Down to the wire
Posted on November 26th, 2006 by Peter Horvath.
Categories: School Logistics, Live @ 11, Node.
EDIT: regarding tomorrow’s cancelled class, this would be a great opportunity to get together in the morning and do some work.
Priorities:
- finish documentation for live @ 11 ASAP
- complete node implementation of mediaIdentity 8 days left
- finish node documentation for Dec
Next week should focus purely on getting these things done.
media Identity: next level
Posted on November 6th, 2006 by Peter Horvath.
Categories: School Logistics, Culture/Art.
- info meeting for nominees Tues Nov 7th RM 109 12:15 pm
- documentary materials: a short DVD presentation
- must be prepared by Thur Nov 9th 3:00 pm
KPA: Presentation on Monday!
Posted on November 2nd, 2006 by Peter Horvath.
Categories: School Logistics, Live @ 11.
I’ve started a powerpoint with some our existing designs from the website. Check out the following docs so we can discuss the necessary next steps for the presentation on Nov 6!
This is worth 10% of our final mark!
Live @ 11 Documentation Overview
Posted on October 30th, 2006 by Peter Horvath.
Categories: School Logistics, Live @ 11.
The first question that needs to be addressed is what we want the documention to communicate. We want to make the themes to be self-evident insofar that they capture the essence of the physical installation. The installation manifests a strong relationship to the individual that is analagous in giving the user a sense of control within the documentation itself.
The DVD will present an alternative viewing experience by combining video footage and overlay menus. The viewer will be able to access infromation at will via semi-transparent buttons overlayed ontop of recorded footage of the piece in it’s interactive environment. The controls will allow a viewer to experience the quiessence of the installation, while accessing deeper levels of meaning through the links.
Categories:
- Conceptual; Body Politic
- Functional; practical integration
- Experience; user response/interaction
- Epilogue; conclsuive narrative
The ISO will be available via download from a Flash Media site and will include the documentation in its entirety. The Flash site however, will be a more general overview rather than a meticulous interactive document.
What’s next?
Posted on October 24th, 2006 by Ryan Varga.
Categories: School Logistics, Live @ 11.
Live @ 11 in 1 Week!
Today in class we attempted to map the waveform form our synth onto the audio coming form our video footage. We want to use the sythn’s waveform to distort our CNN soundscape.
- We first attempted to use the SnapShot object to take slices from our synth and convert the waveform slices into useable values; this was unsuccesfull (although Steve’s version worked on his system).
- After searching cycling74, we think that jit.catch~ object is exactly what we need, but for some reason it is not on any of the systems in the lab - it may be that we do not have the latest version.
- We then found the spigout~ object; that basically extracts the audio from a clip.
- all we need to do then (thanks to Steve) is use an addidtion statement to merge the two waveforms together.
- however, we could not get spigout~ to work.
What’s next?
- Perhaps we should make another post to the cycling74 forum, and ask some questions about our patch - like why spigout~ is not working
- still need to add jit.tap.delay~ to our patch
- get our hands on that video adapter
- test on location
- discuss our documentation
Live @ 11 DELAYED 1 WEEK
Posted on October 20th, 2006 by Ryan Varga.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, School Logistics, Live @ 11.
Now we can take it to the next level boys
Live @ 11: Project Overview for October 17th
Posted on October 17th, 2006 by Tobin Stewart.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, School Logistics, Live @ 11.
I thought this might be useful to start us off on the right path when we get together tomorrow..
LIST OF MATERIALS
- webcam (with extended firewire)
- omni-directional microphone(s)
- computer
- video/sound files
- television set
- intermediary connection (to get video signal to display on tv)
- couch
- rug
- light(s)
CONCEPT OVERVIEW
- the television, couch and rug are at the top of the Image Arts stairwell (third floor) along the North wall with the television placed in front of the door on the right facing East, and the couch against the East wall facing West
- the computer, running our required programs, will be hidden behind the first door to the right as you enter the third floor (hopefully)
- the tv, by default, will be playing video footage of a ‘live’ news broadcast (something recent) with its audio being clearly heard from the speakers on the tv
- a webcam is placed on top of the tv, facing the couch, programmed to pick up only what is moving in its frame
- when ‘users’ sit on the couch, facing the tv, their webcam image(s) will appear on the screen (merely overlapping the live broadcast in places where motion is being detected) and will be ‘coloured in’ with video footage of old news broadcasts of relative importance
- the movements of the users’ webcam images will be heard from the speakers on the tv in the form of static, or a basic effect similar in nature, that will be triggered (and will thus correspond to) whatever movements are being made by the user(s)
- the actual sounds of the space, being picked up by the omni-directional microphone(s), will determine the pace at which the old news broadcasts are cut together
Live @ 11 in 2 weeks!
Posted on October 11th, 2006 by Peter Horvath.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, School Logistics, Live @ 11.
peter: brainstorming:
- mass media vs. individual control manifest as abstraction
- revealing illusion created by audio/video through interaction
- audio as an abstraction/distortion of video
ryan: Question that needs to be addressed:
- Do we want to make this purley an abstraction, or do we want to contextulaize it solidly?
- If we dedicde to distort live TV content, then what specific content to do we to critique? CNN would be an option; the Media CONglomerates; specifically - recall Innis’ lecture - that media promotes anti-history: current events seem to have no context within history. They do this in order to keep us under control.
- How do we then reveal the “illusion created by audio/visual interaction”. Can we establish a concrete understanding of what that relationship is specifically? Then how do we exploit this knowledge?
Oct 4. Video Delay
Posted on October 5th, 2006 by Ryan Varga.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, School Logistics, Live @ 11.
Today we started figuring out how to delay a video stream in the hopes of being able to them manipulate the stream with real-time audio or other inputs…
We found a set of plug-in patches for Jitter called Tap. Tools by Electro Tap that we can use to delay the video. We had probelms unzipping the files, and did not get around to using them
Browsing some posts on cycling74 we found that someone has asked a similar question that make out us in the right direction: “Is it possible to route the output of scope into jit.gl.render. I’d like the audio waveform to be used as a texture with jit.gl.render?” the reply: “you could use jit.desktop to record the output of scope into a jit.matrix … and render that matrix as a texture.”