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May
08
2009

Course on Mobility & Art

This Monday, May 11th, I will be presenting a course on “Art, GPS and mobility” as part of the SAT[Transform] educational series. Although the topics may vary according to audience feedback, below is a overview of the topics that may be presented:

> Inspiration for interactive mobile applications:

  • intro to mixed & augmented reality
  • examples of locative media projects (past & present)

> Geospatial data:

  • Existing viewers, rendering engines, and geotagged data
  • Location-based content delivery and interaction
  • intro to OpenStreetMap, Google Earth, etc.

> Mapping & GIS:

  • projections and representations (lat/long - UTM)
  • geocaching: waypoints/tracks/routes and exchange formats
  • open source software solutions

> User tracking:

  • about GPS receivers, technologies, and conversion between formats
  • robustness with other inputs: accelerometers, compasses, cameras, fiduciary markers, etc
  • alternatives: computer vision, wifi triangulation, LPS, etc

> Development and authoring for mobile devices:

  • intro to Mediascape, and how to create locative media artworks
  • discussion of other platforms (iPhone, Android, OpenEmbedded, etc)

> Future of mobile technology:

  • auditory displays
  • gestural interaction
  • see-through glasses, mediated reality

To register, or for more details, see the course description at:
http://www.sat.qc.ca/post.php?post_id=1685
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Apr
18
2009

Raw Materials (video)

On March 6th 2009, we held a networked event where DJs and VJs in Montreal and Vancouver performed simultaneously. Moreover, audience members in each location were able to contribute material in real time with their cell phones using Raw Materials, a software developed by Mike Wozniewski and Alexandre Quessy at the SAT. Below is a documentary video created by Mo Simpson that describes the event:


(Original post: http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/raw-materials)

Nov
30
2008

RawMaterials for VJs

RawMaterials MobileMuse

As a collaboration between the SAT and Mobile Muse, we have created a component that allows visual artists to collect media content from their audiences during live events. The project is called RawMaterials, and is targetted at VJs using Modul8 for mixing, yet any software capable of receiving OSC messages can be used. Audience members can use their cell phones or other mobile devices to send SMS, MMS, microblob feeds such as Twitter, and even live video using Livecast software. The public can also upload content to social media sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Picasa, etc., and the system can be configured to aggregate content from those sources as well. This can even happen far before the event starts, so that the public can choose the raw materials that will be used during the performance.

Sep
03
2008

SoundPark: Mobile Audio Game

SoundPark

In the summer of 2008, we developed a prototype of a multi-player mobile audio game, called SoundPark. The objective of the game was to collect audio clips that were physically scattered throught the real world, and deposit them in a staging area for playback. Central to the design are the themes of highly coupled interaction and communication between players with different roles and an engaging blend of interaction with both the physical and virtual worlds. To this end, numerous technologies including locative sensing, miniature computing, and portable displays had to be integrated with a game middleware and audio scene rendering engine.

I’ve written a much more detailed description on audioscape.org if you are interested, but here is a little documentation video that we put together to illustrate the concepts:

May
16
2008

Mobile Music Workshop 2008

From May 13-15, I was at the Mobile Music Workshop in Vienna, which turned out to be a great forum for the exchange of ideas related to sonic design in mobile settings. There is a nice book published, which includes all the proceedings from this workshop since 2004. So rather than telling you about all of the projects, I’ll urge you to go to mobilemusicworkshop.org and buy one of these books ;)

As for the poster that I presented, click the thumbnail below to see the larger version:

MobileMusicWorkshop 2008