Medialab Prado has recently organised INTERACTIVOS? LIMA'09: Magic and Technology, which started yesterday and will run until April 28th in Lima (Peru). I would be happy to hear from a similar event here in the UK, so if anyone knows of any...
I quote from their website [http://medialab-prado.es/article/taller_interactivos_lima09_magia_y_tecnologia_]: "This new edition of Interactivos? is inspired by the strategies of magic and illusion, in order to harness some of the old and new technological resources to collectively build software pieces and interactive installations which can propose a rethinking of the usual scenario in magic tricks, marked by a very clear separation between the wizard and the spectators." "Magic and illusion have always gone hand in hand with technology; from mechanical illusions, optical and mirror tricks, through the incorporation of electricity and the filmed image, to digital technology: augmented reality, reactive objects, reality hacking and immersive spaces." Some interesting thing that will be happening during the event: _______________________________________________ STUARTS NOLAN, HUMAN COMPUTING THEATER One of the workshops is lead by Stuart Nolan, who is a magician and researcher on game and magic applied to creativity and learning. He will be collaborating with performers and artists to develop mysterious effects based on pure mind reading techniques that require just a few people and the technologies of language, observation, computation and psychology. http://medialab-prado.es/article/teatro_de_computacion_humana_ _______________________________________________ RAINBOWS BY kyd campbell + Rainbows consists of a solar powered system that allows anonymous contributors in public space to safely dispose of their unwanted digital images and contribute to the occurrence of a real rainbow Using common USB technology, images can be sent to the Rainbows system, which is controlled by pure data. The system will simplify the images, extract the colour data for all of the rainbow colours (roygbiv) using pixel grab and store the information. Once an image is sent to the system, it is erased from its original source [erased off of the camera or other USB storage device], as if it had been thrown in the garbage. As the 'bins' of colour information fill up, the pd patch will notice when there is a balance of colours in all 'bins'. When a balance is reached, the pd patch will trigger a mechanical function, which will produce a real rainbow. http://www.frontierlab.org/rainbows.html _______________________________________________ MASA, by Rolando Sanchez & Andrea Sosa A projection displays a corpse on the floor. Nine users could, through the sychronization of their heart rates, make that human being return into life. Through sensors heart pulses are captured; mats and small staircases allow to “regulate” the rythm. Besides the nine users, sorrounding the man, there is a tenth place for a second projection. As the pulses get synchronized, the corpse gradually come back to life, to the point of standing up and walking towards the projected space, joining up the group. When a user leave the room or the harmony is lost, the character fades and returns to lay in the center, reseting the cycle. Based on the MASA poem by Cesar Vallejo http://www.theliberal.co.uk/issue_9/poe … asa_9.html -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
