Art & Tech

New Kinect into syphon

15 June 2013

A nice little app from Jonathan Reus at STEIM to force the new model kinect camera to read the depth mapped image into syphon.

Color into Sound

7 May 2013

Nice synaesthetic hardware for making sound from colors. 

Hot Hand wireless MIDI ring

7 May 2013

by Source Audio Effects The creators of the innovative Hot Hand motion-sensing ring and a wide variety of amazing guitar and bass effects pedals.

Isadora Workshop Amsterdam June 12-14 2013

Isadora Workshop Amsterdam June 12-14 2013

6 May 2013

STEIM in Amsterdam is an arts organisation that has been hacking music and technology since the late 1960's. In June they are running a 3 day Isadora workshop intensive with Pro-Isadora user jamie griffiths.
The Isadora intensive is followed by an optional two day wireless sensor workshop with Marije Baalman, the designer of the Sense/Stage sensor system, and STEIM's resident engineer. 
 

Isadora Workshop Hackney at s p a c e April 30 to May 3

22 April 2013

A four day intensive workshop for anyone interested in working with interactive design for the arts. Language programming skills are NOT required. 

Anny Evason, exhibition

Anny Evason, exhibition

9 March 2013

'a garden enclosed', with digital media by jamie griffiths

John Collingswood Isadora design

14 Jan. 2013

John Collingswood, a visual designer & an Isadora user (& past Isadora workshop participant) has created a fabulous design in collaboration with choreographer Tanja Råman, based in Wales. 

Reviews of 'Wild New Territories' exhibit in London

28 Dec. 2012

'La Wefan Manigua' installation in London, a collaborative work with Diego Samper and Rob Scharein.  (latest reviews are posted at top of the page). 

Wonderful video mapping project

23 Dec. 2012

'Thinking out of the Box' by Skullmapping

DynaMapper

12 Nov. 2012

New app for iPad projection mapping.

Kinect Programming

10 Nov. 2012

An excellent tutorial site for kinect programming.

Kinetica Art Fair

6 Nov. 2012

including a Hologauze Screen and Kinetic sound sculpture by Ray Lee

Memoto

24 Oct. 2012

Remember the (not great) movie, 'Final Cut' a few years ago with Robin WIlliams as the lead actor? A society that recorded video through the eyes of every person, their whole life long and hired editors to make a 'Final Cut' of the video content for funerals and memorials...

'Downwind#1' an interactive work for your nose

11 Oct. 2012

by Raewyn Turner & Brian Harris 2012

La Wefan Manigua video excerpts

5 Oct. 2012

LA WEFAN MANIGUA is an interactive sculptural installation with sound and video projections, created by jamie griffiths, Rob Scharein and Diego Samper. It is intended for outdoor installation in urban/wild settings. If a park visitor settles into the area quietly, the sounds of the Amazon at dusk become audible, gradually merging with the ambient sounds of the urban park. The soundscape is derived from field recordings of the Colombian Amazon forest, river ecology and indigenous peoples. If the visitor remains quiet, they experience a 30 minute audio immersion into a rainforest ecology many thousands of miles away in the Colombian Amazon, interspersed with the sounds of a tribal village. Fireflies created from light, emerge at dusk to swarm in the trees around 'vines' made from felted wool with a jute core. The vines are loosely gathered together... 'woven'... to represent both the commodification of nature and the unity of natural ecosystems.

Huge Spider in a room... projection mapping in Germany

28 Sept. 2012

Very nice clever work. Simple concept and perfectly executed!

BMW Guggenheim lab

BMW Guggenheim lab

27 July 2012

Water tester, smart phone + website upload = real time mapping of water quality.  A great idea? The Kleiner Wassersensor (the Little Water Sensor), a DIY water testing kit José Gómez-Márquez developed as one of his Lab City Projects with his entourage of colleagues and students. This kit is currently being distributed to people all over Berlin.

Rope Instrument for the iPhone, By Matthieu Minguet

26 July 2012

Flex sensors embedded inside the rope. iPhone, Arduino, Sensors, PureData

Little Music Boxes for iPads

24 July 2012

A great idea to build devices that can make gestures that our fingers cannot. And then build the software app to interpret those new kinds of gestures. 

