dave's blog of art and programming

  • Kansallisteatteri Building Projection

    The Kansallisteatteri is the Finnish National Theatre, and thanks to Miska Knapek and Ville Hyvönen I have the opportunity to try a quick bit of building projection as part of the Pixelache festival. I’m going to try growing plants from bits of the building that seeds would be able to rest on (i.e. any upward…

  • More on the plant sensor

    The plan is to have some plant sensing working for a groworld installation we are doing at Camp Pixelache so I’ve made the circuitry a little more durable with a bit of soldering: Here’s the circuit diagram – the values of components are influenced by what I happen to have in my collection of surplus/donated…

  • Plant -> Game interface

    I’ve reconstructed some of the plant sensing hardware we developed during the summer and adapted the plant eyes game to use the sensors to reflect changes in the real plant’s environment. Currently, light levels change the perception of time to the game plants. When it gets dark the plant slows down, so the world around…

  • Scheme bricks livecoding at chmod +x art

    Here’s the first full solo performance I’ve tried with scheme bricks – I missed Alex’s sounds but it’s great footage, thanks go to the goto10 streaming/recording crew. More of my thoughts on the festival in general here.

  • The hidden history of the Monopoly board game

    As I’ve been researching the ideas of Jane McGonigal lately, I was interested to find out the real history of the Monopoly board game from Dmytri Kleiner at the weekend. From wikipedia, thanks to the research of Ralph Anspach: In 1903, the Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord’s…

  • wind shapes

    A simple test filling arbitrary shapes with particles: Code here

  • post chmod +x art

    Back from Groningen, and my mind is full of all sorts of crazy ideas after GOTO10’s mini festival. Although mini in size, the quality of this event was very high. The day after arriving, Gabor and I did our best to introduce our workshop participants to livecoding and fluxus, from the basics of scheme to…

  • chmod +x art

    This week it’s finally time for: At Sign gallery Groningen, the Netherlands. I’m going to be doing a fluxus workshop with Gabor and a scheme bricks placard performance – the first one I’ve tried solo, I think! chmod +x art The computer as theatre, as writer of love letters, the computer as world, a place…

  • More fluxus windows work

    I’m amazed when I have to do any windows programming now how much you can do using GNU software – the whole lot is available these days. I’ve been sorting out the windows version of fluxus so it actually releasable, and using MinGW and emacs (which I’m a recent convert to). I’ve managed to get…

  • exquisite code pictures