Spaces of Performance

Lady Gaga uses Sonic Notify - the inaudible QR code for smartphones

2012-02-14T05:43:00.000-08:00

She’s known for her trendy music and being on the cutting edge of fashion, but Lady Gaga has also been pioneering a sonic technology that’s set to transform experiences at live events.

At her Monsters Ball tour she deployed a product made by U.S start-up Sonic Notify that transmits a signal to the smartphones of audience members that can then link them to various websites and images – and even give them the chance to vote for the encore song.

The signal is cleverly embedded within a song or an audio track of some sort, and picked up by the Sonic Notify app.

It's a bit like a sonic version of a QR code - a scannable barcode used on some adverts that customers can read with their smartphones to access offers and more information.

The app was developed as a result of band MGMT’S record label, Cantora Records, opening a technology division and offering finance to promising start-ups.

Mail Online

Hand from above

2012-02-06T02:21:00.000-08:00

Via New Media Artworks: Prequels to Everyday Life

Rimi klare for nye skjermer

2012-01-23T05:01:00.000-08:00

Denne uken lanserer JCDecaux sitt nye digitale nettverk på T-banen i Oslo. Totalt 194 skjermer på Oslos ni største T-banestasjoner kalles Digital Metro Panels – DMP. En av de første annonsørene ut er Rimi som lanserer sin 2.0 versjon av sin handle-applikasjon. Med å gjenskape en Rimi-butikk på perrongen.

I kampanjen benyttes bl.a. en kombinasjon av DMP-skjermene og store bannere på perrong. Kampanjen sikter mot å involvere de reisende til å skanne ulike varer via QR kode. Bak kampanjen står reklamebyrået McCann og mediebyrået IUM.

Utendørskampanjen er delt inn i tre deler:

På de digitale skjermene får de reisende demonstrert hvordan de kan skanne varer med Rimi Pluss
De store bannerne er en Rimi Pop Up store hvor de reisende kan starte handleturen ved å skanne varer
For å gjøre det enklere å laste ned Rimi Pluss, har vi tilrettelagt for gratis WIFI er tilrettelagt på perrongene

Propaganda

LevelHead

2012-01-05T06:46:00.000-08:00

LevelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver.

levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

App: Hvordan lese QR-koder?

2011-10-24T15:09:00.000-07:00

iOS:
QR Reader (App Store, gratis)
Tar også vare på historikk og lar deg lage egne QR-koder

i-nigma (App Store, gratis)
Kan også lese "vanlige" strekkoder og finne priser hos Amazon m.fl.

Android:
Barcode scanner (Android Market, gratis)
Kan også generere QR-koder til apps, kontakter etc.

i-nigma (Android Market, gratis)
Samme som iOS-versjonen over

Du kan også lese dem via Google Goggles, som finnes både til Android og iPhone.

Symbian
NeoReader
Kan også scanne "vanlige" strekkoder

UpCode
Med mulighet for å lage koder

Windows Phone 7
I Windows Phone 7 er dette innebygd i Bing-søket og tilgjengelig ved å trykke på søkeknappen på telefonen. Det finnes også apps, blant annet:

Beetagg (Marketplace, gratis)
Rent grensesnitt, flere handlingsmuligheter med scannet innhold

Quickmark Lite (Marketplace, gratis)
Lar deg også lage QR-koder

Via DinSide Mobil

Street Art, Street Life: Street as Site of Globalization

2011-09-14T00:30:00.000-07:00

The New School - YouTube

"MOBIUS," a Stop-Motion Sculpture

2011-09-04T04:46:00.000-07:00

A collaborative stop motion sculpture Twenty-one large triangles animated by Melbourne, throughout Federation Square. MÖBIUS is a sculpture that can be configured into many cyclical patterns and behave as though it is eating itself, whilst sinking into the ground.

The result is an optical illusion and a time-lapse of people interacting with the sculpture and moving through Melbourne's landmark location throughout the day.

MÖBIUS was animated over two weeks Friday, Saturday & Sunday between the 6th and 20th of May 2011.

"MOBIUS," a Stop-Motion Sculpture by ENESS via Arkitektur & Miljøteknologi

Fiat Street Evo

2011-08-26T05:02:00.000-07:00

I Spania har reklamebyrået Leo Burnett laget en smart app til lanseringen av Fiat Street Evo, hvor skilt på samme måte som QR-koder.

Fiat Street Evo - The app that evolved streets forever - YouTube

På skattejakt med iPhone

2011-06-29T16:13:00.000-07:00

Fantasi og virkelighet smelter sammen når barna spiller ”Den hemmelige parken” i Vigelandsparken. Spillet er unikt i verden (nja), og kombinerer terrenget og skulpturene i Vigelandsparken med en fantasiverden som du bare kan se gjennom kameraet på mobiltelefonen. Blant ingrediensene i spillet er GPS-posisjonering, applisert virkelighet (agumented reality) og 3D-modellering av statuene i parken.

Spillet går ut på å finne den forsvunne sjelen til en av statuene i parken. Underveis må du følge etter fisk, skanne skulpturer med kameraet på telefonen og løse ulike oppgaver. Oppdragsgiveren er en tegnefilmfigur, som følger deg gjennom jakten.

kilde: Mobilen.no

Posisjonsdata som multimodal affordans

2011-06-27T18:01:00.001-07:00

Reiser til konferansen "Multimodalitet, sjanger og design", i Kristiansand i morgen. Av ulike grunner blir det bare en kort visitt.

Sammen med Ture skal jeg snakke om hvordan posisjonsdata kan betraktes som affordanser for kontekstsensitive medier. Affordans brukes om modaliteters muligheter og begrensninger med hensyn til å frambringe mening. Summen av affordanser, knyttet til et mediums ulike represetasjonsformer (modaliteter), utgjør mediets samlede potensial for meningsskaping.

James Gibson, som først benyttet begrepet "affordance", knyttet dette til kvaliteter ved objekter som bestemmer eller indikerer hvordan objektet kan brukes. Et trekk ved affordanser, i Gibsons forstand, er at de framkommer i møtet med et subjekt, slik at subjektets (kreative) evne til å ta i bruk objektet er av betydning for oppfatningen av dets affordanser. Affordanser er med andre ord kulturelt betinget. Gibson poengterer imidlertid at affordanser ikke behøver å være observerbare for de aktørene som blir påvirket av dem - de kan altså virke i det skjulte.

Et av våre poenger er at ulike former for metadata må forstås som affordanser, da særlig knyttet til digitale medier med uttrykk som på en eller annen måte blir prosessert av en datamaskin før de møter brukeren.

To problemer:
1. Metadata er imidlertid ikke semiotiske tegn, siden de i utgangspunktet ikke observerbare for sluttbrukeren. Slik sett krasjer dette litt med det mer etablerte synet på multimodalitet, som er godt plassert innenfor sosialsemiotikken.

2. Metadata virker på tvers av representasjonsformene. metadata kan for eksempel brukes til å påvirke fremstillingen gjennom lyd, såvel som bilde osv.

Det er imidlertid liten tvil om at digitale metadata kan ha stor innvirkning på fremstillingen og tolkningen av observerbare tegn. Vi tar her spesielt for oss metadata som kan knyttes til posisjon. Metadata som kan knyttes til selve mediefilene (f eks i form av EXIF-data i bildefiler), noe som kan utnyttes både ved opptak og fremføring.

Bredde- og lengdegrad (GPS)
Høyde (altimeter)
Orientering (kompass)
Bevegelse (akslerometer)

Disse dimensjonene ved posisjonering, forstår vi som affordanser for kontekstsensitive medier.

