Relevant - TXT driven Flash Mob Article - NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/us/25mobs.html?src=me&ref=general

iPhone Apps

I found two iphone apps that I think are very relevant to our project (esp. the first one). Here is a quote from the first and then the two links for the two apps follow it:

With mobile technology we are now able to integrate the social potential of networked experience with the immediacy and relevance of the physical world. As Jean Baudrillard writes in response to student strikes in France of May 1968:

"The real revolutionary media were the walls and their speech, the silk-screen posters and the handpainted notices, the street where speech began and was exchanged - everything that was an immediate inscription, given and turned, spoken and answered, mobile in the same space and time, reciprocal and antagonistic. The street is, in this sense, the alternative and subversive form of the mass media, since it isn't, like the latter, an objectified support for answerless messages, a transmission system at a distance. It is the frayed space of the symbolic exchange of speech - ephemeral, mortal."

http://urbantick.blogspot.com/2009/10/historic-earth-old-maps-georeferenced.html

http://yellowarrow.net/v3/

Cheap 17" LCD Panels on Ebay

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Create projector from LCD Panel

Narrative / Personal Mapping

http://craigmod.com/interactive/hitotoki/

Narrative Mapping Project - Calling for people to submit information about experiences which impacted them - and tagging them online.

http://hitotoki.org/about/

(about)

http://hitotoki.org/classic/newyork/

(actual usable example)

Drawing / Proposal

conversing / projecting syracuse

1. The action of living or having one's being in a place or among persons. Also fig. of one's spiritual being. Obs.

2. The action of consorting or having dealings with others; living together; commerce, intercourse, society, intimacy. Obs.

7. a. Interchange of thoughts and words; familiar discourse or talk.

Concept_

Conversations occur simultaneously at the urban scale; on a broad range of topics and locations. Mobile communication transfers face-to-face conversations to information exchange, with its own content and signifiers. Recombining the opportunities afforded by mobile technology into a located entity which enlivens urban experience.

Hybrid conversations; which incorporate elements of face to face conversation with the rapidity and convenience of the TXT message will be generated from an initial question. The elements which are used for the installation are the existing surface(s) at the Fayette and Warren St Park; bus stops; and telephone booths throughout the city.

Questions are posed at the infrastructural input points, and TXT responses are fed into a projection, which displays them, and feeds TXTs which end in a question mark (?) back to the input points to begin new chains of conversation. After a new question is posed, the collected responses, displayed as a series of layers, are saved and displayed online, for documentation and further discussion.

The display is set up as a running series of messages, which slowly aggregate on the projection, which are superimposed over the previous messages; the opacity of the individual message fades over time. This way, depending on the rate of incoming messages, the legibility and effect of the individual message changes in response to the broader conversation (similar to “real” conversation – messages can be lost in the crowd – as civil conversation fades to a cacophony of voices.

Thus, by linking dispersed input/ display points into a singular place, the aggregation of inputs begins to create conversive art - enlivening + creating a context for conversation in / on / about syracuse.

Some Drawings

Instant video of the other space being projected on to the screen.




Connection between spaces enabled by the interaction of people using text messages.

big brother bluetooth

When this bus stop ad detects your mobile phone through its Bluetooth transmitters, it will send you a text message from Big Brother. You are being watched.

Facade Projection by URBANSCREEN

"555 KUBIK"

http://vimeo.com/5595869

http://www.urbanscreen.com/usc/category/projects

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This is a program we can buy to work through this project - I am going to download a trial. It would be great if others do too so we can play around with possibilities.

http://www.firetext.tv/

touchscreen film

http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/02/displax-can-turn-any-surface-into-a-touchscreen/

We are just a few months too early .. they are making a touch-screen interactive film that can be applied to ANY surface

Txt_ Installations with projection

http://www.txtualhealing.com/

Augmented_Syracuse?

http://phantomcity.org/

another mode of content...speculative histories and projected futures - iPhone Augmented Reality

not really related to our current desired outcome, but still interesting.

MIT's Flyfire Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-9CRSNseL0&feature=player_embedded

Mechanical fireflies could help create a new kind of 3-D display, say researchers at MIT.

