Geodesic models by TaffGoch

Geodesic by TaffGoch – Google 3D Warehouse

I like it, after months of searching on the net for a particular subject, when you find a repository for it

Project X Presents: Xlab V1

Project X time again and we’ve foregone some of the performance for this one to try out a few of the techier ideas. I will be doing a couple of av sets, one based around youtube lo fi stuff using the freeware flash based FLXER vj software, and also something a bit slicker originally inspired by the club scene in the Twin Peaks film.

Things of note will be the Object X guys applying rocket science to installation art – I jest not, the fellows range from research experiment technicians at Birmingham uni to aerospace designers to Shoreditch science teachers… and they’ve got some ingenious proximity based/footswitchin/interactive sofa sound/light/motion structures all over the place, so you really can ‘watch your step’.

And there’s a live linkup from Oz with our very own reductive pianist, Rich Batsford streaming live over video from Adelaide University.

and there’s a whole program of music to fuse with this , from punk to funk to electronica and opera…

details are all here

With a disturbing, lurching assault on the senses, Project X is an intelligent and unique show destabilising the established role of the “spectator” in performance theatre and drawing you into an impressively eclectic and complex mix of art forms. – Birmingham Post

where to now?

Having been asked to talk about what I’m doing and where I’m going at Birmingham Institute Art & Design in March i thought about exactly the three areas i want to explore in terms of the 360 thang.

choreography of the camera

• thinking outside of the frame
• editing for immersion
• precise control of actors/dancers/camera in an inescapable environment
• wearable computing/camera

capture of 360° video

• camera arrays/stitching
• fisheye lenses
• ultra hd
• telematics
• mimetics

presentation of 360° video

• dome structures
• customisable distortion maps for ‘generic’ rooms
• edge blending/masking
• projector arrays
• fisheye projection
• kinesthetics
• viewer tracking/perspective shift

BBC R&I Surround Video

BBC Internet Blog – Pic Of The Day: Surround Video

the bbc R&I – the people who helped bring us allsorts of things, from teletext to dab radio to mpeg are having a go at bringing surround video to our living rooms…

“It would be down to you and your wife how many pictures you would want to take off the walls,” – Graham Thomas

Great Dance – Cromatouched

Great Dance is a blog about just that, and i’m very flattered that they’ve blogrolled me down the right hand side of the main page. i’ve made a couple of comments to the site specifically on the dance-tech bits…
Great Dance

Created in Birmingham – Chromatouch mentioned

that there lovely pete ashton bloke who, along with stef 3form, set up the created in birmingham blog to keep everyone informed about the marvellous goings on in brum. the site recently won a Media Guardian Innovation Award, and pete mentioned the regular sites and blogs he dips into for info and inspiration. he mentioned very kindly that this very blog was an excellent example of a digital notebook… cheers pete, does this mean i’m obliged to turn up to the birmingham bloggers meeting now?

Created in Birmingham » Spreading the love a bit