From Yukihiko Yoshida: Avant-garde-like “Super-flat”, Web 2.0 media dance performance tool in Archidemo by Gekitora Gackt from “inetdance Japan”. Gekitora intends “Dance-performance that can be appreciated from any angle 360 degrees”, and does various experiments in Archidemo.

Gekitora choreographs both dancers and avatars. It is fantastic experience for him to choreograph avatars, because artist can share only pure movement of motion with many users in Internet. Now, A series of four dances can be tested with the dance-pad. A free body expression act is done in the weightless space. Those expressions reminds users of the space suit of “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: The ShiftSpace Commissions Program by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv – Turbulence has commissioned ShiftSpace and now ShiftSpace commissions you. ONLY 5 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!

Ten development grants of up to $2,000 will be awarded to individuals and collectives using ShiftSpace as a platform to create new “Spaces” and “Trails”.

About ShiftSpace: While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. The web is undergoing a transformation whose promise is user empowerment – but who controls the terms of this new read / write web? The web has followed the physical movement of the city’s social center from the (public) town square to the (private) mall. ShiftSpace attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web. Continue reading

Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic talk about the One Laptop Per Child

Journal of Location Based Services, Special Issue: Neogeography: Theory and Tools :: Guest Editors – Sanjay Rana, University College London, UK; Thierry Joliveau, University of Jean Monnet-St. Etienne, France :: Submission Deadline: May 30, 2008.

In the last few years some of the most exciting new developments in location-aware computing, mobile GIS and web cartography have come from a new wave of developers, hackers, bloggers and entrepreneurs from outside the traditional GIS industry and research community. These new players have developed a new type of geo-application that is service-oriented, collaborative and web-oriented in nature and have pioneered mass market and collaborative applications. Continue reading

RL Control of SL objects and avatars
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The Digital Artists Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces you to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art.

The goal of the Handbook is to be a signpost, a source of practical information and content that bridges the gap between new users and the platforms and resources that are available, but not always very accessible. The Handbook will be slowly filled with articles written by invited artists and specialists, talking about their tools and ways of working. Some articles are introductions to tools, others are descriptions of methodologies, concepts and technologies. Continue reading

Upgrade! Scotland: Cathie Boyd & Martin Naef :: January 30, 2008; 7.30 – 9.30 pm :: CCA, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow.

Cathie Boyd, Artistic Director of Theatre Cryptic and Martin Naef, Research Programmer will talk about their collaborative project Living Canvas, which uses real-time projection to enable a performer to “wear virtual costumes”. These can then adapt to the body, or even provide a different face. The system enables a dynamic or even improvised performance by detecting the posture and silhouette of the performer and projecting imagery precisely to the selected parts of the body. Continue reading

Bionic Arduino is a set of four 3-hour classes in November 2007 hosted by Machine Project and taught by Tod E. Kurt. It is an introduction to microcontroller programming and interfacing with the real world using the Arduino physical computing platform. It focuses on building new physical senses and making motion with the building blocks of robotics, using Arduino as a platform.

In the class, participants are shown and experiment with the Arduino’s capabilities and learn the basics of common microcontroller interfacing, such as: Continue reading

SVEN CV – the computer vision software used for SVEN – is now available to the public. The features and interface were designed specifically for the SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network project, so the interface isn’t what you might expect from user-friendly, general purpose software. However, we hope it can be useful for other public space projects, as it is specifically designed to track people in uncontrolled public settings, as opposed to a gallery or stage where lighting, background, clothing, etc., can be controlled. Continue reading

(image caption: “Field-Works” ongoing project, by Masaki Fujihata) USC Interactive Media Division presents Representing Earth by Michael Naimark :: October 31, 2007; 6-8 pm :: Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 201, Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML), 3131 South Figueroa Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

Representing Earth, actual places at actual moments, presents a unique challenge. Unlike fantasy places like Second Life and video games, Earth has a “ground truth” frame of reference, indexed by latitude, longitude, altitude, and time. Hence all potential Earth models cross correlate with each other into a singular Earth model. Continue reading