Many Thanks to People

It was a lovely day out for Pixel Warriors project's research with Jaha and Lexi yesterday. People in east London were super friendly and wonderful. Here we would love to thank everyone below who helped us with our project, we promise that we will work extra hard for our awesome invention!

Richard/ Kelly Poon/ Olabode/ Daniel Mantle/ Kirstin Sinclair/ Kato

Tango / Mapping + Tracking

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Greyworld bridge sound installation

The Layer is an art system created to articulate transit spaces through a series of contact sculptures.

The Greenwich Foot Tunnel was the first installation in a public space to use the Layer system. We had been experimenting with different ways to articulate these transit spaces, from purely analogue methods of sound capture and distortion, to more complex means of digesting movement and form.

A long blue carpet was installed in the dark tunnel running underneath the Thames. Tiny sensors beneath the carpet detected the direction, weight and speed of pedestrians as they passed along its length and translated this information into a generatively produced sound environment. An album – ‘Various Walkers’ was created by recording these performances.

The installation was commissioned by the London Docklands Commission and sponsored by the Daily Telegraph.

The Layer has undergone many changes since the Greenwich foot tunnel. These allow both a wider range of inputs to be used, such as colour and shape as well as a large range of expressive outputs, such as light and generative display. Essentially though, it is the legibility of the installation to a broad public that remains paramount to us.

The work of art was also installed along the Millennium Bridge that runs across the Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. It gave pedestrians crossing an opportunity to create and interact, simply by passing through the space. The installation was a counterpoint to another work of art, which we installed in the Guinness Storehouse.

We installed a bright blue carpet along the bridge, to signify that something was different in the centre of Dublin. We then embedded sensors in the carpet that responded to each footstep across the bridge, generating unexpected sounds and melodies – a plaintive piano phrase or the sounds of footsteps crunching through snow or sploshing through puddles.

Fun Way 2 Showcase Desire Lines

This project is fascinating because it takes meaningless areas of the city + converts them into a playground. It is an urban intervention that promotes a healthy lifestyle as well (since people prefer the stairs)>>

Site-Specific A.R.T >> Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer is a site-specific artist + we really like the way she subverts the spaces used for commercial displays to send a message + express social concerns. What is interesting about her work is that it challenges the notion of who has the power to display>>

Are billboards exclusive to corporate brands or can they be used as canvases  by artists + the public>

Inner City Life (Koyaanisqatsi)

Interviewing people in the streets - Social insights

 “I always make my way into the city.  Because it’s shorter.”

Kerry, 35

 “It is just an old woman thing to do, cross the street from the zebra crossing.”

Jack, 22

 “You can never stop humanity from doing what they want. Nobody can tell me how to move.”

Charlotte, 42

 “I deliberately choose where to walk. I have my favourite spots and even my preferable view of the street.”

Maria, 49

Interesting article demonstrating how physically painting the city can bring enjoyment and community spirit

http://www.katu.com/news/local/124823899.html

"You can see how much fun everybody is having just being together," she said the day of the project. "And all these people - probably as many didn't know each other, as knew each other. It's a great way to get a community together."

Street love

Streetlove project that explores the act of love as represented through various objects and setup situations within the urban street environment.

Bicycle contrail device, track movement of bikes through city

Tracking movement through city

Some more desire lines

Example of desire lines in an urban enviorment

Experience Mobile Mobile

Built and hoisted a gigantic interactive chandelier/mobile that plays Christmas jingles in our reception. Mobile Mobile has been made as a semi-permanent hanging (exhibition) space. In January the mobiles will be replaced with another hanging media, then updated month in, month out.

Night Lights

YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the Auckland Ferry Building into an interactive playground. Our job was to create an installation that would go beyond merely projection on buildings and allow viewers to become performers, by taking their body movements and amplifying them 5 stories tall.

OSM Reference from Kin Design

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. The maps are created using data of portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free sources or simply from local knowledge

TAXI.ROUTES - Britain from Above

In this video 380 taxis are being tracked over a period of 24hours. Seeing these routes from above gives an image of veins running through an organ. What would it look like if we could track people's routes>>??

Space Syntax

spacesyntax

Studies in city motion and movement within an urban environment

Londons physical interventions

Looking at london's evolution over time, and the characteristic physical interventions on the city scape, taking bricked up windows as an example.

Windows themselves acting as a medium into the layers of london, the unseen london.

END OF DAY 3 - CONCLUSION

DAY 3 @ ONEDOTZERO_CASCADE

THIRD DAY AND WE STILL ALL LIKE EACHOTHER :)

IDEAS DEVELOPING>>>


WE PAINT OUR CITY!DESIRE LINES!SOUND!MEMORIES

Debussy, Clair de lune, guitar solo, James Edwards

The T-Mobile Dance

Flashmobs encourage the audience to participate in an activity + interact with one another>>

S.p.a.c.e H.i.j.a.c.k.e.r.s - Funeral_4_The_EastEnd

Space Hijackers are a really really cool group of artists+activists who set up live projects that treat physical spaces in unconventional ways in order to challenge our thoughts about the places we inhabit + use. They claim to "promote alternatives to corporate-led, government controlled life." They often engage in exciting activities whether its playing golf on rooftops or hosting pirate parties under tunnels.

When a Starbucks opened near Whitechapel, London the group Space Hijakers decided to organize a humorous performance that can be seen as a commentary or even a form of protest.

They held a mock funeral ceremony with a priest and a gospel choir passing through the store and consequently in front of the police force that gathered.

AUGMENTED_REALITY // C.A.S.S.E.T.T.E.P.L.A.Y.A >>

CassettePlaya held the first augmented reality fashion show. Her t-shirts carry symbols which are activated through a software, when placed in front of a webcam. The symbol triggers an animation that is layered on top of what is shown through the webcam. This brings to mind the idea that we have a real, physical identity but also a virtual, avatar-like identity.

When you wear the t-shirt the activated motion-graphics and amateur c.g.i make it seem like you are wearing a mask or a helmet + u are transformed into a virtual character>>

DARK_SIDE_OF_THE_LENS

A.m.a.z.i.n.g short film by Mickey Smith (surfer/photographer)!! He records videos of waves or the underwater world. He then screens his projects in urban settings either projecting them on the streets or making installations. His work not only makes us think about the binary 'urban v.s nature' but also offers a perspective that very few of us would have the chance to see in real life>>

This is a good example of paying attention to things that we normally go by unnoticed !!

Go team Pixel Warriors

Day 2 at Ondedotzero_Cascade !

Brilliant talk from Sam from Mother early this morning!

Brainstorming IDEAS, of the brief ' City'