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The Media Department is running two cross-disciplinary projects related to near and remote sensing of atmospheric and spatial data. This project will take place as part of the recently established OpenLab NCAD. OpenLab aims to create a space to bring together creative and technical skills, and to provide an embodied and critical understanding of media technologies. Recently (Nov 2015 ) this project continued as part of the Earth, Body, Street, Sky Project .
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image: James Bridle, Drone shadow, London
ye in the Sky This project will explore the concept of the aerial view and remote sensing, from both an artist, amateur and professional perspective. Eye in the Sky will use both DIY/consumer technologies (arduino, datalogging, usb radio, aerial photography) and discussion of more professional remote sensing technologies such as LIDAR. Where practicable the hands on workshop elements will be coupled with discussions of higher end technologies, hardware demos, practitioner talks and film screenings. This project will have some input also from staff at Archaeology Dept UCD.
The Sensed Environment This project will explore how human experience of and interaction with the built environment is augmented, visualised and mediated. It will utilise modes of sensing to capture data on how people interact with their environment (visual, locative and biometric data – heart rate, activity etc) and environmental conditions (atmospheric data - light, humidity etc) The project will experiment with physical computing technologies in field situations, data log and process the data through visualisation methodologies from visually orientated programming (Processing) and 3D modelling (Grasshopper) and generative sound. The project is run by Fine Art Media, NCAD collaborating with the UCD School of Architecture. It is of mutual interest to focus this activity on an existing site using a combination of sensed data to create a visual/sonic augmentation of public space (visual interventions: back projection, projection mapping). We aim that these methodologies would evolve new forms of interrogating the relationship between person and environment in both fields of practice.image: Simon Heijdens, Tree, 2014 Austin, Texas
From February to April 2015 there have been a series of talks, workshops with students and staff research activity. The project was introduced to students at a seminar with talks on Biomapping, Sensing technologies, 3D algorithmic modelling and creative practices and artists that employ these modes of working / visualising. These involved staff members from across the two institutions: Claire Nidecker, Cliona Harmey, Denise Beck, Pierre Jolivet, Michael Mescal and visiting artist/programmer Fiona McDonald and a group of undergraduate Fine Art NCAD students. The series of three workshops included geo and bio data collection using physical sensors with Arduino and the wireless transmission of data using Temboo web data services. An online resource was developed and was made available to students.
In November - December 2015 the two projects progressed through the Earth, Body, Street, Sky Project with a group of undergraduate year 2 and 3 Fine Art NCAD students.Visit the link above to find out more.
Simon Heijdens, Shade, 2014
Responsive glass shows live wind patterns
Also - Tree, & Lightweeds
Lisa Park , Eunoia II, 2014
Manipulating water through EEG brainwaves
OFL Architecture with Federico Giacomarra , St Horto, 2013
Garden where real time music is generated with weather data and touch sensors
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/watch-an-interactive-garden-come-to-life
James Leng, PointCLoud 2012
Sculpture movement driven by weather data
Roni Horn , You are the weather
Series of portraits of someone immersed in Icelands hot springs - The artist discusses the project in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUcuiIhE2u8
FlowingCity.com - data visualisations of the city
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Citizen Science – hacking, hardware & collective working
Folksonomy -citizen generated data and classsification
Politics and poetics of the aerial view
Some works which reveal hidden or invisible information:
JAMES BRIDLE -Drone Shadows
“The drone shadows are an ongoing installation series of 1:1 outlines of military drones, drawn in public space around the world. This project has also been open sourced, allowing anyone to create their own shadow.”
http://booktwo.org/notebook/diy-drone-shadows/
Drone Shadow Handbook
http://booktwo.org/files/Drone-Shadow-Handbook.pdf
Dronestagram
http://booktwo.org/notebook/dronestagram-drones-eye-view/
TREVOR PAGLEN
Trained as an artist and as a geographer, Trevor Paglen creates photographs that blur the lines between science, art, and journalism, often focused on that which cannot be seen, such as hidden or secret military sites. In Untitled (Reaper Drone), he captured a dramatic section of the Nevada sky in the early hours of the morning using a telephoto lens. The tiny black speck in the lower right corner of the golden, cloud-filled sky is a reaper drone, an unmanned aircraft operated by military personnel, out of a remote base in Nevada. While the artist’s attention to atmospheric qualities evokes both nineteenth-century Romantic landscape painting and modernist abstraction, overtly connecting with earlier artistic investigations into the concept of landscape, his work also draws meaningful parallels between modernist abstraction and the increasingly abstract state of contemporary warfare
http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/12675
see more of his projects here: http://www.paglen.com
JEHAD NGA
“The Green Book, a project inspired by the philosophies of Muammar Gaddafi, saw the artist “intercepting” censored images from the internet in Libya, converting them into binary code, and combining them with the code of each chapter of The Green Book. The result is an unsettling, and oddly beautiful group of images created entirely from preexisting data. http://benrubigallery.com/artist/66/jehad-nga
SAFECAST
Safecast is a global sensor network for collecting and sharing radiation measurements to empower people with data about their environments. It was setup in response to the nuclear events at Fukushima. Safecast developed their own hardware and sensor network site to monitor radiation and empower citizens.
