Artists

Ken Rinaldo

http://accad.osu.edu/~rinaldo/

Ken Rinaldo's piece, Augmented Fish Reality, caught my attention. There's something bizarre to the way the fish move based on perspective. First they move within their bowl. Then by moving in the bowl, the bowl moves. Then we must go globally to consider that the earth is not only rotating on a 23 1/2 degree axis but that we're also revolving around the sun in an eliptic and we keep moving out. This piece brings us back to the fishbowl perspective. In one of his descriptions of the piece's technology he writes, " This design uses 4 active infrared sensors pointed through the glass around each bowl, which allow the fish to move forward & back and turn the bowls. By swimming to the edge of the bowl and in front of the sensor the fish activate motorized wheels that move the robots in that direction. "

http://www.neillodwyer.com/content/blog/calle-oreilly

It was nice to see them show us the basics with a breadboard, and then see it in action. It was also good to see that they used Processing and that something that we learned last semester could drive something so interesting. In the description they write, "Five percussionists, a bass player and two vocalists will perform the Afro-Cuban song “Compa Galletano” over a Guaguancó rumba rhythm. Two digital media artists and one programmer will use electronic sensors and motion-tracking techniques to drive a live video performance which will take the audience on a unique journey to the roots of Afro-Cuban music " The graphics were pretty simple but combined with a live performance it looked pretty incredible!

http://www.miguel-chevalier.com/fr/oeuvres/flux-et-reseaux/flux-et-raseaux-2.html#le-livre-de-la-vie-de-rafik-hariri-2005-beyrouth-

This project by Miguel Chevalier was so attractive to the eye that I mustered up the courage to renew what little French I remembered from high school to read his website. For this project he used: 2 PC, 3 vidéoprojecteurs, 3 capteurs infrarouges, meaning 2 computers, 3 video projectors and 3 infrared sensors. The images he used to document the project are 1. gorgeous and 2. representative of the freedom from societal pressures that children feel, running into the light, and the composed stationary positions that the adults self-impose behind the podium. His description of the piece, translated is: "This installation allows the visitors to interact in real time in a part of the memory* and links Mister Rafik Hariri weaving during his life to Lebanon and through the world. This intuitive interactivity and will be possible thanks to sensitive sensors that respond to the presence of the hands of the spectators/actors. Four sensors will be placed on two boundaries that will allow for the creation of an interface between the public and the work. "

http://electroland.net/projects/metallotus/

This large metal lotus responds to people walking underneath it and bathes them with a different colored light.