Corrupt

Corrupt was first built with Proce55ing. The corruption process start by reading the binary of an image file [JPG or GIF], then some bytes are swaps [the number of replacement is a random value from 1 to 20]. The file is then “saved as” a new document. Depending on the number replacement and of the original compression, the image will have a completely different and unpredictable aesthetics. So from a single image the program can generate millions of corrupted versions. And because it is a real corruption system that damages the binaries of a file, some of the results can’t be showed because they are too damaged… The project is now available online for anyone who desire to corrupt his own JPG images.

Corrupt

Chronotext

Chronotext is a growing collection of software experiments exploring the relation between text, space and time. Developed mainly by a man names Ariel Malka in Tel-Aviv, the site is a taste of what text interacting with photographs in a spatial manner can be. You can go to the site and click the launch buttons to see what he’s created. You’ll need Java

Chronotext

Jari Komppa on Text Mode Demos and the TMDC (Text Mode Demo Contest)

Jari Komppa is one of the leading people around the Finnish non-profit group tAAt ry. They do every year the Text Mode Demo Contest that is held between the 11.11 and the 12.12. He is a programmer and PC demoscene veteran from Finland and still does random things on the scene when he finds the right inspiration. He says about himself, that he tends to like “small freaky projects.. for example, I wanted to play Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri again, and wrote a universal VESA driver for Windows to make that happen”. We directly step into the topic.

TMDC

Ping Genius Loci

Genius Loci stands for the spirit of the place, a common phrase in architecture for the poetic context, for the cultural reading of a site. Ping, the most basic command in computer networking, is a sort of greeting among computers, if I ping an address, it replies, so we know we can communicate. Ping Genius Loci(PGL) is an architectural installation trying to build a network into the poetics of the place.

PGL is built up from 300 radio networked, solar powered, self sustainable intelligent analogue pixels, that are placed on a 20 by 20 meters grid. These pixels function in the bright sunshine, and are interfacing the people walking in the grid.

PGL is a platform in development, that enables us to try a larger set of possibilities, with different forms, interactive contents.

Ping Genius Loci

Michael Chang

The project  interprets strokes made from a tablet pen. When a stroke is completed (or closed into a loop) it manifests an organism based on stroke length, speed, and pressure. While not exactly gesture recognition, it was a quick and dirty solution to what otherwise might have been a nightmare to develop (gesture recognition).

Procedural animation drives all of the creatures, including the physics and kinematics. At the lowest level, physics runs everything from the fluid simulation, masses, and springs. One level higher and you get the autonomous motions of a creature such as articulation (moving the tail in opposition of the head).

At the highest structure you get the behavior level, the “AI” of the creature that drives them to go in particular directions, follow certain targets, and do certain things with their bodies. Everything is clamped down into a point of “interest”, and the organism simply follows that. The behavior routine simply directs this “interest”, and the rest of the body articulates itself. In addition, behaviors can change due to their orientation or distance between themselves and other organisms. I’ll let you discover these behaviors yourself, since that’s half the fun of this project.

Michael Chang

Marius Watz

Marius Watz is one of the leading players in the Generative Art movement. He set up a conference on Generative Art and a touring exhibition called ”Generator.x“ that can be seen all over Europe. His designs and own works are very strong and they seem to ask the question ”how can something so colorful be such a beauty“? Marius Watz just sits between the the ancestors of the Generative Art who developed of the programming language Processing, Ben Fry and Casey Reas, and pushes the boundaries for this emerging form of art in the 21th century. Generator.x takes the art out of the web and prepares the ground for it in the real world.

Unlekker.net

Dat Politics

DAT Politics is a French electronic music group. Its music is sometimes classified as musique concrète. They began in 1999 in Lille, France, as a quartet featuring Claude Pailliot, Gaëtan Collet, Vincent Thierion and Emeric Aelters.
Though somewhat genre-bending, their style can be described as a mixture between minimalism and deconstructed techno, with much more of a light-hearted tone than that of similar glitch artists such as Matmos.Many songs include obscure sped-up or slowed down vocal samples (often to the point of chipmunk-sounding absurdity) and juxtaposed orchestra hits and synthesizers amidst pop undertones.

Dat Politics

Onion Lab

Onionlab are a Barcelona based motion-graphics crew that rely heavily on processing and the interative design-process in general for all their work.

Onionlab

Ichitaro Masuda

It’s fun to play with in Web form, but most impressive is “Adjustment of crowd simulation to art animation”, which links to a video. It’s a terrific demonstration of the advantage of Processing, working in true three-dimensional space even with 2D drawing routines. Underneath the patch is a sophisticated node garden, which you can see in action in the alternate rendering mode. By doing progressive drawing between the nodes, the whole work becomes organic, mysterious, and beautiful. Source code is included, though it’s specific enough to this project that you’re best off going your own direction.

Ichitaro Masuda

Casey Reas and Group C

Casey Reas is an artist exploring abstract kinetic systems through diverse digital media. He is an associate professor at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy and received his M.S. degree from the MIT media lab where he was a member of John Maeda’s Aesthetics and Computation Group.

GroupC

Casey Reas