Stills from an engine in progress to create a trailer and other needed visuals for an audiovisual poetry night. It will take place on January 17th 2009 in Berlin in the Wabe.
As usually it is coded using the Creative Computing Framework. Much more is planned. It is an alpha version and I hope much more evolves until January.
My good friend Ulrike and I are organizing this Poetry Night. We want to cross the boundaries between the genres of motion, text and sound and let all create poetry in their way.
The vj peepz from today should have a looksie at their grandpas. Because they did awesome stuff back in 1930. I am talking about László Moholo-Nagys Light Space Modulator. You see it in use in below video. And the good thing: They are showing the Modulator in Berlin on November 7th. Its in the Collegium Hungarium. So if you around have a look. Real life and offline VJ machine ahead.
Jenny Holzers projections have blown my mind. So all I could think of the last days is how to be able to walk through the city and project truisms on walls. Then last night my roomate and I hooked up a car battery, a converter and a projector together and drove through the city. I had problems with running the my Java stuff. So we ended up showing keynote slides. Haha.
Unfortunately the projector ended his cooperation after 10 minutes. I still have to find out why. Thinking of buying my own one too… Anyway, this ten minutes where a blast! Now I am so free in this world which works mainly over public communication. Signs here, posters there. And then you have this projector and are able to intervent, modify, create and play.
And at least now we can watch a good film somewhere at night in a park.
So, the Information Visualization classes are nearly finished. We have planned to exhibit the work on Thursday November 23rd at our University in Potsdam. All students have great ideas and it will be an interesting night. It is cool to see creative people coming up with these different and well done approaches to one specific task.
You might check out the Flickr Set for more of above renderings.
This is a study for a information visualization. Its about 2660 emails from the internal mailing list of my university. Right now you see 150 mails. The bricks form depends on the senders name. The height on the mails length. The spikes are the words, the length depends on word length. The red line connects mails that got answers.
It is a first step and I am looking forward to finish it until next week. Want the spikes to look like fur and such things. Btw. it was done with Java and Sunflow.
Two friends (Stephan Thiel and Steffen Fiedler who were participating in the wonderful Maeve Installation) and I are holding classes on visualizing huge amount of data with help of code at our university right now. So I hope there will be more to see soon. Btw. Its really interesting to open a course and see what the students come up with. It has a generative touch. Set rules (theme, room, time) and let the it roll. You might have a look at the classes workspace. (German)
First attemp to animate the Painterface Engine. Thanks to a good talk with and suggestions by Fabian I want to explore the animation capabilities of the engine. Maybe it will be useful for Main Titles for example some day.
Right now its real static… we’ll see what comes next.
