Skype during exhibition,all went very well and next year I’ll be graduating!

Proof of the venice part - all went very smooth with a few last corrections and plenty of time to be amazed by the Arsenale exhibition.

So we opened with Jet Bussemaker, minister of culture and education, playing one of the games!

Opening in 24 hours, can barely believe it.
Working on the last bits.

Y - a simulation

Recorded simulation of 2d physics. Random timed appearance of tuning forks with random generated size. Programmed during the ‘number’ themed Y workshop in memory of Yariv Alter Fin, during which I found out there’s hardly such a thing as a ‘random’ number.

(Source: vimeo.com)

Guiliana made the cutest video when I demonstrated my basic kinect model at work !

Dancing and jumping between Amsterdam and the Venice Biennial

THE BRIDGE; Eight artistic games by Dutch game designers connect Amsterdam and Venice

At the end of May, a special ‘bridge’ will be opened between the reopened cultural heart of the Netherlands, the Museumplein in Amsterdam, and Venice, the city where the 55th most famous event for contemporary art in the world, La Biennale di Venezia will be organised this summer.

The bridge is formed by a live connection between two large public screens that will be connected live through internet, and by using a special camera, the Kinect. Between May 27 and June 10, at the two sites, visitors can see and meet each other, and play a game together on the spot.

Currently, four artistic games are being developed by Dutch designers (collectives) who were selected based on entries in an open competition. Sander Veenhof, Heinze Havinga and Rachel Kremer, Stijn Kuipers, Priscilla Haring and Sebastian Michailidis and the collectief Zesbaans have formulated an answer to the following question: How can you, by means of a game, in an artistic way, shape a live meeting between visitors of two European cities? Using the technology of the Kinect, also known from the X-Box game console and the internet, people can communicate in the streets through movement. Through the game applications designed by the developers, players can together form a famous group of sculptures, perform a dance or even ‘leap’ between Amsterdam and Venice. And through a Facebook link you can send the pictures taken to all your friends.

From a series of Masterclasses at various Hogescholen and Academies in the Netherlands, also the game concepts of 4 groups of students have been selected. The concepts chosen come from students Gamedesign, New Media or Interaction Design of the Utrecht School of the Arts, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. So, a total of 8 games will be presented.

May 27 – June 8, 2013 daily from 10.00 to 20.00 hrs.

Amsterdam: Museumplein (near the pond)

Venice: Riva Ca’ di Dio (near the Arsenale boat stop)

DROPSTUFF.nl is a ‘museum without walls’; a unique cultural infrastructure of mutually connected public screens on central locations in The Hague, Eindhoven, Amersfoort, Breda, Utrecht, and since recently on two locations at Schiphol Airport train station. Being a platform form for media arts and interactive artistic programming –without advertisement, DROPSTUFF.nl transmits through video art works, animations and artistic games. With a smartphone, (through www.dropstuff.nl), on site visitors can individually control the screens of the art works and games, and game with visitors at other DROPSTUFF-screens. So, in the future, visitors can also game through motion of their own body. ‘THE BRIDGE’ initiates this. DROPSTUFF.nl has the ambition to extend the activities to Europe, to bring different Europeans in the street in contact with one another.

Since 2005, DROPSTUFF.nl has presented media art works from Dutch media art talent four times as a part of the Venice Biennial programming. - www.dropstuff.nl

Silly kinect output, what are you doing to my beautiful siamese twins model?

Projections and resolume crash above DJ booth last night

programmed during Y workshop, in memory of Yariv Alter Fin

Working on it as we post

Atm there is very little visual stuff to post, the kinect art challenge has kept me very busy and neglecting this blog. Yet I am still alive, wanting to share that and trying the super cute instagram for code: instacod.es