Vårt konkrete case er bruken av Augmented Reality, ved School in the Park, i San Diego, USA. Noe jeg har pratet om tidligere.

Oppdatering: Kunne gjerne vist Robot Flâneur, som et eksempel.

4th Advanced Architecture Contest

2011-06-25T15:52:00.000-07:00

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real-time data.

The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.

The competition is open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the impact real-time data collection might have on sensor-driven cities.

4th Advanced Architecture Contest - Summary via Arkitektur & Miljøteknologi

Fremtidens flykabin

2011-06-15T16:56:00.000-07:00

Med teknologier vi kanskje får se i andre sammenhenger også.

Future by Airbus via Arkitektur & Miljøteknologi

Kinect Graffiti

2011-06-11T16:32:00.000-07:00

Kinect Graffiti™ on Vimeo

Opphold i fengsel

2011-06-06T04:02:00.000-07:00

En særs inspireinde natt i et nedlagt fengsel.

Sony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality

2011-05-31T16:33:00.000-07:00

Sony has demonstrated a new augmented reality system called Smart AR that can be built into the company's future gaming devices. With Smart AR, certain real-world objects could become part of a game when viewed through a device such as the PlayStation Portable. This could allow game characters to appear on a tabletop, perhaps, or to respond to the movement of real objects.

Unlike many augmented reality systems, Smart AR does not use satellite tracking or special markers to figure out where to overlay a virtual object. Instead, it uses object recognition. This means it works where GPS signals are poor or nonexistent, for example, indoors. The markerless system is more difficult to pull off, but it allows many more everyday objects to be used.

Sony has dabbled with the technology before, using two-dimensional barcodes known as CyberCodes as markers for tracking objects.

Technology Review

FRAMED* — A Platform for New Art Forms

2011-05-24T14:25:00.000-07:00

FRAMED* — A Platform for New Art Forms

Fantastisk iPad 2-3D uten briller

2011-04-12T09:17:00.000-07:00

Frontkameraet i iPad 2 kan brukes til så mangt, blant annet 3D. Dette demonstrerer Jeremie Francone og Laurence Nigay fra EHCI Research Group.

Teknologien går ut på at front-kameraet følger brukerens hode, på den måten lages en 3D-effekt uten behov for 3D-briller.

Vi vil nok se langt mer av dette de kommende årene, også i forbrukerprodukter. Nintendo har jo allerede klart det.

ITavisen

Locast H2Fl0w

2011-03-28T01:35:00.000-07:00

Har så vidt vært innom dette prosjektet tidligere.

The Locast H2flOw project uses mobile storytelling to enhance learning and encourage urban exploration and civic engagement. The H2flOw program took Locast--a flexible, cutting-edge location-based platform--and introduced this interactive technology as a tool for educational discovery and documentation.

In the Trento region deployment, students researched the topic of sustainable water use by creating location-based video reportages and documentaries in their local context. Through this narrative and the exploration process, the students better understood the role of water and related environmental issues within their community.

H2Fl0w by MIT Mobile Experience Lab

Karotz

2011-03-14T09:44:00.000-07:00

Karotz::Home

streetARt App

2011-03-14T07:20:00.000-07:00

streetARt

Take a Picture

2011-03-13T10:18:00.000-07:00

kyleclements.com/tap/

A Day Made of Glass

2011-03-02T10:27:00.000-08:00

Wireless Stories - oppsummering

2011-02-21T06:59:00.001-08:00

Mine notater fra Wireless Stories, som får bo her for tilgjengelighetens skyld.

Apps for democracy
The capsule of civilization

Mobiler og identitetskonstruksjon

http://www.themobilecity.nl/

Design of the hybrid city - http://liftconference.com/design-hybrid-city-near-future
About Locative Media
In the edition of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac on locative media, Julian Bleecker defines locative media as follows:

“Locative media that is of most immediate concerns is that made by those who create experiences that take into account the geographic locale of interest, typically by elevating that geographic locale beyond its instrumentalized status as a ‘latitude longitude coordinated point on earth’ to the level of existential, inhabited, experienced and lived place. These locative media experiences may delve “into” the historical surface of a space to reveal past events or stories (whether fictional, confessional or standing on consensus as factual). Locative media experiences may also cross space, connecting experiences across short or long geographic, experiential, or temporal distances. At its core, locative media is about creating a kind of geospatial experience whose aesthetics can be said to rely upon a range of characteristics ranging from the quotidian to the weighty semantics of lived experience, all latent within the ground upon which we traverse.”

From this definition it is hard to make a true division between locative media and the broader category of mobile media. As different researchers (Bull, Ito) have pointed out, mobile media such as the mobile phone or the personal stereo are often used in a way described by Bleecker: creating or appropriating a geospatial experience.

More abstractly, Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis see two categories of locative media. One is annotative – these are media technologies that allow its users to virtually tag (and consequently filter) the real world. The second is phenomenological – tracing the action of a subject in the world. Another way to categorize these new media is between media that take an actual spatial context of a communicative practice as its point of departure and media that provide a virtual but spatially organized interface related to an actual geography for communicative and informational practices.

Combining these different points of view, we can differentiate between (at least) six ways in which locative and mobile media can transform our notions of urban culture.

The use of spatially organized interfaces to information databases, for instance Google Earth-mash ups or TomTom devices.
The annotation of geographic places (and the attribution, construction and contestation of maps, meaning, and territories)
The mapping or tracing of objects and persons and the use of locative media as tools for micro-coordination such as realtime and realspace social networking.
The use of locative media as filtering devices: either selecting relevant places from the perspective of the subject. Or the other way around: systems that grant or refusing access to certain places.
The use of locative media as a ‘space making devices’, altering the experience of a certain space through its use. For instance mobile phones or personal stereo’s.
The issue of address: framing space and/or subjects in a certain way, providing us with ontologic metaphors, starting to understand our subjectivities in other ways.

In chapter 4 of his PhD dissertation “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”, The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange makes the following locative media classification, based on the primary criterion by which digital media technologies are purposively ‘reconciled’ with geographical location:
Locative media technologies are used (i) for navigation and orientation in wayfinding; (ii) to measure and visualize what is otherwise not visible; (iii) to annotate physical locations with digital information; (iv) to organize social interactions; (v) for pervasive games. In addition, I argue that play not only occurs in pervasive games but informs the other categories as well. Furthermore, in all categories locative media induce us to reflect on ourselves in spatial terms.
(De Lange, 2010: 145; download as PDF or e-reader file)

For a more in depth analysis of how we approach locative media and its importance for urban culture, please see our conference text. It can be viewed here, or downloaded as a PDF file.

Paul Ricoeur om fysisk vs subjektiv tid (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ricoeur/#3.4),
Narrativer skaper en tidsopplevelse som kan deles
Identitet handler om relasjoner til omgivelsene

Vi ser oss selv som karakterer i våre egne fortellinger, knyttet til identitet. Vi deler fortellinger noe som skaper tilhørighet.

Space of similarity vs space of difference.
Kommunikasjon. Dialog vs dissemination
Publicness is the exchange of stories

pacmanhattan.com

wastedspaces.org/the-hello-wall

The installaton uses Twitter to let the public interact with the huge wall projection by Tweeting commands to @thehellowall.

geheugenvanoost.nl/
Innbyggerne i Øst-Amsterdam forteller historier om deres nabolag.

Milkproject.net

Lamontreverte.org/en/ - green watch
fører globaliseringen til at vi ikke klarer å forankre våre egne fortellinger?

Viser til #jan25 på Twitter

Spatial (map) vs temporal (plot)

The notion of authorship. Ricoeur understreker at narrativer aldri er noe vi skaper helt alene.

