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Nike + Paint With Your Feet

lucas — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:30:14 +0000

For the launch of the Nike Free Run+ 2 City Pack series, YesYesNo was invited to develop software that would allow runners to create dynamic paintings with their feet using their Nike+ GPS run data. During the two day workshop at Nike headquarters, we invited the participants to record their runs and then using our custom software we imported the metrics from their run, to create visuals based on the speed, consistency and unique style of each person’s run.

Using the software the participants were able to play with the mapping and adjust the composition of their run which was then outputted as a high resolution print for them to take home. We also worked with the Innovation Lab at Nike to laser etch the runner’s name, the distance they ran and their run path onto a custom fabricated shoe box, which contained a pair of the ‘City Pack’ shoes from their city of origin.

Credits:
Produced in collaboration with DualForces.

YesYesNo Team: Zach Lieberman, Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson.

Software was made with openFrameworks v007b and uses Moka’s ofxTileSaver addon.

AVSYS final presentations

lucas — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:23:38 +0000

Audio Visual Systems is a class taught by myself and Zach Gage at Parsons MFADT program. The purpose of this class is to learn and explore the relationships between audio and visual forms using programming as medium of interpreting, generating, and controlling the relationships between the two. At the end of the semester we organized a show at Amit Pitaru’s studio, where friends, and family, and guests came together to see what the students produced throughout the semester.

Drow

lucas — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:20:25 +0000

DROW = drawing + throwing. It’s vj software and an iphone application. You can download it for free from the App Store, draw any image, and throw it from anywhere in the world, and it will appear live in concert. It’s a collaboration between myself, Masa Kawamura and IMG SRC. Our first use of DROW took place with Republic and KuchiRoRo. Masa and I watched the performance live on ustream from new york.

Urban Alchemy

lucas — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:17:09 +0000

On May 14th, i collaborated with a group of designers and architects towards an urban intervention in Noho. The project consisted in projecting messages about peace onto a 60 foot wall using people’s bodies as the main source of imagery. The main site of the intervention was a clothing store and an independent communications network – Paper Tiger Television – on the corner of Bleecker and Lafayette. As people went by, they were invited to come in and tell us where they would find peace of mind. They would sit down in front of a 3D camera and we would input the message into the software as they prepared for capture. Their moving image would be captured by the camera and projected onto the 60 foot wall outside. The projected image, however, was not a regular color image. The person’s silhouette, captured in 3D, would be filled with type specifically developed for this project, which contained the message he/she wished to deliver.

poptech / spark

zach — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:51:31 +0000

I shot a video for spark, an initiative poptech has launched to help get highschool students excited about science and math.

The video, shot by the excellent noah david smith, came out great. check it out here.

aol 25 x 25

zach — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:45:34 +0000

I was honored this winter to receive a grant from AOL’s 25×25 program – where AOL awarded 25k grants to 25 artists.

A huge thank you to Nikki, and the rest of the AOL staff for making this possible.

SVA IxD summer school

zach — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:07:40 +0000

I had the great opportunity this summer to teach a class at SVA’s new IxD program. They have a summer bootcamp type program, and I was honored to be teaching along side Nicholas Felton, Shawn Allen and Carla Diana. It was an intro to code (and openframeworks) course and we got really quite far in 4 weeks.

Reface

lucas — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:58:06 +0000

Stills

Description

Reface [Portrait Sequencer] is a surreal video mash-up that composes endless combinations of its visitors’ faces. Based on the Victorian “Exquisite Corpse” parlor game, the Reface installation records and dynamically remixes brief video slices of its viewers’ mouths, eyes and brows.

Reface uses face-tracking techniques to allow automatic alignment and segmentation of its participants’ faces. As a result, visitors to the project can move around freely in front of the display without worrying about lining up their face for the system’s camera. The video clips recorded by the project are “edited” by the participants’ own eye blinks. Blinking also triggers the display to advance to the next set of face combinations.

Through interactions with an image wholly constructed from its own history of being viewed, Reface makes possible a new form of inventive play with one’s own appearance and identity. The resulting kinetic portraiture blends the personalities and genetic traits of its visitors to create a “generative group portrait” of the people in the project’s locale.

Links

http://www.flong.com/projects/reface/
http://vimeo.com/2355887

Messa di Voce

lucas — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:36:52 +0000

Stills

Description

Messa di Voce (Ital., “placing the voice”) is an audiovisual performance in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by two abstract vocalists are radically augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualization software. The performance touches on themes of abstract communication, synaesthetic relationships, cartoon language, and writing and scoring systems, within the context of a sophisticated, playful, and virtuosic audiovisual narrative.

The software transforms every vocal nuance into correspondingly complex, subtly differentiated and highly expressive graphics. These visuals not only depict the singers’ voices, but also serve as controls for their acoustic playback. While the voice-generated graphics thus become an instrument which the singers can perform, body-based manipulations of these graphics additionally replay the sounds of the singers’ voices — thus creating a cycle of interaction that fully integrates the performers into an ambience consisting of sound, virtual objects and real-time processing.

Messa di Voce lies at an intersection of human and technological performance extremes, melding the unpredictable spontaneity and extended vocal techniques of two master composer-improvisers with the latest in computer vision and speech analysis technologies. Utterly wordless, yet profoundly verbal, Messa di Voce is designed to provoke questions about the meaning and effects of speech sounds, speech acts, and the immersive environment of language.

Links

http://www.tmema.org/messa/messa.html
http://vimeo.com/2892576

EyeWriter

lucas — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:06:33 +0000

Stills

Description

Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a professional/social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS patients from around the world who are using local materials and open source research to creatively connect and make eye art.

Links

http://www.eyewriter.org/
http://vimeo.com/6376466