PURE FLOW by Katy Connor

"PURE FLOW is a mobile artwork by Katy Connor that reveals new perceptions of technological systems, transforming the iPhone and iPad into a Live probe revealing the noise between GPS satellites, 3G networks and Wifi hotspots as a tangible presence in the environment.

PURE FLOW visualises these signals as a sliver of fluctuating white noise, responding directly to the movement and immediate environment of the device. The user can directly manipulate the outcomes, by touching the visual and sonic patterns triggered by fluctuations in the data, sampling this immersive and enveloping field." See more;

"PURE FLOW visualises the instability and fragility of Live signals, passing through cloud cover, being absorbed by bodies, reflecting off concrete and refracting through glass. The APP subverts the use-value of GPS as a surveying and navigational tool; revealing these invisible data streams and highlighting their ubiquity, as sophisticated military technologies become key components in daily life."

Download it here.

Mesmerizing websites

Gifmelter, by Chris Shier & Tim Baker

I'm impressed about several websites I have discovered recently. They create a crazy abstract visual experience, I like the flow by interacting with them, how fast and well they work and also the chaos they generate by submitting a source. 

Into the post you can see 3 pieces, each of them created by a different artist, the first one is called Gifmelter, by Chris Shier & Tim Baker, where you can upload an animated gif and let it flow by interacting with it. I'm really looking forward to see what's next from Noisia, he has created so much good work in the last months (check out these 2 previous posts; 1, 2).

The second image into the post is from a website by David Kraftsow aka dontsave, called yooouuutuuube.com, where you can enter a Youtube video url and select three different modes such as feedback, zoetrope and mosaic, which is also awesome to see an entire video being distorted through all these modes in real time. Btw I didn't know before the work of David Kraftsow, and I didn't like only the piece I just mentioned but several of them lined up on his website, I like how he works visually but also conceptually, this is quite beautiful piece http://dontsave.com/waterfall_tracking/.

The last image is from a new work by Andrew Benson, called Radical Paintings, this piece doesn't take external imagery source, but I love it as I do with the visual work by Andrew working through video, it's great to interact with his acid visuals finally on the web! See more;

Gifmelter

by Chris Shier, gif.js by Tim Baker

http://csh.bz/gifmelter/

Yooouuutuuube

by David Kraftsow

http://yooouuutuuube.com/

Radical Paintings

by Andrew Benson

http://pixlpa.com/webgl/radicalpaintings.html

Capture by Satoru Higa

Capture is a sound based application created by Satoru Higa. I like how simple and beautiful is and how chaotic it can be, sonorously and visually. It works on the own desktop, making the transparent windows use whatever visual data source from the desktop by transforming it to sound. The colour and the position of the colours below decides the pitch, tone and tempo. You can create as many compositions as you want by moving the windows or moving the content below of them. I really enjoyed to see on the video (below) when Satoru tries it over the a webpage and he scrolls down Google's search while the windows are fixed. It made me think to try it over other art based websites and videos to know how they sound, but the application is not downloadable so far. See more;

As Creative Applications says; "Some time ago Zach Lieberman posted code on the oF forums which allows you to show the pixels directly below the openFrameworks app window in a texture. This little app Satoru Higa uses the same method to create a music sequencer." 

To see more experiments by Satoru, see his GitHub.

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Selfsurfing by Jonas Lund

Jonas Lund has created a new project called "Selfsurfing" it consist in a Chrome extension which lets  users to watch what Jonas is surfing. It acts as a browser mirror, it is a clone which works in real time,  you can see in every single moment what he is doing on the internet (using Chrome), and what tabs are he handle. 

Jonas has announced (today 20th March) he is going to do a non-stop surfing for the next 24h, he has  started today at 12pm EST (17:00 CET). As Jonas says the browser has a server extension installed which transmits the current state of [his' browser to a intermediate server, which holds all relevant information.". See more;

In the few minutes I have been following Jonas through his Selfsurfing app, I saw how he visited many different websites, goolge reader, facebook, twitter, but like he explains to Rhizome in a little interview they made him before launching it; "The way the extension works is that it clones the tabs of my browser, so if I surf to my Facebook, you will see your Facebook. So in that sense the social network privacy is maintained, but for the duration of the 24 hours Chrome will be the one and only browser."

To check if it works in real time I asked him through twitter (@jonas_lund) to visit triangulationblog.com and he did! (thanks!). I have also read in a public pad he has opened right now and is using it as a public chat to speak and interact with other people who has already installed Selfsurfing, that if he visits soundcloud or last.fm and he plays the sound player the music is not going to autoplay itself if you don't play it, but he found another way to share in real time what music he's listening, if he plays the videos on Youtube you will watch and listen them in live! 

I recommend to install this Chrome extension by Jonas Lund and to have a look to what he is doing. It only  happens today! Don't know if he will repeat this. Good work Jonas! (don't hesitate to visit Triangulation all the times you want, specially today ;)

UPDATE: Jonas will be surfing today (20th March) along 24 hours straight because of its launching, afterwards it will just go on and on as he usually browses around..

Download Selfsurfing here.

Read more about the project at Rhizome.