7scenes.com
Seven scenes for Amsterdam museum
Byen som kontekst for utstillinger ved hjelp av smarttelefoner

freq1550.waag.org/tech.html
Frequency 1550
Innhold som elevene hadde på pensum. Knytte kunnskap om byen til steder

Har gjennomført et annet prosjekt som knyttet steder i byen til religiøse ritualer. Også dele fortellinger om egne ritualer.

Prosjekt der man sendte bilder til fremmede i India og fikk bilder tilbake.

Hvem skal kunne bruke det materialet som samles inn? Er det nå en del av museets samlinger?

Lager et univers som skaper rom for brukerskapt innhold.
Noen nisjer er i ferd med å bli skapt.
De som legger inn bilder får poenger, mange poeng gjør brukerne synlige.

Becoming invisible in public space
diamond dance

bok Form and code - http://formandcode.com/

data scraping to create posters
pachube.com
Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that helps you connect to & build the 'internet of things'

Hyperreality - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality

Illuminated outdoor media
http://www.illuminate.nl/

moodwall lessons
25000 elektroniske reklameboards i Nederland

Untravel media
http://www.untravelmedia.com/

Direct experience storytelling

http://www.parkmanmurder.com/

Dokumentar Walking Cinema (iphone app)

A machine too see withhttp://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_amachinetoseewith.html

Genre
Writing
Geography
Protagonist
Audience

Terrestrial narrative
Lineær historie drevet av fysisk forflytning.

Laget et skript som lister opp alle relevante gjenstander knyttet til steder.

Folk begeistret for små spor og oppgaver som må løses
En guide som følger deg på lydsiden
Video som blir sett på stedene der hendelser har skjedd var populært
Analog interaksjon viktig

Pandemic 1.0 at Sundance
http://www.hopeismissing.com/
lokasjon viktig,
bruker strekkoder på fysiske gjenstander
regissert film supplert med karakterer på Twitter
Alternate reality gamers. Spillet var vanskelig, og krevde dedikerte brukere.
Kommer trolig som en spillefilm

A machine to see with
får beskjeder om hva som skal gjøres via telefon
skriptet i et system for callcentre
Bruker en fysisk bil som spillerne kan finne fram til og møte andre spillere

Understreker betydningen av å knytte fortellingen til fysiske steder.
Jobb med en bra begynnelse og en ditto slutt.
Suspention and disbelief. Vanskeligå få folk til å spille med i historien.
A good runtime? Folk vil ikke gå lenger enn et par kilometer. Må holde folk aktive. Ikke lenger enn to timer.
Vanskelig å bruke filmklipp med organiserte skuspillere

The third woman - http://www.thirdwoman.com/
Subjective mapping. Remake av TheThird Man
Non places, like malls
Emobilart, EU prosjekt - http://www.media.uoa.gr/~charitos/emobilart/
Benytter green screen
Tre versjoner av filmen med ulik stemning
Tre scener der man har valg, endrer ikke plottet men måten karakterene oppfører seg på.
QR og Semacode
Kunne finne koder som trigget via mobilen og wifi, men også større skjermer.
Jobber med bedre integrasjon mellom film og spill.

Søket er inspirert av geocaching.
Korte filmklipp

empedia.info/mobile

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You never get it right the first time
Nevner at seks firmaer hevder de har copyright på The Third Man

Integrating Flash with iPhone, Kinect

2011-01-16T15:08:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Kinect device to control a Flash SWF:

Meanwhile, the developers of flying game kijjaa! have figured out how to make a browser-based Flash game that’s controlled via an iPhone’s accelerometer:

Via John Nack

World Surfer

2011-01-10T07:12:00.000-08:00

GeoVector World Surfer is a whole new way to use your phone. Simply by pointing your phone you can find the rich information available on the Internet about the places you see around you.

You can also use World Surfer to:

Bookmark your car
Bookmark your hotel
Bookmark any location you like and be guided back to it
Find Your Object in a real world camera view

Designed to be an indispensible assistant to both local pedestrians and travelers, GeoVector World Surfer provides you with the excitement of discovery as well as the security of always knowing where you are and how to get safely back home.

World Surfer™ • GeoVector

Virtuell "røntgen"

2011-01-07T08:29:00.001-08:00

“The cross section isn’t actually the user’s skeleton but a volume visualization of a medical data set,” notes PCWorld. Here’s more info on the Medical Augmented Reality project.

Via John Nack

Microsoft Surface is Now Thinner, Smarter & Cheaper

2011-01-06T02:32:00.000-08:00

Microsoft showed off a new version of Surface, its tabletop touch computer, during the company’s keynote address at CES on Wednesday night.

Gone is that cumbersome cube-shaped box with cameras inside. Now, there’s a piece of super-tough Gorilla Glass (the same glass that’s on the front and back of the iPhone 4) on top of what looks like a parson’s table. The whole thing is only four inches thick and works with faster processors and sophisticated infrared sensors that give it finer resolution.

The real secret sauce is what Microsoft calls Pixel Sense, a miniaturized version of all those cameras that were formerly mounted underneath the glass surface of the table. Not only is this new version a lot tougher than its predecessor, making it a much more appropriate tabletop for rowdy bars; it’s also a lot smarter. As Microsoft put it, “Every pixel is acting as a camera, so the surface of the PC can actually see.”

Source: Mashable

Datatilsynet er kritiske til Facebook Places

2011-01-05T10:59:00.000-08:00

I formiddag ble den omstridte tjenesten Places rullet ut for norske bruke av den populære sosiale nettjenesten Facebook.

Med Places kan Facebook-brukere rapportere til vennene sine om hvor de befinner seg, laste opp bilder fra stedet, og samtidig tagge hvilke andre venner som eventuelt er med dem.

Facebook Places ble lansert for noen måneder siden i USA og flere europeiske land.

- Du mister litt grepet over hvem som får vite hvor du er. Og det kan være problematisk i forhold til arbeidsgiveren, familie, venner eller andre relasjoner, sier informasjonsdirektør Ove Skåra i Datatilsynet, til DinSide.

Kilde: DinSide

Olafur Eliasson: Din blinde passager

2011-01-03T10:54:00.000-08:00

Olafur Eliasson - "Din blinde passeger" på Arken museum.

Bokode: bokeh used to transmit info

2010-10-23T09:05:00.000-07:00

What an interesting idea: researchers are using bokeh (lens blur), instead of sharpness, to transmit lots of data into cameras (think barcodes/QR codes on steroids). Check out the demo:

Check out the project page for more details.

Via John Nack

WeePlaces.com FourSquare

2010-08-10T14:48:00.000-07:00

WeePlaces.com FourSquare Visualization

Living life in augmented reality

2010-08-08T10:24:00.000-07:00

Augmented reality smartphone apps allow users to view the world through their phone's camera with an overlay of useful local information. But with the advent of augmented reality games, could fantasy finally become reality?

A shadowy organisation is stalking a lone individual across London. Its goal? To capture a young woman who has knowledge which could blow the lid off this outfit's nefarious activities in Zambia.

Can a group of ordinary people protect this whistleblower and expose a conspiracy involving oil, a sinister multinational and a library in an African village?

This is not a movie script, but it is the scenario being played out in an augmented reality game called Conspiracy For Good.

This interactive game invites players to engage in a modern day treasure hunt, and springs from the mind of Tim Kring, the writer behind superhero television show, Heroes.

Source: BBC News

Augmented Reality Becoming More Like the Read/Write Web

2010-07-17T16:03:00.000-07:00

This week, augmented reality (AR) took a significant step toward becoming more like the read/write Web with the launch of an online mobile AR CMS for creating content on the Layar platform.

