Jup, this week has been all about getting that board, those wires and that code to work out. Weird though, I always thought code was not for me, ever since those early, fumbling steps in processing. But now, the story is something completely different, like visiting an old foe and finding him to be like the long lost brother. No, but seriously, code is much better the second time around, and when you actually link it to something physically it might in fact be something I'll be able to do in the end. So, Watz, I hereby come crawling back to the cross...
... and there´s a reason for it: I worked on making AHO´s representation at Gave&Interiørmessa@Lillestrøm to display our projects from the autumn course 2008 at AHO, Teknoform. It took up a lot of time and energy so I´m sorry for the pause in posts those days.
1.) Einar and Timo - Photobooth
2.) Sara Johansson - Sniff
3.) André Granly and Sara Johansson
Photobooth
Einar and Timo talked about a project from Picnic´07 called the Photobooth. I think it´s great with that link between the individual tag, the prosess of taking pictures in a very open photo booth and in the end finding them on flickr.
http://www.picnicnetwork.org/
Sniff
A rfid project for kids with impaired vision. Not the first time I have had it presented to me, but I realized something new this time: the physical-ness of the interaction is what really appeals to me with this project. Hide-tech and great response is just fantastic when it works as well as it does in this one.
http://tangible.sarades.no/
http://sniff.sarades.no/
Film
A system for creating, storing, going about your ideas. A collaboration with nfi (norsk film institutt). A good example of the blog as a tool creative prosesses. Note to myself: Need to blog-a-lot in the fututre.
Their project manifestation (interaction piece) of this film stuff became a diploma project based on the theme "interactive opplevelser på filmmuseet" which is a kind of holding-hands-through-boxes-passing-on-films project
http://www.filmmuseet.org
As I was talking about in the previous post, Torshov Kompetansesenter has a lot of great "toys", this is one of them. It is not really a very toy-ish thing, it is in fact a real musical instrument. And what an instrument! You sit on the end of the box and you hit the bars / tines cut out from the top of the box. You can also play two people on the box at the same time, sitting opposed to one another. The sensation of feeling the vibrations from that huge resonating box and hearing that great voluminous, yet mellow, sound is fantastic! Ill try to figure out what the producer is called, but as of right now I cannot remember.
We went to visit Torsho Kompetansesenter on wedn. the 14. of Jan and the experience was lovely. It is a place for people with disabilities to experience great sensory input and stimulance. I especially enjoyed all the ambient stuff: music, lights, tactile surfaces and so on.. But they had some really great "toys" as well. Everyone should have some of these things in their homes, the world would become a better place:-0. The image above shows some fiberoptics which you could actually wrap your self in, see more on my flickr stream.
We went to experience / analyze the sound sculpture at the west entrance (next to the American embassy) of Nationatheateret train station. The shape of the roof reflects sound with different volume and timing in accordance to how you have positioned yourself. The result is a sweet, a bit wierd but natural reverb-ish effect. It is quite nice, I recommend it.
Looking into the lights and cameras from the NRK experience centre, an instillation letting visitors experience how it is to be in front of the green screen
