SArt project @ NTNU The wall

Letizia Jaccheri

New media art and interactive art installations

• The use of digital technology in contemporary art is often referred to as new media art. Since the early 90s within the new media art realm there is a growing production of interactive art installations.

• These artworks are generally complex and they are heavily dependent on software for controlling the whole system. The production of the software often requires the involvement of programmers and software engineers.

Sonic OnyxArtist: Samir M’kadmi

Location: Blussvoll skole,Trondheim, Norway

FlyndreArtists: Øyvind Brandtsegg and Nils Aas

Location: StraumenInderøy, Norway

FlyndreArtists: ? Location: IT-building

NTNU Trondheim

SArt

• SArt – Software Engineering (SE) and Art• Currently involved in three software-intensive

Art projects

the wall

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– inspire reflection about IT with focus on openness, copyrights, and authorship.

– I want to learn something new and work with people at a deeper level, have fun

– and at the same time I am afraid of what I do not know and of ruining good relationships.

This presentation: structure

• Sart project• The existing IDI wall

http://mediawiki.idi.ntnu.no/wiki/sart – Past and future

• The new wall, we should find a working name– why?– where?– what? – how?– who?

about motivation

about cooperation

about challenges: Flash animation

the new wall: why?

• Make the town of trondheim (its inhabitants and vistors) reflect about IT with focus on openness, copyrights, and authorship– Both the wall itself and its content

• Names: – Trondheimsvegg– Trondheimsblogg– Myspace/facebook/playlist– ?

what? • Reconstruct the wall in wireless Trondheim• architect/artist (shape, size)• hardware engineer (hw) buy or make • software engineer

• reuse the idea of having one public IP and total openness for getting and sending info

• the wall behaves like a browser, it accepts sound, picture, video, and text• Technical issues, concurrency of access, time sharing• the wall records the story of what has been sent like a blog• users can see the content on the wall and hear sounds through IP enabled

devices like mobile phones• users can see the content of the wall and hear sound on their computers

through a browser• requirements, architectures, testing, maintenance, tools, open source software,

how?

• add music, exploit wireless town• +• move the exiting one somewhere into town• Rebuild a similar one with IDI resources• buy a similar one, see the one at

Trondheimstorget • buy LCD screen(s)

who?• Artist

– Espen Gangvik teks? – Samir M'kadmi (Ulrika-Wallin Johansen 30th April)

• Architect?– knut.e.larsen@ntnu.no?– Åsmund G.

• Software programmer– Hallvard Trætteberg IDI– soundscape

• Hardware– group IDI?– Soundscape– Midgaard – Buy LCD or other

• sponsors

where?

• inside– museum/school– airport/train station – shopping mal– organization like StatoilHydro or IT company

• outside– Torget– …

To conclude

• We have a prototype at IDI which costed circa 200KNOK but a lot ot work was done by students and researchers. Hardware was donated by for example Atmel. We estimate 1 MNOK if professional services have to be bought. It will live its life at IDI. Effort required

• Shall I start the new wall project? Why? If yes, which are the next steps?