My physical interaction with machines

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Hey everyone,

i’m making a live video show with the band Your Fault / Fire Walking

the 21st of may @ nouveau monde, fribourg switzerland

the 27 of may @ fri-son , fribourg, switzerland

 http://www.myspace.com/yourfaultmusic  

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Our school share a part of the building with some start-ups, and also with the EPFL engineer school. Atracsys is a start-up made by ex students from EPFL, they are currently developping multi-user interfaces based on motion tracking and a special translucent light reflective screen.

http://www.atracsys.com/_products/beMerlin.php

so I, and other students, had to create some prototypes for this system…

The first one is an application for a shop-window, I decided to use the transparent aspect of this screen, and the fact that white light make it opaque. I developped a processing application that reacts to passers-by movements :

You can have a look at the animation here (click on the animation):

The second prototype was more an exploration of light, using tracking to follow the face of a person, and display masks on the screen:

Thanks to my models!

I made an art-direction workshop this week, I had to work with a random-picked photographer and try to make something with a simple white t-shirt, and black & white pictures.
Me and my photographer Andrey, went to a fitness club, and just play around with the accessories, the muscled guys, and this gorgeous light. We ended up with theses body organic deformations, and made an edition.

Jop Van Bennekom
http://www.buttmagazine.com/

i’m currently working on another project for a videoclip of the band “odio terz”, developping a processing-made program to help me animate masks… we’ll see ! I will try to merge theses masks animations to a kind of human ritual video…
here are some masks examples, i’m still working on how maya, roman and others antique’s masks gived a forced human/animal face expression. I’ll post some new ones, to show how this project evolve, and i will also post, as soon as it will be well made enough, the program built by processing.

i’m currently working on a project of an animated/reactive modular font that uses input from the webcam and the microphone to display and animate texts

Pics by Supapix & Stella falcoz

I made a workshop with Johannes Gees, a swiss artist who works with lazer beam projection on public space, to create some animations wich will be projected on buldings in Lausanne next week, i will soon put a video online of this work , and some photo - stills of the animation
here’s some images from the frame by frame vectorial animation i made, it’s about wounds that appears on buildings. This is actually the same kind of illustrations that i use for my heart beat project,
because i think it fits the technical limits of the lazer beam projector ( no filled space, not too complicate designs )