And some photos of the debris left over after the street cleared out:

The green thing is a bean bag.

The animation and soundtrack are algorithmically generated, mostly composed from trigonometry functions. Both are created from a single program and run in real time at 60 fps. No random functions are used.

Created using OpenGL in Processing and PureData.

Reviewed on artnet.com

More video and photo documentation coming soon.

photo by Kally Kahn

Here are some photos of people playing my video game at the art.tech exhibition at the Lab in San Francisco. And below is the Processing code for the game. It’s currently configured to run on a computer with an internal video camera and an external video camera attached via firewire. I have tested it using an iSight camera and a DV camera, both work great. I recommend running it with two mirrored screens set at 640×480. You will also need to add sounds to the Processing data folder named “good.wav” and “bad.wav”–classic video games sounds work well. See this post for instructions on playing. Have fun!

Processing Code

photo by Kally Kahn

photo by Kally Kahn

This is a video of two people playing a video game I made using Processing last May. Each player sees a silhouette of themselves on screen whenever they move (their silhouette disappears when they are still). The player also sees a silhouette of the other player. The object of the game is to collect the blue balls while avoiding the red balls to achieve a high score. Balls can only be collected when both players’ silhouettes overlap each other and a ball, so the two players must work together. Each blue ball collected is worth one point while each red ball is worth one negative point.

Grey/Green
The first 35 minutes of Grey Gardens arranged by green.

Grey/Blue
The first 35 minutes of Grey Gardens arranged by blue.
 

I projected some live reactive video filters for the Dragging an Ox through Water show last week. Above is a photo of the “Bubble Filter” in action. 

Above are stills from four of the filter modes. Modes can be selected by pressing the 1-5 keys or the “b” and “w” keys. The modes are as follows:

1: Unfiltered video
2: Black and White Bubble Filter
3: Colored Bubble Filter
4: Grey/Red Frame Difference Filter (based on the “Frame Differencing” sketch by Golan Levin)
5: Grey/Red Frame Difference Filter w/noise (based on the “Frame Differencing” sketch by Golan Levin)
B: Black screen
W: White screen

If you have a built in video camera on your computer, you can load up the sketch in Processing and start playing with live filtered video. 

Processing Code

I’m putting together this show and it’s going to be amazing! Brian of Dragging an Ox is one of my favorite musicians and he puts on a great show. I’ll be putting together a reactive video piece for the show as part of the DANM exhibition.  

DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER

Born in Twin Falls, ID, Brian Mumford grew up moving between different areas of Oklahoma, Montana, and Colorado. His landscape and surroundings dictated an early love of the virtuosic warblings of classic am country before he slowly developed a taste for the distorted recordings and uneven confrontationalism of punk and industrial music as a teenager. Dragging an Ox through Water marries the lyrical twang of country and folk to the the broken textures of feedback, drones, tape hiss, and the howl of homemade oscillators both longingly primal and gratingly dystopian. A strong value on the contrast between chance and intention makes both performances and recordings a constantly evolving process. These songs are hymns, lovesongs, hot dance tracks, atheist prayers, political harangues, and notes-to-self.

For music samples see: http://dragginganox.blogspot.com/

CHRIS MOLLA

•Culture worker and consummate late bloomer.
•Born and raised in Redlands, in the fabled Inland Empire of Southern California.
•Founding member of erstwhile college radio darlings Camper Van Beethoven.
•Earns his keep as an early-childhood music specialist
•Writing, Image-making, Music-making, Teaching, Multi-media, in an ever-shifting order.
•Plays the accordion.

http://www.chrismolla.net/

EDDIE LOVES DEBBIE

Santa Cruz’s very own: http://www.eddielovesdebbie.com/

VIDEOS BY STUDENTS IN THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA PROGRAM AT UCSC

http://danm.ucsc.edu/

only $4 for the first twenty people, $8 after that. the show is all ages and they have a great bar!

http://thecrepeplace.com/

In this program, each bubble has a note (in C major) associated with it. When a silhouette in the video feed overlaps with the bubble, the note is sent to an audio program (Reason, in this case) in the form of a midi note. The bubbles can be moved left and right using an Arduino equipped with an accelerometer.

Processing Code

Similar to the above, but now two video feeds are incorporated. Now bubbles can only be played if they overlap with red sections of the video. Red sections are created when two silhouettes from separate video feeds overlap, so cooperation between people in the two video feeds is necessary to create notes. 

Processing Code

Both these programs build on the programs from my previous two posts. 

In this project, people in two separate rooms are videotaped. The two video feeds are fed through Processing, converted into silhouettes and superimposed over each other. Both rooms receive the same projection of the superimposed silhouettes. When silhouettes from the two rooms overlap, the overlapped area turns red and a midi note is sent to an external audio program (Reason, in this case).

The video feeds are initialized using a background subtraction technique, so only new objects in the space (ie: people) are fed back as silhouettes. The program sends midi notes using the RWMidi library. The program contains four different modes, some in which participants hear the same sounds, some in which they hear different sounds. All notes are currently in the C major scale. 

My version sounds like this (all sounds can be modulated in the sound program you choose):

Processing Code

For the 24h Thesis I also created live video filters with Processing. These are composite frames of filtered video. 

Processing Code: [1] [2]