"Augmentation" - a Web-based tool for generating mobile AR content - was created by Layar Partner Network member Hoppala. With a Layar developer account, users of Augmentation can easily and instantaneously place their content in Layar with zero code and a few clicks on a map. Custom icons, images, audio, video and 3D content can all be added by way of a full screen map interface, and Hoppala will even host all of the data.

The company has been providing content management solutions for Layar since launching a beta test of its Layarserver in August of 2009. This project, however, is new in that it provides a tidy user-friendly GUI for adding myriad AR data instantly to Layar. For a more detailed look at how the Augmentation Web app works, watch the video embedded below.

As more tools like Augmentation lower the bar of entry for augmented reality, a flood of AR data will begin to fill platforms like Layar, junaio and Wikitude. This progression is not unlike that of the Web with the widespread popularity of blogs. With the Web, however, powerful search engines make finding relevant content much easier and Websites are (for the most part) browser agnostic.

Source: Read/Write Web

Situated Simulations

2010-07-10T09:54:00.001-07:00

«Situated Simulations»-applikasjonen, utviklet gjennom Inventio-prosjektet ved UiO, har fått en innebygd nettleser som viser fram relevante nettsteder uten at 3D-omgivelsene forlates. Applikasjonen kan også gi mer informasjon om objekter som brukeren peker på med mobilen.

Applikasjonen utvikles i samarbeid med svenske CodeGrind. Det arbeides også med en applikasjon til iPad, og i løpet av høsten skal det også komme en versjon for Android.

Kilde: Situated Simulations

Transformerbare skjermer??

2010-06-30T07:56:00.000-07:00

Bruksområdene kan være mange for denne teknologien, som riktignok bare er på forsøksstadiet:

En kan for eksempel se for seg fleksible skjermer, som så kan endre form ved hjelp av løsninger som dette.

Kilde: Nature News

sound:frame Festival Lightrails

2010-06-18T13:10:00.000-07:00

The interactive audio-visual installation ‘Lightrails’ was a project that Strukt created together with unheilbar architektur for Project Space inside the Kunsthalle Wien, commissioned by sound:frame festival.

‘Lightrails’ is a light sculpture with the intention to re-define and re-interpret the exhibition room. An easy but effective mapping technique was used to create seamless projections on both sides of the object. Light-beams were triggered by the visitors and ran through the room, following the surface created by the sculpture. Each ‘reflection’ of the light-beam was accompanied by sound. The speed and brightness of the beam was directly influenced by the force the visitors used when triggering the beam stepping on pedals on the floor. This also influenced the volume of the sound-effects. The audio signal was played back on a surround sound system that allowed a spatial positioning of the sounds and created a truly immersive experience.

The sound-design was courtesy of Digitalofen Audiobakery, which also created the ambient sounds that were pervasive through the room. As usual, we used our favorite real-time multipurpose toolkit to create the installation.

sound:frame Festival Lightrails / Strukt

StreetMuseum iPhone app

2010-05-26T11:38:00.000-07:00

The Museum of London has launched an iPhone app which cleverly brings its extensive art and photographic collections to the streets of the capital.

The really clever thing about this app is that if you are in the location pictured, you can click on the "3D view" button and the app will recognise your location and overlay the historic image over the current view - augmenting the reality that the built in iPhone camera perceives.

More info on the app can be found at museumoflondon.org.uk/

Creative Review

11-M Memorial. Atocha Station. Madrid, Spain

2010-05-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

by felipe_gabaldon

Robert Rice - Augmented Reality

2010-05-16T12:26:00.000-07:00

Robert Rice talks about Augmented Reality and its position and function in the evolving spectrum of developments. The future of mobile is not the phone, AR changes everything. He shows current examples and also what AR might look like in the future. He talks about tags, markers and glasses. Wearable displays will have a huge impact on the reach of AR.

Danmarksplass Streetart Gallery

2010-05-14T02:51:00.000-07:00

Tidligere versjoner

Strømsgaten 30. april 2010

2010-05-03T02:53:00.000-07:00

I wiped the table-top
Mother layed you down on it
I sticked you together
by the pieces
and now you`re waiting
for the blade
I will cut your
hair, eyes, nose and lips out
but I'm saving heart
So the wall could absorb
the essence hidden inside

pss pss
Can is wispering softly

Podcasts from the Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice

2010-04-27T13:57:00.000-07:00

These are recordings of talks and performances from the Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice Conference (http://elitineurope.net/network2009). You may listen to these files as streams, download the the invidual recordings, or subscribe to them as podcasts by clicking on the itunes icon to the left. The conference was supported by the University of Bergen, the Research Council of Norway, and the City of Bergen. All audio recordings were made by Chris Funkhouser. NOTE: The first panel discussion is towards the bottom of this page, because of the order the files uploaded. More recordings of performances and video podcasts to follow.

Podcasts from the Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice Conference

Plasmaskjermen får nytt liv

2010-04-16T11:31:00.000-07:00

Winscape kombinert med sensorer

Slik er det hele satt sammen:

NRKbeta

Arduino Assisted Mind-Controlled TV Using EEG

2010-04-11T15:54:00.000-07:00

Paul's Projects

Danmarksplass 16. mars 2010

2010-04-06T02:12:00.000-07:00

Her er det interessant utvikling over en måneds tid:

Ny versjon den 14. mai 2010. Det hele har fått et navn Danmarksplass Streetart Gallery

Nå kommer mobil super-virkelighet

2010-04-04T12:51:00.000-07:00

Sekai Camera er en helt ny applikasjon for iPhone lansert i Japan i september i fjor som gjør det mulig å få informasjon om produkter, bygninger og omverden gjennom telefonen ved bruk av kamera og GPS.

Applikasjonen legger informasjonsgrafikk på toppen av den virkeligheten du filmer med kamera på telefonen og vips så dukker nyttig og unyttig meldinger opp.

- Du kan også selv tagge informasjon du vil dele med andre. Jeg kan enten taste inn en kommentar eller lese inn en melding jeg tror andre vil være interessert i, forteller Akisa. Men det er mye virtuelt søppel som er lagt igjen.

DN.no

Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better

2010-03-22T17:32:00.000-07:00

Don't act too surprised if, some time in the next year, you meet someone who explains that their business card isn't just a card; it's an augmented reality business card. You can see a collection and, at visualcard.me, you can even design your own, by adding a special marker to your card, which, once put in front of a webcam linked to the internet, will show not only your contact details but also a video or sound clip. Or pretty much anything you want.

It's not just business cards. London Fashion Week has tried them out too: little symbols that look like barcodes printed onto shirts, which, when viewed through a webcam, come to life. Benetton is using augmented reality for a campaign that kicked off last month, in which it is trying to find models from among the general population.

Augmented reality – AR, as it has quickly become known – has only recently become a phrase that trips easily off technologists' lips; yet we've been seeing versions of it for quite some time. The idea is straightforward enough: take a real-life scene, or (better) a video of a scene, and add some sort of explanatory data to it so that you can better understand what's going on, or who the people in the scene are, or how to get to where you want to go.

Technology | The Observer

Augmented Reality i biler

2010-03-18T16:14:00.000-07:00

Nettstedet Mashable skriver om General Motors tanker om hvordan ny teknologi kan forbedre biler og trafikk. GM ser for seg at en rekke systemer i bilen hjelper sjåføren: GPS-navigasjon, kamera som ser i mørke og bildeanalyse. Det hele knyttet til et display, integrert ifrontvinduet.

