My Interactive Diary

A personal diary of interactive experiences from art places, from the tube, from the street, from anywhere... I'm a User experience thinker, designer, speaker. I'm passionate about photography and ethnography. I'd love to know what you're up to, so...

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I had the opportunity to run a self-awareness workshop for the #LTUX group and Ladies in London a few weeks ago. It was an evening with lots of smiles and great constructive discussions. 

Through creative thinking and play we discovered ways to raise self-awareness, encourage authentic happiness and build more trust and empathy with the people that surround us. The workshop was divided into three parts.

During the first part we’ve done a whiteboarding activity that helped us raise more awareness on our pre-dominant behaviours in our work groups. During the second part we discussed about tricks and practices that could help us be more open-minded when we face others. Lastly we enjoyed ourselves through experiential bonding activities for groups that the ladies can use in their own job environments.  All these at the amazing #EFLondon space. http://www.ef.co.uk

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A lesson from the world of creativity

Leaders of creativity wrap their thoughts at a temple of commercialisation; Selfridges 400 Oxford Circus, London. Naming convention: School of life...

That's what happens when great initiative meets great capital. I observed my first talk today from Cathy Haynes.

CATHY HAYNES

Cathy Haynes is a London-based curator, artist and educator. She is a founder faculty member of The School of Life and our former Curator of Public Programmes. She was speaking today at the School of life hinting the following: In order to be more creative here are some methods you can follow:

1. Unlearn what you know  Great ideas come if you leave your assumption back. The audience suggested some ways of playing around that:

"Close your computer for a week to see how else I can do things without being dependant to Google." "Try not to follow recipes." "Try not to think logically; avoid the step-to-step way."

2. Waste time  Play, move around, forget, daydream, sleep, slow down. Think: "What can you do to make enough space to dream and reflect in everyday life?"

3. Welcome blocks "Some times boundaries help us map the potential"

4. Fail better Recognise what is a failure versus what isn't. Learn from your mistakes. At the moments of realisation use the word "that's funny" instead of Eureka!

5. Don't try to be original Edison was not who discovered the light bulb but the one who improved it. Try to improve thing, repair and revalue. "We need to value equally the improvers with the people who come with the idea."

6. Get help Look for the creative people around you..."what can you learn from them and what do they need from you?" Start thinking about it practical steps to get there.

At last, follow the following experiment:

Design your own muse; find what you like in others in order to understand better your creative self.

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//Designers need a thinking place... Design thinking today is far away from lonely egoistic thinking. It is all about different perspectives, personalities and cultures getting together. Gaining the ability to solve problems fast as our times suggest, but also creatively, leads you to sketching, sticking post-its, thinking aloud, sharing your thinking. 

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//Participation never meant many devices...

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//Mobile photography...

There’s no question that news about mobile images was all over mainstream media in 2012, as outlets such as CNN, the Huffington Post, The New York Times and more covered a vast array of talking points about photos, apps, devices and more.

“The conversation about mobile photography finally evolved,” says award-winning photojournalist Ben Lowy, whose own work shot with an iPhone made several headlines throughout the year -- including an image from Hurricane Sandy that made TIME Magazine’s cover. Lowy’s own iLibya project (warning: link contains graphic images) was one of the reasons the photographer was awarded the International Center of Photography’s prestigious Infinity Award for Photojournalism this year. 

“Most people from, say, Oklahoma ... don’t really have a connection to something like Libya,” continues Lowy. “Just like most people didn’t have a connection to what was happening during Sandy. And when you show someone pictures from Afghanistan or Iraq, and you say that you took them with a 35 millimeter [camera] ... there’s no real kinship there. But if you say ‘Well, actually what I used to take these pictures is the same tool you have in your pocket, that you photographed your cat with, or your kids or your brunch,’ then, all of a sudden, there’s a real connection!”

