Enigmatica is a research project by Kit Webster, it’s about combining light, sound and space to create multi-dimensional synesthetic environments.
And another striking treatment, this time stop motion:
Auto Smiley is a computer vision application that runs in the background while you work. The software analyzes your face while you are working and if it detects you smiling it sends the the ascii smiley face letters as keyboard presses 
to the front most application. Auto Smiley has many uses from just straight up convenience to enforcing honesty in your online communication
There’s something interesting in tailoring creative to mood, or at least expression.
All the projection mapping I’ve seen to date has been about the big event, the 15 minutes of collective experience, the wow factor perception altering techniques that artists play their audience, and the surprise this triggers that leads them to want to record the event and share it virtually.
It’s a recipe attracting the attention of a lot of agencies at the moment and this demo got me thinking slightly differently about the technique:
For me it shifts projection mapping from being only about triggering collective experience, into the interesting space of using the same technique to produce non event based desirable content that people want to share.
And in removing that ‘event’, the technique will be executed in far more interesting settings than just the sides of public buildings.
What a video the original Neurosciences video was (bottom). And damn I wish I’d done it. When it came out we’d just completed a project for Bacardi using Beardyman and it could have been a great alternative way to approach the campaign.
Now, and with even more ‘I wish I’d done it’, (and rather weirdly using Beardyman as well), director Chris Cairns has teamed up with holographic projection experts Musion to create a live performance based on his Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs film, which features a number of disembodied rapping heads…
The film above shows live footage from an initial test performance of the holographic heads, with no post-production added.
The original:
I managed to get myself over to the Kinetica art fair yesterday, a show curated from artists specialising in kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, sound and time-based works.
The exhibition was a visual extravaganza of electronic wizardry and macabre machines - confirmed by my 5 year old son Robin who for once didn’t moan that he was hungry throughout - although he did want the beer poured from a robotic waiter.
For me this piece, entitled Trace by Balint Bolygo was the stand out. The work consisted of a revolving plaster cast of a person’s head which was slowly deconstructed into a mathematical diagram.
This happened using a mechanical contraption that relayed the changing contours of the heads rotation to a pen connected via a series of metal arms, resulting in these impressive drawings:
Pic courtesy of The Telegraph
Pic courtesy of Chris O’Shea
For other works, also see Pixelsumo’s review who I’m glad to say was in agreement, plus see the Beeb for a vid.
The ROBOTAGGER, built by Golan Levin, is an industrial robot arm programmed with GML, the new “Graffiti Markup Language” created by Evan Roth and pals at the FAT Lab:
GML is a new XML file type specifically designed for archiving graffiti tags. What it enables is the transfer of graffiti tags from creator to another destination, via computer. So what that means is your tag could be drawn on the other side of the world from where you are in realtime.
What the Robotagger does is brings this virtualised format back into the real world.
Lets do a collective mural.
An interesting band promo site that pseudo hacks Google Maps. Each position relates to an area that inspired a song on the album. When you reach a specific point in Street View a special arrow appears, and takes you to a night scene involving the band.
The above image is generated by analysing and extrapolating colour within photos on flickr taken within a particular area.
Interesting stuff.
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