BMW vil også være med på utviklingen:

Via NRKbeta

Kravlende display

2010-03-12T08:32:00.000-08:00

Dessverre er det bare et konsept utviklet av Julia Y. Tsao. Hun kaller det “Curious displays” og sier selv:

The project explores our relationship with devices and technology by examining the multi-dimensionality of communication and the complexity of social behavior and interaction. In its essence, the project functions as a piece of design fiction, considering the fluctuating nature of our present engagement with media technology and providing futurist imaginings of other ways of being.

og…

Curious Display “blocks” are tangible and tactile. They occupy and move through physical space, and are thus subject to the same spatial rules and limitations faced by any other physical objects. These constraints lend themselves to potentially interesting outcomes in terms of interactivity and negotiation. An abundance of questions quickly begin to surface–how do they move? How do they behave? Does this movement and behavior begin to allude to the development of a type of personality? How does one communicate with them? Where do they go when you’re not using them? What role do they take on in our daily lives?

Spennende og veldig kreativt. Jeg liker spesielt hvordan uttrykket “out of the box” nå faktisk er 100% sant. Les alt om “Curious displays” på Julias blogg.

NRKbeta

Illegal Art

2010-03-07T07:05:00.000-08:00

Resirkulering av en gammel bloggpost, som synes relevant her...

Opphavsrettslovgivningen har blitt så omfattende at kunstnere må ha juridisk bistand for å finne fram i rettighetsjungelen. Å bruke deler av et kunstverk eller annet medieuttrykk for å skape noe nytt har vært en viktig del av kunsten, ikke minst den som kommenterer og kritiserer samtiden. Sjangre som collage, hiphop, og Pop Art hadde kanskje aldri eksistert om kunstnerne skulle forholdt seg til dagens opphavsrettslovgivning. Sitat- og kopiretten er basale rettigheter i et demokratisk samfunn, rettigheter som nå er i ferd med å bli ofret på grunn av internasjonalt press fra store økonomiske interesser.
Illegal Art er et tiltak som utfordrer det rådende regimet. Festivalen er sponset av magasinet Stay Free!, Internet Archives, Prelinger Archives og Center for Media, Culture and History ved New York University.

Se Illegal Arts artikkelsamling, mye interessant.

Skinput Turns Your Body Into a Touchscreen

2010-03-04T07:50:00.000-08:00

Skinput makes use of a microchip-sized pico projector embedded in an armband to beam an image onto a user’s forearm or hand. When the user taps a menu item or other control icon on the skin, an acoustic detector also in the armband analyzes the ultralow-frequency sound to determine which region of the display has been activated.

You can check out more specifics on the technology behind Skinput in the paper the group will present [Warning: PDF link] in April at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Atlanta.

Mashable.com

The Language of Landscape

2010-03-02T08:43:00.000-08:00

The Language of Landscape argues that landscape is a form of language with its own grammar and metaphors and that all can learn to read landscape and to cultivate the power of landscape expression.

The Eye Is a Door is a call for visual literacy and a guide. Essays of photographs and words explore seeing as a way of knowing and photography as a way of thinking.

KNOWING WHERE TO STAND WEBSITE

HiBook

2010-02-18T12:18:00.000-08:00

En ufullstendig sammenfatning av potensiale og noen utfordringer knyttet til et mulig system for "e-bøker på steroider".

Augmented-reality maps

2010-02-18T11:46:00.000-08:00

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into… Full bio and more links

Getting all bionic

2010-02-04T11:44:00.000-08:00

Wired

Homefront Dissolve

2010-02-04T11:38:00.000-08:00

Keiichi Matsuda, a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, produced this fantastic short video in the final year of his M.Arch. It was, he writes, "part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality."

BLDGBLOG

Se bygninger i 3D gjennom telefonen

2010-02-03T13:53:00.000-08:00

Det er det nederlandske arkitekturinstituttet (NAI) som har utviklet applikasjonen Sara til mobiltelefoner.

Applikasjonen er tilgjengelig gjennom en browser for augmented reality (AR), Layar, og viser informasjon om eksisterende bygninger og 3D-modeller av bygninger under oppføring - alt mens du spaserer rundt i Amsterdams bygater.

Alt du behøver å gjøre er å peke på interessante bygninger eller tomter i nærheten med kameraet på mobiltelefonen, og applikasjonen finner automatisk informasjon om bygningene.

Dagbladet.no

EU to monitor deviant behaviour in anti-terrorism fight

2010-01-29T08:14:00.000-08:00

The EU is funding ambitious programmes to monitor human behaviour in the fight against crime and terrorism. Some people are afraid this will turn us all into suspects.

Say you are a frequent flier and you check in faster than most people. A network of advanced cameras at the airport can measure your speed and alert the control room. The system knows terrorists tend to be nervous and almost never stop for coffee. This makes a speedy traveller a suspicious traveller.

You may also want to think twice about using the airport bathroom more than once. There is a good chance you will be picked out for an extensive security check.

These are some of the things being studied by an EU-funded project for detecting suspicious behaviour, Adabts (Automatic Detection of Abnormal Behaviour and Threats in Crowded Spaces.)

nrc.nl - International - Europe

Vil avsløre "unormal" atferd

2010-01-29T08:11:00.000-08:00

Avanserte algoritmer, videoovervåkningsutstyr og grafikkprosessorer står sentralt i forskningsprosjektet ADABTS (Automatic Detection of Abnormal Behaviour and Threats in crowded Spaces).

- Tanken bak ADABTS er å avdekke unormal atferd på offentlige steder der det ferdes mye folk. Slike steder kan ha mange videokameraer, men det kan være vanskelig for kameraoperatørene å følge med på alt, sier forskningssjef Mats Carlin, som leder Sintef IKTs avdeling for optiske målesystemer og dataanalyse, til digi.no.

Løsningen skal for eksempel kunne fange opp situasjoner der personer ferdes i forbudte områder, eller om noen begynner å løpe på en flyplass.

Ifølge Carlin skal man bygge et system som fanger opp slåsskamp på en idrettsarena, om noen skriker, glass som knuser eller personer som agerer voldsomt.

digi.no : Juss & samfunn

A Language of Space

2010-01-27T00:51:00.001-08:00

Blinkenlights Stereoscope

2010-01-14T15:19:00.000-08:00

YouTube - Blinkenlights Stereoscope

Siftables, the toy blocks that think

2010-01-14T06:59:00.000-08:00

MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?

YouTube - David Merrill

Presentasjon - seminar kunstfagdidaktikk

2010-01-04T14:55:00.000-08:00

Med vekt på tre av de opprinnelige delprosjektene:

1. Space to place – locus and platea ( TEORI )

Tar utgangspunkt i skillet mellom locus og platea,
begreper som tradisjonelt har vært brukt om fysisk rom, men som også er anvendbare for å beskrive egenskaper ved virtuelle rom.

Diskutere og eksemplifisere møter mellom fysisk og virtuelt rom, også i vekslende virkeligheter (Augmented Reality).

Med dette som utgangspunkt vil en arbeide med en stedsontologi, som et utgangspunkt for å diskutere ulike former for stedsdannelse.

2. Visual expressions and space ( EMPIRI )

Undersøke hvordan ulike visuelle uttrykk påvirker de inntrykkene som brukerne danner seg i møtet med visuelle stedsbaserte uttrykk.

Estetiske uttrykk i fysiske rom, spesielt "uautorisert" gatekunst, uttrykk som ofte er i dialog med, men også i opposisjon til, kommersielle uttrykksformer, som reklame, og autorisert utsmykning av et byrom.

Som et supplement til artikler og presentasjoner tar vi sikte på å formidle funn fra delprosjektet i form av en utstilling, både i et fysisk lokale og på egne nettsider.

