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Category: naked on pluto

  • Teaching at the Düsseldorf Institute for Music and Media

    Last week I was kindly invited by Julian Rohrhuber to do a couple of talks and teach a livecoding workshop alongside Jan-Kees van Kampen at the Düsseldorf Institute for Music and Media. Jan-Kees was demoing /mode +v noise a Supercollider chat bot installation using IRC, so it was the perfect opportunity to play test the…

  • Plutonian Botzlang

    Plutonian Botzlang is a new language I’m working on for a commission we’ve had from Arnolfini and Kunsthal Aarhus. The idea is to make the Naked on Pluto game bots programmable in a way that allows them to be scripted from inside the game interface, able to inspect all the objects around them and carry…

  • Baltan Laboratories FaceSponge workshop

    This is a very late report on a workshop on Facebook livecoding/hacking we gave at Baltan Laboratories in Eindhoven in May. We were invited us to run a workshop based on Naked on Pluto as part of their Tools Series: The Tools Series is a series of Baltan Sessions that examines the complex and changing…

  • FaceSponge workshop photos

    Some great photos by Boudewijn Bollmann from the Naked on Pluto workshop on social media and privacy at Baltan Laboratories last week. A more in depth post about this event coming soon.

  • Next week: Plant spirit drawing & social network livecoding

    The next few days are going to be hectic – a train powered scramble between cities for various activities. Firstly I’m taking part in FoAM’s Open House event on Saturday in Brussels: Enter a rarity cabinet of people and experiments: a lively display of human-plant hybrids, tasty table conversations, crisis-proof clothing and other curios in…

  • Naked on Pluto/VIDA at ARCO2012 Madrid

    Naked on Pluto entered the world of contemporary art last week as part of the VIDA/telefonica exhibit at the ARCO 2012 art fair in Madrid. This was the culmination of a lot of work making the game into an installation format, which represented the library as the centre of control and surveillance in Elastic Versailles.…

  • Naked on Pluto library projection progress

  • Naked on Pluto: Starting work on a “live world” projection

    Following on from the VIDA win, we need to work hard on Naked on Pluto’s gallery installation presence. Although we now have the news website style front page, we need to take the game externalisation to another level, and one of the things required is a realtime projection of the game world. This represents the…

  • Naked on Pluto installation plans

    Some secret plans for a possible future Naked on Pluto art installation.

  • Two talks in Helsinki

    Next week I’m presenting Naked on Pluto at Pixelache’s Pixelversity on Wednesday evening (9th November) at the Cable Factory. Owen Kelly will also be there to talk about Pixelversity’s ‘Social Identity, Augmented Reality & Virtuality’ Study Group’ which will take place next year. On Saturday afternoon (12th November), Till Bovermann and I will be demoing…