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LED Glove Controller: The Final Collaborative Project for Josh Gumiela’s “Video for Interactive Media” Class

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Jul 082013
 

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Circuit bender, musician and installation artist Josh Gumiela taught an interactive media class at the Art Institute of Tennessee Nashville during spring quarter. He showed me some media of the final class project, and it was so amazing that I had to share it here.

Under Josh’s guidance, the class created an LED glove controller that can manipulate video and sound.

Josh wrote:

The idea was to generate imagery and sound using light and a handheld device. We ended up constructing a glove with LEDs in each finger (red, green, blue, yellow, and white). An Arduino was used to power the LEDs and coded to let the user toggle each LED on or off using pushbutton switches installed on the glove. We used an HD webcam to filter and track the color of each LED in Max6. The colors then generate simple OpenGL primitives and their positions are mapped onto the X and Y planes. At the same time, sound is generated in Max using granular synthesis and different waveforms & filters are applied depending on the color and position.

You really need to see the video and images to appreciate how phenomenal this is. Kudos to Josh and his students in the spring ’13 session of IMD340: Video for Interactive Media.

 

IMD340: Video for Interactive Media
Art Institute of Tennessee Nashville
Instructor: Josh Gumiela
Students: Holly Cunningham, Grant Glover, Ben Ware, Jeremiah Young

 

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Sewing the wiring.

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Holly Cunningham

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Jeremiah Young

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Hooking up the Arduino.

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Holly Cunningham

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The blank strip of processed 35mm film negative in front of the camera filters for infrared light.

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Ben Ware

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(clockwise) Grant Glover and Ben Ware

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Ben Ware

Josh Gumiela’s exhibit at last Friday’s Future Night at Boheme Collectif was the talk of the show. I’ll be posting media from that show very soon. Josh will also be appearing on an upcoming Theatre Intangible podcast showcasing his project with Luke Rainey called Age.

Thursday at Adventure Science Center Science Cafe: The Maker Revolution feat. Chris Lee 06-20-2013

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Jun 192013
 

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If you love making stuff (and you’re not a fan of cinematic essays on the cultural chasm between the First and Third worlds), then you need to attend this Thursday’s Science Cafe at the Adventure Science Center.

Science Cafe is a series of informal discussions on current issues in science. This month’s talk is all about making stuff! The speaker is Chris Lee of Anode, Inc. Chris is one of the organizers of the inaugural Nashville Mini Maker Faire (September 21st, 2013), and he builds AMAZING things like this, this, this, and this. Oh, and did I mention he’s building a full scale Millennium Falcon?

 Here’s what the Adventure Science Center had to say about Thursday’s event:

Recent innovations such as open-source design, crowdsourcing, and 3-D printing are enabling inventors to become entrepreneurs. Chris Lee will talk about maker culture, tinkering, and the fun of “learning by doing.”

Chris Lee (chrislee.me) has been making things, building gadgets, and creating costumes and props as a hobby since 1977. He is a founding member of the Apparition Abolishers, (apparitionabolishers.com) a steampunk costuming group. He creates all of the weapons, hard costume gear, and most of the props used by the group. The group is currently promoting their steampunk sideshow known as “Dr. Torque’s Traveling Exposition of Curious Contraptions and Fantastical Oddities,” which debuted during GMX 2011 (geekmediaexpo.com). In 1995, Chris was one of the first stormtroopers of the 501st Legion (501st.com), which has grown to thousands of active members worldwide. He is a member of the Rebel Legion and R2 Builders club (astromech.net). His droid R2-G4 can be seen at many conventions and charity events. Chris is also building an online community (fullscalefalcon.com) to crowdsource the construction a full scale replica of the Millennium Falcon. In the business world, Chris is VP of Technology for Anode, Inc. (anode.com) where he has worked for over 20 years creating world-class interactive experiences for museums, science centers, schools, and libraries.

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Find out more at the Science Cafe Meetup page.

Thursday, June 20th, 2013, 7-8 p.m., FREE
Adventure Science Center, Nashville, TN
The Maker Revolution: Moving from Consumer to Creator
Speaker: Chris Lee, VP of Technology for Anode, Inc.

This Year’s Soundcrawl Bursting at the Seams with 5 Nights of Sound Art!