The Exquisite Forest

21 July 2012

a new collaborative project by Aaron Koblin and Chris Milk produced by Google and The Tate Gallery in London.

CERN Artist-in-Residence, Julius Von Bismarck

CERN Artist-in-Residence, Julius Von Bismarck

15 July 2012

Artists communicating the fourth dimension? Art as science? Art as abstract vision?

Processing works that excite me...

15 July 2012

I am enjoying this mandala-distortion piece today, made with 'Processing' by Raven Kwok  and the cloud trees by Holger Lippman, also with Processing.

Face Recognition installation, with interactive narrative, for two visitors at a time.

1 July 2012

Really enjoyed watching this piece on Vimeo by Isobel Knowles and Van Souwerwine, with coding and interface design by Matthew Gingold. Just met Matthew in Vancouver while he is here visiting Surrey SIAT for project discussions.

iOS air drumming

24 May 2012

nice app for air drumming wherever you are... just plug your iPhone into an amp or stereo for nice loud playback ;)

Processing in an iPhone app

6 May 2012

Nice work.

Bear 71

2 May 2012

A documentary film and interactive online installation. It leads you to a better understanding of the fragile intersection of humans and wildlife in the Rockie Mountains around Canmore, Alberta.  Amazing project.

The World in a Shell

The World in a Shell

23 April 2012

An interesting project by German artist, Hans Kalliwoda, that I heard about from Michi Meier, who is taking my Isadora Workshop this week at STEIM in Amsterdam.

Islands and Rivers

Islands and Rivers

18 April 2012

Spent a week with the lovely 'Islands and Rivers' artist group, teaching them interactive programming with Isadora software. 

Isadora Workshops Amsterdam

Isadora Workshops Amsterdam

3 April 2012

Two Isadora software workshops are offered at STEIM in Amsterdam this month April, 2012

unnamed soundsculpture by Daniel Franke

21 March 2012

Collection of enough data from watching a dancer with three kinect cameras,to allow the creation of 22,000 points on a 3D 'body' sculpture that was then mapped to software for drawing a particle system.

Legoman & Mandril – Cityscape 2095

12 March 2012

3D animation and a hand-drawn and painted background screen.  Loving the result! Great effect.

apple script into isadora

apple script into isadora

18 Feb. 2012

Instructions on how to use an Apple Script to watch a folder so that Isadora auto-loads any new files into the media bin of an open Isadora patch.

Kinect into Isadora

23 Nov. 2011

An outline of the steps to connect a Kinect into Isadora on a Mac, using the Kineme plugin via Quartz Composer.

Adding objects realistically into photographs

4 Nov. 2011

Researcher Kevin Karsch and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are developing a software system that lets users easily insert objects into photographs, complete with convincing lighting and perspective. The system is astonishingly effective–to see it in action, watch their demo video.

Orbita

1 Nov. 2011

Added functionality within KnotPlot software by Rob Scharein, allowing the location in 3D space and the unravelling of the nodes of a knot to control the triggering and playback of audio files directly from the drawing of the 3D knot visuals.

Vote Vision

28 Oct. 2011

A campaign video by Gregor Robertson for Vision team.

DisplayHack

21 Oct. 2011

3D particle systems (stereoscopic version as well) Award Winning demo-video by Matt Swaboda of DisplayHack.org

Kinect-like cameras and Pico projectors

Kinect-like cameras and Pico projectors

18 Oct. 2011

Microsoft researchers experimenting with camera-projector-combo wearable devices. Proof-of-concept stage. OmniTouch Apple patents show integration of projectors into iOS devices. See links below for more info.

Brain. Mind, Vision Conference at MIT

Brain. Mind, Vision Conference at MIT

5 Oct. 2011

Relates to artificial intelligence design problems, consciousness and intelligence, cognitive science and more... VIDEO CLIPS of the main discussions and keynote presentations. The embedded clip adds an interview from Pawan Sinha on Music, Vision, and Brain Plasticity.

