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Fontys ICT Art & Technology Minor 2012: Update Group 4
As we mentioned in a previous post, Baltan is currently working with 60 students from Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven ICT & Lifestyle programme on their Art & Technology minor. Between now and the end of June, students will be sharing their process here on the blog as they develop their projects. They are being mentored this year by us and guest mentor László Kiss, a Budapest-based artist and senior researcher at Kitchen Budapest. Below a first report by Group 4.
Visualizing the invisible
Baltan gave us the assignment to make the invisible visible. It’s a very interesting assignment, because we had to come up with a story behind the concept. At first we didn’t know where to begin. We did a lot of research, experimented with technological possibilities and at last we came with a message we would like to tell to our spectators.
We researched the way that artists tell their story to the audience. For example the artwork that’s made by Christien Meindertsma called: “Makers and Spectators”. We recognized that she had a purpose by making this piece. She wanted to know how people are looking at an object and why they are looking at it. She wanted to know if there are differences and/or similarities between the people who are looking at an object.
Besides coming up with a message or story, we experimented a lot. We tried to get information out of the Ki-nect, researched the influence of music on a person, found out what we could do with social media and researched the possibilities of Infrared and UV light.
Baltan and Fontys Hogeschool ICT
Baltan has just started its 4th year of collaboration with Fontys Hogeschool ICT on their Art & Technology minor as a ‘Partner in Education’. The Art & Technology minor focuses on ICT, design and interactive art. Students develop installations, services and or products that challenge the borders of human interaction with technology. Two assignments from Baltan provide a starting point for work of 60 students in this semester and are creatively interpreted. This year we are pleased to have László Kiss, a Budapest-based artist and senior researcher at Kitchen Budapest, as our guest mentor working with us and the students. We’ll be posting updates on our website about the student projects as they develop between now and end of June.
Documentation of previous projects developed with Baltan by the students of the Fontys Art & Technology minor in 2009, 2010 and 2011 can be found on our website.
Final projects – Baltan collaboration with Fontys Art & Technology minor
On June 24, 2011, three groups of students of the Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven ICT & Lifestyle programme Art & Technology minor (with which Baltan Laboratories has been collaborating) presented the results of more than 4 months of work. Each group has been working on an assignment devised by Maurer United to create a performance / installation / film with the theme “’De Stijl’ in three to four dimensions”.
Group 3 created The Infinity Cube, a glass cube filled with water and particles. Columns of light in primary colors are projected on the surface, and beams traveling through the glass are transformed into three dimensional blocks.
FONTYS HOGESCHOOL ART & TECHNOLOGY MINOR 2011: GROUP 7 UPDATE 1
As we mentioned in a previous post, Baltan is currently working with students from Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven ICT & Lifestyle programme on their Art & Technology minor. Further reports from the students about the development of their projects can be found here. One group has their own blog to be found here: http://fontysbaltan3.blogspot.com/
And below is the second report from Group 7.
REALISATION – GROUP 7
Jesse Bakels, Shirley Schouren, Yvonne Kolen, Co Verhoeven, Nadine Niehaus, Rik van Doorn
As we progressed in our development of the concept we stumbled into a few problems. As a result of that we’ve slightly changed our original concept. The concept started as a big cube-like space where we wanted to project some video’s on. As we progressed we stumbled on these problems.
- What images would we project? Thinking about copyright, theme, etc.
- How was this relevant to “de Stijl”?
- How were we able to give it an extra dimension (as described in the assignment)
- Where do we have the space to set up such an installation?
During a recent a break, all group members took the time to think about a great concept. Yet the same problems kept coming up. So we’ve decided to change things a bit. We were able to do that because of a technique we’ve found on the Internet. Flartoolkit, a language where you are able to create digital 3d objects for live video. That’s called augmented reality.
Fontys Hogeschool Art & Technology Minor 2011: Group 7
From February to June 2011 Baltan Laboratories is working again with Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven ICT & Lifestyle programme on their Art & Technology minor. In February, Baltan and Maurer United Architects gave the students 2 assignments related to Baltan’s research. Each group chose one assignment and we have been advising them throughout the process over the last months. These assignments ranged from exploring the ideas of De Stijl in 3 or 4 dimensions, to researching the possibilities of making the invisible perceptible in an interactive installation.
Over the next weeks, we will be posting reports by the different student groups on their projects, leading up to final presentations of their finished work. Below is the first report from Group 7.
PROCESS DOCUMENTATION – GROUP 7
Jesse Bakels, Shirley Schouren, Yvonne Kolen, Co Verhoeven, Nadine Niehaus, Rik van Doorn
Baltan gave us two possible directions for our project, an assignment inspired by “De Stijl” or one assignment looking at how we could make invisible data perceptible in a specific space. Here we are going to explain what these directions mean and the ideas we came up with. For each assignment we worked out two concepts. After presenting these to the Baltan Lab, we chose two concepts out of the four.
Concept maze
The main idea was to create an interactive dimension with the public. The maze exists out of a space where the floor is “covered” with a maze construction. The interspaces must be as big as the walls of the maze. The entire maze will be projected on a wall. Participants have to wear colored t-shirts. Everyone with a colored shirt will be seen on the screen. Using the colors the participants are traceable on the lines they walk on. This way interaction occurs in the room. The structure of the projections changes because of the moving people. When people come across each other, the line of the person who walked on the route last will be on top of the line of the other person. (more…)