Chaos and Structure

Moscow based Tatiana Plakhova has added more to her data like Complexity Graphics artworks with a new series entitled Chaos & Structure.
Tatiana's Sublimotion Interview,

Pantomation (1977-1979)

Via Slashdot:
"30 years before words like performance capture, augmented reality, or avatars were around — let alone commonplace — experimental film and video artist Tom DeWitt created a system that features aspects of all of them. Pantomation let users interact in real-time with a digital environment and props. It was built using Apple IIe's, analog video gear, and lots of custom hacking and patching. He's currently working on a holographic 3D system that's similarly ahead of its time."

LPM 2011 Call for artists

LPM - Live Performers Meeting is one of the leading events of live
video, audiovisual performance and new media arts. The IX edition of LPM is in Rome from 19th to 22nd of May, and will be back in Minsk, in september 2011!

LPM crew is looking for live audiovisual performances, vj sets, interactive installations and workshops proposals from artists, practitioners, thinkers and makers involved in LIVE VIDEO.
This year we aim at investigating and presenting some specific strands
of live video practice. Learn more about the new themes of LPM 2011 at:
http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2011/en/concept/

Ready to participate? The LPM registration form LPM is on-line.
Hurry-up and send to them your project!
http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2011/en/participate/

Further info at: lpm@flxer.net
Stay tuned and follow LPM on Twitter: http://twitter.com/liveperformers

Kinect + OpenNI = Natural Interaction

"PrimeSense Establishes the OpenNI Standard and Developers Initiative to Bring the World of Natural Interaction to Life
Consortium acts as incubator and community encouraging developers to design, develop, experience and interact to drive the future of Natural Interaction" more info via: http://www.openni.org/
Examples of use OpenNI together which Kinect:
OpenNI with Kinect in Windows 7
MikuMikuDance with OpenNI (Kinect) test
also example with PSDK 5.0 sensor from PrimeSense
OpenNI-compliant real time skeleton tracking by PrimeSense
+ more in
OpenNi gallery

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