I have four photos on display until Thursday in Baskin Arts.

Fun-A-Day in the Bay went really well. There were 40 amazing projects, 2 great performances and an enthusiastic crowd that packed the gallery for the entire night. The show went so well that Queen’s Nails has decided to have a second showing on March 14th, from 11-6pm. 

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Fun-A-Day hits the West Coast next weekend for one night only! It’s being organized by Michael, Molly and me. Hope to see you there!

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Flyer by Molly McIntyre

Nik Hanselmann and I installed a sensor in the Sesnon Gallery that collects environmental data (light level, sound level, proximity and temperature) from the space and uploads them to an online database every two seconds. We developed software that creates a generative drawing that changes with the data over time. Above are screenshots of the drawings at different points in time.

We exhibited the live generative drawing in the Porter Faculty Gallery and the DANM Lounge. An online version can be viewed here: http://transmogrify.me (let it run for a few hours for a rich, complex image). 

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

 
 
 
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