Art CreationCHI 2009

Musink: Composing Music through Augmented Drawing

Passive Photographyfrom a Creative Perspective

Urban Pixels: Painting the City with Light

Ting @ SMG

Musink : Composing Music through Augmented Drawing

Theophanis Tsandilas, Catherine Letondal & Wendy E. Mackay

In|Situ, INRIA Saclay, Ile-de-France

We explored the creative use of paper in contemporary music through a participatory design process.

Goals

• Explore the role of paper throughout the creative process of music composition.

• Design new forms of paper interaction to support musical creation.

Initial interviews with composers at IRCAM.

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Passive Photographyfrom a Creative Perspective

Sara LjungbladSICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science

SENSECAM

Sensecam is a camera that takes pictures automatically with an internal timer, and no viewfinder . A light signal on top of the camera indicates whenever a picture is taken. The camera has a fisheye lens that gives the pictures a wide-angle view. The resolution is low (VGA resolution is 640x480 pixels) and up to 30 000 pictures could be saved in the camera.

SENSECAM

Experiencing a memorable moment

Placing the camera to capture a scene

Avoiding repetitiveness and boring pictures

A sense of a piece of time

Shooting a part of me

Collectors

Urban Pixels: Painting the City with Light

• Susanne Seitinger, Daniel S. Perry, William J. Mitchell

• Smart Cities Group• MIT Media Laboratory

Urban environments are increasingly filled with digital display systems that are inflexible, flat, bounded, high-resolution, and unresponsive.

We explore the potential of physically instantiated pixels that enable flexible, reconfigurable, unbounded, low-resolution, and responsive urban displays.

Blinkenlights installation at Toronto City Hall,Canada, 2008.

Using the building as interface

Laser Tag on a building façade.

Appropriating public facadesthrough projection

Tram with Throwies

Deploying individual pixels

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Body Movies" (2002). Linz, Austria.

Interacting with façades through projection

Allianzarena in blue, Munich, Germany.

Transforming architecture into ambient display

Urban Pixel prototypes