Standing in for the bioluminescent beetles will be LED-fitted, remotely controlled micro-helicopters that can be choreographed electronically to display shapes and images as they hover in midair. The project, called Flyfire, would use RC helicopters similar to the toys sold at the mall today.

“Each of the helicopters then acts as what we call a smart pixel,” E Roon Kang, the MIT research fellow who is leading the project, told Wired.com. “By controlling their movement, we can have the pixels flying through the air.”

The idea is almost all theoretical now since it is in its very early stages, says Kang. Researchers at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems (ARES) Lab are jointly developing the idea.

In traditional displays, pixels are static and arranged on a flat surface. Finding a way to make truly three-dimensional displays has been a frequent subject of research, but few practical solutions have emerged despite decades of effort.

The MIT researchers are betting that if each pixel can be made to hover in space and can be controlled reliably, they can create a giant 3-D display.

Ultimately the project would be a step in the direction of “smart dust” — the idea that computing devices will be extremely small, somewhat self-contained, and pervasive, says MIT.

The canvas made by little lighted helicopters can show either a two-dimensional image or a 3-D shape.

Currently researchers are trying to design these little helicopters that will serve as the smart pixels. Kang says the team is looking at microcopters with four rotors as a possible vehicle.

Simple as the idea may seem, creating an army of microcopters poses some significant technical challenges. For instance, each of these little devices will have be self-stabilizing. That means as they hover, they will have to maintain their co-ordinates with extreme accuracy for at least a few minutes.

Another problem lies in being able to reliably control thousands of these microcopters.

“Today we are able to simultaneously control a handful of micro-helicopters but with Flyfire, we are aiming to scale up and reach very large numbers,” says Emilio Frazzoli, head of the ARES Lab in a statement.

Flyfire is being conceived as a installation in a large public place, where the pixels can recharge every few minutes and then perform in space. So far, the team has performed simulations to show the idea at work and hopes to start designing the actual devices soon.

Check out MIT’s video explaining how the Flyfire idea will work.

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/flyfire-3-d/#ixzz0gEVgQb5b

Architectural Urban Light Graffiti

http://weburbanist.com/2007/09/07/architectural-light-graffiti-projection-bombing-images-on-urban-surfaces/

This can be some inspiration on how to draw people in to this project or maybe have it visible from hills on campus or the freeway if it projects high.. this is expanding on some of the drawings Andrew put up.

http://www.urbanartcore.eu/amazing-urban-light-art/

This has two videos, the first I'm not sure if we've already talked about here, but if we could project things his fantastic (as in fantasy) it might be able to become the spark for conversation via text or be responsive to something or .....

Banksy

Good ole Banksy in NYC, comicizing phone booths. This might be irrelevant ...

Shadowland

The power of shadows in playing with scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgvmlqqkofM&feature=related

Precedents 3

http://www02.zkm.de/you/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74%3Asampling-1&catid=35%3Awerke&Itemid=82%E3%80%88=en

http://www.pw-videoblog.de/ (Link to their Blog)

You_Ser sample 1 - A project, in which two artists are determined to collect video footage from mobile phones to display and interact with.

http://www.mobispray.com/


mobispray is an interactive project in which people can you their cellphone as a spray paint can and spray paint onto physical surfaces.

http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/work/digital-confetti.html

Digital confetti is an installation used for a celebration

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XM210	100		100	39.1	220W
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XM308	80		100	39.8	130W
XM310	100		100	47.6	220W
XM505	50	0.5	50		110W
XM506	60		50		130W
XM508	80		50		180W
XM510	100		50		220W
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Classification	Unit price for supply	Monthly Energy Using Quantity	Heating cost	Heating index
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Fuel boiler	1,050/L	175L	krw 157,500	99
Electric panels	66.8/kwh	1,248kwh	krw 83,366	58
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Classification	Fuel / Gas Boiler	XiCA heating film	Electric Boiler	Electric panels
Type	Fossil Fuel	Electricity	Electricity	Electricity
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Heating time	30~60 Min	4~10 Min	30~60 Min	15~30 Min
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