STEIM Isadora workshop Sept 1-4 2011

STEIM Isadora workshop Sept 1-4 2011

5 Sept. 2011

13 participants, took part in my 4 day workshop intensive, from The Netherlands, Ireland, England, Luxembourg, Argentina, Turkey, Germany, France & Sweden. We covered the basics of manipulation of sound, video and lighting, as well as more advanced techniques such as listening to Arduino microprocessors with sensors via JunXion (STEIM's midi-osc mapping software), video tracking with the Kinect camera (Infra-Red 3D), frequency analysis of sound, sharing data directly with other softwares via MIDI or OSC, and adapting the software to your own needs with the addition of user actors. We worked with both live and pre-recorded inputs, networking data between computers, creating particle systems, interactive text projections & setting up Wii controllers to talk to Isadora.

Canon 5D Mark II Magic Lantern Firmware hack

31 Aug. 2011

Magic Lantern is an open platform for developing enhancements to the amazing Canon 5D Mark II and 550D/T2i digital SLRs.

KinectFusion

28 Aug. 2011

3D mapping of a location using the kinect camera

Fluffy Pink Box at STEIM Instrument Lab Aug 2011

26 Aug. 2011

Fluffy Pink Box is an improvised presentation/performance by Frank Mauceri, Jamie Griffiths, and Sinan Kestelli using skin sensors.

Troika Ranch's 'LoopDiver'

26 Aug. 2011

A documentary of the making of an experimental dance work

STEIM Instrument Building workshop & artist residency

STEIM Instrument Building workshop & artist residency

16 Aug. 2011

Total immersion in Amsterdam: STEIM's approach to instrument building and mapping software to custom-built hardware devices. An instrument building workshop, connecting sensors, controllers via Arduino, 4 day Isadora workshop, artist residency; building a custom instrument, public presentations & events. Its wonderful to be here. Thank you STEIM!

Sabine Vogel & Kathy Hinde - Flute and Ice projections

31 July 2011

at STEIM in Amsterdam.

ART HACKS & Hacking the cafes? A new way to exhibit online Art - Internet Cafe 'Speed Shows'

ART HACKS & Hacking the cafes? A new way to exhibit online Art - Internet Cafe 'Speed Shows'

29 July 2011

Computer terminals at a gritty internet cafe in New York City's Chinatown were taken over last week by digital artist Evan Roth in order to debut his internet-based art.

Natures Hidden Prime Numbers

Natures Hidden Prime Numbers

27 July 2011

Interesting article on bbc site, about insect evolution and prime numbers, and how our credit card data is encrypted online, plus a link to a BBC TV code breaking challenge.

Spheric hand-held Controller

2 July 2011

I am starting to research my own ideas for a spherical hand-held video instrument, that I will prototype.

Vancouver's Maker Faire & Co-Lab

26 June 2011

IT was this WEEKEND.Hope u didn't miss it...
 

Apple Final Cut X - Dummed Down & Download only

Apple Final Cut X - Dummed Down & Download only

24 June 2011

Along with the new Adobe Suite 5.5 subscription 'option' comes the announcement this week of download ONLY Final Cut Pro X, which kills off all existing versions of Final Cut Pro, excluding it from retail outlets.

Artists Cost of Living?

Artists Cost of Living?

20 June 2011

The recent Arts cuts in BC cost most independent artists 70% of the income normally derived from non-profits arts organizations commissions. So I asked myself…   "WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY COST a (fictitious) new media interdisciplinary artist, living in BC?"

Kinect with Isadora

8 June 2011

Using a FreeFrame plugin from a Quartz Composer patch to send Kinect image into Isadora Software. This week I have been helping out BA student Wladimiro Woyno in the theatre at Univ. of BC.

Artists, Mac OSX Lion & Adobe Subscriptions

7 June 2011

There are many new functions of interest to interactive performance designers as well as faster workflows in the theatre? Lion is deeply influenced by the iPad and by social networking. Identity becomes a bigger issue, with new ways to ID yourself and others and easier sharing between computers.

Aaron Koblin New Media Artist

30 May 2011

This mans projects are the best I have enjoyed of new media art works. I simply love them!

