Resonate Festival
Categories: Inspiration
In march, our creative department went to Resonate Festival, in Belgrade, Serbia. Resonate was held for the first time this year, and gave an overview of current situation in the fields of music, visual arts and digital culture. Guest artists, lecturers and other participants represented the cutting edge of the contemporary creative industry in Europe. Our four-device-man Johannes took a lot of notes during the lectures, and has put up a detailed report with interesting stuff to explore.
Resonate Festival will continue in 2013,, meanwhile you can take a look at their their platform for networking.
Some of the key findings
- The web is expanding and infiltrating the physical world.
- Raw data doesn’t say anything, but when you recontextualize and tailor the visualization to the data it becomes more comprehensable and tells stories.
- Creative and innovative solutions lies in the intersection of science, art and design.
- Experimentation, research and development are the keys to pushing the field further and make interesting things.
- Do what you love and make intersting and cool things that people can play around with.
B-Reel
B-Reel shared the evolution of their work and talked about how their work has begun to expand beyond the screen, keyboard and mouse and are starting to become physical objects.
They also talked about how R&D and exploration and experimentation with technology and ideas has lead to innovative and interesting projects.
Some of the work they showed:
Mind Scalextrics – Control slot cars with the power of your mind. Read more at their projectsite.
Ariel Fashion Shoot – An industrial robot that user could take control over through their browsers and shoot on laundry.
Read more at their projectsite.
EELS – a multiplayer game experience where people can control their virtual EEL projected on a physical installation.
Read more at their projectsite.
Mitsubishi LiveDrive – A website that allows users to remotely test drive a Mitsubishi vehicle from the comfort of their own computer desktop. Read more at their projectsite.
You should also check out B-Reels broad range of innovative work at their website.
Karsten Schmidt
The talk was about the library Toxiclibs and work done with it and it’s extensions. Some fairly interesting things here. The showreel sums up the power of the library.
toxiclibs showreel 2010 from postspectacular on Vimeo.
Field
Knee-deep in the datastream
Field talked about their methodology, what inspires them and about their recent work.
Things that inspires Field:
Design is about cultural invention.
Culture is the thing that makes life interesting.
– Bruno Munari
Starlings of Otmoor
Evolved Virtual Creatures by Karl Sims.
Read more about the simulated Darwinian evolution of virtual block creatures.
Sculpting Possibility Space
– Will Wright
Alex McLean‘s live coding
Haskell live coding environment
David Schnell, german painter
I didn’t find much info about David Schnell, but there’s lots of pictures of his paintings at google. The paintings are vivid, but with references and the feel of glitches in computer graphics and games.
CV DAZZLE – Camouflage from Computer Vision
CV Dazzleâ„¢ is camouflage from computer vision (CV). It is a form of expressive interference that combines makeup and hair styling (or other modifications) with face-detection thwarting designs.
Issey Miyake
A Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.
Human Connectome Project
A project to construct a map of the complete structural and functional neural connections in vivo within and across individuals.
Projects by Field
Communion – Instalation with live coded generative creatures. Read more at its projectsite…
A permanent installation of 8 dynamic video artworks in the lobby of Deutsche Bank Hong Kong. Read more at its projectsite…
Near future…
- New metaphors for an abstract world
- Behavioural identities
- New forms of storytelling
- Artist-designer-entreprenur
Jürg Lehni
Be kind to your computer.
We need to protect this amazing technology we have. Let it be free and accesable to everybody.
Projects by Jürg Lehni
Hector – A printbot utilizing a spraycan and prints vector illustrations. The robot humanizes the digital output. Read more at its projectsite…
What you see ≠What you get
Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustratorâ„¢. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language. Read more at its projectsite…
Rita – A drawingbot drawing on semi-opaque glass.
Viktor – A drawingbot drawing with chalk.
Empty Words – A modified CNC plotter which prints out posters by cutting out dots.
Paper.js an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.
Chris O’Reilly, Nexus Interactive Arts
Make comercial work people like to share and talk about.
Always keeping alive by keeping the small projects and art projects. This is important!
