I will be showcasing my Contours laser project this thursday at the August Mindshare LA, a monthly gathering featuring invited speakers, live music and multimedia art installations. This month Mindshare is at the Print House, a repurposed industrial space near Downtown LA. See more about Mindshare at mindshare.la Contours from Pehr Hovey on Vimeo.
Keep Reading » 1My 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 [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffThe 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 [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffI have connected the computer vision / blob tracking software to the laser so now with proper lighting conditions the laser will draw your outline as you dance around in front of it. It works best if the wall is a solid color and brightly lit so the thresholding operation can pick up your outline. [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffA few of us MAT students were special guests at the Studio 4D final show at Santa Barbara City College on May 19, 2009. In addition to screening the students’ final video projects we were invited to give short presentations and demonstrations of some of our work. Ryan McGee and Aaron McLeran performed some of [...]
Keep Reading » 1This quarter I am working with a ProLaser ShowCube laser projector that is capable of drawing curves on a wall in Red, Green or Yellow through a combination of Red and Green Lasers. My project, currently dubbed Laser Shadow, intends to use a webcam to track passersby and project their ‘shadow’ on the wall behind [...]
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