Push the monkey

The Company, Bring To Light NYC

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:35 +0000

Commissioned by Bring To Light Festival NYC.

The Company is a sound reactive light installation, a collaboration between myself and designer Roland Ellis.

A suspended surface of 76 tungsten lamps form a catenary arch, playing host to live performances and revisiting the sounds of the 19th century East River industrial icons. Live adaptation of the soundscape reintroduces routine and mechanical process to the space.

The piece intends to bring back an atmosphere informed by the architectural legacy, a machine being delivered to occupy the space that was once a bustling industrial environment.

By either producing sounds or just reactive to the inputs from the environment, The Company is a sound reactive light installation.

The Company, a machine in a space producing light.

Technical info:

A custom software developed in Cinder control the installation using audio sampled in real time. The sound analysis is computed with Ableton Live using a Max For Live patch developed by Henrik Ekeus, it performs the Fast Fourier Transform, beat detection, attack detection and sound filtering, communicating with the custom software through an OSC connection.
The audio input is used by the custom software to modify the behaviour and the properties of objects in a 3D environment containing an exact replica of the actual installation, the position and shape of the objects as well as other properties like speed and intensity, eventually determinate the brightness of each light bulb individually addressed.

Bring To Light NYC

Bring to Light is a free nighttime public festival of art in New York City that takes place simultaneously with “nuit blanche” events in cities around the world. Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art, the event creates an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine public space and civic life. Bring to Light transforms streets, parks and the industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn set against dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline.

Peru National Stadium

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:54:39 +0000

Commissioned by Cinimod Studio, I developed the interactive system for the Peru National Stadium.

Depending on the mood in the stadium, ambient noise sensors analyse the crowd to trigger different visual effects that wash the stadium facade with colour.

The scale of the project and the number of possible scenarios made this a challenging project.
I developed a solid solution that included automatic calibration and parallel hardware implementation to safeguard system reliability.

more info here: Cinimod Studio website

So… I was at a party last night

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:11:45 +0000

Commisioned by the poet Sabrina Mahfouz for her solo show Dry Ice(Showed 20th – 23rd April 2011, at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London), “So..” is the first collaboration between myself and designer Roland Ellis.

Conversations and interactions form the stimulus for this reactive light installation. Each point of light has a character and together they form a dynamic canopy complementing the frequencies and amplitudes of a performance.

30 tungsten lamps with intricate filaments are suspended above the performer. The arrangement pitches toward the audience forming a luminous ceiling, such that the stories might be told from beneath the sheets or within an alcove.

A microphone captures the audio, which is analysed real time producing the canopy’s illuminating reactions. The analytical software is controlled live to allow the poetry and the light to united in performance.

The naturally smooth dimming of the tungsten lends well to the classic aesthetic given to the canopy. The glass of the lamps is of various forms, from the classic bulb to large spheres, cones and tubes; each with its own intricate filament glowing inside. When extinguished the glass is speckled with reflections of light from around the canopy.

We would like to thanks:

Sabrina Mahfouz
RizMC
Insight Lighting

Lamps supplied, with thanks, by Historic Lighting

Photos courtesy of Tomas Hein

Ensemble

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:52:26 +0000

I’ve been working in Paris with UnitedVisualArtists for the opening of La Gaite Lyrique, a cultural center in the heart of Paris dedicated to the digital culture.
I had the opportunity to work with these amazing and talented people using their own framework d3 to develop a module to control a large scale interactive led installation called Ensemble.

eBodies

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:53:21 +0000

JellyBlobs

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:11:47 +0000

I’m trying to create a sort of abstract fluffy jellyfish using a physics system with particles and springs.
So far I’m quite happy with the results, the springs behavior seems working well giving to each object a bit more identity.

Developed with Cinder and MSAPhysics

it’s a Kinect thing :]

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:48:46 +0000

I finally got Kinect up and running with Cinder and yes, it’s pretty cool.
Thanks to the libfreenect guys to have released such a good library so quickly and the Cinder community for the Cinder-Kinect block which makes everything easy.

Spigoli

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:08:02 +0000

I’ve been working on this for a few days, at the moment it’s just a simple Cinder app to control a grid of points in a 3d environment and map a texture on it with a few basic controls on camera and lights.

Spigoli + face detection

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:45:07 +0000

A quick test I made up last night using opencv face detection to remap the face on a 3d surface.

The next big thing.

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:48:21 +0000

I’ve recently quit my job with rAndom International, during the past 8 months I had the opportunity and the pleasure to work and meet with some very talented guys and explore this crazy/amazing/Art/Design industry.

I just want to say thanks to all the people I’ve been working with and wish to all of them good luck :]