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SYN is a synchronization request packet on the Internet. SYN means “together” in ancient greek. SYN is the synapsis. Through the synapses a neuron exchanges informations with other neurons within a neural network managed by the brain. SYN installation represents an artificial neural system with a constant exchange of electrical inpulses. The constant exchange of electrical impulses is realised using QuartzComposer to set a precise videomapping activated by topic related tweets on Twitter and audience web-interaction. Using a mobile device (smartphone, tablet or laptop), anybody can send a spark, a creative contribution from the festival location or all over the city. Each spark will activate the installation and can be visualized on the dedicated app. Moreover, the videomapping can be realized as well within an audiovisual live performance. Credits Art Direction/IxD: www.marianoleotta.com Set Design: Marta Nardi Sound: Kaeba (Plaster) [www.myspace.com/kaebasound] Visuals: Aikia [www.alessandraleone.com] e Born Holmer [http://bit.ly/MWpLYD] Production: http://bit.ly/KuvSXU + Consonant exhibitions XV Biennale de la Mediterranèe, Thessaloniki, Greece B-seite, Zeitraumexit, Mannheim, Germany III Moscow Biennale, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia ISEA, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, USA more infos @ http://bit.ly/MWpNjh

Photo prise par luxius, Travailler autrement / #snapshot #idearecopict

Photo prise par luxius, Ce soir, c'est la fête!!!!!!!! / #idearecopict

SYNesperance

SYNesperance

stringTheory is an experimental program I made that is not as much data vis as it is abstract data. Using the concept of String Theory (theoretical physics) to visualize my email, the program first shows everyone that has sent me email in the last year as particles within a group of atoms. Each node when rolled over shows the numer of emails this address has sent me as well as playing a tone based on this number. After clicking one of these nodes, that person's messages are abstracted further as particles (protons & neutrons maybe? that doesn't quite work yet but its loosely based...) which contain particles of the subject of the email. Rolling over one of the messages displays the message's subject and plays a tone for each letter, with the timing based on the overall length of the subject and the tone of each letter based on both the message length and a value I'm giving to each letter. The project uses PHP to collect my email to a MySQL database, then openFrameworks is used to grab a php file which generates XML from the database. This XML data is then used to drive the visuals. The audio is generated by pushing OSC commands from openFrameworks to SuperCollider. The tones are somewhat harmonious but I'm just getting started with SuperCollider and I'd love to see what I can do with this data once I get a better understanding of the full power of super collider. Overall I can already think of a lot more interesting things I could do with this but I'm super happy with the results so far....

QuakeNet is the largest internet relay chat (IRC) Network in the world, this is an attempt to demonstrate the activity on the network (it looks much better full screen!). This is one day of activity, 24 hours, midnight to midnight in UTC, on the QuakeNet IRC network summarised into a 12 minute data visualisation. Each dot represents a new user connecting to the network, there are some 400 new connections per minute on average in this visualisation. Users are linked by joining shared channels. When a new user joins a shared channel it is joined by a line with all other users in the channel already that have had activity within the last 5 minutes. In effect, this shows real time communications between the users of QuakeNet over a single day. All data was collected strictly anonymously at a high level. The data snapshots were collected via a network service that already stores connection data in memory, anonymous network data dumps (purely stating 'this user is new' information) were collected at a regular interval for a 24 hour period. These data blocks were then pre-processed using one off Python scripts into a usable cohesive time-line of connections, and the users resolved to their geographic locations. The final visualisation was produced using processing over several hours (the original source is above 1080p) using an OpenGL renderer. The background map is a re-aligned and tweaked world map from the NASA blue marble project. If you have any comments or questions you can find me in #meeb on irc.quakenet.org

Cette journée d'étude organisée en partenariat avec la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris-Nord et l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, par le pôle LaSCoD du Centre de Recherche Textes et Francophonies de l'université de Cergy-Pontoise, est la première d'une série de manifestations, destinées à la réalisation d'un projet de recherche, dont l'objectif est la constitution d'un corpus informatisé, composé de matériaux de nature différente, consacré aux jeunes de banlieues ; en partant de l'hypothèse que ceux-ci participeraient à la construction d'une mythologie urbaine contemporaine, hypothèse qui, si elle se vérifiait, permettrait d'éclairer un certain nombre de processus de sémiotisation de l'espace social. Plus sur: http://bit.ly/GXGZEC