September 1st, Stammtisch #113
~37 ppl
== introductions ==
Sam
Was a student at the School of Machines, Making and Make Believe where he developed an interactive installation: a fortune teller machine that accepts coins. More money gives you a better future. The machine uses chatGPT to generate texts, then the texts are read aloud. It makes this comment: with more money you have a better future.
The module to accept coins costs 20 eur online, and it’s programmable to accept different types of coins.
Shows the kind of message he fed into chatGPT to obtain fortune teller-like texts.
THe voice is generated with a free python package that uses google audio translator voices.
Reference: another machine at an Ethereum crypto-coin conference there was a machine in which you pull a lever to generate a random hash. There’s a chance that this hash is someone’s wallet, so you could potentially make money.
Alma
Shares a project idea: she was in Latvia, Riga by herself.
And explained about jellyish battles she did as a kid.
Looking at the patterns on the sand it reminded her of some kind of visualization of the waves. She took photos of the patterns and is thinking on how to convert them into sound.
Last month she co-organized the Creative Code Hideout event where she gave a workshop on TouchDesigner inspired on typeface motion designs fro AfterEffects.
Reference: PixelSynth by Olivia Jack
Reference: Phonautograph https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonautograph#Construction
Nikita
Shows an spaghetti monster (his cables.gl patch which he uses for live visuals). When performing he uses MIDI controllers to manipulate the visuals.
A new feature is coming to cables.gl: to separate the editing and rendering windows into different tabs, which is very convenient for live performances.
In one of his sketches, there are two 3D models spinning partially rendered and an collection of words chosen randomly. These words are shown sequentially, creating a story.
Asks about using generative art to talk about “Communication”. Looking for references, past works, ideas on that topic for his next show.
== announcements ==
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Tom. Deadline. Demoscene party. 29th September - 1st October 2023
https://deadline.untergrund.net/2023/ Describes how recently they had a “patching environment competition” in which ppl with different platforms follow a prompt to create something. They plan to repeat this in Deadline.
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Tom. In his company (FrameField) they do big projects. Looking for people doing VR/AR.
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PrachtSaal. Opening. A space available, 20 to 25 sqm. Creative studio.
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“Tracing the Line” book coming out in November. Pen plotter artworks.
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Mandy Mozart \& VJfader: Show on Sunday in Sommerbad Humboldthain 14pm-16pm,
https://tropeztropez.de/2023-finissage/
== break ==
Gabor
Shows the video “continous microtonal glissandro for 8 oscillators, done in Pure data”.
as inspiration for a live shader-coding project where, visually, he lowly detune two oscilator. Resulting on a series red plotted curves that creates interesting wobbly shapes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfagniHgruU
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvavuW8xt8E/
aBe
Present’s the book “Tracing the Line” that is gonna be released at the end of the year, where aBe is also participating on with a few pages of his very own contribution. The book also includes other regular members of the Creative Code Berlin community.
https://vetroeditions.com/products/tracing-the-line
Freddie Hong
Freedie started with OpenFrameworks and recently moved to TouchDesigner.
Presents a couple of artworks, one of them being currently presented at Moritz Platz
Smile to See
Studied in the Goldsmith university in London. He was inspired by the problems caused by an automated photograhing machine used in the passport-visa center, which failed to notice that his eyes were open due to his Asian background.
https://freddiehong.com/2020/05/14/smile-to-see-2020/
Simple steps towards a happier space
An AI door that requires you to express happiness
https://freddiehong.com/2023/05/30/simple-steps-toward-happier-space-2023/
He used this dataset for detecting face emotions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/msambare/fer2013
His work is exhibited in MoritzPlatz (MX Mind Gallery)