Kontaktstation will be shown at the CIANT Gallery (Centre of Art and New Technology) in Prague, Czech Republic from 04th of June to 06th of July 2008.
The exhibition will focus on man-machine interactions and alternate interfaces. Along Kontaktstation, there will be a documentation of works from Stelarc (“How many ears and arms do you have?”) and Pash* (“Psychokinetic Simulator – wear a wireless suit …
Am Samstag, den 31.Mai 2008 findet zum wiederholten Mal eine der größten deutschen Kunst- und Kulturnächte (mit über 120.000 Besuchern) in Nürnberg statt: zur diesjährigen “Blauen Nacht” (lange Nacht der Museen) lade ich in den Fünfeckturm (zwischen Burg und Jugendherberge) zur Umschiffung verminter Inseln im politischen Sprachraum ein. Die Besucher können mit einer multilingualen sensorischen kybernetischen Sprach-Apparatur interagieren und brisante, in Echtzeit …
[multilanguage entry] From April the 17th, 2008 (until 10th of July), I will teach “Mobile Computing”, a workshop about mobile phones and artistic strategies at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
The increased availability of cellphones in everyday life change the human behaviour, the devices show ubiquitous effects on our (body-)language, strategies of communication and social networking. They are used to document our life with video and audio recordings and therefore influence the …
Werkschau & Vortrag:
Am 29. Februar 2008 sind in der Ausstellungshalle der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg meine bisherigen Hauptwerke zu sehen. Neben der Werkschau steht das interaktive kybernetische Rednerpult “kIII” im Mittelpunkt der Präsentation, das Gegenstand meiner postgraduierten Diplomarbeit zur sprachtopologischen Untersuchung politischer Reden im öffentlichen Raum ist (siehe Auszug aus: “der politische Raum der Stimme” weiter unten).
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[update]:
midimouse 0.6. is on the way! Ready compiled for IntelMacs and a fresh funky QuartzComposer Interface:
midimouse is a small, easy-to-use and very simple program. It sends MIDI-controller-messages (CC) by moving the mouse over its (resizeable) window. While moving the mouse (with or without mouseDown) over the X-/Y-axxis, each axxis sends a CC, so you might send values within up to 4 configurable Controllers.
The default CC’s are:
CC12 …
“Politician’s Speech” is an interactive installation. People can make a speech about a momentous political topic by gesturing. Important political speeches are no longer for les hômmes d’État only, now everyone is invited to act and give speeches.
There are distance sensors built into the microphones, which read the gestures, feeding this data into a microcontrolled sensorBox (→ ACSensorizer), which converts the signals to harmonized MIDI data and sends them …
After over two years development, I am very proud to present a freely available DIY-SensorBox that provides more features than any other available device for incredible low costs! The new version of the ACSensorizer can produce harmonized and quantized MIDI-Notes or Controller Messages from connected sensors like infrared distance sensors, pressure pads, ribbon-controllers, breath-pressure-sensors, pots, whatever you can think of…
It provides an auto-calibration helper, patch storage, 20 built-in musical …
kII – the voicetopological interface is currently shown at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe (Germany). The exhibition …
There’s been a live-transmission from Nuremberg to London this evening for Cybersonica’s Soundwaves Artist Talk at Kinetica Museum. The short speech introduced some critical politic statements regarding free speech for the speechless.
Dr. Richard Barbrook introduced and chaired the session; Cybersonica 07 Commissioned Artists Andy Huntingdon (tap.TAP), Michael Markert (kII 2.1) and Julie Freeman (Specious Dialogue) talked about …
Now in its sixth year, the London based festival of music, sound, art and technology is a leading international event for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work. The festival brings together a vibrant community of sonic and audiovisual innovation, nurtures new talent and showcases …
‘Kontaktstation’ is an interactive media-installation that translates the intensity of body and skin contact, allowing for up to five people to create harmonized, rhythmic music through touch. The work is shown at Kinetica Museum in London from the 18th May to 29th June.
The main focus of the work is the invitation to make skin-to-skin contact, and discover that a variety of contact points produce different sounds. Skin contact beyond hand …
I am very pleased and happy to announce, that an adapted work of kII (and the Kontaktstation!) will be shown at the Cybersonica SOUNDWAVES Exhibition in the Kinetica Museum in London from May 17th to June 30th. kII (2.1) will be changed to fit the chances of the exhibition space: the idea is to take the work one step further. There will be one device to …
I just returned from Hungary: there’s a great exhibition in the Mücsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest titled “Kempelen – Man in the Machine”. Actually you can see a piece of work from me in the exhibition: kII (Kempelen 2.0), a voicetopological interface for the Phonetic Kemp Inc, I founded together with Georg Winter, who exhibits a brandnew UKIYO CAM device: mobile phone ‘harajuku’….
[multilanguage entry] kII (Kempelen 2.0) is a voice-topological interface for gestural navigation in linguistic space. The hand serves as the speech organ during the articulation process.
The device is operated by means of the sensory determination of the opened state of both hands, their position in space, their relative height, and other parameters which are assigned to the jaw and tongue position in the mouth as well as to pitch and rhythm.
Phoneme …
I just stumbled upon an amazing feature of Apple’s Addressbook in OS X. Though it is obviously not possible to search for phone numbers with spaces and quite often some partial numbers are not found a [...]
One thing that really annoys me when I’m programming the elsewise great Lego Mindstorms® Set, is the need to upload the firmware and all programs again, when one has to exchange the batteries. This has been fixed for the brand-new NXT System, but how to deal with that for the oder RCX? Yep. Connecting a Power Supply is easy:
I screwed up the case and found that …
