Civilization by Marco Brambilla

Video and background information of this “video mural” produced by Marco Brambilla 2008 as a permanent installation for the new Standard hotel (New York) is available trough motionographer.com

Kinect Hand Detection

Systems Robotics Engineer Garratt Gallagher has released a video att CSAIL where he plucks images from a reel he drags onto the screen, then enlarges, spins and casts the pictures aside a la Minority Report.. It uses the Kinect sensor from Microsoft, and the recently released libfreenect driver for interfacing with the Kinect in linux. The graphical interface and the hand detection software were written at MIT. Via: csail.mit.edu

Microsoft Kinect (Xbox 360) Teardown

Bill Detwiler at TechRepublic looking at the hardware inside Kinect.

Kinect Open Source Driver Released

Tre hours after European launch of the Kinect, Hector Martin released open source driver for Kinect with code on Marcansoft (video on YouTube). Another competitor AlexP from the NUI Group "hacked" Microsoft's Kinect earlier this week. However, the release of the open source driver from NUI Group will be available for the public after they collect $10K in donations. Read the whole story on tomshardware.com or techspot.com

Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping

Audiovisual mapping for the Festival Eutopía 2010, held in Córdoba, Spain [17 September 2010]. >> CRÈDITS Omar Alvarez, Miki Arregui, Albert Callejo, Miguel Gozalbo, Sergi Kasero, Santiago Vilanova

TECH INFO · video contents produced using 2D video composition and 3D rendering softwares. · projected with a 15.000 lumens video beamer at 1024x768. · used WarpMap as video warper and player. WarpMap is a surface warping and video-player software developped by Eloi Maduell from PlayModes.com with Openframeworks libraries. Via: telenoika.net

Motion Bank

Motion Bank is a new four-year project of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation and publication of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers (see About). Via: motionbank.org
Photo: Screenshot from SynchronousObjects, Statistical Counterpoint