Ars Electronica 2007 Live performance.

Weather Tube Report displays the weather condition and a selection of videos from YouTube, based on the zip code you enter. The videos are selected on the fly based on predetermined search parameters. The weather condition dictates these parameters – which include musical styles and instruments – to search for suitable videos. The weather condition also determines the background color.

The name is inspired by the band Weather Report and some of their song names are used to produce the gibberish text to display the temperature and condition.

Weather Tube Report uses the Yahoo! Weather API to retrieve weather information, the YouTube API to retrieve videos and a database to store the search parameters.

Built with PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and jQuery.

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Feel free to leave me comments, questions, feedback, bug reports below. Enjoy!!

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A visualizer for Leo’s Room by Vangelis, from the movie Blade Runner. The visualizer was made with C++/OpenFrameworks and composited into a single still image. I created this as the first assignment for the Visual Music Studio class at Parsons.

Quikdrawl is a drawing interface which uses 2 hacked gun game controllers with red LED attached to the front of each. Clicking the trigger turned on the LED which was color tracked to find it’s location. Each time the trigger is pressed, a bullet hole through layered textures appears on the screen. The textures were preprepared but the intention is that these would be captured and created from a certain section of the users silhouette and layered in with previous textures. Nick, Steve and me worked on this application for our set pixel class. Made with OpenFrameworks.

A scene for the a/v engine/live performance visualization tool Nick, Steve and me are working on. This is an underwater scene where bubbles are generated based on the FFT and emerge from the near the top of the cv blob, near the performers mouth. The bubbles generated in the background are also based on the FFT and bounce of off of the performers contour. These are produced to give the illusion of swimming through water to the top. The screen capture is a little laggy and has a test video overlayed to demonstrate the position of the performer. The scenes were created with the intention of performing live with Analogue Transit. Music in these videos by: Nine Inch Nails

TweetCatcha seeks to uncover the organic nature of news as it travels through Twitter over time, by examining the movement of NY Times articles through Twitter. Nick and me worked on this project for our data visualization class and my AS3 class.

The New York Times Newswire API is used to load news for the last 24 hours. The title and URL for the retrieved articles are used to search for tweets with the BackTweets API, a BackType service.

The articles are placed around the center arranged clockwise based on the time they were published. The tweets for each article emanate from the article near the center to the outside. These are based on the time difference between when the article was published and when it was tweeted. The 24 rings indicate the hour difference from 1 near the center to 24 near the outside.

Data was collected between November 13, 2009 and February 9, 2010 via a cron job set up to pull and store the data locally. The current database is 107 MB, with 15,327 NYTimes articles and 311,885 tweets for those articles.

Demo

Presentation:

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

• 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.