Awesome project! Faces, from Vimeo user Arturo:
Real-time face substitution. Made with Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker + Jason Saragih’s facetracker library, a C/C++ API for real time generic non-rigid face alignment and tracking.
Inspired by Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code.
(via Dangerous Minds)
‘People Staring at Computers’ is a photographic intervention by Kyle McDonald:
“I wrote a simple application that took one picture every minute. If it found a face, it uploaded the photo to my server. I installed the app around NYC over three days, collecting more than a thousand photos.
Before sharing the photos online, I decided to exhibit them in the same places they were originally captured. So I wrote another app that could be remotely triggered after being installed on all the computers in one location. When the app starts up, it takes a picture and slowly fades in that photo. A moment later, it starts cycling through older photos.
Most people instinctively quit the app less than 10 seconds after recognizing their own face, so the exhibition was relegated to the unused machines.”
(Via F.A.T.)
DepthEditorDebug by James George and Alexander Porter is a project that combines DSLR photography and Kinect depth sensor information.
More information about the project can be found here. A Flickr set with more images can be found here.
Content is Queen is a generative video painting by Sergio Albiac:
“At the same time, is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and utterly majestic: to create the series, the most popular (in a truly democratic sense) internet videos of a given moment are used as the input of a generative process that ‘paints’ with action the image of a contemporary Queen.”
(via today and tomorrow)
“American Pixels’ series is a pixel experiment created by Jörg M. Colberg in (2009 – 2010).
‘Image formats like jpeg (or gif) use compression algorithms to save space, while trying to retain a large fraction of the original information. A computer that creates a jpeg does not know anything about the contents of the image: It does what it is told, in a uniform manner across the image.”
(via TRIANGULATION BLOG)
“Sewing machine orchestra is the first version of a performance created by Martin Messier. The basic sounds used in this performance consist entirely of the acoustic noises produced by 8 sewing machines, amplified by means of microcontacts and process by a computer.”
(Via TRIANGULATION BLOG)
Kim Si Nae‘s Browser Abstract…
Citizens of the world are spending their lives staring into the reflective surfaces of their mobile phones and desktop computers. I think that social context determines the value of the media, tendency itself of dispaying medium have to be thought as social message.
For me, the digital canvas is another representation tool. Browser is not only the way it looks but also an inevitable basis of existence in the new space. If the history of fine art is against the frame of canvas, new painting will be founded on the browser, a element of being. In the past, inherent trait of painting reveals through the recognitions and enactments of medium. As the tool and matarial,we have to reconsider the new medium.’
(via i like this art)
Blake Carrington turns Gothic cathedrals into sound:
“Groups of scanners filling the sonic spectrum may act in synch, forming a single harmonically-dense rhythm, or they may scan the plans at different speeds, resulting in complex polyrhythms. Each plan is treated as a modular score, with a distinct rhythm and timbre of its own. Also, by varying the speed and intensity of each scanning group, drone-like sounds may emerge based on the ‘resonant frequency’ of the black and white plan.”
(Via BLDGBLOG)
“In the last few weeks Ishac Bertran has been making experiments in the area of “Generative Photography”. He describes the process where the digital drawings are sequentially projected on to a screen in a dark room and photographed using long exposure times.”
[via creativeapplications]
Are you a lazy curator? Try this.
The Geocities-izer will “make any web page look like it was made by 13-year-old in 1996″…
“Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!
The Firefox add-on China Channel (by Aram Bartholl, Evan Roth and Tobias Leingruber) offers internet users outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It’s open source, free and easy.”
[via rhizome]
“songsincode tries to display either a title of a song or part of its lyrics (as some songs are more known by the refrain than their title – for example there is no such thing as “all the lonely people” by The Beatles) in code. This could be PHP, JavaScript or any other language…”
Qualcuno l’ha definita “the most annoying thing in computer history“. Altri (pochi a dire la verità), un po’ la rimpiangono. Ma chi potrà mai dimenticarla? Clippy (la molesta paperclip-assistente di Word) non c’è più. E c’è chi gli rende omaggio…
Clippy Gets Clipped (youtube)
I’m not writing a fucking letter! (youtube)
Attack of the Clippy (youtube)
C’è il generatore delle news inventate, quello dei saggi sul postmodern e quello dei cartelli da chiesa. E ancora, quello delle qualifiche lavorative, quello di scuse (oltre a quello di sole scuse per ragazze) e quello delle recensioni di vini. E, naturalmente, quello di finestre di errore per pc.
Due link per immergersi nel magico mondo dei software generanti: aVanvera e GeneratorBlog.
