November 30, 2006
Retired
sLop (the blog you are reading) is retiring..
The archives should stay up indefinitely though so feel free to continue linking in if you like..
In the coming weeks, I should have something new up. Please stay tuned.
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April 19, 2006
ITP End of Year Events - Thesis Presentations and End of Semester Show
ITP Spring Show 2006
A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of ITP.
This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP.
ITP Thesis Presentations 2006
ITP's graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars.
Students have been encouraged to undertake projects that bring together the conceptual and design issues that they have engaged in during their two years of study at ITP.
Projects will include installation based work, digital video and audio pieces, interactive 3D, games and educational applications, to name only a few.
ITP will be providing a live webcast of all the thesis presentations.
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February 04, 2006
ITP Artists Strike again
Wired News: Artists Burnish RFID's Image
Go Meghan:
A far cry from Big Brother scenarios, RFID technology has recently become a medium for artists like Meghan Trainor, whose work offers a glimpse of a future in which computers will be able to scan any item and know something about it. She sculpts objects out of plaster, rubber and other materials, and embeds them with RFID chips and tags.
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December 14, 2005
Social Networking Site for Visual Programmers
CodeTree: Watch Your Code Branch Out and Grow.
From the site:
Welcome to CodeTree, a social networking community created to bring new media artists, programmers, and students using Macromedia Flash and Proce55ing together. Learn more about this site, start browsing the code, or join the community and start sharing your code today!
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October 30, 2005
Wow
I/O Brush: The World as the Palette
This is a great idea! A video paint brush that uses colors, shapes and movement from the real world. Checkout the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=vwl98dU0kY8
From the site:
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment.
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October 26, 2005
Computer Graphics Tutorial
Lode's Computer Graphics Tutorial
I found this while searching for Java based convolution filter techniques. Turns out to be a great resource.
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October 09, 2005
Closed Caption Text from Blog RSS feeds..
META[CC] -Main
From the site:
META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system we are developing is adaptable for use with any cable news or television network.
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August 22, 2005
Local Report
local report: home
For those of you wondering what I have been up to for the past month or so, here is your answer: Called, Whitman Local Report, this is a performance piece utilizing mobile phones to create a montage of video "reports" and phone "reports" all in real time (live).
I created some custom software that runs on the phones (Nokia 6710's) to shoot and automatically upload video from the participant's phones (30 of them) and more software to playback the videos as they come in (with some controls for play, pause, stop, next and previous).
Hans, my technical collaborator, took care of setting up an Asterisk server and queue to receive the phone in reports and play those out as they came in.
We have one performance to go, please tune into the live stream, come to the live event or check it out afterwards. The previous 4 are available now if you would like a taste.
Here is some press that I just came across: Art and Innovation Collide
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April 21, 2005
Prcessing goes Beta, Code Artists AWAKE!
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February 08, 2005
Gone Fishin'
bluefish
Ian's BlueTooth Project:
Bluefish is a surveillance system which tracks the presence of Bluetooth devices, and their users.
Bluefish constantly scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as phones, PDA's, and wireless peripherals. When a new device is found, Bluefish takes a picture of the area in which the device is discovered and catalogues all retrievable information about the device. If the device is ever discovered again, the user will be sent the last image captured of them via Bluetooth. All images are tagged with the device's name and the time it was last observed.
Over time, a profile is built for each discovered device, making it possible to track individual users who frequent the scanning area.
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December 08, 2004
Art Mobs
Art Mobs
Opens tonight.. Cool, I thought I missed it already. They are pulling together some fun social and emerging technologies, Text Messaging, PodCasting and more.
From the site:
Guests are invited to share their experience of student artworks by text messaging on their mobile phones. View the work while reading the most recent 4 text messages left by others—then leave your own message for the next guests. Guests may also download podcasts of interviews with several of the artists about their works. View the work while listening to the podcast on your iPod or other mp3 player
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December 06, 2004
ITP Winter Show 2004
ITP Winter Show 2004
Sunday, December 19 from 2 to 6pm
Monday, December 20 from 5 to 9pm
A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.
An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.
Interactive Telecommunications Program
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor South
New York NY 10003
Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public
No need to RSVP
For questions: 212-998-1880
email: itp.inquiries@nyu.edu
http://itp.nyu.edu/show
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October 13, 2004
Visual Component Development for Multimedia
iglue.org
Not sure where this fits in the world with PD and Max but it is interesting none-the-less. Uses a circuit board and microcontroller metaphor.
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August 23, 2004
The CoDeck is featured on Rhizome!
