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July 3rd 2015, Stammtisch #21

Event page:
https://www.meetup.com/opentechschool-berlin/events/223602182/

Julie
Talks about her upcoming blogpost. It will be about the perception of the value of UX Designers work.How to keep up with the speed of change? There is a misunderstanding what UX design is. They often have to explain what they do and what their value is. There is often a misunderstanding between UX Designers and Developers. Soon to come on Medium.

Sebastian
Audiovisual program. A swarm (boids) that represents a set of samples moves through plane- Their location determine their position in the sound plane. The user can steer the swarm through the plane. The audio-result is computed as if the user is in the center of the plane.
For the sound demos: The spatial effect works best with headphones.
http://www.lidsquid.de/binaural.php
https://soundcloud.com/binaural-io/sets/binaural-demos

Another reference: Boom room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZwMX6-xdQ
And ramins Boid Jam (made together with Jem)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZ9Wwxs2IY

MD
Audio performance including an acoustic guitar, MAX/MSP & Supercolider
E,A,A,G bzzbzbzchrgrghgzrghghtshggthghgh E,E, kluiiiiwsshhhh,….. ghostly voices… krkkrkrkkrkrzkzkrkzkrkzkrkzrkkzrkzrkzk G#, Ab, whistling, tzhdlodldlodldo. some nice feedback loops.
Then he shows his MAX, supercollider patches

Alessandro
shows his Audio-visualisation made with Three.JS that runs in the browser that he did during the resonate festival 2015 (three.js workshop by Mr.doob)

Mei
Shows the synthesizer that she is creating. It is an additive sound synthesizer, where the user creates envelopes. Then a fractal be selected and adjusted, which sets the delay of partial tones. The sound/fractal is visualised.

Tobias
Crumble-on-plate driven design
http://food-data.tumblr.com

Ilkka (ILE)
Shows a video of a dance performance. It is a first video of a series. The song was made for the performance. In the next iteration the dance performance will be used as an input for the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IA3gbFuaI

Abe & Marcela
Talk about school of machine, make make-believe, a 10 week program. Next week there will be a 4 day workshop on computer networks and hacking with Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev. Marcela shows a 3D printed hand prosthesis.

Hubi
Shows the source code (written in ChucK) used to create this sound track https://soundcloud.com/hubi/logimus
The melody is based on chaos theory.

Events & exhibitions

Tonight! (Thursday July 2nd)

https://www.facebook.com/events/821758617938972/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1452417065071939/

Upcoming

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/aesthetica-50-years-of-computergenerated-art-tickets-17402965739
“The director of DAM Gallery, Wolf Lieser, speaks about the development of Digital Art over the last 50 years and shows examples of pioneering work”

https://www.facebook.com/events/1007341869298637/

Past

https://www.facebook.com/events/1667126543520686/

Stuff to see / read
Images generated from Artificial Neural Networks
http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html
The code is now available on Github: https://github.com/google/deepdream

Simulation of rocket combustion on the GPU. Much technical speak, but it includes some beautiful simulations
http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2015/video/S5398.html

Manfred Mohr – Cubic Limit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4M28FEJFF8

Manfred Mohr - Interview 1977 - 1979 (Creative coding almost 40 years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THaQGTMWhFA

Computer Classic: “The Incredible Machine” 1968 Western Electric AT&T 15min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crbfSY6vf7s

Exciting new work by Daniel Rozin currently at Bitform Gallery in NY
Penguin mirror: https://vimeo.com/129674054
Pom Pom Mirror: https://vimeo.com/128375543

Table-Top Sisyphus (computer-controlled motion machine that draws sand patterns with marbles and magnets)
http://www.taomc.com/sisyphus

Recovering audio from video, observing the micro-movements of objects (check out the video)
https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804
And by the same people:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-new-algorithm-reveals-the-hidden-world-of-super-tiny-movements

A Gif in the Face - Surreal gif cinemagraphs
https://ello.co/ugdtg

Void
http://void.hi-res.net/

A bunch of quite interesting mini-codeArt-projects
http://willburnswebsite.com/

REVOLUTION DECODED: IRAN’S DIGITAL LANDSCAPE
http://smallmedia.org.uk/revolutiondecoded/a/RevolutionDecoded.pdf

Shaders and documentation example
http://www.simppa.fi/blog/porsche-black-edition-engine-sound-particles/

“A website documenting alternative controllers, video game installations and playful performances”
http://shakethatbutton.com/

If you’ve ever been confused by math notation when reading academic papers, you will love this:
https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code
Raphaëlwe never gonna give up latex! why having it easy, when u can have the pain of setting things up for a day for one symbol :)
Ramin
You can keep using Latex all you want. It’s still nice to be able to translate this gibberish to something usable :P
*I’m still waiting for hardcore Latex/math equation art. maybe with this lib

Screenshot of the original Hackpad comments below:

Generative brand identity for Editions At Play
https://vimeo.com/131419642

Perceptual Shift by Michael Murphy
https://youtu.be/-kNNCbFG8V0

Flippaper by Jérémie Cortial & Roman Miletitch
https://youtu.be/ha68Rf4Tyas?list=PLANMMpHdNbeDLTmeprb7-xVwidQlrW4EB

Floraform by Nervous Systems: generative jewelry inspired by the biomechanics of growing leaves and blooming flowers
http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=6721