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Warum2.0 exposition at V2_ Rotterdam

by on Saturday, 17 January 2009 | comments Comments Off | Tags: , , Warum2.0 exposition at V2_ Rotterdam

Warum2.0

From the 21 Jan­u­ary — 01 Feb­ru­ary 2009 V2_ in Rot­ter­dam will turn into a media war-zone with the instal­la­tion arena ‘WARUM2.0′.

WARUM2.0 is a pub­lic exper­i­ment where the vis­i­tors can explore doc­u­men­tary images and media shaped by YouTube, Sec­ond Life and sur­veil­lance cam­eras. Pas­sively watch­ing is no longer suf­fi­cient — instead we need to select, eval­u­ate and choose. The instal­la­tion fea­tures unique videos from Dar­fur, Afghanistan, Haiti, Gaza, Iraq and Kosovo by acclaimed cam­era­man Daniel Demoustier, as well as inter­views with cul­tural the­o­rist Paul Vir­ilio. The instal­la­tion can be seen as an ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion of media and the influ­ence of medi­ated images that more and more deter­mine our rela­tion with the world around us.

Warum 2.0 is a pro­duc­tion by CARGO and Ste­faan Decostere, with Chris­t­ian Decker, Edwin Uyten­broek, Jonas Hansen, Chris Devriese, Johan Blaeke, and with stu­dents archi­tec­ture TU Delft/Media Stud­ies.
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MyBot at ARTEFACT, Belgium

by on Friday, 22 February 2008 | comments Comments Off | Tags: , MyBot at ARTEFACT, Belgium

Kinetic Life / MyBot will be exhibit at

ARTEFACT fes­ti­val 2008
–> 12 — 17 Feb­ru­ary 2008
–> STUK kun­sten­cen­trum Leu­ven, Belgium

The instal­la­tion will be part of Warom2.0 from Ste­faan Decostere (CARGO) at the ARTEFACT fes­ti­val in Belgium.

In my instal­la­tion, a robotic hand plays the com­puter game Sec­ond Life. By press­ing keys of a com­puter key­board, the hand moves a vir­tual Avatar on the screen. The move­ment of the hand’s fin­gers is an auto­mated ongo­ing rou­tine. The rou­tine will be inter­rupted, when a per­son stands close to the hand. But after a short while the hand, and with it the vir­tual avatar, will go back to their monot­o­nous rou­tine. The instal­la­tion can be seen as a phys­i­cal and vir­tual kinetic per­for­mance. In Sec­ond Life the avatar walks through a col­lage of pho­tographs and inter­view frag­ments by Daniel Demoustier about war victims.

visit the CARGO Media Space in Sec­ond Life (SLurl)
from 12 — 17 th Feb­ru­ary my avatar will be per­form life in SL













MyBot 2.1 :: work in progress

by on Tuesday, 6 November 2007 | comments Comments Off | Tags: , MyBot 2.1 :: work in progress

MyBot 2.1 is project I am cur­rently work­ing on. The basic idea is to have a robotic hand, that will play Sec­ond Life and cre­ates an auto­mated vir­tual and phys­i­cal per­for­mance. The piece will be part of a big­ger instal­la­tion Warum 2.0 by CARGO. It will be exhibit in Feb­ru­ari 08 in Bel­gium (more info later on).

For the Robotic hand I used an exist­ing toy (The Pianist) and put my own ser­vos in. the Ser­vos will be con­trolled by an Arduino board or the Par­al­lax USB Con­troller. The Par­al­lax Con­troller is very easy to use, pro­gram­ming sim­ple rou­tines over time for the ser­vos is quiet easy. But using sen­sors to influ­ence the rou­tines, is not pos­si­ble. In order to also use a PIR sen­sor to sense move­ment, I will prob­a­bly go for the Arduino board.

Here is my first result with the robotic hand:

Vir­tual per­for­mance will take place in SL:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/HatHead%20II/250/161/313

ARS Electronica 2007

by on Thursday, 20 September 2007 | comments Comments Off | Tags: , ARS Electronica 2007

Pic­ture and link col­lec­tion of this year Ars Elec­tron­ica, “Good­bey Pri­vacy” event:
Sec­ond City, col­lec­tion of art works based on Sec­ond Life and other online worlds.