Day 8: July 22, 2010

Activities:

  1. Shot video footage of Exercise Park (Judith Doyle)
  2. Visited 798 Art Zone to explore potential venues for final installation
  3. TouchOSC scripting
  4. Continued programming of the robotic 'arm' in PureData (Jim Ruxton)

Video Footage - Beijing Exercise Park:

video coming soon

798 Art Zone Visit:


Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA)

  • Hope Tunnel
    Zhang Huan
    http://www.ucca.org.cn/portal/exhibition/view.798?id=40&menuId=20
  • Golden Sky
    Yu Hong
    http://www.ucca.org.cn/portal/exhibition/view.798?id=41&menuId=20
  • Narrow Mist
    Edwin Wurm
    http://www.ucca.org.cn/portal/exhibition/view.798?id=42&menuId=20


Iberia Center for Contemporary Art

  • My Campus Life (1990-2010)
    Liu Dahong


Long March Space

  • Don't Hang Your Faith On The Wall
    MadeIn
    http://www.longmarchspace.com/exhibition/list_19_newsdetail.html

TouchOSC Scripting:

  • Experimented with Jim Ruxton's TouchOSC code, as potential platform for harvesting accelerometer (labour) data from users, and feeding it into Second Life (Ken Leung)
  • Components:
    • TouchOSC app (installed on IPod Touch), which records accelerometer data (X & Y) and sends it in real-time (via OSC) to Python application
    • Python application, which receives the accelerometer data feed (via OSC), and sends it to a specified Second Life object via HTTP
      View Python Code
    • Second Life object whose behavior (size) is controlled by incoming data from the Python application, which is received by an embedded script via HTTP.
      View SL Script
  • Next steps:
    • Devise code for triggering avatar behavior (as opposed to object behavior), via the incoming HTTP data feed
    • Incoming feed should wake the avatar, and trigger specific animations/ movements

References:

Gallery Websites:

798 Art Zone
http://www.798art.com/

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA)
http://www.ucca.org.cn/portal/home/index.798?lang=zh_CN

Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
http://www.iberiart.org/
Long March Space
http://www.longmarchspace.com/

OSC Programming Libraries:

Python:
http://www.python.org

pyOSC Library:
https://trac.v2.nl/wiki/pyOSC

SimpleOSC:
http://www.ixi-audio.net/content/body_backyard_python.html

TouchOSC
http://hexler.net/software/touchosc