Relevant links

http://1197.is/

http://www.mobilephotogroup.com/

http://lofimode.com/

http://instagramers.com/

http://tinycollective.com/About

http://instantdc.com/

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David Rokeby spent the 10 years from 1981 to 1991 gesturing in mid-air and throwing his body against the virtual while creating Very Nervous System, an interactive installation which tracks body movement with video cameras and turns the movement into music and/or sound. Developing this work and exhibiting it around the world gave him a wealth of opportunities to experience and observe what happens when we place our bodies at the conjunction of physical and digital spaces. Since the early nineties, he has often returned to this exploration of “phy-gital” experience in a range of video and sound installations, considering this hybrid space as one of the fundamental features of life in a digital culture.

In his presentation, Rokeby will explore characteristics of the experience of phy-gital space, reflecting in particular on how these features affect interactive performance and interactive performers. Then he will present a variety of projects which expand the notion of interactive performance into publicly accessible interactive installations.

Main thrusts of this examination will include the effect of phy-gital space on the interactor’s mind and body, virtuosity in the context of interactive interfaces, and the interface as audience.

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Eyeball Massage

Elisabeth Charlotte "Pipilotti" Rist, is a Swiss visual artist who works with video, film, and moving images which are often displayed as projections.

Her work exhibited in Hayward Gallery was a trementously captivating experience. Pipilotti arranges the space in a way that will allow the viewer to feel casual . Big pillows are all over. Viewers can lay down, relax, see and have time to think. If an artit's work intents to freeze the time in front of her artwork in order to make you think about it, then Pippiloti is definetely succeeding it.  

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Sunday 

2:00 am

&

2:00 pm

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Digital Video and Audio Art Women in Art A Morph Animation by Philip Scott Johnson

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art. A brilliant example of the art of morph animation.

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, performed by Yo-Yo Ma.

Nominated as Most Creative Video 2007 YouTube Awards.

MOCA home

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First impressions: The Stedelijk Museum art collection in augmented reality. 

During the Lowlands music festival in the Netherlands, in August 2010 the Stedelijk Museum lent digital versions from their world famous art collection to visitors with an Android- or iPhone. Hein Wils, project leader ARtours at Stedelijk Museum, calls it “Borrowing real art in augmented reality”. At a special desk visitors of the festival will be able to choose one of the 175 famous art works by artists like Picasso, Karel Appel, Andy Warhol and Gilbert & George.

Using their Layar augmented reality browser, visitors will be able to place their art piece anywhere on the festival terrain. Other visitors will be able to view the art pieces from their new temporary owner through the Layar browser on their smartphones.

Tate Trumps iPhone App

A digital card game you play with the art on display at Tate Modern

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Interactive Games Make Museums A Place To Play

The museum community try to convince people and more specifically young people that the museum  as an entity worths exploring not in a traditional way but through playing..

McGonigal says games make people happy — and she takes happiness very seriously

 The "Ghost of a Chance" interactive multimedia game at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is one of the first tries to engage people learning through playing with new media platforms instead of classic media for museums as audio and  text. 

Original article link with audio provided

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Amazing Game & Game designer & theorist .. Jane McGonigal

                 EVOKE trailer (a new online game) from Alchemy on Vimeo.

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Ai Weiwei (born 1957) is a Chinese artist, activist, and philosopher, who is also active in architecture, curating, photography, film, and social and cultural criticism.(Read more)

Tate modern & Ai Weiwei presented the work "SUNFLOWER SEEDS" an extreme big area in Tate covered by almost 100 milion sunflower seeds made out of porcelain in a village 1000km away from Beijing

The innovative system of Tate & Ai's in interaction is that for the first time the relationsip of the artist to the viewer is not ending at the exhibition. Both Tate & Weiwei are interested into engaging the viewer into the artwork.

This is why they created an online website, where the artist is answering the questions that the viewers now users as well recorded after seeing the exhibit.

My Question (unfortunately did not took an answer probably my voice was not loud enough )

   Below is an answered by the artist Question

The system is really well designed..when you leave Tate you are able to note down the date and time that your video was recorded and uploaded and by that time search into the website for your answer as well..