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Oct 042012
 
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I don’t know how Soundcrawl director and co-founder Kyle Baker does it. I have enough trouble organizing a one day festival. Soundcrawl 2012’s schedule spans five continuous days! And every single event is a major attraction for lovers of sound art and avant garde music.

As the Soundcrawl home page states, “Soundcrawl is a sound art and new media organization presenting works by best and brightest new media artists and composers in a unique ‘opt in’ gallery format. Since 2009 we’ve received 450+ works by 90 composers in 43 countries on 6 continents, and presented 72 to audiences in Nashville, Tennessee.”

Check out our 2011 interview with Kyle Baker. The really cool thing about Soundcrawl is that it’s interlocked with the October 6th First Saturday Art Crawl. As you roam from gallery to gallery, you’ll discover sound stations playing Soundcrawl official selections.

But this year, that’s just the beginning. Here’s the schedule of events:

Saturday Oct 6th

First Saturday Art Crawl, 6-8pm The Arcade

Tracy Silverman, 9:30pm Brick Factory

Sunday Oct 7th

 Soundcrawl: Art of the Future, 5PM – 8PM

Monday Oct 8th

Soundcrawl Presents Benton-C Bainbridge & Tony Youngblood,  7PM

Tuesday Oct 9th

Soundcrawl Presents Tim Hinck, 7PM – 9PM

Wednesday Oct 10th

Soundcrawl Presents Robbie Lynn Hunsinger,  7PM – 9PM

I’m really looking forward to Robbie Hunsinger‘s performance. The Facebook event page states, “This concert will feature opportunities for audience participation along with several premieres: a duet for arduino and soprano sax, a composition for alto sax and vocoder, and a multimedia composition for two English Horns and Bass. This last piece is her third project in a multimedia series based on source material captured from a canoe in Ebenezer Creek, an eerie, historic black water swamp in Georgia. This will be Hunsinger’s first composition for multiple player interactive multimedia and each player will independently control imagery in real-time.”

VERY COOL!

There’s also video artist Benton C Bainbridge‘s collaboration with some young ruffian. 😉

That event’s Facebook event page states, “An evening of FastMappin’; wherein video artist extrodinaire Benton-C will map projections onto what you bring while Tony Youngblood provides mind-expanding musical accompaniment. Put it in the Beam and Benton-C will Map it.” Guaranteed fun.

There’s also electric violinist extraordinaire Tracy Silverman (whom Terry Riley liked so much he wrote a symphony for), digital media manipulator Tim Hinck, and the carnivalesque symposium known as Art of the Future:

Grab your interesting friends and head down to downtown for a great night of sounds and wonders as Soundcrawl presents Art of the Future, an eclectic mix of live performances and innovative media installations in a carnival atmosphere.  Stroll through cutting edge new media from 5 until 8pm: interact with a video, listen to sound art from a world away,  tweak the knobs on a sound sculpture, lose yourself in an electric haze of sound from accomplished performers, take in new visual art, experience what’s possible when imagination and technology mix.

Every event except the Art Crawl is happening at my favorite Nashville creative space Brick Factory Nashville. Don’t miss it!

Joe Nolan wrote a great SoundCrawl preview over at the Nashville Scene.

Brick Factory Nashville
(Inside Cummins Station)
Suite 126
209 10th Ave South
Nashville, TN 37203

Circuit Benders’ Ball Art Submissions Extended to Sept 21st!

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Sep 162012
 

Benders’ Ball art directors Megan Kelly and Stephen Zerne have extended the deadline for art submissions to September 21st! We’re looking for electronic or mechanically minded work that would fit well with the theme of circuit bending. It can be 2D or 3D. We have some room set aside for installations. Interactivity and art that produces light or sound are big pluses!

Submissions for music performances and workshops closed August 25th. As much as we’d love additional musicians, our current schedule is pretty tight.

Submit your art proposals to submissions at theatreintangible dot com. Here’s the info we need:

  • The title of your piece
  • Your preferred name or handle
  • A short bio, and any contact information you want to share (website, etc)
  • A short description of the piece
  • Photo(s) of your piece for promotional purposes (web resolution, minimum 500 pixels on the smallest side)
  • The size of your piece(s), length x width and any three-dimensional requirements (height)
  • How your project would ideally be presented (mounted on wall, pedestal/tabletop, hung, etc)
  • Any “special needs” of your piece (does it include sound? Is it projected? Does it need darkness? Do you need external power?)
  • How much time will you need to install the piece?
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