“Communion”, a generative art piece

“Communion”, a generative piece created by Matt Pyke (Universal Everything) and Field.io – Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn. Music was written by Simon Pyke and plays an integral part in the piece. The installation is in a rectangular room with 6 separate projection on the walls creating almost a 360º environment. The final piece includes an array or evolving creatures going through stages of development – evolution from simple to complex with human like properties with generative behaviours, deeply immersive and “a celebration of an audio visual synesthetic experience “ – Marcus. Matt describes the process as “instilling living characteristics to the dancing forms, from simple cellular structures through to multi-limbed creatures. Although abstract and unfamiliar, the beings feel alive and part of a community and they express the wonder of nature, the creation of something from nothing, a unique ecosystem “ . Via Creative Applications Network

Interactive Puppet Prototype with Kinect

Concept and Production by Design I/O; Emily Gobeille - Theo Watson
"The system is doing skeleton tracking on the arm and determining where the shoulder, elbow, and wrist is, using it to control the movement and posture of the giant funky bird" via: Theo Watson on vimeo