Safecast MiniDoc | by Adrian Storey
Also discussed software defined radio
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/
and higher end products such as MarineGadget for receiving Marine AIS signals
http://www.radargadgets.co.uk/buyais.htm
and Funcube http://www.funcubedongle.com used for satellite communication.
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Di Mainstone's Human Harp 2013
Imagined on the Brooklyn Bridge by Di Mainstone and launched in partnership with Queen Mary University of London, Human Harp is a clip-on instrument that transforms suspension bridges into giant harps. Now an international collaboration, the Human Harp team are exploring ways to record, process and release the frequencies of suspension cables, enabling pedestrians to literally “play the bridge”.
http://dimainstone.com/project/human-harp/
rAndom International's Rain Room exhibition at MoMA as part of MoMA PS1's EXPO 1: New York June 2013
Using sensors to detect and track visitors in the room, the piece lets you enter a downpour. As you timidly move forward, the rain around you ceases to fall overhead, allowing a glimpse into what it might be like to control the rain.
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/random-international-moma-rain-room
Daniel Palacios, Waves, 2011
A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element. Depending on how we may act in front of it, according to the number of observers and their movements, it will pass from a steady line without sound to chaotic shapes of irregular sounds (the more movement there is around the installation) through the different phases of sinusoidal waves and harmonic sounds.
Addie Wagenknecht, Cloud Farming, 2014
Cloud Farming, a suspended structure of flashing triangular circuit boards that uses custom printed circuit boards and ethernet cables to essentially sniff out nearby wifi signals. Once detected, blinking green lights create a maniacally anxious experience for viewers, perpetuating the nagging sensation that they're being watched as they walk through the gallery.
http://www.bitforms.com/wagenknecht-2014/cloud-farming
Brian W Evans, Wirbel (Santa Monica), 2010-2013
Six small motors connected to propellers spin at a variable rate causing the aluminum arms, that extend from the wall, to sway sometimes erratically like a blowing breeze. This piece uses wind speed data collected from the Los Angeles International Airport from October-November, 2010.
http://www.bwevans.net/2010/2010_1.html
REIFY turns any sound—a baby’s first words, a musician's new single, an inspiring speech—into a tangible design object.
This project was conceived by Team members Allison Wood, Ara Katz,
Jamie Zigelbaum, Yotam Mann in 2014 at
NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator, a shared workspace and professional development program designed to support creative practitioners working in the areas of art, technology, and design.
Digital Ethereal—The secret body of wireless 2014
Wireless exchange protocols—Wi-Fi networks, mobile, Bluetooth, NFC, GPS, infrared signals to name but a few— are beguilingly fascinating. The digital ethereal is a creative practice research project which sets out to explore the materiality of wireless protocols.
CHiKA, SHiKAKU 07, 2013, Eyebeam NYC
SHIiKAKU = 四角, 視覚, 視角, 死角 is a Japanese homophone that translates to "square", "visual", "optic angle" as well as "blind spot". Embracing these themes and variations, SHiKAKU07 creates light symphony by the presence of a viewer in real time. SHiKAKU 07 is a unique "seeing sound " experience by public participation.
Ruggero Castagnola and Antoni Kaniowski, The Social City Detector
Their creation, Social City Detector, showcased at last week's Rome Maker Faire, picks up on incoming tweets and turns them into audible frequencies. "We decided to create something that merges the physical and the digital layers in cities," says Castagnola. "We wanted to make social media visible."
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/social-city-allows-tweets-to-have-a-voice
John Grade's installation Capacitor brings the weather inside
The kinetic sculpture translates what's happening with the weather into a five to ten minute experience. Weather sensors placed on the roof of the center feed back to the coil, causing it to move and shift in response to wind direction and change luminosity in response to changes in temperature.
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/kinetic-sculpture-moves-and-changes-according-to-the-weather
Sand Falls by Domestic Data Streamers ( a team of developers that
have taken on the challenge or transforming raw data into interactive systems and experiences )
http://domesticstreamers.com/project/sand-falls/
The experience Hemet by London-based artist Aiste Noreikaite.
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/this-eeg-helmet-makes-music-from-brainwaves
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Grasshopper - http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
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Pierre Jolivet
References from the OPEN LAB PROJECT INTRO Monday 23rd February 2014 Christian Nold, Biomapping, 2004 - ongoing
Emotion Map of Greenwich
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