Anti Design Festival: Up & Running
Post categories: Audience Experience,ÌýAudio,Ìýcollaboration,Ìýevents,Ìýmedia,Ìývideo
| 12:00 UK time, Thursday, 23 September 2010
We're very excited to hear that the installation created by our researchers has been shortlisted for the at the in Barcelona on the 13/15th of October.Ìý Plans are underway to set up the installation at NEM, along with other R&D demos showcasing some of our computer vision and sound technology.
For those of you who can't make it to the gallery, I've put together a couple of short films which give more of an insight into this installation.
Firstly we have a straight feed of the video output of the system when a music track is used as the input. As you can see, the visualisation automatically incorporates bits of footage captured into the system by the cameras.
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We also filmed various random bits of footage while the project was going on, which I've cut together into a short behind the scenes video. Since this work was done in addition to the day job, it gives a pretty good idea of the intense atmosphere the team was working in during the development process.
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The installation is still available to play with until this coming Sunday (26th September) at 28 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DP from 11am-5pm. For extra fun I suggest you bring along music to play at it, although for the melodic, singing is also an option...
The ADF team would like to thank all those who've helped make this project a reality:To Brandon Butterworth, Alistair Bruce, Dave Marston and Andrew Mason, for helping us get together the vast amount of equipment we needed for this
project, as well as offering advice and support when it was needed, also to the support staff at R&D for putting up with us annexing vast areas of
communal space for testing and building our outlandish creation.
To Neville, Monica, Brian, Hells and Andy at Research Studios for all their work in making the AntiDesign festival happen - its been truly
brilliant, and a privilege to be a part of.
To Dave Charlseworth and Ryszard Lewandowski of Charlesworth Lewandowski and Mann - its been amazing.
And finally, to all the engineers who've given countless hours of their free time to this project:
Robert Dawes, Jon McKinnell, Rod Hodgson, Chris Pike, Max Leonard, Chris Baume, Martin Nicholson, Tom Heritage, Becky Gregory-Clarke, David Lewis
and Alia Sheikh.
Comment number 1.
At 24th Sep 2010, HD wrote:Does the first video pass the Harding FPA video test, and comply with Ofcom rules/guidelines about flashing images?
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Comment number 2.
At 24th Sep 2010, Ant Miller wrote:In short, no. The workflow for web video doesn't go through the same processes as broadcast video, so the Harding FPA test isn't part of the workflow. We therefore have the warning's before the video roles built into the player.
Let's be clear why the video is posted- the installation produces a video output which is active, dynamic and is itself very variable in brightness. We wanted to share with visitors to the blog an example of the video output, and as we understand the guidelines, we can do so so long as we place the warning on the player.
I hope that answers your question.
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