My interactive laser project, Contours, was featured as an installation outside the concert hall at Everybody Wants Everything, the 2009 MAT End-of-year show. The installation consisted of both laser and traditional video projection driven by a webcam. In addition to the live laser outline the system also periodically sampled and accumulated outlines to display history at three levels of time granularity.
See below for a more detailed look at how the project was created.
I was fortunate to have two videos featured in the demo reel for Everybody Wants Everything, the 2009 End-of-year show for Media Arts & Technology.
In addition to the reel of generative colloquium intros I also showed an excerpt from an audio-visual collaboration with Aaron McLeran entitled “Pulse.”
The video comes from the results of an hour long jam session testing out my latest efforts at audio-visual synchronization. Aaron’s generative music program sent signals to my program over the internet to trigger animation events in response to meaningful song dynamics.
See both videos below:
Pulse [Excerpt] from Pehr Hovey on Vimeo.
Media Arts & Technology Colloquium Video Intro from Pehr Hovey on Vimeo.
I presented two sets of six prints at Everybody Wants Everything, the 2009 End-of-year show for MAT.
The first set is exploring additive complexity. The images were constructed by layering hundreds of faint lines that add up to create the final image. They look fairly homogeneous from afar and it is only when you look closely that you see the intricate patterns that emerge from the overlapping forms.
The second set is concerned with symmetry and more crisp forms. I explored pseudo-symmetry that is not confined to horizontal or vertical axes but instead arises from repeated forms oriented radially. I kept the lines clean and used bright colors to enhance the appearance of the patterns.
Check out the rest of the prints at Flickr:
Aaron McLeran also presented six prints of his work with recursive generative forms.
The laser project is coming together in time for the MAT End-of-year show on Monday. I have dubbed it ‘contours‘ and it will be featured on the first floor of Elings hall during the show.
I am now working on the projected view that will accompany the laser. My goal is to show change over time, both short term and long term. I am experimenting with different ways to handle and display blob data and also how to animate the display. Here are a few more in-progress shots:
