", all in all what we call today "tangible user interaction"), we want to catch up an idea that he mentioned talking about human and numeric qualities in operation methods. He pointed out the sense of difference between creative and intelligent work of the side of humans and repeating, mass-producing and, well, let´s say non-intelligent work on the side of computers. Thus we are definetly no computers, we want to mention at ...
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01.25.10Peppermill by nicolas Villar and steve hodgesNicolas Villar was presenting his tangible exploration on how to feed an interactive device with non battery power. To show that these human powered objetcs are nothing new, he shows an illustrive image of the zenith space commander tv remote control from 1955, a remote that releases a frequency using the power of turning the switch on. I really like the idea of creating the power one uses by him or herself, like a mobile phone that passively charges by carrying it around or speaking in it´s microphone. Nicolas (by the way oneof the organisers of last years TEI conference) ...
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01.13.10UPDATE / UpgradeThere will be some construction here the next days to prepare the blog for the upcoming TEI-conference at the MIT Media Lab . Stay tuned
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05.14.09controller history 2Ok Ok ...this will not turn out o be a historical backlash site for geeks and nerds. But as I started to think about the evolution of controllers by recognizing the illustration of the periodic system in DE:Bug and posted it here. Now I go abit deeper and let you take part on it. First I started digging in my bookmark crates to find that special website again at a blog called pasta & vinegar. This blog I found out now is connected to LIFT-Lab who run the liftconference. The aim and line up of this conference sounds really interesting: "Lift is ...
