Brian Steen

Remember the States of Matter Video?
This time I rendered it with Sunflow instead of OpenGL. It took 4 weeks but to me was worth it.

Behind the Screen from Brian Steen on Vimeo.

Documentation for the Behind the Screen Kinetic Sculpture.

Team:
Fabian Brunsing, fabianbrunsing.de
Cedric Kiefer, dec32.de
Christopher Warnow, this

DOP/Dir. Daniel Franke
wearechopchop.com

Sounds of Complexity 2009 by italian collective Kinotek. They say:
“The audio material of the performance derives from the analogic recording of cerebral activities through an analogic elettroencephalograph (EEG) and corresponds to the discharges of billions of neurons situated in the sixth layer of human cerebral cortex, disposed vertically respect to the scalp.

The crude sound of brain is translated in an audible frequencies through techniques of pitch shifting.”

Paper sculptures by TSAWorks. He studies Media Art in Kassel and lives in Berlin. We worked together for the Cross Poetry Project back in January 2009 and now I discovered his sculptures. Really inspiring work. Keep it up.

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If you want to know how the States of Matter video was made, have a look at this article at creativecoding.org

It is a site run by three fellow students trying to help you starting with creative coding. It explains Processing and programming concepts. (In german yet). And it wants to be a place telling about other technologies and libraries that help you coding easily. So I startet showing Creative Computing. OpenFrameworks, Sunflow Gestalt and al the other things a left but about to come.

The three cool dudes are:  Steffen Fiedler, Stephan Thiel and Jonas Loh

Trying to freeze the movement of a piece of fabric, print it and put it on a desk. That was the idea behind these images and video. These are sketches for a sculpturing class. Using Traer Physics for simulation, Java / Creative Computing and Sunflow for rendering.

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How much or less you need to create empathy for artifacts is shown in a beautiful way with the Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer.

The author is creating them for a thesis at New York Tisch School of Arts.

I am interested in the fact that dead material can cause a mental change when the right signs and symbols are used. Think of mental commit robots. From this website:

Mental Commitment Robots are designed to provide 3 types of effects: psychological, such as relaxation and motivation, physiological, such as improvement in vital signs, and social effects such as instigating communication among inpatients and caregivers.

A video note on the characteristics of coding. About 60AD a Greek engineer called Hero built the first programmable robot. Below video shows a rebuilt. You programm it by winding a string around a wood and telling the robot to go forward or backwards.

Twothousand years later kids rediscovered it and built generative drawing bots. It’s so exciting:

One oft the most beautiful dance performances I have seen. By australian dance company Chunky Move. They are in Düsseldorf/Germany in June. Gonna be there.

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By my top notch motion man l_ocke from wearechopchop.