Friispray
Just in the middle of some education, and research and development, workshops with the lads from friispray or the jam jar collective as they are collectively known. They've cleverly put together a back projected screen, wii remote, open source software and felt tips/spray cans fitted with infra red LEDs to create virtual graffiti. We've been working in some special needs schools →
Quartz Composer Madness and Bamboo Flute
In our research time on Mapping Me, after getting all the component software working - Desktop Soundbeam, Ableton Live, MaxMSP, Quartz Composer, Reason - we started to play. This Quartz patch pictured on the left interacts with one soundbeam and live video feed. As you move down the beam particles of translucent green and red squares are emitted. The closer →
Mapping Me
Starting new project working under Heather Wastie - soundbeam artist and poet - with multimedia installation artist Geoff Broadway. For those of you who may not know, Soundbeam is an ultrasonic device that measures distance continuously and translates this into MIDI. So you can play a piano by waving your arms seemingly pointlessly in the air and much much more. The →