Stereoscopic Anaglyph 3D Channel on Vimeo & YouTube 3D

25 May 2011

This is wonderful. Just find yourself a pair of red-blue glasses and happy viewing! Coming soon.. tutorials on making your own 3D anaglyph video.

New Beta Version of Isadora Software

24 May 2011

Is available for download from the forum website.

Lingodroid robots devising a robot language

24 May 2011

At University of Queensland, a robot experiment allows them to devise their own language to name locations and then to teach it to each other.

Decent DSLR location sound kit

24 May 2011

An inside peak at one professional user's mobile audio kit for video or DSLR.

Billboard Darkness Project: Using Photography and Media Art to help youth in Bolton

23 May 2011

Creative workshops to find solutions for night-time issues to fight against antisocial behaviour

Sylights App (free)

18 May 2011

Create & store Lighting diagrams on your iPhone, iPod or iPAD

Body mapping of video projection

18 May 2011

by Iminute69 Workshop on Vimeo

EyeBeam NYC Artist In Residency Applications OPEN CALL

16 May 2011

Deadline May 30th

3D Photography (Anaglyph) Tutorial link & 3D Video/Photo Installation

3D Photography (Anaglyph) Tutorial link & 3D Video/Photo Installation

14 May 2011

An interesting story on use of anaglyph stereo in World War 2, and a link to a NASA anaglyph 3D tutorial, as well as a 3D video project I collaborated on with Rob Scharein.

Android, Arduino & Android@Home

14 May 2011

Big news at the Android IO Conference. Android plays well with... Arduino. :)

The American Memory Project (A.M.P.) & Bill Morrison

5 May 2011

An archival image & video/music playback technology experiment. Canadian film director and musician, Bill Morrison has been at the forefront of experimentations with new video paradigms since the 1980's. Open Source artists should check this out. It's Creative Commons. Bill has long supported the democratization of both the internet and technology.

Wireless control of DMX using iPOD for RigPad Systems Inc.

5 May 2011

Simple proof-of-concept demo by jamie of wireless control of DMX using an iPod.  jamie is working with RigPad to build a custom, commercially available rental product for wireless DMX control for the film industry.

16 Gig Panoramic photograph of St Pauls Cathedral

24 April 2011

Spherical Images website on Panoramic photography & BBC article. (links)

Lego construction, Android app on a Smartphone and a Megaminx (Extreme Rubiks Cube)

7 April 2011

Video demo of an android app in communication with a lego construction that can grip and turn a megaminx cube until it solves the puzzle. The Smartphone uses its camera to 'watch' the cube and analyzes the colors sending new commands to the Lego construction until it solves the puzzle.

'Predator' camera tracking algorithm by Zdenek Kalal

4 April 2011

Camera tracking that learns as it goes along... hence the name. UPDATE : it is now open source! (May 2011)

Quantum Computer Chip

23 March 2011

Data can be 0 or 1 or ... both!

'Living' Dutch wind sculptures

10 Feb. 2011

An Dutch artist builds wind driven sculptures that roam the northern beaches, by themselves.

Trevor Paglen, artist/radical geography & Creative Time (NY)

10 Feb. 2011

Pushing the boundaries of vision over distance, while investigating state secrets, codes and clandestine facilties. Really fascinating and deep work.

Motion tracking tutorial: Isadora software

9 Feb. 2011

Motion tracking tutorial: Isadora software

Video(projection) mapping projects

9 Feb. 2011

Video(projection) mapping projects

10 artworks battling censorship

9 Feb. 2011

10 artworks battling censorship

'Information Graphics in context'

9 Feb. 2011

'Information Graphics in context'

Apple's new screws 2 stop U tinkering

20 Jan. 2011

Apple's new screws 2 stop U tinkering

HDRV High Dynamic Range Video

19 Jan. 2011

World First- HDR Video (High Dynamic Range) from Paul Hadley on Vimeo. The natural world presents our visual system with ...

Eyes of Laura Surveillance Art

15 Jan. 2011

Eyes of Laura Surveillance Art

iPhone Beer Cannon

13 Jan. 2011

iPhone Beer Cannon

Copyright attack (Bill C-32) Canada

12 Jan. 2011

Copyright attack (Bill C-32) Canada

3D Fuji FinePix compact camera

11 Jan. 2011

3D Fuji FinePix compact camera

Face Recognition glasses for police officers?

