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Impossible blogging about our projects. We're a participatory, live and digital arts organisation based at the Watershed in Pennine West Yorkshire. Hello!

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Hecky-70's- Illuminations from Impossible on Vimeo.

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picture-test from Impossible on Vimeo.

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Test from Impossible on Vimeo.

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Listen, he speaks!

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yes, its quite large...   and heading for Heckmond-fright night on Oct 31

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Here’s lookin’ at you...

...the rather strange Hollow Face Illusion

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Three Heads, all in a row

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The moment of creation

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the tool...

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Installed at The Point, Doncaster

18th July - 10th October 2015

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Another step forwards...tracking the Wing/face landing areas - looking a lot smoother now...

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Preview image of the new Wing/Face - now with new improved wings and also feet (they will only drop down when about to land somewhere)

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The Wing/Faces move around autonomously, but are guided by different forces. Some are standard to ‘Flocking’ behavior:

Alignment: tries to make the Wing/Faces move in the same direction as each other.

Cohesion: a force that draws them towards each other.

Separation: is close range repulsion force that stops them overlapping.

Some of ours also have moving targets (the blue and green circles) that they try to reach. It is those that will lock onto the landing areas on peoples silhouettes.

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...now smoother, less jumpy and more focused on better landing areas....yes you can still break it, but its beginning to look like a solid foundation that will be hidden and to which we can attract the Wingfaces. Starting to think how they will look landing / perching / roosting etc...

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Now trying to track any potential flat landing areas. The good news is that any likely areas have to be slow moving, so are easy to track, otherwise the creatures wouldn’t try to land.

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AniMotion: Starting on a new gallery installation

Here's a couple of images of the Wingfaces as they appear on our Lightweight installation. We're starting to develop this approach to work as a stand-alone piece and add in some new interactivity. 

Basically face-captured animations of the audiences faces are mapped into flapping wing animations which flutter and flock around the sphere.

Audience members are invited to sit for a five-image portrait by a pair of operators. The new piece will have to be completely automated.

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Life In Transition from Impossible on Vimeo.

Hard to get the effect on video, as this multi-channel sound piece surrounded you in voices and changing colour