Sample from 55 from Stefan Kainbacher on Vimeo.

NET CULTURE LAB, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
NET CULTURE LAB, DORNBIRN, AUSTRIA

We are happy to announce that the net culture labs which are a cooparation between Telekom Austria and OS-Alliance opened this week. Stefan is responsible for the design part in the team of the OS-Alliance. Especially he designed the net culture rhizome, which reflects the digital culture in the real space. We will post more about that soon. Further Tim and Stefan reached in one of the first projects which is named “Playground” and deals with hacked soft toys and devices to explore sensor based inferfaces. We work with arduino and Max/MSP. We’ll also open soon a category for that project in our blog to show a bit around what we are doing.

http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/200973/
http://bredlbloggt.telekom.at/media/117/view
http://lab.netculture.at

PLEASE FIND THE NEW VERSION HERE: SOUND ANALYSIS V2

Here is an application and patch for beat detection and sound analyis using Max/MSP that interfaces with Quartz Composer via MIDI. It is still fresh so feedback is welcome. It analyzes the sound for attacks, pitch and noisiness. The attack detector is much faster or responsive than the Audio Input patch in Quartz Composer. Included with the zip file is a Quartz Composer patch that connects to the Max/MSP Sound Analysis application.

NOTE - OPEN MAX/MSP SOUND ANALYSIS APPLICATION FIRST; BEFORE YOU OPEN QUARTZ COMPOSER

Max/MSP communicates with Quartz Composer via MIDI control change messages (CC).

Quartz Composer requires the Kineme plugins.

Kineme Plugins

Max/MSP to Quartz Composer Sound Analysis ZIP (~20MB)
Email me if you want the Max/MSP source patch. It is pretty messy but I will help anyway i can.

A cheap alternative to diy kits the Wii works well as an X Y Z accelerometer. More to come…

Interaction design for animals: While the hamster is running (in) his wheel, he is able to control the video on the screen in front of the cage. By spinning the wheel a light barrier which is connected to an arduino-board is hit and a signal sent to Pure Data which runs via USB connection on my Powerbook. There the video is processed and the manipulated video is sent to the TV screen. Still work in progress … more to come!

Some Impressions:
Hometrainer.pdf

Online Catalogue of the ARS Electronica:
http://www.aec.at/…

Another Proposal for ( C ) lick Me – A manifestation about internet pornography

A series of paintings (digital print on canvas) showing screenshot-like images referring to the aesthetics of internet pornography. The erogenous zones are covered with the obligatory “stars” and “bars”. In order to see the hidden parts of the image the audience has to touch the image at these certain areas. Due to the thermochromic ink (temperature sensitive) the overprinted color a these points disappear and release/free the hidden part/s. After cooling down, the stars/bars appear again.

This piece also deals with the missing haptics (surface) in digital communication, as well as it explores the reaction of the audience. On the one hand, the audience is normally never allowed to touch an image or a painting, on the other hand, touching the described regions of the images exposes the mind of the user to the rest of the audience … Make it hot to see what’s beyond :-)

Artists:
Stefan Kainbacher (Neon Golden)
Jeldrik Schmuch (Sinisthere, Futurelab)
Jona Hoier (Sofa23)

My workbench.

First Steps with Arduino

Yesterday i decided to fool a bit around with my new arduino board. Christmas is close, so I decided to equipe my sweet little tree with some programmable LEDs. Due to the microcontroller, it works in standalone-mode as well.

Find more such projects at http://www.arduino.cc/. I got inpired by the Knight Rider Example.

DESIGN TAGUNG 06, ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER, LINZ, AUSTRIA

Reactive thermochromic ink installation

A project by Stefan Kainbacher, Jeldrik Schmuch and Jona Hoier.

Heat is a dynamic painting which plays with the fact, that fire is the most dangerous enemy to every painting. Focusing on that the audience is invited to burn the frame with a lighter. The initial flame triggers the transformation of the content by distributing heat all over the canvas.

Image Gallery: http://www.jukdi.net/…
Movie (QT/H.264): http://www.neongolden.net/…/heat.h264.mov
Movie (Google): http://video.google.com/…

More Fashionable Technology Projects

Done with Quartz Composer, put a short Loop online. Watch it here (QT/H.264).

Visual experiments will be documented here. If you have any questions or comments feel free to write a couple of lines.