Friday, April 3rd 2015, Stammtisch #18

Event page:
https://www.meetup.com/opentechschool-berlin/events/221521819/

Soma
Talks about an upcoming co-creating space called Lacuna Lab.
http://lacunalab.de/

Daniel
Unfolding Quil.
Quil is a closure wrapper for Processing.
Unfolding maps is a maps library

Ramin
Berlin Science Hack Lab. A day of building crazy stuff with a bunch of mad scientists! Do it!

Tobias
Another version of the Human Output Device: “ten-person karaoke”

Rachel
School of Machines, Making and Make Believe program in summer. INTERVENTIONS!
“How can you socially engage with the world in disruptive and playful ways? How can you use technology as a tool to express who you are and what you care about?”
Men in Grey by Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev: https://vimeo.com/111830618
Urban intervention workshop from last year: https://vine.co/v/MQl50Dhub1X

Abe
Subdivision of polygons in Processing with color palettes picked from photographs.
Human Output Device test: people simultaneously read text that is sent over websockets.

Eric
Asks for feedback on his interactive installation concept.

Micah
Interactive visualization of the circle of fifths with a midi keyboard using d3.js in a web browser.
A visualization of some principles of music theory. He also uses WebMidi, which is built on top of the web audio API, to use Midicontroller on the browser.

Mo
Inspired by the cymatics work Marcel presented at last month Stammtisch, he used a numerical approach to make it work with arbitrary shapes.

For reference, this is what cymatics can look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs

MD
Generative sound, samples and noise controlled with Arduino/distance sensor. Monks and pianos. Something with prime numbers. He uses Arduino, Processing, Max/MSP and supercollider.

Pavel
tracked his boattrip on the Maldives and put them together on google earth with pictures he took while diving .

Stuff to see / read
Why “Fine Arts” Can No Longer Be Culturally Relevant

Doodling in math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and being a plant
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/recreational-math/vi-hart/spirals-fibonacci/v/doodling-in-math-spirals-fibonacci-and-being-a-plant-1-of-3

Watching uranium emit radiation inside a cloud chamber is mesmerizing
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/watching-uranium-emit-radiation-inside-a-cloud-chamber-1689997373

An 8-week online video course in Processing by Andrew Glassner
First 4 weeks are free. Second half costs 25$
http://imaginary-institute.com/

The Book of Shaders
Excellent interactive book to learn shader programming
http://patriciogonzalezvivo.com/2015/thebookofshaders/

Large retrospective of Olafur Eliasson to open at the Boros Collection (edit: at the Langen Foundation) in April
http://langenfoundation.de/en/exhibitions/current/exhibitions-recent-details/artikel/olafur-eliasson/

Dear data is a year-long hand drawn dataviz project
http://www.dear-data.com

Pendulum Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsXs3GUrw64

We Love Surveillance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlmYHbg5i_w

SEEING CIRCLES, SINES, AND SIGNALS
A COMPACT PRIMER ON DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/

Natural Language Processing with Word Vectors
http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-worth-a-thousand-vectors/

HARA, an audiovisual installation by Guillaume Marmin & Fred Marolleau
https://vimeo.com/123547860

The Reinvention Of Normal
https://vimeo.com/122959827

Rain-activated messages and art
http://rain.works/
*I wonder how long it stays. I remember reading that Neverwet was rubbing off pretty easily.
*“How long do rainworks last?
*Each rainwork lasts about 4 months to a year, depending on the amount of foot traffic it has to endure. More abrasion means it will fade faster. A rainwork is the most vivid during its first couple of weeks, then slowly becomes more subtle.”
*Apparently this is the product he uses: http://nanexcompany.eu/always-dry.html
*Pretty cool!
*Wanna make some? :)
*He, why not? :) I’m wondering what other artistic uses of this coating we could think of… Like hydrophobic fountains? Or sculptures?
*I heard Hamburg had some ideas.
*Definitely down for this
*I’d like to see the studies that prove it doesn’t degrade in a way that’s harmful for the environment.
*Nanocoating- that is for sure not environmentelfriendly or biodegradeable

Screenshot of the original Hackpad conversation below:

Cyberformance in the Third Space: A Conversation with Helen Varley Jamieson
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/cyberformance-third-space-conversation-helen-varley-jamieson
*Special mention to Abe, Soma and Joukkue fans! Interesting discussion about collective online performance.

Making of Hackaball
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2015/march/hackaball

Borderlands Granular version 2
“Borderlands Granular is a new musical instrument for exploring, touching, and transforming sound with granular synthesis, a technique that involves the superposition of small fragments of sound, or grains, to create complex, evolving timbres and textures.”
https://vimeo.com/123532153

Blueprint by Joanie Lemercier
https://vimeo.com/123727879