Lots of people took part into it..lot's of videos..probably a good archive or a movie later?we will see..

Related links: The main website of the project & the questions

  Interpretation Text: Interpretation Text

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COOLSTUFF AT ART THREAD BLOG

Cool stuff exhibition run from 09 March - 11 March. It was an interactive artworks exhibition totally made through open source softwares & creativity from students of the MA Interactive media of London college of communication.

Art thread blog describes it in the best possible way here .

Our group project ,MesON is made by the following team .

Ravi Panghat

Hara Michailidou

Samantha Strinic

Monica Gajda

Tomek Osinki

Meson is the Greek word for the "medium" such as TV, internet, radio, newspapers. This is an experimental project which investigates how sounds affect our cognitive processes: such as memory and ability to focus. Our inspiration video..

It measures user's memory capacity by generating a sequence of colours that the user has to repeat in the same order.The sequence starts out with one colour gradually adding extra colours one by one, and therefore getting more complex.

There are 3 stages of the experiment:

the user who plays the game is subjected to:

a pleasant sound

a slightly noisy sound

a very noisy/annoying sound

During each stage user can see their success rate on a Progress Bar and therefore notice and compare their results depending on the sound played.

User's feeds:

"Can i play again?"

"I really want to win!"

 "The baby crying is a personal sound that drives me crazy. It really made me loose patience and concetration"

 "It is a matter of personality the way it affects you, for others it maybewill be motivationg, for me the last part was really difficult to complete."

 "I tried to focus on the game and do not hear to the sounds. Impossible."

  Related links:

Follow artthread on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ARTSTHREAD

Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/haramihailidou 

Cool stuff Posted in Arts thread Blog:http://blog.artsthread.com/2011/03/cool-stuff-ma-interactive-media-exhibition-lcc/

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And at this point of today we meet not labs of crazy scientists - artists trying to transform a unique idea into reality, but a tight community sharing Knowledge & ideas in order to express "creativity through technology" on a new base..Arduino Art Projects

2005-2006 Joo Youn Paek

 Zipper Orchestra

“Zipper Orchestra” is interactive video installation: a combination of the “Conductor Musical Score” as a physical controller and the “Zipper Actions Collage Video” as musical display. Users can play music by zipping and unzipping the physical zipper. The screen is a fashion collage, filled with 9 video clips from different people zipping and unzipping their clothes. By moving 9 sub zippers and 1 main zipper attached in a canvas, users can control the individual zipper motion in the screen as a conductor. The main long zipper will control 9 motions all together. Playing "Zipper Orchestra" enables users to create acoustic and visual harmony with others, and experiment opened erotic sense. (Joo Youn Paek) 

The Zippers orchestra is the most from my point of view the most breliant art installation tha anyone has done using with arduino so far..

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From the newest to the oldest some more

interactive installations that you should be aware of.. 

2003

ACCESS - an interactive art installation by Marie Sester

Access is a public art installation that applies web and surveillance technologies, allowing web users to track individuals in public spaces with a unique robotic spotlight and acoustic beam system, without people wearing any gear, exploring the ambiguities among surveillance, control, visibility and celebrity.

2001

IBIS la bicyclette interactive

Rob White’s “IBIS la bicyclette interactive” (2001) (IBIS the interactive bicycle) is an interactive installation inspired by a piece of text written by the author’s grandfather in 1909, in which he related his journey from England to Spain, through France and the Pyrenees. IBIS enables the spectator to explore that text interactively, thanks to an antique bike fitted with sensors, which gives the possibility to navigate through the time and space of the book at the desired speed.

1992

Paul Sermon «Telematic Dreaming» (Video)

«Telematic Dreaming» (1992) turns a bed into the support of high-resolution images that might show a partner, intimately alive although being thousand kilometers away. «Telematic Dreaming» (1992) turns a bed into the support of high-resolution images that might show a partner, intimately alive although being thousand kilometers away.