Introduction…
The Scale Electric workshop (19 & 20/07/2010) couples the power of the Atomic Force Microscope to touch the infinitesimally small with the potential of the Full Dome environment to immerse participants in visualisations of the incomprehensibly big.
Throughout the last Century we were reintroduced to the idea of an invisible world. The development of sensing technologies allowed us to sense things in the world that we were unaware of (or maybe things we had just forgotten about?). The Scale Electric - the invisible ‘hertzian’ landscape was made accessible through instruments that could measure, record and broadcast our fears and desires. These instruments endow us with powers that in previous centuries would have been deemed ‘occult’ or ‘magic’.
Our Twenty Fist Century magic instruments mark a dramatic shift from the hegemony of the eye to a reliance on technologies that do our seeing for us - things so big, small or invisible that it takes a leap of faith to believe they are really there. Our view of the ‘real world’ is increasingly understood through images made of data, things that are measured and felt rather than seen. What we know and what we see is not the same thing - if you see what I mean?
Our ability to shift scales, from the smallest thing to the largest thing has been described as the ‘transcalar imaginary. The workshop will enable participants to touch the nano level and then immerse themselves within it through visualisations and sonifications.
Context:
Scale Electric extends a series of collaborative projects orbiting i-DAT’s research agenda. It builds on:
practical workshops to explore the application of novel and innovative technologies to creative practice (http://www.i-dat.org/2006-slidingscale/, http://www.i-dat.org/far-away-so-close/, http://www.i-dat.org/ahobartletti-dat/, etc)
projects with the Immersive Vision Theatre (a 40 seat 9m Full Dome digital projection system) a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material, immaterial and imaginary worlds - modelling, visualization, sonification and simulation.
research projects such as Arch-OS and Ecoid’s which stream real time data to facilitate insights into complex temporal architectural and ecological systems (http://www.arch-os.com/)
and more recently nano technology projects in collaboration with the Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory and John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA - Art in the age of nanotechnology, 5/02 – 30/04/2010 (http://johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au/)
Output generated by this workshop will contribute to the Ubiquity Journal Published in 2011 by Intellect. (http://ubiquityjournal.net/, http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/).
Scale Electric explores some of the ‘transcalar” (http://www.elumenati.com/products/TInarrative.html) conundrums that are increasingly intruding into our daily consciousness.
Schedule…
Monday 19/07/2010
10.00-10.15: Introductions, Briefing: Location - Babbage 213
10.15-10.30: Presentation 1: Prof Mike Phillips.
10.35-10.50: Presentation 2: Dr Chris Speed.
10.55-11.10: Presentation 3: Prof Genhua Pan.
11.15-11.30: Presentation 4: Pete Carss.
12.00-12.30: Tour of the AFM & IVT
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.30: Production Planning: Location - Babbage 213
14.30-17.30: AFM Scanning: Location - The Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory,
Tuesday 20/07/2010
10.00-10.30: Briefing: Location Babbage 213
10.30-12.30: Project development AFM & IVT
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.30: Project development AFM & IVT
15.30-17.30: IVT Manifestations
Process…
A: Experiencing Atoms:
The first practical session will utilise the AFM in the Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory to produce data and images. The materials themselves will be defined during the morning session. Participants will be asked to propose matter and associated narratives for examination.
B: Modelling Experience
Software templates will allow the interpretation and visualisation of the data gathered by the AFM. These visualisations will be hacked, tweaked and ultimately experienced within the Immersive Vision Theatre.
Project Team…
Pete Carss (http://www.i-dat.org/pete-carrs/)
Prof Genhua Pan (http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/gpan)
Prof Mike Phillips (http://www.i-dat.org/mike-phillips/)
Dr Chris Speed (http://fields.eca.ac.uk/?page_id=65)
Supported by…
The Institute of Digital Art & Technology: [http://www.i-dat.org/]
Manifest Research Group
The Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory
The Centre for Media Art & Design Research
Ubiquity Journal
Welcome to FULLDOME UK 2010. A celebration of the FullDome experience, we present a day of screenings, presentations, discussions and perhaps some realtime performance. The event takes place at the Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT) based at the University of Plymouth on Saturday 10th July 2010 and runs from mid-day until late evening.
The event is free, but numbers are limited so please let us know your interest via email or by using the online form. We will be updating this site with more information on a regular basis, with more details of the screenings and guest speakers coming shortly – go to:
Aggregator v1.0 builds on a suite of creative ‘tools’ or ‘operating systems’ that dynamically manifest ‘data’ as an abstract and invisible material, forming a mirror image of our world and reflecting, in sharp contrast and high resolution, our biological, ecological and social activities.