Rhizome.org: Net Art News: Here's Lookin' at you, George!
Great news.. Good Job Ahmi and Ophra!
For readers that don't know, the CoDeck is a collaborative project between myself, Ahmi Wolf, Dan Melinger and Mark Argo that allows a community of users to upload and share videos that they have created. It has a web interface for information about the works and for commenting on them. The most interesting part of it (IMHO) is that it takes the form of a vintage Betamax with a single board computer running linux and all the fixins. We utilized the controls on the deck to implement skipping to the next video (Fast Forward), watching the previous one (Rewind) and so on. You can also create a video response to any video that is currently playing by changing the channel and using the built in camera and microphone to create a response video right then and there.
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May 31, 2004
Wearables conference
ISWC '04
Colocated with IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
From the site:
ISWC 2004, the eighth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and all other interested parties to share information and advances in wearable computing. We invite you to attend ISWC 2004 and submit to one or more of the following categories: papers, posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and exhibits.
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Engadget reviews some ITP work
Engadget visits NYU's ITP Spring Show - Engadget - www.engadget.com
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April 07, 2004
Crazy networked and responsive environment
RIPLfield info
From the description:
... it consists of light and soundscapes which respond to the actions of people in the environment and remote data from a second environment in new york city. the project is a collaboration between students and instructors at the technical university of berlin and parsons school of design in new york.
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April 01, 2004
Downtown network for the Arts
downtown network for the arts | about
From the site:
Location One has developed a package of hardware, software and support services that enables artists and cultural organizations to take full advantage of Internet-based technologies for creative interchange, program creation, delivery and promotion, both individually and as an arts-based community.
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March 08, 2004
Play that media, share that control, perform baby, perform
KeyWorx
From the site:
KeyWorx is a Multi-User Cross Media Synthesizer - a distributed application that allows multiple players to generate, synthesize and process images, sounds and text within a shared realtime environment. As an instrument it allows communities of players to dynamically control and modify all aspects of digitized media in a collaborative performance.
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February 28, 2004
Portable broadcasting backpack
neuroTransmitter
From the site:
com_muni_port is a portable radio broadcast unit created for short range pedestrian broadcasting. com_muni_port models itself after historical military, scientific, and media-related mobile communication devices.
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February 01, 2004
Processing Gallery
Processing 1.0 _ALPHA_ >> Software
Exhibition. A collection of featured software created with Processing.
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January 21, 2004
Language for "demanding multimedia applications"
Interesting.. I will have to check this out too...
From the site:
Isis, named after the Egyptian goddess of fertility, is a programming language that is specially tailored to support the development of demanding multimedia applications
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DataData, Turn your bits into sweet music
From the site:
DataDada, version
Looks like fun.. I will have to give a run.
Thanks to Scott for the link...
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January 03, 2004
BBC Report on Cycling 74's Max/MSP Software
BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Listen Again
Are computers are transforming the way people make music today? Mark Cole investigates..
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November 06, 2003
Make things..
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November 04, 2003
Interesting NYC based arts organization supporting emerging technologies
Eyebeam is a not-for-profit new media arts organization established to provide access, education, and support for students, artists, and the general public in the field of art and technology.
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October 17, 2003
Maya, Free for non-commercial uses
From the site:
Maya Personal Learning Edition now available for Maya Complete 5
Maya Personal Learning Edition is a special version of MayaÆ software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use. It will give 3D graphics and animation students, industry professionals, and those interested in breaking into the world of computer graphics (CG) an opportunity to explore all aspects of the award winning Maya Complete%u2122 software in a non-commercial capacity.
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October 15, 2003
Wired News
News and articles concerning just about everything I care about.. Hard to imagine the world without Wired.
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October 14, 2003
Video Mixing with Flash
From the site:
FLxER is a FREEWARE video mixer based on Flash MX%u2122 technology. It allows you to mix flash movies directly into your web browser.
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October 13, 2003
Automated Web Collage
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October 12, 2003
Keyboard for the Laptop
Argo[bot] tells me that this is great and mentions that it has an XLR mic input along with Midi and USB connections.
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October 11, 2003
Java Audio Synthesis
JSyn - Java Audio Synthesis
From the site:
Syn allows you to develop interactive computer music programs in Java. You can run them as stand-alone applications, or as Applets in a web page using the JSyn Plugin.
Posted by vanevery at 02:38 PM
Fantastic digital artists platform
From the site:
Processing is a context for exploring the emerging conceptual space enabled by electronic media. It is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts and it is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas.
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