I’m very excited to be one of the tutors for Medialab Prado’s Open Up Workshop the February in Madrid. The plan for the workshop is to develop projects for the digital façade of Medialab-Prado’s building. Jordi Claramont, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña are also participating as tutors.
The program itself is really fascinating, bringing together ideas about art, publics, politics, and platforms. I’m looking forward to analyzing the process in terms of platform studies but from the perspective of active creation of an platform rather than through the analysis of a pre-existing system.
And really, who doesn’t like the prospect of creating something for a huge LED façade?
Documentation from the performance is up here and a few more pictures can be found on flickr.
I’ll be performing my piece John Henry von Neumann at Machine Project from 10-6 on Sunday June 28th. Come watch me compete against a computer to complete a drawing in an eight-hour workday. I will use pen and paper while the computer uses a plotter. More info on the Machine Project site.
A few of my students have run into an issue where the right speaker is distorted when playing audio through Minim or Sonia. After much googling we found a somewhat convoluted solution:
1) Go to Applications / Utilities and open Audio MIDI Setup.
2) In the drop-down labeled “Properties For” choose “Built-in Line Output.”
3) Under “Audio Output,” set the format to “44100.0 Hz.”
4) Quit Audio MIDI Setup and restart Processing.
A student in my Programming Media II class wanted to use some text-to-speech for a project, so I created a processing library that is a light wrapper around Apple’s Java API for accessing the speech engine. The library allows you to set the current voice and speak away. Of course, its mac only.
You can get the library from the project page and you can download the eclipse project for the library from github.