EV Graduate Seminar - AD508 F08

Behind the Walls
EV Seminar - Fall 08
Julio_Obelleiro/Play the Magic

This project is an evolution of the installation that was displayed in the Matadero (old Madrid’s slaughterhouse), called Matadero Phantoms. The idea of the project is be to allow the viewer to unveil what is “behind” the walls of a building by means of using the beam [...]

Ghosts Behind
Julio Obelleiro
EV Seminar Fall 08 Project proposal
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Concept and sketches
The proposed project is an evolution of the installation that was displayed in the Matadero (old Madrid’s slaughterhouse), called Matadero Phantoms.  The idea of the project would be to allow the viewer to unveil what is “behind” the walls of a building with the light of [...]

The Art of Participation
1950 to Now

http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/exhibitions/306/aop_featured_aritsts
Very related with last class discussion and extremely interesting. It’s a shame not to have it in Chicago…
Julio

Interesting text that arises some relevant questions about the relationships between the interactivity as technology and its social and political implications / relations. I think nowadays, it is remarkable that all the ideas of the 60s and 70s originated by Cage and Fluxus can be pushed several steps forward as there are “no” technological limitations [...]

As Manovich states, the layering of information on top of architectural features is not new, as we can see, for instance, in any medieval cathedral, were biblical narrations were overlaid to the facades. Nevertheless, “The Phenomenon of the dynamic multimedia information in these environments is new”. Anyway, I would say that the speed of this [...]

presenation-seeking-deeper-contact
In this link you will find the pdf for the presentation of Professor Huhtamo text.
By Julio Obelleiro and Alejandro Borsani.

File to download here.
Brief description:
Using two markers we can control the position (in two axis), orientation and grayscale of a box. Steps:
1. User the marker 43 to place a cube in the scene (controlling its rotation and position along X and Y axis).
2. Without removing the marker 43, if we add the 42, we can [...]

Buxton’s article provides a fairly good summary of the evolution and refinement of multi-touch technologies over the last twenty of thirty years. When I say fairly good (and not very good), is because, although I do not really know how thorough is this listing, it seems curious to me that most of the projects and [...]

Without doubt, this is an interesting article as an overview of computer vision techniques and works for artists and designers. The author insists on the importance of taking into account, not only the software involved when learning these kind of methods, but also its relation with the physical world, which usually represents the key aspect [...]