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Project Nightjar: Where is that nest?
We’ve released a new game for Project Nightjar called Where is that nest? This is an adaptation of Where is that nightjar?, but the variety of species of birds is greater, some of the nests are much harder to find than the birds were so we added two levels – and a hall of fame…
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Algorave at EAVI night in New Cross
A recording of slub’s set from the EAVI night last week, put on by the group by the same name at Goldsmiths. Sometimes livecoding ‘just works’ – this was one of those times. I’ve uploaded some more photographic evidence here.
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slub at Kunsthal Aarhus
Last week Alex and I took to the road on another slub mini-tour starting in Denmark at the Kunsthal Aarhus where we ran a livecoding workshop and performed at the opening of the Aarhus Filmfestival. The Kunsthal gallery was exhbiting “Systemics #2: As we may think (or, the next world library)” with work by Florian…
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Mongoose 2000
Mongoose 2000 is a system I’m developing for the Banded Mongoose Research Project. It’s a behavioural recording system for use in remote areas with sporadic internet or power. The project field site is located in Uganda in the countryside and it needs to run for long time frames, so there are big challenges when it…
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Open Sauces: Ferran AdriÃ
This photo of Ferran Adrià is key inspiration for the Open Sauces visual recipe programming project:
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Open Sauces
Open sauces is a FoAM project to investigate the sharing of food, food culture and food systems. Last week in Brussels we started experimenting with ways to store, display and reason about recipes in different ways. Taking the recipes from the Open Sauces book we’re representing them as Petri Nets, which means we can feed…
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Visualising egg pattern genomes
A couple of screenshots from the upcoming Project Nightjar citizen science game – the genetic programming pattern generator is now working in a simple test framework, and even with myself as the only player at the moment, it’s gradually producing eggs that are harder and harder to find against one of the background images from…
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Building software for farmers
During the summer I’ve been working with the Swarm Knowledge Hub at Cornwall’s Duchy College. We’ve been building an android application that forms part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic fertilisers. The core of the software is a calculator based on tables provided by DEFRA…
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Dagstuhl – Collaboration and learning through live coding
Dagstuhl seminars are week long free form meetings between different disciplines centred around computer science. The location is a specially designed complex in the German countryside, and activities include long walks in the surrounding hills, a well equipped and beautiful music room and a well stocked wine cellar. Our seminar was called ‘Collaboration and learning…
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London Algorave at nnnnn
In order to get ourselves prepared for the Dagstuhl livecoding seminar (more on that later), we kicked off with a London Algorave at nnnnn, Ryan Jordan’s noise research laboratory in deepest Hackney. Slub had one of our better performances, which was recorded – watch this space. *UPDATE* Larger components make larger sounds. Massive synth washes…