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Sensory Response Systems

Ryan Jordan

Ryan Jordan
http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701rj
Sensory Response Systems is an exploration into audio-visual performance using an array of sensors responsive to physical movements in order to control the audio-visual output in programs such as pd, SuperCollider, Processing, etc.

Gnirut Test

Benjamin Cadon

Benjamin Cadon
http://benjah.free.fr/01xyweb/01xy.htm
Gnirut Test is an audiovisual performance that deals with our techno machinic evolution, driven by more and more powerfull digital tools and networks.

Notstandskomitee

by Notstandskomitee aka Malte Steiner
http://www.block4.com/index.php?id=101
An experiment in alternative user interaction with a realtime soundsynthesizer.This software system generates in one application stepsequences, soundsynthesis and visuals for realtime performance.
Hardwareinterface is a hacked Korg PadKontrol.

d.R.e.G.S.

Yves Degoyon (aka d.R.e.G.S.)
http://ydegoyon.free.fr
Yves Degoyon (es/fr) is a musician/performer and a free software developer/dealer. He's practising copyleft philosophy under the name of d.R.e.G.S

_rrr

AV real time performance by Jaime Villarreal, Ernesto Romero and Ezequiel Netri (aka RRR)
http://r-r-r.cc

Open Business Design

Egil Möller & Florian Cramer

Egil Möller & Florian Cramer
A talk through different points of view about making business or making some monew programming open source software.

Hexaclock

Geraldine Juarez

Geraldine Juarez
http://www.simple-mechanisms.com/hexaclock.html
Hexaclock is a digital device designed to delay seconds while time traveling. The clock is based in the shape of an hexagon. Each hour has its own symbol, which is never the same.

Fonts as Art

Egil Möller

Egil Möller
Free Software Consultant
He was the first to create a graphical boot splash for Linux. Egil is the man behind the project Grimoire – an advanced system administration tool for large scale and distributed systems.

G.I.S.S. 3.0

Yves Degoyon & Lluis Gomez i Bigorda

Yves Degoyon & Lluis Gomez i Bigorda
G.I.S.S. 3.0: an open infrastructure for free media. G.I.S.S. ( Global Independent Streaming Support ) is an international network of free media activists, working in building an open infrastructure for free media collectives.
http://giss.tv

Gmerlin Audio Video Decoder (II)

Richard Spindler

Richard Spindler (presenter), Burkhard Plaum (programmer)
Gmerlin - Audio Video Decoder
http://gmerlin.sourceforge.net/
A talk introducing Gmerlin, and explaining how it could benefit projects that want to work with High Definition Video Formats, and other "Professional" video formats.

Gmerlin Audio Video Decoder (I)

Richard Spindler

Zeitgeist (freedom in/poetry out)

Federico Bonelli and Robert Fischer

Federico Bonelli and Robert Fischer
Zeigeist is a Transformer: the manifestation of a process of transformation. In this event the process is made by people, encoded into recycled hardware, free software, knowledge of various sort and uses words. It needs a social gathering, a public space, sound vibrations and various other factors, here after specified that will concur to the success of the operation. The success is determined by it's poetry.

RealCode Workshop (Otto Roessler interview)

Otto Roessler

http://1010.co.uk/org/piksel2008.html
German biochemist Otto E. Roessler occupies the rare contemporary position of a scientific and artistic polymath with noted significant contributions to chaos theory, under his original attractor, and the fresh science of endophysics. His current major project, Lampsacus, proposes a truly free networked informational society.

RealCode Workshop (Eva, Eleni and Alex interview)

Eva, Eleni and Alex

Interview to some of the participants that took part in the Real Code Workshop. In this case, Eva, Eleni and Alex are in an "island hopping and connection" node, trying to capture the air's movement.

RealCode Workshop (Bureau d'Études & Alejandra Pérez interview)

Alejandra Pérez + Bureau d'Études

Interview with some of the participants at RealCode Workshop.
http://1010.co.uk/org/piksel2008.html
Alejandra Pérez and Bureau d'Études, to talk about their research and performance RAW - Radiating Addictive Waves.

RealCode Workshop (Martin Howse interview)

Martin Howse

Interview with some of the participants that took part in the RealCode Workshop.
http://1010.co.uk/org/piksel2008.html
In this case, with Martin Howse, one of the workshop's organizer, to talk about the aim of the RealCode workshop, and also its connection with free open source, and free sofware/hardware...

RealCode Workshop (work in progress)

RealCode participants

http://1010.co.uk/org/piksel2008.html
Some of the moments of the RealCode Workshop that we've been recording.

RealCode Workshop (Cooking Lab interview)

CoockingLab - Maja Kuzmanovic

Interview with some of the participants that took part in the RealCode Workshop.
http://1010.co.uk/org/piksel2008.html
In this case, to talk about the Cooking Lab's proposal by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney.

Ab(used) Mediums

One Man Nation

One Man Nation
http://onemannation.com/blog/content/performance/about
A new performance set developed using only open-source software for live performances. A way to use the computer as an instrument but without having to use the computer screen at all DURING a performance.
Pure Data running on Ubuntu.