Hvordan romlige, nettbaserte uttrykk blir brukt for å uttrykke tilhørighet til et sted, og beskrive hvordan slike steder fremstilles.

Bruk av Memoz og andre systemer for spatial publisering. Systemene gjør det mulig å kombinere egenskaper som en kjenner fra personlige publiseringsformer, som weblogger (kommentarfunksjoner), wikier (samarbeid om felles produkt), samt geografiske informasjonssystemer (kobling til sted).

3. How Places Learn ( ANALYSE )

Hvordan ulike teknologier knyttet til vekslende virkeligheter er med på å utvikle et steds innhold over tid, spesielt med tanke på samvirket mellom digitalt medierte uttrykk og et byrom.

Mobile enheters innvirkning på forståelsen av et sted, og som bindeledd mellom virtuelle og fysiske representasjoner.

Hierarki der et definerende arkitektonisk element betraktes ut fra samvirket mellom en rekke delelementer – en bys visuelle struktur sammelignet med hvordan vi orienterer oss i en digital tekst.

Forbindelser mellom fysiske og virtuelle omgivelser.

Endringssykluser / variasjonsgrader

Kontekst
– koblinger mellom forskjellige steder (fysiske og virtuelle)
Struktur
– koblinger mellom elementer innen et sted.
Innhold
– det fysiske og virtuelle elementenes form.
Plassering
– elementenes plassering (fysisk og virtuelt)

Sniff - Emergence Exhibition

2009-12-24T03:37:00.000-08:00

The final piece in the Emergence Exhibition is “Sniff” by Karolina Sobecka and Jim George. Sniff is an interactive projection: an animated dog follows passers-by, discerns their behavior as friendly or aggressive, tries to engage them and forms a relationship with them based on the history of the interaction. As the viewer walks by the projection, their movements and gestures are tracked by a computer vision system. Sniff is an exploration of the moment of engagement.

Interactive Architecture dot Org

The Illustrated Man: How LED Tattoos Could Make Your Skin a Screen

2009-11-21T15:47:00.000-08:00

The title character of Ray Bradbury’s book The Illustrated Man is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story.

New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course). Researchers there are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit under the skin like a tattoo. Already implanted into mice, these tattoos could carry LEDs, turning your skin into a screen.

The silk substrate onto which the chips are mounted eventually dissolves away inside the body, leaving just the electronics behind. The silicon chips are around the length of a small grain of rice - about 1 millimeter, and just 250 nanometers thick. The sheet of silk will keep them in place, molding to the shape of the skin when saline solution is added.

Philips, the electronics giant, is exploring some rather sexual uses:

It’s certainly rather creepy, but we’re sure that the inevitable next stage of playing adult movie clips on your partner’s back will be appealing to some. We, of course, are considering the geekier side of this tech. GPS, with a map readout on the back of the wrist would certainly be useful, as would chips that cover your eyeballs and can darken down when the sun is shining too bright.

Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Surface som gigantisk gaming-bord

2009-10-20T09:53:00.000-07:00

tudenter fra Carnegie Mellon University som har utviklet spillet til Surface. Navnet på spillet er Surfacescapes og er et «proof-of-concept», dvs. en app som viser hva maskinvaren er god for.

Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story TAs on Vimeo.

ITavisen

Public to monitor CCTV from home

2009-10-12T14:06:00.000-07:00

The Internet Eyes website will offer up to £1,000 if viewers spot shoplifting or other crimes in progress.

The site's owners say they want to combine crime prevention with the incentive of winning money.

But civil liberties campaigners say the idea is "distasteful" and asks private citizens to spy on each other.

The private company scheme - due to go live in Stratford-upon-Avon in November - aims to stream live footage to subscribers' home computers from CCTV cameras installed in shops and other businesses.

BBC

The Wearable Internet Will Blow Mobile Phones Away

2009-10-12T13:56:00.000-07:00

Earlier this year at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group showcased a wearable computing system that allows users to display and interact with the Web on any surface - including the human body. The video shows the system's main developer, Pranav Mistry, taking photographs with his hand, summoning up Amazon review data onto the cover of a physical book, displaying information about a person he's just met on their tee-shirt, and calling someone by inputting a phone number onto the palm of his hand.

Look out mobile phones, because in a decade's time wearable systems may be the primary means of accessing the Web!

Readwriteweb

Google Earth viser deg køen

2009-09-30T10:41:00.000-07:00

I et pågående prosjekt ser Georgia Tech på muligheten for å videreutvikle Google Earth. Det jobbes med å kunne utnytte kamerainformasjon fra dagens mange utplasserte kameraer. Dermed kan det animeres for eksempel trafikkbildet forløpende, slik at du kan gå inn å se om det er kø på direkten via Google Earth, melder Engadget.com.

Google Earth viser deg køen - mobilen.no

Utvidet virkelighet på iPhone

2009-08-26T13:45:00.000-07:00

Metro Paris Subway kom med AR-funksjoner i en oppdatering i forrige uke, skriver Readwriteweb.

Readwriteweb er overrasket over utgivelsen, fordi det ikke var ventet at AR-teknologi ville være tilgjengelig på iPhone før ved neste oppdatering av iPhones operativsystem.

De nye mulighetene i programmet gir virtuelle skilt som svever over bildene gjennom mobilkameraet i sanntid, komplett med avstand og retning til forretninger og kollektivtilbudet i den franske hovedstaden.

Slik blir programmet presentert i en videosnutt som er lagt ut på Youtube:

Digi.no : Personlig teknologi

Augmented reality med mobilen

2009-08-19T04:46:00.000-07:00

Video fra Layar.com som viser hvordan du kan gå på boligjakt med mobilen i hånda ved hjelp av Layars nettleser til Android-telefoner:

Applikasjon fra Acrossairs kommende NearestTube-applikasjon for iPhone 3GS som finner de nærmeste undergrunnsstasjonene i London:

Dette er augmented reality - DinSide Data

3D projeksjon på bygninger

2009-08-12T16:12:00.000-07:00

I samme sjanger som 555 Kubik finner vi denne projeksjonen utført av hollandske NuFormer Digital Media.

Projection on buildings - Live performance from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

Denne genererte videoen viser ytterligere noen av mulighetene:

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

555 Kubik

2009-08-08T07:47:00.000-07:00

555 kubik:

The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers "Galerie der Gegenwart".

Resultant permeabilty of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves - describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself.

A extended version of the documentation can be found here

Art Direction: Daniel Rossa

3D Operator: David Starmann
Sound Design: Jonas Wiese

A Urbanscreen production

Wonderfl Physical Computing

2009-08-01T02:30:00.000-07:00

wonderfl is (was) a web-based flash development environment. The idea is: you type code into the web page, and compile it in the same page. A few seconds later, and your code is a fully functional demo sitting alongside what you've just written.

What's really great though is the ability for you to browse other user's source code, test it, and add to it. Add to that, the Funnel Server. Funnel is a set of libraries for Actionscript 3 (and Ruby and Processing), that provide a simple interface between these languages, and your hardware.

As an introduction to physical computing, without the hassle of spending time understanding the ins and outs, it is perfect. There are a good mix of simple and complex projects, look through them here.

An example:

Interactive Architecture dot Org

QR Code Sand Castle

2009-07-29T09:08:00.000-07:00

A Tokyo-based company launched the Sinap Summer 2009 Project, creating a human-scale QR code out of sand on a Shonan beach, about an hour away from the capital. The finished result, along with several “making-of” photos and a video, appear on the project website. To date, almost 400 readers have left comments regarding whether or not their mobiles could read the code; a cursory glance at the results shows that most phones could.

