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Posts Tagged ‘motion tracking’
Genius: A one-day invention
| 23/06/2011 |
On June 23rd, Baltan Laboratories, with artist Erik Overmeire, hosts a workshop for industrial design students of the Eindhoven Technical University as part of the event “Genius: a one day invention” organised by Lucid. During this event students will design their own party! During the day they participate in several workshops of which the results will be used and exhibited at a party at TAC in Eindhoven that same night. The line up of the party is: Disasteradio, Black Box Red and DRTMSTR vs PENNY PONY.
More information about the event can be found here: http://www.tac.nu/podium/agenda/genius-one-day-invention
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.
Motion tracking workshop at the BKKC
| 21/10/2010 10:00 to 16:00 |
(In Dutch only)
Workshop Motiontracking in de kunst i.s.m. Baltan Laboratories
Locatie: bkkc
Datum: do 21 okt, 10.00 tot 16.00
Kunstenaar Geert Mul en programmeur Erik Overmeire ontwikkelden de Baltan Tracker, een hardware / software combinatie voor het opvolgen van bewegingen van mensen in een ruimte. Normaal gesproken wordt dit soort van ‘motion tracking’ gedaan met behulp van normale of bijna-infrarood camera’s. Dit kan problematisch zijn omdat elke vorm van inkomend licht of elk mogelijk object foutief gelezen kan worden als zijnde een ‘persoon’. De Baltan Tracker maakt gebruik van een thermografische camera, die een groot deel van deze licht-gerelatteerde misinterpretaties kan voorkomen doordat hij warmte-gevoelig is. In feite ziet hij zelfs helemaal geen ‘licht’, enkel infrarode straling (warmte). Momenteel maakt een opstelling met de thermocamera deel uit van de expositie DIGITAAL die nog t/m 24 oktober te zien is bij het BKKC.
Erik Overmeire zal een workshop geven op 21 oktober waarbij de Baltan Tracker als startpunt dient voor het verkennen van het gebruik en de mogelijkheden van ‘motion tracking’ voor kunstenaars. We zullen beginnen met een demo in de tentoonstelling bij de BKKC, waarin we de deelnemers de werking van de thermocamera en de Baltan tracker laten zien. Ook zullen we de voordelen van het gebruik van thermocamera’s en infraroodcamera’s bespreken.
Nadien zal Eric uitleg geven bij de basisonderdelen waaruit elke motion tracker is opgebouwd en bij de max/msp library die de deelnemers zullen hanteren. Dan zal hij de deelnemers uitnodigen om een eenvoudig werk te maken, gebruikmakend van motion tracking tools en van de kennis die tijdens de workshop werd gedeeld.
Deelnemers moeten voor deze workshop een eigen laptop meebrengen. Enige ervaring met Max/MSP is een plus maar geen vereiste.
Meer over de Baltan Tracker: http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/?p=1218
Aanmelden via: s.lugthart[at]bkkc.nl (deadline do 14 okt).
Er is plaats voor een beperkt aantal deelnemers, dus wacht niet te lang met aanmelden!
www.bkkc.nl
Fontys Hogeschool Art & Technology Minor: De Abstracte Waarheid
We are a group of ICT Media Design students at the Fontys Hogeschool HBO-ICT. Here we follow the minor programme called Lifestyle. In this minor, we apply ICT to create new smart and innovative products for wellness, health and home applications. Each semester there is a central task in which we engage. This semester Fontys has a partnership with BALTAN Laboratories. The artists from BALTAN have given us a number of assignments from which we could choose. After brief research we have chosen the assignment by Maurer United Architects in which we have to explore the principles of “De Stijl” (Theo van Doesburg 1917). In this blog we describe the progress of our project and we explain our choices.
The assignment
“De Stijl” was a Dutch art movement which was founded in 1917 in Leiden. The most important members were Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Vilmos Huszar, Bart van der Leck, Gerrit Rietveld and JJP Georges Vantongerloo Old. “De Stijl” is characterised by the use of primary colors combined with black, white and gray and straight lines. The members of “De Stijl” were searching for a pure representation of reality in order to create a universal style. The ideas were communicated via the similarly-named magazine “De Stijl”.
“De Stijl” has concentrated mainly on two-dimensional work (paintings and illustrations) and three-dimensional works (furniture and buildings). Nearly 100 years later we are in a different era, which is influenced by all sorts of media technologies. Is it possible to redesign “De Stijl” to fit our modern context?
The assignment is to create a performance / installation / film with the theme “’De Stijl’ in three to four dimensions”.
Our interpretation of “De Stijl”
After deciding on the assignment we did some research on “De Stijl”. We wanted to create our own vision, and use that vision to form our project. The key elements that we thought formed “De Stijl” are: simplicity, universality, abstraction, reality.
After many hours of thinking about things that really are universal for all human beings on this earth, we discovered that only the human form itself applies to that. We therefore wanted to use the human form in our project. It is possible to argue that people are very different and certainly not easy. But in a sense we are the same. This we want to emphasise with our concept, and later on the connection with simplicity and abstraction will become clear as well. (more…)
CASE STUDY 8
If one projects a MONDRIAAN painting on the wall, and use a computer to generate the depth lines according to the position of the viewer (tracked by a sensor), a virtual depth will be visible.