Multitouch Berlin™

As part of Code Week Berlin 2015 we are offering a VVVV introductory workshop for kids from 12 years and up in collaboration with Letters Are My Friends.

In a 4 hour crash course we will learn an easy way into interactive programming with the multipurpose toolkit VVVV  aka the fastest visual prototyping language that exists today. We will teach the computer something new and clever, let it draw a wallpaper for you or design your own wild animals that you can move with your own body. This workshop is FREE of charge and limited to 10 people.

WHO: Kids form 12 - 99 years WHEN: Sunday 11. October 2015 2PM - 6PM WHERE: Letters Are My Friends Boppstrasse 7 10967 Berlin Kreuzberg SIGN-UP: Please write an email with your name to info[at]multitouchberlin.com Please bring your own windows laptop and pre-install the latest VVVV version. You can download it from vvvv.org. This workshop will be completely free of charge. Please consider a donation to our workshop partners Letters Are My Friends who are providing the space and more workshop support.

Here is our entry to the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator DIY competition. It is a Xbox 360 Rockband Keyboard / Keytar married with the PO-16 Factory Synth. We soldered the contacts of the 15 white keys ( due to the C Major limitation of the POs ) to the corresponding 15 contact switches on the Pocket Operator PCB. To be able to disconnect the Pocket Operator and use it without the keyboard there is a 25-pin connector on the bottom of the keytar.

Credits:

Pocket Operator PO-16 Factory Synth by Teenage Engineering™ Xbox Rockband keyboard by Microsoft™  Soldering and gaffer tape by Multitouch Berlin™

Testing out the projection mapping that will be installed in the Shoepassion retail stores. Please read the posts below for more details on this project.

Some impressions during the development of the Shoepassion projection mapping. Here we are tweaking the projected 3D model on a real shoe.

We have been busy for Shoepassion Berlin to develop a new eyecatcher for their shoe retail stores all over Germany. Shoepassion is a manufacturer and retailer for classic handmade leather shoes. The brief was to come up with new ways of showcasing their varied range of different classic oxford shoe models in their shopwindows. The solution is a projection mapping on an oversized blank white shoe. We 3D scanned and manually edited the shoe in Cinema 4D.

Our pavillion made of 2000 foam pieces at the Media Architecture Biennale - November 2014 at Godsbanen in Aarhus Denmark hosted by Aarhus University and Media Institute of Denmark. The Pavilion was the result of a workshop at the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 in Aarhus Denmark. Participants put together the blocks to shape the pavilion as they wanted. Pathways throughout the pavilion were created to offer a variety of ways to circulate and experience the spatial qualities of the pavilion and its projections.Participants also programmed their own affects that were projected onto the pavilion. A project by Open Constructs.

Design Lead: Anna Ulak ( University of Toronto ) Philipp Rahlenbeck ( Multitouch Berlin )

Team: Alya Grishko, Marcus Foth, Cristina R.Maier, Piotr Celewicz, Meletis Stathis, Urs Basteck, Giulia Panadisi, Michelangelo Vallicelli, Jeanette Falk Olesen, Flores Thomas, Lloyd Emelle, Ana Moutinho, Winnie Soon, Hanna Schneider

We are happy to announce another great event and collaboration at the end of Ocotber in Berlin at the STATE Science, Art & Film festival. Our 'TIDES' installation together with hands on sound will be part of the exhibition from Friday 31. October and Saturday 1. November in the courtyard of the Alte Münze, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin. Here is a little teaser image..