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fluid updated

August 12, 2009 Projects 3 comments

I’ve spent a bit more time cleaning up the fluid blobs examples I made last week, this time limiting the Region of Interest and fiddling with the fluid interaction.  Also newly included is a smarter way to interact with the blobs (in the code, i mean), pulling out more precise locational data.  I’ll be looking to mine this one a bit more extensively than I did with the filtration fields installation – and since I seem to be getting better now at things I was attempting before – this should be a lot more fun.In the mix still is some video over network action, as well as potentially a database record of the motion over time.  I’d like to develop this as an interactive (from the visualisation point of view) interface where you could select a day, week or month and view the fluid ripples as they occur, like a fluid time-lapse of the actual motion from the courtyard.  We’ll see.

Fluid Blobs v2 from Jason McDermott on Vimeo.

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Interface Edinburgh

November 6, 2008 Projects No comments

The interface only exists between a body and it’s environment.Come to this place and see that we are outsiders, foreigners in a new land‚ naive and blissfully innocent of this place.   We seek to make a connection, an understanding, to learn from the city by touch and by feel.  By striking, pulling and tearing.  Each time we impact, resonate and crash through the layers of a city’s resistance, we learn something more of its limit.  It is conversation, but not spoken.  This information is physical.In the space of the gallery, the interface folds back on itself.  The results of our exploration are projected onto canvas‚ but only when the canvas is activated by touch.  Curious onlookers (and the many other outsiders) do not passively observe but become involved in revealing the city’s unspoken surprises.  Strangers are offered the chance to play the city instrument.  We touch, scratch and pound the canvas in the gallery, we hammer and kick and make noise.   The interfacing is deemed a success!It is the same thesis that drives a child’s desire to test unseen boundaries, we want to know our (?) place and not by mere observation.  The interface always reveals itself informed, regardless of environment – it is both body and information in one. We touch, scratch and pound the surfaces, at all times looking for an answer.  Our in-situ interface is given over to new form or understanding.  The city and gallery converse via the active canvas and the information it holds. We interface with the city in as many ways imaginable.  We play the city’s instruments, be they playful, curious or sinister.We attack and wait for response.Interface: Edinburgh (2008) from Jason McDermott on Vimeo.

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