In addition to creating the sand QR code, Sinap is teaming up with the Nishihama Surf Lifesaving Club to promote beach cleaning efforts. According to Sinap, the efforts to break away from information noise pollution and to rid beaches of disposable lifestyle goods (plastic bags, foam trays…) are complementary endeavors.

Trends in Japan - QR Code Sand Castle, by Sinap

Novalia - Printed Electronics

2009-07-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

Control module
We have developed and supply a ‘printed electronics control module’; this self contained unit consists of a power source, integrated circuit (I/O control and interaction flow), and sound transducer.

Integration
The module is very simple to integrate with the printed item, in fact it’s almost as easy as putting a stamp on an envelope (but for now it’s not quite
as thin).

Senses
The integration of the module and the conductive inks enables the printed item and the user to communicate through the senses of touch, sight
and sound.

Communication
IPM enables communication between the printed item and the user, the direction the dialogue takes depends on each experience, essentially ‘what you get out depends on what you put in’.

Novalia - Printed Electronics

Locast - location based narrowcasting

2009-07-26T15:15:00.000-07:00

A project called Locast from the MIT Mobile Experience Lab augment the physical environment with location-based media.

Food for your eyes [3] - Locast from MIT Mobile Experience Lab on Vimeo.

"Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New media. It consists of a combination of Mobile and Wearable Computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New media. It consists of a combination of Mobile and Wearable Computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. "

For more detailed information on how Locast works visit MIT MEL

Smart Mobs - Locast - location based narrowcasting / distributed television

Honda's GPS-system helps you steer clear of crime

2009-07-19T23:34:00.000-07:00

Honda has a new GPS navigation system for Japan that taps into the police database and points out seedy areas on the map. The device can point out specific locations that cars have been stolen or broken into in the past, as well as generally sketchy districts.

Honda nav system helps you steer clear of crime, just like your momma taught you

Situated Technologies

2009-07-18T10:24:00.000-07:00

The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it are affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other "situated" technologies?

A new generation of architecture that responds to building occupants and environmental factors has embraced distributed technical systems as a means and end for developing more mutually enriching relationships between people, the space they inhabit, and the environment.

Situated Technologies |

Arkitekturmuseet Ornamentets �terkomst

2009-07-18T04:25:00.000-07:00

Mer än 100 år efter att Adolf Loos skrev "Ornament und Verbrechen", ett manifest som effektivt bannlyste ornament och ornamentik från arkitekturen, gör utställningen "Ornamentets återkomst" ett första försöka att beskriva var det befinner sig idag.

Arkitekturmuseet Ornamentets återkomst

Art and Code

2009-07-18T04:13:00.000-07:00

ART AND CODE is a conference and online community focused on programming environments for artists, young people, and the rest of us.

The conference took place the weekend of March 7-9, 2009 on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. It featured hands-on workshops and a symposium showcase for 11 different creative toolkits -- programming languages made by artists, for artists.

Art and Code

Smart clothes could take photos

2009-07-11T01:45:00.000-07:00

US researchers have made smart fabric that can detect the wavelength and direction of light falling on it.

The research team has found a way to accurately place sensors in each fibre and co-ordinate the electrical signals they send when light falls on them.

The results were a step towards "ambient light imaging fabrics" said the researchers.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart clothes could take photos

Augmented Landscapes

2009-07-06T09:18:00.000-07:00

I've just been reading an awesome new publication by students from the Bartlett School of Architecture's Unit 11, whose instructors are Mark Smout and Laura Allen of Augmented Landscapes fame.

BLDGBLOG: Going to Eleven

Stedskunstens retorikk

2009-06-16T23:45:00.000-07:00

På samme måte som ordet «estetikk», er «sted» et ord arkitekter stadig vender tilbake til og benytter seg av i den retorikken vi omgir vårt daglige virke med. Særlig i diskusjoner der man skal argumentere for arkitekturens verdi, som for eksempel i møte med oppdragsgivere eller lokale myndigheter. Da bruker vi uttrykk som «stedets kvaliteter», «stedstilhørighet», «stedsutvikling». Til og med «stedskunst». Men hva er et sted? Er det en samling ulike objektive kvaliteter som knytter seg til et bestemt geografisk punkt, og som man kan analysere seg frem til ved en såkalt «stedsanalyse»? Eller er det et sekkebegrep som kan romme et antall subjektivt utvalgte deler av en opplevelse, som man kan benytte seg av i beskrivelsen av et prosjekt for å få sine samarbeidspartnere til å nikke gjenkjennende?

«Stedsutvikling» er også et av de operative begrepene som er begynt å dukke opp i diskusjonene om en ny norsk arkitekturpolitikk. Det lyder jo som et område der politikere og fagpersoner kan møtes. På Norsk Forms hjemmesider siteres p.t. Kultur- og kirkeminister Trond Giske, som ved åpningen av den nylig avholdte arkitekturpolitikkonferansen skal ha uttalt at «God arkitektur kan gjøre mirakler for et sted». Det han faktisk sa, hvis man hører på åpningstalen som også er lagt ut, var: «God arkitektur og planlegging kan gjøre mirakler for et område.» Område. Omgivelser. Sted. Kanskje ordvalget ikke spiller noen rolle. Men det er interessant at ordet «sted» stadig vekk sniker seg til en fremtredende plass i diskusjonen.

Arkitektur N nr. 04/2009 | NAL

Ubuild.dk

2009-06-12T13:51:00.000-07:00

U_build er arbeidstittelen på et ambisiøst dansk utviklingsprosjekt som tar mål av seg å forenee byggeindustrien med spillbransjen for å skape en innovativt digitalt "prosess og dialogverktøy" for bygging.

Visjonen er at verktøyet kan bli en plattform for en kostnadseffektiv og ambisiøse brukerdeltagelse, som optimalisere utvikling og beslutningsunderlag for komplekse byggesager på tvers av verdikjeden.

Videre kan det øke kvaliteten på det ferdige bygget, og danne grunnlag for brukerdrevet innovasjon i stor skala - både når det gjelder de enkelte byggene og byen som de inngår som en del av.

Ubuild.dk

Project Natal

2009-06-03T14:55:00.000-07:00

Microsofts Project Natal ser svært interessant ut, selv for en som ikke er særlig interessert i spill. Microsoft lagt ut en video viser hvordan dette virker:

Project Natal registrerer bevegelser, og ser i første omgang ut til å være en erstatning for de spillkontrollerne vi kjenner i dag.

Men hva er interessant med dette for en som ikke spiller? Jo, dersom kameraet faktisk er så presist som det loves, så burde det kunne benyttes ting jeg synes er spennede: For eksempel motion capturing og match moving for hvermansen. Dessuten bør det kunne realisere grensesnitt som vi har ventet på en stund....

Creating Public Spaces

2009-05-27T05:01:00.000-07:00

Fred Kent lecture at University of California at San Diego concerning his work with the Project for Public Space (PPS). Thrilling stuff for urban renewal geeks, albeit with some really messed up lighting and shadows.

Fornemmelse for mord

2009-04-30T11:29:00.000-07:00

Dette er ikke en ny cyberthriller, men et fremtidsrettet innspill der intuisjon tas på alvor i kriminaletterforskning. Ingerid Rødseth ved Institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap har forsket på hvordan bruk av intuisjon kan støttes i kriminaletterforskning. Hun har fått god hjelp av doktorgradsstudenten Tor Gjøsæter, som har programmert prototypen CrimeSceneAR.

- Intuisjon er bruk av ubevisst kunnskap. Det er en oppsummeringsfunksjon som kan tre i kraft når det er så mye informasjon at man ikke klarer å behandle den bevisst. Man får en intuitiv følelse av at noe er rett eller galt, uten at man vet grunnen til det. Ofte kommer man frem til grunnen senere, forklarer Rødseth til På høyden.

