I found the article by Lev Manovich very interesting. He basically talks about the technological reality we live in and how it effects our lives as humans. I liked the part where he defined the three ways that technology augments reality; video surveillance translating the physical world into data; cellular space translating the digital world…
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Project Natal Milo Demo
This could possibly be the future of gaming. The technology in this video is very interesting and creative. The main feature involved with this game is interacting with the character on the screen. The details of the environments are impressive and the game seems to respond well when it comes to interacting with the person…
tablet guitar
Guitare à crayon from psc on Vimeo. Patrick Sébastien Coulombe’s Guitare à crayon (guitar pencil) combines a guitar and a drawing tablet allowing the user to create various sounds while drawing. A custom made USB device and pure data were used to generate noise.
“Drumming-By-Dancing= Drancing”
In this video there is a man dancing around while virtually touching or in drumming on the colored circles and by doing so it creates music. so that is why i guess it is called ‘drancing.’ either way the most exciting part about this video is that he was able to do all of this…
Cool GEM+Pure Data+Ableton+Monochrome
This is a PD GEM patch that transforms a video of a man riding a bicycle into abstract pixels of color, synchronized with music. I’m not exactly sure how the person made this, but I hope to learn and make stuff like this in class. I just thought it was interesting and looked really cool.~Veronika…
Video Data Bank
At our last class I mentioned going to the Video Data Bank. The Video Data Bank is a place to watch videos created by contemporary artists. It is a free resource and all you need to do is make an appointment to reserve a screening room. If you are interested and/or want to learn more…
Interactive Water Wall Projection
I came across this cool installation piece. The creator used a projector to cast water over the wall and a camera to sense the viewers motion and create ripples in the water.
pd “Higher Dimensions”
This pure data patch is so cool! Visually I was able to figure out how this works. The colored boxes are controlled by the percussion and the other sounds control the movement of all the boxes. As for the technical pure data patch I am yet to understand how he did this, I can not…
wow
I googled pure data into the image search (as I’m sure some of you folks might have), and found this insane, bionic-man looking thing. I’m actually not even sure if it uses PD, looking back at it now. I still looks pretty cool though. I searched for other ones and when I would enlarge the…
“Echo Lighting”
Truly, this is my favorite demonstration of an applied PD system. The timed lighting can be interacted with via cursor. When the cursor touches one of the lights, the light casts a ripple effect, etc. Its really pleasing and interesting to watch. The resolution seems to be of good quality. Truly well done.
An Interesting PD Patch
I think this PD patch I found is kind of neat. I mean it’s nothing really spectacular, but it seemed like a good one to try. I found several more on this person’s website (I think it was his website). I would actually like to see how this patch works or, to be technically correct,…
Processing is Pretty
This video is amazing. Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo. This guy makes incredible visualizations to music using the program Processing. Here is his blog where he details how he made this incredible video.