mousetrap
On the Friday of our Digital Media Labs residency I decided to develop a simple prototype piece which could make use of some of the skills and new understanding which I had been able to develop. I wanted to try and make something which could involve an engaged audience in some of the more critical dialogues which have been taking place during the residency, relating to touch... Read More
Engagement and Collaboration
During the week everyone made a short presentation of their work and it so happened that mine took place yesterday (Thursday). I thought that the most valuable way to spend this time would be to try and articulate and demonstrate some important principles upon which my artistic practice operates. Two central aspects of the work which I develop with the artist collective Re-Dock... Read More
I.D.S.T.
This unique “digital media lab” experience of being surrounded by so many different and talented artists and seeing their approaches and experiments – which are quite different from my own – has been so immersive that even my semi-waking dreams this morning featured touch screens! Concepts “touch” and “screen” have really permeated... Read More
Social Systems
Spent most of today exploring particle systems, classes and functions in Processing.org which – whilst stimulating was also pretty frustrating! 1st job tomorrow: very clear list in pseudo code of EXACTLY what it is I am trying to build… Follow this link to a very interesting film from 1988 on Archive.org “Particle Dreams” (1:30) which represents a collection... Read More
Pool Balls
Inspired (or provoked) by the physics modeling and general “bally-ness” which seemed to be a key feature of many of the software examples we looked at today, I thought I would have a go at tracking, mapping and replicating some of the movements and collisions taking place on an actual pool table using processing.org. The pool table is a kind of archetypal piece of furniture... Read More
Landscape of Touching
Thinking about the touchscreen surface as a tactile landscape I sketched out a kind of ‘spectrum’ of possible terrains listing many types of ‘hands-on’ touch which a person might experience – ranging from ‘very gentle’ at the left thru to ‘very hard’ at the right. The ‘Landscape of Touching’ starts at the left with... Read More
John O’Shea
I’m an artist and co-director Re-Dock (www.re-dock.org) who are a collective of artists working collaboratively to explore and make visible peoples imaginative processes in public space. With Re-Dock I’ve collaborated on projects which have involved mapping people’s memories of the Leeds-Liverpool canal in a shopping centre, the installation a cinemas in an... Read More