Speculative Apps by Dominik Strzelec

Dominik Strzelec is currently working on a series of little design apps, focusing on specific aspects of the architecture, according with him a kind of architecture I would like to see built! Strzelec also known as echoechonoisenoise is creating these applications to explore an interactive way into the architectonic field, experimenting with forms, textures and structures. See more;

Strzelec proposes some questions about; "Architecture discourse is traditionally shaped by drawings and critical writings. What happens, if they are interactive and easily translatable to the fabrication maschines code? What if they’re source is open, so that anyone can contribute?" 

The applications have been created by working on remixes and fusions from other works by:
‘Saturation’ is a remix of Tommaso Casucci‘s ’3d BZreaction’, which in turn is a quick mod of Alasdair Turner’s ‘BZ reaction’. I merged it with a little simplified version of my former ‘fusion’ codes and added ‘floorslabs’ using Shane Nelson’s ‘scalar field polygonisation‘.

App + code here.

Saturation

Sound: D. W. Kim "Music for Space Cowboys"

Serious Saturation - Interactive version

Further exploration of effects resulting from scale alteration: oscilating patterns of bz reaction as well as color interferences become more readible. It is as well evident, that this is just a sample within a bounding box." 

Sound: Hypercell

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SKTCH 2.0 by CreativeApplications.Net

CreativeApplications.Net have just announced the release of version 2.0 of their generative drawing and illustration called 'SKTCH' for the iOS platform. Together with updated iPhone version, this release also arrives to the iPad, bundled as as a separate application and offering the same excellent generative drawing experience.

"Instead of adopting traditional "brush" based drawing, SKTCH is about presets created by a number of digital artists around the globe. SKTCH allows you to create circles, meshes, networks using any of the 14 presets available. Each preset includes a set of variable which can be adjusted in the settings panel. These allow individual presets to taken on a whole new look from adjusting even the smallest values. Presets can be overlaid, switch on/off allowing new, rich compositions to come to life. Together with Image Import feature from your Photo Library, SKTCH becomes a collage of vector and image." See more;

"Major new feature in version 2.0 is the 3D mode. This mode allows you to rotate around your sketches and adjust new parameters which transform them in three dimensions.

Other updates include a revamped UI, now utilising Apple's own UIKit, two additional new presets (a total of 16 now), Retina display support for iPhone 4 and a whole lot more small improvements."

Artist that donated presets include Kim Asendorf, Andreas Müller, Eduard Prats Molner, Philip Whitfield, Martin Fuchs and Mike Tucker. Remaining presets are by Filip Visnjic.

Created and Published by CreativeApplications.Net

Developed with openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit.

Download iPhone Version
Download iPad Version (Is coming)

iPhone Version Screenshots

iPad Version Screenshots

For more information, see sktchapp.com
For more examples, see their group on Flickr

People Staring at Computers

People Staring at Computers is a project by Kyle McDonald consisting in a simple application he wrote which took one picture every minute. If it found a face, it uploaded the photo to Kyle's server. This app was installed around NY over three days, collecting more than a thousand photos. See more;

"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." - Kyle McDonald

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V&A Ornaments by Karsten Schmidt

V&A Ornaments Installation, is the latest great project by Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition took place at Victoria & Albert Museum consisting in an interactive installation as part of their activities around the Cult Of Beauty Aestheticism exhibition. Like Karsten says, he keeps the William Morris as a loose source of inspiration, as well as addressing the museum's upcoming Power Of Making collaboration with the Crafts Council, Schmidt proposed to create a modern, stripped down interpretation of his pattern work mixed with classic islamic/indian geometric influences and then realised this project using different digital fabrication techniques. See more;

"The result is a Victorian-esque, ornamental, laser-cut, 2-panel room divider, covered in 620 hand folded paper cones, mounted on the front surface as projection canvas. Visitors can create their own pattern using an iPad hidden in a small table (also laser-cut) standing nearby.

The generated tiling pattern is based on a central octagon surrounded by other polygons (4,5,6,7-gons). It forms the guiding topology for both the panels and the table. I developed a number of small software tools to create the tessellations by dissecting these polygons into symmetrical smaller shapes. Using several levels of symmetry, only 18 unique shapes are needed to create the full pattern. These are then arranged, unfolded and used to generate the cut paths for both the paper elements as well as the MDF frames. The paper cones were designed in such way that their elevation varies with their distance from the centre of each parent polygon, thus creating a secondary superimposed pattern in the relief of the tessellation. All of the paper shapes were fabricated by myself using a Craft Robo cutting plotter (and 200+ sheets of paper).

The room divider was manufactured by Metropolitan Works on their large-scale laser cutter. All color palettes which can be interactively applied to the polygons via the iPad UI are sampled from Morris' original wallpaper designs."

 Music: Vessel by Jon Hopkins

Credits: concept, design and code: Karsten Schmidt
Commissioned by: Victoria & Albert Museum
Laser cutting by: Metropolitan Works & Cut-Laser-Cut
Photography: Giedre Kaubryte-Schmidt

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Alva Noto + Derivate

Audiovisual performance unitxt / univrs (derivative version) by Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto at Ars Electronica 2010. Visuals developed with Markus Heckmann aka Wuestenarchitekten and produced with TouchDesigner. See more;