Souvi - an audiovisual installation

Souvi is the result of a group-project done at the university of applied sciences augsburg. We had one big project during the semester and we wanted to create an interactive installation. The installation was created using openframeworks and the ofxtouch library. The sound is generated by PureData which interacts with openframeworks using the OSC protocol.

Souvi has a huge painting area where you can get creative. The finger is getting a tool just by touching the surface. Lightning und pulsating lines are following the trace of your fingertip and make the created image powerful. The center of the energy is based on the shape which was painted last. It will spend its energy to the surrounding and greyed out shapes to make them appear and react again.

The team consists of seven people which are Michael Ilg, Daniel Fontes, Rainer Wagner, Veronica Hanglberger, Frank Robnik and myself. We've been supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Rist and Tobias Grewenig. My main part of this project was the tracking. I evaluated different ways to interact with the installation and planned the whole construction. The installation is part of the lab.30 exhibition.

Project: Schwuffi

A in-term project of Björn Gottwald and me, during the lecture of "Interaction". We created a new interface called schwuffi which is a hemisphere that is lonely and wants to be stroked. When you stroke it, it will raise the color and finally blink and flash to show its feelings. When you leave it alone for some time, it will calm down and get lonely again.

For the ease of use we created a capacitive sensor using some alumnium foil and wired it together with some leds and connected it to an arduino board. For the younger generation, we even connected schwuffi to the world wide web and showed him twitter.

lab.30 Trophy

Since 2001 the lab.30 takes place every year in autumn. The media art festival presents interesting and experimental art at a very high level. Every year the jury decide one artist to win a price. This price is assembled by a team of students of the university of applied sciences augsburg. 2008 it was our pleasure to create an extraordinary trophy. We decided to use some color changing leds in combination with perforated plates and the logo of the lab.30 festival.

The team was Daniel Fontes, Michael Ilg and myself.

wikando

According to the principle „Do good and talk about it“ wikando brings projects, individuals and companies together. A great community of people who needs support and people who want to support others. wikando connects them easily for experiencing commitment.

During my internship at ixenio GmbH, I had a significant role on developing & designing the web 2.0 platform. The platform uses leading edge technology like ajax and several APIs to communicate with different webservices as it uses Amazon AWS for hosting, filestorage and CDN. All this is done with an open source framework which enables secure and rapid object orientated programming with PHP and MySQL.

During the first weeks of my internship I developed a newsletter-registration alongside in the form of a little game, where visitors to the site could get their own little manikin waiting for the platform to open its doors. This was done using Flash (AS3) and Flex. Every time a registered visitor came back, the manikin standing in the queue recognized its owner and waved.

askthebiologist

Creation of the CI and the website. This includes designing the webpage, a bussiness card, HTML & CSS, Search engine optimization and making photos for the website itself. The website makes greatly use of javascript and ajax but can even be used without it. Supporting all modern browsers including the much valued Internet Explorer 6.

Project - Compositing Animation Short

3D-Animation and compositing was the aim of this in-term project of the lecture "Space and Orientation". We worked in a team of three people which are Michael Ilg, Björn Gottwald and myself. We did some recordings in the beginning, then we had to track the scenes to use them inside of our 3D-Animation program. The rendered results werde composed to the final short movie at the end.

We learned the whole production progress, from recording to animation and compositing. The movie contains three parts from every member of the team. The last part, after the explosion in the sky, is the part I made.

Focus unknown

An 3D-animated short film produced during the third term and the lecture "space and orientation". The topic we could use as freely as we wanted was "space". The movie you can watch is completely rendered in 3D without any post-processing. Unfortunately my harddrive crashed and this version is the only one I could rescue. So please excuse any flickering and the low resolution.

Parallel

A term-project of the first year, made within the lecture "media-studio". The given topic was "parallel" which could be implemented as free as we wanted it to be. This short animation was done in stop motion, so every single frame was taken by a digital camera and combined into a more or less vivid animation.

The team was Peter Alt, Daniel Fontes, Andreas Fischer and Melissa Müller.