Hun har intervjuet flere kriminaletterforskere om hvordan de bruker intuisjon når de skal løse saker. Prosjektet hennes skal gjøre det enklere å dele intuisjon med andre, og gjøre det til et felles arbeidsverktøy for flere etterforskere.

På Høyden - Fornemmelse for mord

PLACE: Public Libraries - Arenas for Citizenship

2009-04-23T02:33:00.000-07:00

An Investigation of the Public Library as a Community Meeting Place Fostering Social Capital in a Digital and Multicultural Context1

1. The general goal of the project

The project aims at investigating the possibility of developing public libraries in multicultural local communities into arenas

that are experienced as relevant for all groups
that can function as meeting places in the community promoting social capital
that fosters the critical mass of cross-cultural communication necessary for democratic processes?

The project relates to concerns regarding social cohesion and integration, community and social capital in the multicultural and digital society. These concerns prove themselves more important every day; cf. the riots sparked by the publishing in Western Europe of the Mohammed cartoons in 2006.

The public library is not only a place where knowledge and culture can be found and distributed, but also a public space. A public space is not a fixed form, but a physical sphere with few limitations concerning those who visit the actual territory. The quality of a public space is a result of many interwoven processes regarding questions of public policy, physical design, and service quality.

As both a public space and a centre of knowledge and culture, the public library has a potential for being a vital part of a local community. It is used by most segments of society and it is a junction where different cultures as well as different spheres of life - education, leisure & entertainment, work and business – meet. This research project is aiming towards understanding the role of the public library in the making of social capital. It is most likely that public spaces are essential in fostering local communities with high quality. The sense of belonging, the nurturing processes of making identity, the social bridging between members of a community, is depending on the existence of mutual ground – virtual and/or physical.

Høgskolen i Oslo - PLACE

ITU Gaze Tracker

2009-04-22T10:03:00.000-07:00

The ITU Gaze Tracker, developed by the Gaze Group at the IT University of Copenhagen and supported by the Communication by Gaze Interaction association (COGAIN), has been released. It aims to provide a free, open-source, low-cost alternative to commercial gaze tracking systems, and a starting point for people interested in the development of gaze tracking systems. A special effort has been put into designing an easy-to-use interface.

More information on the ITU Gaze Tracker and a link to download the software can be found in the Downloads section of the website. Other gaze-typing and gaze-controlled applications developed by the Gaze Group are also available.

ITU Gaze Tracker released

Cave-teknologi

2009-04-21T15:00:00.000-07:00

IDEO Labs ~~nye~~ oppfinnelse, iCube, tar i bruk tre hvite vegger og et hvitt gulv for å skape en utrolig effektiv simulering. Sammenhengende, stereoskopiske bilder blir vist på de fire flatene. Brukeren må imidlertid ha på seg spesielle 3D-briller.

ITavisen | Se det utrolige 3D-rommet!

World Builder

2009-04-17T14:02:00.001-07:00

RFID-iPhone

2009-04-16T10:05:00.000-07:00

Kommunikasjonen mellom de fysiske objektene og iPhone-applikasjonen foregår ved hjelp av elektroniske, trådløse RFID-brikker (Radio Frequency Identification). En egen RFID-leser er koblet til mobiltelefonens bakside.

iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.

At nettopp iPhone er valgt som hjernen i løsningen virker ikke tilfeldig.

- Apples kommende operativsystem for iPhone (iPhone 3.0) åpner for utvikling av ekstern maskinvare og RFID-leser vil kunne være integrert i neste generasjons iPhone, skriver Martinussen.

Norske forskere lager RFID-iPhone - digi.no : Personlig teknologi

Explore Rome through Augmented Reality

2009-04-13T12:44:00.000-07:00

Visitors to the Allard Pierson Museum will get to partake in "A Future for the Past," a swiveling iMac superimposes buildings and text onto two large pictures/murals.

Via Engadget.

Edges

2009-04-12T14:49:00.000-07:00

"Edges" is a computer driven light installation projected on the geometry of a room. The idea is to make the geometry and architecture dominate the projection. The projection serves the underlying structure, it's like writing a choreography for the architecture. There is no post production or visual effects in these videos, it`s just a video camera filming the light installation.

Edges

Art, Space and the Public Sphere(s).

2009-04-04T13:35:00.000-07:00

Some basic observations on the difficult relation of public art, urbanism and political theory by Oliver Marchart

"Social space is produced and structured by conflicts. With this recognition, a democratic spatial politics begins." - Rosalyn Deutsche

As we know, "art in the public space" can mean at least two things. For one, art in combination with architecture and artistic urban outfitting; this is the traditional conception - among other things, a conception of space as a physical geographical urban and architectural space. Yet on the other hand, "public art" in the sense of more recent forms of "art in the public interest" (or "social interventionism", "community art", etc.) - not least in Austria - has also been developed into a secure niche in the canon of available art practices and forms. Sending Austrian artists, usually subsumed under this header, to the Biennale of Venice is just the keystone of sanctioning social interventionist art practices in art history (and could very well be their gravestone, too).

debalie: cultureel politiek debat centrum

Fortelle med rom

2009-04-03T11:43:00.000-07:00

Hvordan forteller man en historie med rom? Da scenograf Bob Crowley lagde kostymer og kulisser til Verdis opera Don Carlos i operaen i høst, gjorde han middelalderens dystre Kong Filip II av Spania til medarkitekt.

Arkitektnytt

Transmitting Architecture

2009-03-26T06:14:00.000-07:00

Marcos Novak on "Transmitting Architecture: The Transphysical City"

The history of invention alternates between advances of transport and advances of communication, that is to say from transmitting the subject to transmitting the sign and presence of the subject, establishing a symbiosis of vehicles and media that leads from antiquity all the way to the present. Mode after mode of expression or perception have yielded to being cast across greater and greater distances as agents of will and power. Signal, image, letter, sound, moving image, live sound, live image, sense and action, intersense and interaction, presence, interpresence, telepresence, all express our awareness of other and elsewhere, and underscore our will to interact with the sum of what we know to exist simultaneously with us, relativity's complexities notwithstanding.

CTheory.net

The Internet of things

2009-03-19T15:31:00.000-07:00

Sometime between now and 2010, the internet is poised to reach beyond virtual space and take root in the physical world. According to many futurist thinkers, almost every object you can see around you carries the possibility of being connected to the internet. This means that your domestic appliances, your clothes, the books on your shelves and your car in the driveway may one day soon be assigned a unique IP address, just as both computers and web pages are assigned them today, to enable them to talk to each other.

In the past month, a coalition of big technology companies, Cisco, Ericsson and Sun Microsystems among them, have formed the Ipso (IP for Smart Objects) Alliance with the aim of shaping a set of standards for the coming internet of things. "We could incorporate internet protocol (IP) into nearly everything," enthuses Geoff Mulligan, chair of the Ipso Alliance. "There's no reason why the internet shouldn't be in every single appliance."

The next development of the net: the internet of things | Technology | The Guardian

Future Vision Montage

2009-03-06T10:49:00.000-08:00

How will emerging technology improve our productivity in the years ahead? What opportunities will arise from evolving trends and global change? Microsoft has collaborated with customers, partners, and thought leaders across multiple disciplines to develop scenarios that explore how long-term trends, customer challenges, and emerging technologies might converge to improve our lives, both at work and home.

As you watch this video montage from 2009, look for examples of how current prototypes may evolve in the years ahead.

Future Vision Montage