Pressure Project #3: Augmented Backgammon
Posted: December 16, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Backgammon is the first board game ever in human history.
It is a mysterious mix of choices, strategy and luck. Properties of life I enjoy the most.
On my latest visit to Istanbul Turkey, I got a beautiful backgammon board. I decided then, to bring it back and let my fellow artists co workers play with the augmented reality version of this game I created.
Thanks ACCAD for the awesome video on this piece.!
Axel Cuevas Santamaría VJ axx
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Pressure Project #2: Dancing Depths
Posted: December 16, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »After Presure project 1: Staring at the Sun, I developed this new iteration.
It was an attempt to deliver a delightful automatic digital art piece experiment.
… an individual walks into a room in darkness where a MIDI controller interface awaits.
The device, once activated by the individual, lets Isadora create a visually pleasing and self generating patch of shapes, lines, and color
Visual textures are assigned to the dancing silhouettes of people inside the room
This was my first experiment using kinect v2 and Isadora together
Also, my first interactive dancing experience where my audience got activated
After this, I continued developing a more complex and integrated experiential media system for an interactive dance performance titled Microbial Skin
Thanks Alex Olizsewski and ACCAD for all the support!
Axel Cuevas Santamaría VJ axx
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Pressure Project #1: Staring at the Sun
Posted: December 16, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
For this project, we experienced yellow color invading our spatial perception.
Inspired by Pi, the American surrealist psychological thriller film from 1998 written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, this is the project I developed.
The experiential media system for this project provided a mock-up for an immersive environment that allows users to shift our spatial perception.
After this experiment, I built a geodesic dome to test immersive possibilities.
I started building cardboard domes, for delivering immersive experiences.
Axel Cuevas Santamaría VJ axx
https://axxvjs.wordpress.com/
folding_fours game
Posted: December 16, 2016 Filed under: Paper & Pen Leave a comment »Playing connect four as part of class was a great experience!
Encouraged by Alex to find new possibilities, me and Ece figured a new challenge in this old game by adding the possibility of folding the paper every third turn. This, after going deeper on the game with Ashlee, added a new experience: materiality.
The folding of the paper makes a richer physical level experience.
motiondetection01
Posted: December 16, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »As I started with fast motion detection action, I uploaded a first test patch. Works best with lots of light in the room (darn) and with Input Menu/Start Live Capture to play. hope it works
Download Patch in this link:
axtest03_sept08_motiondetection01-izz
SVRPVRPSV cycles
Posted: September 17, 2016 Filed under: Reading Responses Leave a comment »Resources/ Scores/ Valuaction/ Performance
The fact of understanding many activities and everyday components of our lives as a set of Scores, to me is a curious possibility. From our shopping lists to class schedules, to bar menus, phone contacts and directions on Google maps, the cues that drive the direction of our daily processes can be seen and triggered as cue-based instances. As if we were playing the visuals of our daily performances controlled by the resources of our body-driving decisions. I agree that all parts of the process constantly interact having no specific order. How else would art creation happen if not? There are no specific rules for this. At least on my opinion.
SOLAR
Posted: September 13, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Imagine entering a machine, supplying the co-ordinates of a city and a specific moment in time and as a response you receive the direction, the intensity and the sensation of heat and light that the sun radiated in that time-space.
This is a piece I saw in Ars Electronica, I hope you guys find it useful for your projects.
Axel