History and Future of the Solid State Entity

Jessica Rylan

Jessica Rylan
On a transhumanist website, she found the following quote by science-fiction author David Zindell:"We should all know the code of our programs, otherwise we can never be free."

DYN-AMO ARTEFACTS BY THE SCIE PROTOCOL (I)

Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett

by Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett
http://www.a10lab.info/scieprotocol
The performance is based on a discussion between an automated video score responding to a performer, who in turn responds to the video. Using Pure Data programmation, the performer triggers the composition of the images and deconstructs their narrative content according to the performers relationship to these images.

DYN-AMO ARTEFACTS BY THE SCIE PROTOCOL (II)

Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett

Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett
http://www.a10lab.info/scieprotocol
by Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett
http://www.a10lab.info/scieprotocol
The performance is based on a discussion between an automated video score responding to a performer, who in turn responds to the video. Using Pure Data programmation, the performer triggers the composition of the images and deconstructs their narrative content according to the performers relationship to these images.

RAW (Radiating Addictive Waves)

Alejandra Pérez & Bureau d'Études

Bureau d'Études and Alejandra Pérez
http://ljudmila.org/~pueblo/raw.html
RAW is a performance showing raw results of a research that we would like to conduct during piksel workshop. The aim is to inquire into existing representations of the body in relation to machines.

Animata

Animata team

Animata team
http://animata.kibu.hu/

Wind-up Birds, a network of mechanical woodpeckers

HC Gilje

HC Gilje
http://hcgilje.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/wind-up-birds/
wind-up birds is a work exploring location of sound and movement of sound in space, using a network of mechanical woodpeckers

BOT: virtual networked lab

Julien Ottavi

Julien Ottavi
http://www.apo33.org/dokapo/en/doku.php?id=bot
BOT make up a virtual community, in the continuation of the POULPE project, with a view to assemble a collection of entities in one location in order to diffuse their production to many more places. They stand for a new approach to digital phenomena : networks, multi motionless geolocation, interconnection of on-line produced or processed data, automation in the treatment of reality and, especially in the case of BOTs?, sites for experiments, always accessible, and from anywhere.

Pure agents - augmenting live patching

Iohannes Zmölnig

Iohannes Zmölnig
https://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pure-data/trunk/externals/iem/iemguts/
He presents "iemguts", a collection of objects for
Pure Data (Pd-vanilla, but should run with any
version of Pd) that allow Pd-patches to interact
with each other on a meta-level (on the patching
level)

Fritzing (II)

Brendan Howell & Mariano Crowe

Brendan Howell & Mariano Crowe
http://fritzing.org
Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers and artists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product. We are aiming to create a software in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, that allows the designer/artist/researcher/hobbyist to document their Arduino-based prototype and create a PCB layout for manufacturing.

Fritzing (I)

Brendan Howell & Mariano Crowe

TONEWHEELS

Derek Holzer

Derek Holzer
http://www.umatic.nl/tonewheels.html
Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound and light pulsations and textures, while projected graphical loops and textures add richness to the visual environment.

No Copy Paste

Gabor Papp & Agoston Nagy

Gabor Papp & Agoston Nagy
http://ncp.kibu.hu/
No Copy Paste generates music and visuals in real-time, utilizing live coding, which emphasises the expressive possibilities afforded by programming languages as a means for defining and manipulating computational processes. Software used: pure data and fluxus

Do sinusoids dream of electric sweeps?

Iohannes Zmölnig

Iohannes Zmölnig
A live-coding performance done in pure-data. it relies heavily on self-modifying Pd-patches that interact in an agent-like fashion.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
http://du-store-verden.no/artister/artist.php?2007112722382294975
The three dimensional virtual enviroment of Second Life is both the homebase and the contextual base for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. The Avatar Metaverse Orchestra is equally much a tool for performing as it is a vehicle for continued experimentation.

Official Opening of Pixel 08

VVAA

LevelHead

Julian Oliver

Julian Oliver
http://julianoliver.com/levelhead
levelHead is an Augmented Reality spatial memory game. It uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

Caligraft

Ricard Marxer

Ricard Marxer
http://www.caligraft.com
Caligraft : crafting computational calligraphies, to use computation to create new representations of fonts, which can be considered as the digital representations of the ideas of glyphs.
The entire development of the project has been done using Free libraries such as Geomerative and Processing and on the GNU/Linux platform. One of the main focuses of Caligraft has always been the promotion of Free software and Free fonts.

Sprocket

Bruno Vianna

Bruno Vianna, Maira Sala
http://www.geral.etc.br/engranaje
A physical interface for live cinema editing. It was designed for movie theaters, for the editing and manipulation of narrative films, but it can be adapted for other uses. The idea for the tool came from the necessity to develop a specific editing environment for live cinema, different from the VJ softwares available today, which didn't attend some of our requirements for narrative movies.

Opening Piksel08

Piksel08

Opening Piksel08
The atmosphere at USF waiting for the official opening...

Data Jockey

Alex Norman

Alex Norman - Data Jockey
http://x37v.info/datajockey/
It is in essence a digital disc jockey tool which leverages audio meta-data (both computed and manually added by the user) in order to allow for new approaches in content selection and juxtaposition.