Simon Katan created an interface that allows the user to alter and play with an environment that visualizes sound in real time. It’s a simple sketch, but I thought he achieved some interesting results. I really liked that he incorporated how the object effect and play off of one another in the later part of the video. I think this could be a fun installation piece for a children’s museum (or maybe regular) at a large scale projected on a wall that visitors were able to interact with.

http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/pyrformances11_eng.php?pyrformerID=31

(Sorry, having trouble embedding this video, visit the link above to view the video. I will keep working on getting it to work in the mean time.)

On the same theme of visualizing sound, Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans combine analog and digital techniques to produce a live performance for Punto Y Raya this year which is an abstract line and dot film/animation festival that takes place in Madrid. I really like some of the animations that come out of the festival a bit more, but for the sake of generative/simulative I thought I should post one of the performances.

Joel Lewis (who once one of the presenters at Art && Code last year) along with his partner Pete Hellicar were commissioned to create the Turner Prize Twitter wall by the Tate Britain.Their project allows visitors to comment on the work within the show. These comments are then projected on a wall within the museum and stream in real time so that other visitors can see the opinions of other visitors. This project strongly boarders on a datavis, but I thought it was worth including because of its potential to generate a more critical conversation about the work in a museum with a larger audience that typically occurs in the moment while viewing the exhibition.

http://www.hellicarandlewis.com/2010/10/15/turner-prize-twitter-wall/