Memo Atken created visuals for My Secret Heart, a music and film installation & performance commissioned by Streetwise Opera with music composed by Mira Calix, and sound design by David Sheppard. Memo says,
"The sensation of performing and recording the visuals was that of actually directing a film with thousands of virtual actors, commanding an army, digital puppetry – an approach I’m sure I will be revisiting in the very near future."
Here are some "initial AI/flocking and behaviour controlling tests with Processing":
Excerpts from the final film:
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And here's a different application of similar visuals, driven by live motion tracked by the Microsoft Kinect:
Kinect Graffiti is a digital graffiti tool created by Jean-Christophe Naour. "The idea behind this project is to use the kinect to track the motion behind graffiti. Visualizing the body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, understanding surrounding space, pausing time..."
Posted by Alison Humphrey at September 29, 2012 11:29 PM