11 Jan. 2011

Face Recognition glasses for police officers?

Gostai Jazz (french) telepresence & surveillance robot prototype

11 Jan. 2011

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/gostai-jazz-telepresence-robot-unveiled

HD Video Mixer hardware/software hack

3 Jan. 2011

iMixHD Mixer Controller App (teaser) from VJFader on Vimeo. For controlling TV One 1T-C2-750 Dual DVI (HD) mixer, using MIDI ...

Syphon OpenGL video sharing

3 Jan. 2011

Exciting... Just succeeded to share video output in both directions between two softwares... using Syphon. Very cool. (Open Source revolutionaries...

'Organic Motion' mo-cap music

17 Dec. 2010

Knots making music

16 Dec. 2010

My collaborator/friend Rob Scharein has added some new audio functionality to his software KnotPlot. I had used a version of ...

Linux Ubuntu on my laptop

15 Dec. 2010

Having an interesting time learning how to run Linux on Mac laptop. So far I am running Ubuntu (that's the ...

iPod touch portable mic

14 Dec. 2010

iPod touch portable mic

iPhone App wireless photos to computer

14 Dec. 2010

iPhone App wireless photos to computer

Green Screen 'Dodge This' effect

24 Nov. 2010

as seen in 'The Matrix'... (kind of)

Photography as film-making

24 Nov. 2010

Dynamic Perception Timelapse Dolly Stage Zero from MILapse on Vimeo. Watch through till the end when it shows the stunning ...

XBox Kinect OpenSource Hack

10 Nov. 2010

USEFUL WEBSITES http://www.kinecthacks.net/ http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page  A link to an online magazine that explains a little bit about the Kinect's corporate research ...

eMotion software

9 Nov. 2010

eMotion : presentation video from Adrien Mondot on Vimeo.

Quantum Tunnelling (pass through walls)

8 Nov. 2010

or how to 'pass through walls'... or what happens when we die.. or ???? It is related to the Time ...

An Artist's Pledge to Boycott Israel

5 Nov. 2010

An Artist's Pledge to Boycott Israel

Frieda Abtan

28 Oct. 2010

Freida Abtan - The Hands of the Dancer (Excerpt) from MUTEK on Vimeo. A selection from Freida Abtan's second Album, ...

Architectural Projection Mapping

26 Oct. 2010

Architectural Projection mapping The LightLine of Gotham from seeper on Vimeo. The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.

Robin Fox laser music

24 Oct. 2010

Theatre for the Ears, Vancouver New Music Faris Theatre, Vancouver Dance Centre Robin Fox (Australia) Robin Fox’s “visually stunning” (New ...

'Water to Bone' rehearsals

19 Oct. 2010

Am in Roberts Creek with Viviane Houle at her beautiful home, where she lives with her husband, composer & software ...

iPAD light-painting

8 Oct. 2010

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.  

New Media promotes galleries

28 Sept. 2010

A BBC (UK) story on internet promotion and new media events in art galleries, to attract audiences.

Tan Le Headset reads thoughts

23 Sept. 2010

Alex Nowitz STEIM Collaborator

13 Sept. 2010

Alex Nowitz STEIM Collaborator

Amsterdam STEIM Artist talk

27 Aug. 2010

PUBLIC LECTURE/DEMO
STEIM 26 August 2010 | 20:30 hrs. | Lecture/Demonstration
STEIM HotPot Lab #8 jamie griffiths ...

Amsterdam STEIM Workshop

24 Aug. 2010

STEIM Centre for the Arts. Rainy and stormy. Teaching an Isadora workshop.  Three dutch students, one Italian, one Brit, one ...

Post-Show Thoughts on 'I.V.Y. AND ME'

14 June 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010 ‘I.V.Y. & ME’  : POST PERFORMANCE NOTES   The TECHNOLOGY CART was named by the other ...

Pre-Show Thoughts on 'I.V.Y. AND ME'

6 Feb. 2010

This commissioned performance work for the Museum of Anthropology is developing rapidly. Here are my notes on its progress. Saturday, ...

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