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Artaudian Lights PDF Print

by Harry Smoak and Michael Montanaro

Movement and Responsive Architecture experiments, Topological Media Lab, at Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Montréal, 2006

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Photo Credit: Harry Smoak
 
SoilDesire PeopleDance PDF Print

performed by Mark Sussman , Roberto Rossi, Sarah Chênevert-Beaudoin, Gabe Levine, & Ayesha Hameed
original performances created by Mark Sussman , Roberto Rossi, Stephen Kaplin, & Jenny Romaine
directed & designed by Mark Sussman & Roberto Rossi
text adapted from "After Nature," by W.G. Sebald


A tabletop show, with live and pre-recorded video. A production of Great Small Works, NYC, with the support of the Topological Media Lab, Concordia University; thanks for advice and suggstions to Sha Xin Wei, Michael Montanaro, and Robert Reid.

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For information see www.greatsmallworks.org

 
Pixeltime PDF Print

Yoichiro Serita, SXW

Controlling the flow of time pixel by pixel liquifies our kinetic and geometric sense in the world.

 
Playmotion PDF Print

Yoichiro Serita

Bicycling through sound demonstrates how shallow model-free responsive audio can be enjoyed in concert play.


 
 
aether PDF Print

Erik Conrad

æther is an experiment in the phenomenology of reading. Running your hands through a pool of words is very different from turning the pages of a book or pointing and clicking. It is an attempt to both materialize and diffuse the gaze of the reader. The words in this pace are made only of light. Unlike traditional visual interfaces, this light is carefully constructed and projected into physical space which, when combined with real-time interaction can induce a haptic sense of reading. 

 
Stirvision PDF Print

Junko Tsumuji

StirVision explores how the moving body can itself write discrete glyphs in Diana Slattery's Glide language. StirVision maps movements from a solo dancer via a VICOM motion capture system and 3D character model to animated sequences of Glide glyphs. The glyph animations are projected over the dancer. The technical challenge was to find an algorithm to reduce continuous paths of the parts of the body in space to discrete tokens. This mapping had to respect both the metaphorics of the choreographer-dancer (L. Mwirigi) and Glide's formal syntax.

 
Triptych PDF Print

Alex Cook, James Yu-Cheng Hsu

 Triptych is a digital installation that explores the narrative possibilities of a hybrid environment. The three-sided structure merges projected video, sound and image to create a dynamic story space. Viewers physically walk about the installation to choose which screen to activate and what characters to follow. Their spatial location creates their narrative perspective and their trajectory determines the outcome.

 
Rhythm Pendant PDF Print

Yoichiro Serita

Rhythm Pendant is a personal, portable, wireless communication device. It works as a rhythm generator utilizing internal sensors, and uses rhythm as a form of communication instead of voices or video as seen in the typical communication devices. Pendants can exchange and share rhythm with each other within a certain distance area. The shared rhythm environment serves as a universal medium through which particular meaning emerges according to the way people play. In addition to the portable pendants, many objects fixed in location, such as a large display in Shibuya and a table lamp in a French cafe could be deployed in the cities in various ways. Those elements could respond to the rhythms of nearby pendants.