Thesis

Audio inspiration

http://www.vimeo.com/5295984

Ars Electronica 2007 Live performance.


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Amon Tobin minisite

A series of short films created for Amon Tobin’s Foley Room album minisite. Interesting strange creatures!

Check it out!


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Basic virus creation and interaction prototype

Here’s the latest prototype Nick and me created for thesis. This was programmed in OpenFrameworks to prototype the following:

Physics and attributes of virus
Virus attacking characteristics
Amount of user movement to create virus
User interaction with virus
  • Physics and attributes of the virus
  • Virus attacking characteristics, not demonstrated in this video
  • Amount of user movement required to create virus
  • User interaction with virus

Here’s the latest iteration of our thesis abstract for more context on what we are working towards.

Humanizer – A Study of Humans as Viruses, Infecting and Mutating Systems.

Humanizer is an interactive audio/visual installation that explores the relationship between humans and systems. The state of the system is represented by an evolving audio/visual composition, projected on a large surface. Users can infect and mutate the components of the system with the human virus through gestures. This leads to evolving and humanizing the system, emphasizing humans’ effect on existing systems.


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The Sculpture of Christopher Conte

The Sculpture of Christopher Conte.

Mechanical animals! Really nice cyberpunk art and great inspiration for the look and feel for thesis.


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BumpTop Multi-touch interface is ready to go – Core77

BumpTop Multi-touch interface is ready to go – Core77.


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Experiment 1

Another prototype for thesis – a refined squid and a new tick creature created in oF. Both are hooked up to Reaktor via OSC. The squid produces the screechy sounds and the tick produces the beats.

Here the speed at which the tick kicks it’s legs is controlled via a slider. The tempo of the beats produced by the tick are also manipulated at the same time. Created with oF, Reaktor and OSC.


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MIT Media Lab – Tangible Media Group

MIT Media Lab – Tangible Media Group.

Lots of nice stuff here including papers.


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oblong industries, inc.

The g-speak spatial operating environment. This gestural interface just blew my mind!

oblong industries, inc..

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.


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The squid – oF + Reaktor

The first prototype for thesis – hooked up Nick’s squid to Reaktor. The squid breathes and moves towards the mouse. OpenFrameworks sends OSC messages based on the squids properties to control 3 parameters in Skrewell within Reaktor – breath controls flow, x position controls filter and y position controls delay.


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Video: Hard Rock Cafe Vegas Strip gets ginormous interactive Rock Wall

Awesome interactive wall. It’ll be cool if more than 6 people can interact with it at the same time.

Video: Hard Rock Cafe Vegas Strip gets ginormous interactive Rock Wall.


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