Aggregator v1.0 generates an audio/visual immersive experience of data feeds from web 2.0 platforms, news feeds, networks, buildings, and satellites all orchestrated through subtle audience interaction.
Aggregator v1.0 is a evolving generative performane and the audience is able drop in and out during the session.
Aggregator v1.0 coding and composition by Pete Carss.
Aggregators: Pete Carss and Mike Phillips.
Aggregator v1.0 is a component of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2010
Date: Saturday 27 February.
Venue: Immersive Vision Theatre.
Time: 12:00pm - 4:00pm.
Admission: FREE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyk9rj6QGo
Live coding application - Fluxus (care of Dave Griffiths):
Audio feeds:
PALAOA Audio Observatory (microphone under ice)
http://icecast.awi.de:8000/PALAOA.MP3
Air Traffic Control:
http://mso.liveatc.net:80/khnd1
http://aus.liveatc.net:80/sbbr_acc
Calm noises:
http://www.whitenoise247.com/Sounds/CalmSeaWaves.wav
http://www.whitenoise247.com/Sounds/river_full.wav
Natural Radio:
http://mp3.nasa-us.speedera.net:8000/mp3.nasa-us/florida1
http://67.207.143.181:80/vlf15
http://194.116.73.37:8000/pontese124.m3u
http://icecast.nis.nasa.gov:8000/florida1
http://picasso.astro.ufl.edu:8000/icy_1
Radio Astronomy:
http://28.72.128.252:8000/radast
Fluxus sample code:
;(require fluxus-016/drflux)
(require fluxus-017/planetarium)
;(set-dome-mode! #t)
(smoothing-bias 2)
(clear)
;(clear-colour 0)
;(blur 0.1)
;(fog (vector 0.1 0.1 0.1) 0.2 0.01 0.1)
(ortho)
(define dome (dome-build 10 180 2048))
; buffersize and samplerate need to match jack’s
(start-audio “MPlayer” 1024 48000)
(define (render count)
(cond
((not (zero? count))
(translate (vector 0.1 0.1 (* 10 (gh 4))))
(scale (vector 2 2 1))
(rotate (vector (gh 4) (gh 5) (gh 6) ))
(colour (vector (* 0.5 (gh 4)) 0.2 (* 0.5 (gh 10))
0.3))
(opacity 0.3)
(draw-torus)
(render (- count 1)))))
;(with-state
;(rotate (vector 0 -25 0))
;(render (- count 1))
;(draw-cube)
;set the view of the camera
(dome-setup-main-camera 1400 1050)
(every-frame
(with-pixels-renderer (dome-pixels)
(with-state
;(rotate (vector 0 0 (* 90 (cos(/ (time) 10)))))
(translate (vector 0 0 -100)) ; move it into view
(render 10)))
Arch-OS - VILLAGE SCREEN @ The Glastonbury Festival Big Screens
Aqeel Akbar, Immersive Media Assistant at the Immersive Vision Theatre was selected to join the team of seven artists working on site at the festival. The dynamic visualisations shown on the screen included the Quartz Composer real time Arch-OS data visualization developed in the i-DAT/AHO/Bartlett workshop.
“The Village Screen project was a unique collaboration led by the region’s 2012 Creative Programmer, Glastonbury Festival, Team South West and Relays (Legacy Trust UK programme), and including the UK’s network of Creative Programmers, screen agencies and the BBC’s Live Sites team, brings the Village Screen to Glastonbury for the first time this year. The screens will be used to showcase the work of some of the best new filmmaking talent, digital artists, VJs and games developers from the region and the UK.
The 25m2 screens (there are two of them, back- to- back) will broadcast a mix of short films, archive footage, gaming sessions, classic pop and highlights of the BBC’s coverage of the Festival from 10.00am to 3.00am every day.
Village Screen was coordinated by Richard Crowe, London 2012 Creative Programmer.
e: richard.crowe@london2012.com
“From a circle to a sphere”
Artist Talk: Marc Fournel
Tuesday 25 November 2008, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Immersive Vision Theatre University of Plymouth
Cost: Free
i-DAT has been awarded a Canada Council for the Arts ‘Grants to New Media and Audio Artists: New Media Residencies’ for the sound and installation artist Marc Fournel. This new award will enable Marc to develop a project incorporating Arch-OS and the Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT).
In this talk, Marc, will present some of his video installations and latest art work using local positioning systems. He will also present his current research being developed through his residency, with a specific focus on working with the Arch-OS system and the IVT.
This will further be an opportunity to experience the IVT’s unique immersive system, whilst re-rendering the universe on the fly through ‘UniView’ (http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com), a computer graphics platform bringing information data- bases to life in a 3D environment, much like an immersive computer game.
