Coelux sun-lighting
via advanced films that mimic how air refracts sunlight
Check out this elegantly designed video:
Check out this elegantly designed video:
Not only handcraft manufacture, not only artistic and poetical bringing into appearance and concrete imagery, is a bringing-forth, poiesis. Physis also, the arising of something from out of itself, is a bringing-forth, poiesis. Physis is indeed poiesis in the highest sense. For what presences by means of physis has the bursting open belonging to bringing-forth, e.g., the bursting of a blossom into bloom, in itself (en heautoi). In contrast, what is brought forth by the artisan or the artist, e.g. the silver chalice, has the bursting open belonging to bringing forth not in itself, but in another (en alloi), in the craftsman or artist.
[Heidegger, Question Concerning Technology, 11]
Self=organizing maps (SOM in my previous email to Synthesis research) may be as appealing as picking up shells at the beach,
but how about diving into the ocean and making deeper work?
At the SOM event sponsored by Ludgar Hovestadt and Vera Buhlmann in ETH Zurich,
Elias Zafiris and Mike Epperson presented a far richer body of ideas
based on a sheaf theoretic approach to quantum field theory (greatly extending Whitehead) :
Mike Epperson has a way of combining causal and logical ontologies that may work,
and is in any case worth serious post-Deluzian and post-Whiteheadean attention:
(4)
For some elementary mathematical background to Mike and Elias' work:
Dear, Garrett, Mike, Julian, Omar, Chris Z,
Swiss-French artist Robin Meier used self-organizing maps
to animate LED lighting as a network of synced oscillators in Firefly Sync in Russia
http://robinmeier.net/?p=1234
http://robinmeier.net/?p=1234
Paper about Max Jitter patch: jit.robosom
Self-organizing map abstraction for MaxMSP Jitter.
Don’t know if jit.robosom works or is very interesting in effect but his jit.robosom may be worth a try
for rhythm experiments driving our lighting instruments.
This is a relatively trivial application of linked oscillators.
We should be able to achieve much more interesting behaviour,
especially with live action in the loop.
A presentation by an authority in SOM’s: Timo Honkela (Finland)
HUNCH : Mike K’s correlation-based method should yield more interesting temporal textures.
Xin Wei
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Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering •
ASU
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab • topologicalmedialab.net/
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People
Chris R — project manager
Josh
Connor
Garrett
Byron
Advisors / Mentors: Todd (Xin Wei) Tech Team: Luke, Pete, Ozzie
Sites
Brickyard: Commons, Seminar room
Stauffer ground floor breezeway, second floor reception area, ...
Matthews Fishbowl
Design Desiderata
Ozone-activate spaces;
adding a layer of responsive media underneath whatever other activity is happening in these spaces.
Climates:
thickening / chorusing
memorializing (or anticipating)
given rhythm from “natural” or social activity,
subtly modulate lighting or sonic responsive instruments.
Topology:
Suture Space (via portals)
Chris R will direct the rhythm of work.
I think Todd and I should come at least once a week to see incremental results.
(Luke as advisor on built environment, Pete on AV, Ozzie on electronics / network media — we need sysad for software and user accounts etc.)
Forcing functions (DATES):
HCI International (Portal paper)
NSF grant ??? (different grant than the Intel one??)
Balance/Unbalance March 27=29
Atmosphere + Place: April
Ambience April
This is one clever set of techniques we should assemble for making aesthetically interesting uses of many streams of video.
Yotam Mann, Adrian Freedc
Abstract. This paper describes situations which lend themselves to the use of numerous cameras and techniques for displaying many camera streams simultaneously. The focus here is on the role of the “director” in sorting out the onscreen content in an artistic
and understandable manner. We describe techniques which we have employed in a system designed for capturing and displaying many video feeds incorporating automated and high level control of the composition on the screen using radial basis function interpolation.
I just stumbled on this journal and thought it would be worth sharing.
-Byron
The Rohinni lighting looks similar to Elastolight techology but brighter. If it can be produced at affordable prices it could be big. I have sent them email asking if samples are
available. I have bookmarked their site and will continue to follow their product updates.
From: Xin Wei Sha [Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 9:58 PM
To: Assegid Kidane; Xin Wei Sha; Ellen Kathrine Hansen; Joshua Gigantino; Todd Ingalls; Matthew Briggs
Cc: synthesis-operations@googlegroups.com; post@synthesis.posthaven.com
Subject: new materials : printed sheets of LED's
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 9:58 PM
To: Assegid Kidane; Xin Wei Sha; Ellen Kathrine Hansen; Joshua Gigantino; Todd Ingalls; Matthew Briggs
Cc: synthesis-operations@googlegroups.com; post@synthesis.posthaven.com
Subject: new materials : printed sheets of LED's
Here is Prof. Ellen Hansen’s Lighting Design program @ Aalborg University:
Ozzie, can you please add this to a database of active materials?
This could be another element in our future lighting and rhythm research work:
http://www.rohinni.com/#technology
Xin Wei
________________________________________________________________________________________
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering •
ASU
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab • topologicalmedialab.net/
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Here is Prof. Ellen Hansen’s Lighting Design program @ Aalborg University:
Ozzie, can you please add this to a database of active materials?
This could be another element in our future lighting and rhythm research work:
http://www.rohinni.com/#technology
Xin Wei
________________________________________________________________________________________
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering •
ASU
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab • topologicalmedialab.net/
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