Light Sculpture

This was made using an RGB LED, code adapted from this site: mbeckler.org

The final piece was duplicated and composed in After Effects.

Here's a song to accompany

Ken Goldberg Presentation

Ken Goldberg is an artist and professor of engineering at Berkeley. Much of his art deals with the internet and telerobotics, basically, robots controlled from a long distance.

The Mercury Project

Telegarden

Dislocation of Intimacy
Dislocation of Intimacy inside view

Demonstrate

Smashing

Animation

Processing + Kinect + After Effects

Moullinex - Catalina from Moullinex on Vimeo.

Check out this gorgeous music video made with a Microsoft Kinect.
Here is info about how it was made.

Processing.js test

left and right click to draw, push a key to start over.

from my testing, this works on firefox, safari has a small issue, ie doesn't work.

Assignment 2

The prompt for this assignment was to create a visual pattern using images. I started with photos of a few sunsets that I took, then in photoshop I used a mosaic filter to get the shapes. I brought these images into Processing to create the final collage.

Survival Research Laboratories Presentation

Survival Research Lab (SRL) is a performance art group founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline. The group employs many technologies used in modern warfare, but repurposing them to create theatrical performances. The main theme running throughout the work of SRL is to create a performance in which robots interact with one another, in ritualized ways. SRL performances include political and religious overtones, and attempt to create a scene of anarchy, referencing sci-fi, horror, and apocolyptic films and ideas. The sound of these machines is also a significant part of the performance. Pauline has stated his desire of using practical technology for an impractical means.

This is an early SRL flyer, from 1984.



Hovercraft




Bomb Loader and Mr. Satan




Tesla Coils







"The design of the SRL V-1 pulsejet itself was based on dimensions gathered by American teams following WW2. It is an exact replica of the original German design modified to produce low frequency (45hz) acoustic output instead of thrust."










Images and Information from srl.org and flickr.com.

btw

Circuits and Bits is an art studio at the University of Kentucky, and it is an intro to the use of computer technology in art. The focus is on the Processing programming language, and later in the semester we will be building light sculptures and working with the Arduino platform. Stay tuned.

Assignment 1

 This is assignment 1 from Circuits and Bits, creating a module and then repeating it as a grid. The example below is an experiment with assigning random colors to the modules.