Cross polination – Projects flows into each others and ideas cross connects.
Artists meets technicians.
Projects by Nexus Interactive Arts
Forms is an ongoing collaboration between visuals artists Memo Akten and Quayola, a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time.
Set in an icy fantasy world, the spot sees an army of fearsome fire warriors poised to descend upon a peaceful community of ice-dwelling creatures. Accompanying the warriors is a huge fire-breathing dragon, which leaves a burning path of destruction in its wake and little doubt as to the outcome for the defenceless villagers.
The Dewar’s Hub is an interactive audio visual installation that uses OpenFrameworks to deliver a real time experience that bridges the real world and Twitter.Read more at its projectsite…
Jer Thorpe
- Being mediocre at a broad range of disciplines and the intersection of science, design and art are the sweet spot for creating ground-breaking work.
- Data has character – Engage with the character of the data.
- Tailor the visualization to the data.
- Bespoke tools to understand systems.
- Visualization as a verb. Use data visualization as a part of the process.
- Find the things you dont know about. Whats lurking in the back of the archive?
- Understand how the connections liik like.
- Data is a measurment of our life.
This is another speech by Jer Thorpe, The Weight of Data, held at TEDx Vancouver. A lot of the same topics and thoughts that was shared at Resonate are covered in this speech.
Projects by Jer Thorpe
Cascade shows the precise structures of NYT articles being shared on Twitter. Read more about Cascade at nyt labs.
Just Landed looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. And displayes their locations and their voyage on a world map.
GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good morning’ in English as well as several other languages.
A visualization of the 1236 exoplanet candidates observed by Kepler.
openpaths.cc grants the first partie accecess to their data. Upload yor data and use it as you like. If you want to you can securely and anonymously donate your data to researchers who could use it to study mobility, transportation, land use, epidemiology, and overall make the world a better place.
Josh Nimoy
Sexy bullshit
A greeble or nurnie is a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest to a surface or object, particularly in movie special effects. They serve no real purpose other than to add complexity to the object, and cause the flow of the eye over the surface of the object to be interrupted, usually giving the impression of increased size. It is essentially the small detailed technical part of a larger object. The detail can be made from geometric primitives, including cylinders, cubes, and rectangles, combined to create intricate, but meaningless, surface detail. Greebles are commonly found on models or drawings of fictional spacecraft in science fiction. – Wikipedia
- It’s not about the tools. It’s about the individual, the concept and your thoughts.
- Software expands the range of possibilities.
- Not every piece you make needs to be a masterpiece. And it’s not for you to decide which of your pieces are a masterpiece or not.
- Random numbers are just vanilla.
People always want the data spehere. Could I have a data sphere with cheese, please?
- Between the sketchbook and the code there should be a phase for thinking about the algorithm.
Create interfaces that the clients/art director can manipulate the variable parts of the code them self.
Projects by Josh Nimoy
Typeface machines making robotic typography. Learn more about Josh’s robotic typography
Special effects for Tron Legacy. Read Josh’s case study of his work with Tron Legacy.
BallDroppings is an addicting and noisy play-toy. Read more about BallDroppings and play it here.
IBM datababy
Pinch is a hypnotic and inspiring aesthetics exploration toy that allows the player to easily generate many kinds of abstract shapes. A virtual sheet is made from free-floating physics masses. Click in different places to apply forces making the masses move towards that area of the screen, hence “pinching” the sheet. Read more about pinch…
Nicholas Felton
Felton talked mostly about how and why he gathers data about his life and how he recontextualizes that data and finds the structural potential to make it more human and readable. He also talked about how he structerted the life of his father through data found in calendars, slides, postcards, scorecards, reciptes and other useful sets of data.
Projects by Nicholas Felton
The 2010 Annual Reportan encapsulation of the life of Feltons fateher, as communicated by the calendars, slides and other artifacts in Feltons possession..
This is another speech by Nicholas Felton, Numerical Narratives, held at Eyeo Festival 2011. A lot of the same topics and thoughts that was shared at Resonate are covered in this speech.