Roxlu at Apollo Media has setup a nice new website that combines resources and recent projects made with openFrameworks. I’m not sure if this website will be set “against” the openframeworks.cc website or if they will focus on different things. Hopefully it don’t divide the community but foster its growth. In any case, they’ve put a nice blurb about Memory on their website 🙂 In time I imagine the website will expand with more resources for oFw developers and those wanting to learn oFw. Speaking of which, some folk here in Edinburgh are organizing a creative coding workshop in late August tba. Stay tuned!… Continue reading...
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CLOSE-UP 2
An event organized by the new Center for Film, Performance, and Media Arts (CFPMA) was held today in Edinburgh University discussing recent topics in… film, performance, and media arts.
It was an interesting group of people that strangely somehow all had much in common. I had the fortune of presenting my research as it relates to DIEM in the place of Tim J. Smith.
The schedule:
Close-Up 2: Schedule for Wednesday 17th June 2009
10am coffee and tech checks (G.11, William Robertson Building)
10.30 Welcome, Annette Davison (Music, ACE and Director, Cfpma), Martine Beugnet (LLC, Convener of Film Studies)
Who is who, where is what? People and resources for which the Cfpma will provide a point of convergence.
11am Individual Presentations (MAX 10 mins each):
Andrew Lawrence (African Studies, SSPS) — Difficult satire under austerity: the films of Sissako and Amoussou
Martine Beugnet (Film, LLC) — “The Wounded Screen”
Richard Williams (Architecture, ACE) — “The Modernist City on Film”
Stephen Cairns (Architecture, ACE) — “Cultures of Legibility: Emergent Urban Landscapes in Southeast Asia”
Simon Frith and Annette Davison (Music, ACE) — “The Role of Cinemas in the History of Live Music”
Mary Fogarty (Music, ACE) — “The … Continue reading...
Protest in Edinburgh
Protest in Edinburgh from pkmital on Vimeo.
16 June 2009, Edinburgh
Allison McInnes, Member of the Scottish Parliament, comes to greet protesters after they have collected over 600 signatures of people in support of the protest against the Iranian election results.… Continue reading...
Memory
I’ve recently finished up a project in collaboration with a Glass Artist, Agelos Papadakis. We built a structure of 25 glass neurons the size of a face and chainded them together in a 3x3x5 meter sculpture. We had 2 cameras hidden in the piece tracking peoples faces and a projector then creating visualizations of the recorded faces resembling something like a cloud of neurons firing in different patterns. We presented it first in Edinburgh at Lauriston Castle’s Glasshouse, and then at the Passing Through exhibit in the James Taylor Gallery in Hackney: http://jamestaylorgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/2009/03/passing-through.html
It’s a bit tricky trying to film the piece since it uses projection onto glass. Sadly I’m left with only a few images that try to portray what went on.
Here’s the code, http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~pkmital/share/Memory.zip It makes use of the openframeworks library so you will need to be familiar with how to setup an XCode project with the openframeworks library if you plan on using it.
The original idea was to use glass balls so that’s why all the code says glassBalls instead of say glassNeurons. If you manage to get it running, press ‘d’ to see the live video input. As it collects faces, it fills up … Continue reading...