MEFT 3102

Here’s another interesting video – an “Amoeba Dance” produced live in a VJ package (VDMX), using Quartz Composer, audio analysis and some effects. The status of this image of course lies somewhere between new forms of design, new images, the generative, cross-signal processing, living coding and the impact of the digital – that’s before you get the question of this an an “artificial” life form, exploring it’s own virtuality across these domains.

So it’s a kind of an emblem of the last 3-4 weeks of the course.

More info here …

Amoeba Dance from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

New Scientist has quite an interesting piece on the future of photography.

Here’s a rather nice essay on Intimate Transactions, by an interesting design/ecosophy academic, Tony Fry.

I’m posting some interesting visuals for week 9 on …

electronic night from Rocco Helmchen on Vimeo.

Particle Engine w/ shaders from flight404 on Vimeo.

Accidental sunflower. from flight404 on Vimeo.

This is a very simply piece of visualization in the form of a game – the Free Culture Game.