August 4th, Stammtisch #43

Dominik
100 curated favorite VVVV projects:
http://vvvv.academy/showcase.html

Randall
Digital Theremin (audio synth) using VVVV.
Interactive chord visualizer he built using VVVV in 2 days.

Gene
Real time Face2Face translation: his webcam grabs his face, extracts basic features (eyes, lips, etc), and is transformed into a famous face with a matching pose.
Real time style transfer from a famous painting to live webcam input.

Joreg mentions a recent Radio Lab episode in which they show making someone say something they never said, by synthesizing both audio and video. Apparently there’s a demo video in RadioLab’s website.

Lyrebird demo https://lyrebird.ai/demo (copy the voice of anyone)

Note: Drive Forum, Ars Electronica show in Berlin, with a piece from Memo Atken

Vanta - http://pfadfinderei.com/
Has worked 4 years in this company where he worked in:
Monolith: custom large LED display. https://vimeo.com/213866223
A VR installation in which you seed the same room in VR in which you are at (but without any people).

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Mohammed
Describes the Creative Code Cairo community (which recently had their first anniversary) and shows a dance installation called Mycelial, which used first Processing and Kinect, then openFrameworks.
They had one Creative Code Jam so far during the Maker Faire Cairo in which they experimented with VVVV.

Johanna
Shows her personal website made with Unity and exported to WegGL → http://jjaskowska.com
She did not want to do a traditional 2D website full of rectangular objects.
The code is on Github → https://github.com/Jowska/personal-website

She also shows how she hacked the door intercom at home in Berlin, so they can open the door using a smartphone. The system uses a small Arduino inside her flat.

https://github.com/valiafetisov/remote-door

Kostanze
A car system made in Ableton that generates music based on the intensity of the car driving.
https://www.fluxfm.de/band-in-the-trunk-krautfunding/

aBe
Nice home page with WebGL http://su8erlemon.com/
VIMU, video clip generator (produces sound based on video), http://aitokaiku.com/ (client work)

Shows Perspectives, the VR project he did at School of Ma, about the difficulties of communication between cultures.

Events and spaces
Larp design School of Ma https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-hypotheticals-intensive-two-larp-design-tickets-36668972885
Workshops in Neukölln https://commonground.community/
Critical Engineering workshops https://criticalengineering.org/courses/
Retune studio visits: https://retune.de/
Interesting Theater piece (German) http://theater-anu.de/anuwelten/ovids-traum/show/