various stuff about art and code

Article 8 - 2015-04-09

Merci à Beikko pour ce premier article sur l’image

1 - Chargement d'une image

I did a talk recently at the Full Stack Meet Up in Denver on a bunch of super cool browser APIs like the Geolocation API, the Web Audio API, and the Ambient Light API.

Rhapsody in Grey

Music project from Brian Foo creates algorithmic music with recorded data of brainwaves during an epileptic seizure:

This song generates a musical sequence using EEG brain wave data of an anonymous epilepsy patient. It examines the periods before, during, and after a seizure. The goal is to give the listener an empathetic and intuitive understanding of the brain’s neural activity during a seizure.

Algorithm That Counts Rap Rhymes and Scouts Mad Lines

Study by Eric Malmi combines data science and Hip-Hop to discover the most rhythmic rapper:

Among the many things rappers like to boast about, some are relatively easy to quantify, like money, whereas rhyming skills are something that have been very difficult to measure – up till now. In this post, I’ll present Raplyzer, a computer program which automatically detects rhymes from rap lyrics and which is used to rank popular rappers based on their average Rhyme factor. I’ll also present another program called BattleBot, which is a search engine for rhyming rap lines based on the algorithm used in Raplyzer.

Sid Lee Dashboard

French creative agency have installed various sensors around their office to document data and published in real-time online, an ‘(un)interesting’ Internet of Things:

Inside Sid Lee Paris with real-time (un)interesting data. For its 6th anniversary, Sid Lee Paris invites you to take the daily pulse of its office with its new Dashboard

HOLO 2

Independent (and quite frankly necessary) tech art magazine HOLO has its second edition available for pre-order:

“If anything, this magazine is an attempt to come to terms with the new normal,” is how the first issue of HOLO opined on our “hyper-connected, accelerating present that is a mere innovation cycle away from fantastical (or dystopian) fiction” in spring 2014. Since then we’ve seen the fall of the Berlin wall commemorated with a floating wall of light (8,000 balloons, each laden with LEDs) and the harrowing landing of the Philae probe on comet 67P (hurtling across space at 80,000 km/h) while our concerns about the erosion of privacy continue to grow. Clearly, the new normal isn’t slowing down anytime soon. On the contrary, given the brisk pulse of creative synergies that connect disciplines and offer glimpses of potential futures, it’s imperative that we slow down, reflect, and process the curious developments at the intersection of art, science, and technology once more.

Wobbly drawing machines with personality, a roomful of light bulbs that pulse the syncopated rhythm of a hundred heartbeats, bouncing an encoding of Beethoven’s

Moonlight Sonata off the moon—revealing the “faces, anecdotes, and personalities behind important work“ has been a HOLO mandate from day one. Our second issue will take you to Montréal, London, Paris, Ghent, Zürich, and Berlin where seven contemporary artists and designers who push the boundaries of 21st century creativity have opened up their world to our team of writers and photographers. From Rafael Lozano-Hemmer demoing a machine for capturing the last breath of revered musicians in his St. Laurent workshop loft, to Katie Paterson sifting through a collection of fossils leftover from a project that’s a million years in the making, to 90-year-old computer art pioneer Vera Molnar revealing her latest work over a mean brew of turkish coffee – each of these encounters shed light on careers that span decades and questions that have been around for millennia.

Defining behavioural geometries in plan

Anahita & Joe

This series of images is the second iteration of an experiment in digital reconstruction of portrait photography. It is an attempt to create a hybrid between hand drawn and procedurally generated image.

A custom software was implemented in processing, which provides the user with a set of digital brushes. Influenced by the LOGO programming language, each brushstroke spawns agents that move within the blank canvas, to create an image with the trails they leave behind. Each brush is a set of different instructions for the agents to follow. These instructions reference the color of an input image to determine the trajectory, behavior but also the color of their trails. The user’s only creative decision is where and how to apply the brushstrokes within the image. Using a tablet, the speed, tilt and the pressure of the pen change various characteristics of the tool, creating expressive brushstrokes.