Phedhex proudly presents: http://www.phedhex.com/wiremap/
This page leaves me with the satisfying feeling that the Wiremap has a definite home on the net. It's a concise site with all the info and the media.
Of course, there are updates I'd like to add sometime this week, but it always feels better to update a page that's up than to update an idea floating around in your head.
Anyhow, check it out.
So the nice folks at Adnauseam Lyceum (or see their myspace) are hosting an event called Vernissage:
It's a small one night event coming up this Saturday, where I'll be exhibiting the Wiremap (the smaller foam core version). If you're in the area, swing by and say hi.
Thought the Wiremap 256 was cool? Try a Wiremap 783! Earlier today I got an email from Elliot Woods, the undergrad at Manchester University who had a couple months back expressed interest in building a mammoth Wiremap. He runs an annual not-for-profit music festival called Pangaea, where they built and shared their work:
Yeah... It's kinda big.
They got the system up and were rendering 3d before the event - but as soon as the subwoofers came on, the projectors jiggled out of alignment, obscuring the 3d image. Instead, they just threw Milkdrop onto it (musta looked kinda like iTunes on my Wiremap 256... but much bigger, or course).
Seeing photos of a Wiremap this big really inspires me to build more work for it. Live motion capture could be projected into the Wiremap - so that you could watch a digital image of your body in 3d space. Or maybe you could play tennis. Or maybe even 3d machinima?
I'm currently involved in a project that is working on theatricalizing the concept of Avatar and / or Cyberspace. My head has been swimming around this problem for quite some time, and after some good ol' R&D, here's some of what I came up with: [youtube]IfJOshdUhDE[/youtube]
[youtube]HL7LfX5HhiM[/youtube] These ideas are to be seen mostly as a proof of concept, and I think they'll be more compelling when they actually make it on stage.
That said, I think there's a lot of potential for choreography between the human body and digital forms. Yesterday I realized how cool it would be to crossover from machinima into theater. I wonder what that would be called.
Oh, in the vid, I mention my email. Here it is again: hwang [dot] al [at] gmail.
So, since the Digg hit, my wiki entry for the Wiremap got destroyed by spam. I don't know enough php or sql or whatever it is I need to know to recover my document, so I'm considering rebuilding it in a static page. I've been in contact Elliot Woods over in Manchester who is interested in building a very large wiremap for a not for profit music festival, called Pangaea. Last year at Pangaea, they made the world's largest 3d dot matrix display, and this year they're looking to (in my estimation) up the ante.
Email contents include blender, maxmsp, lots of nylon rope, steel frames, and the use of three theater quality projectors.
w00t.
So my friend Morgan Murphey and I have been working on a movement piece that is based off a few pieces she completed while she was in school. We've found some interesting stuff, and we're ready to share it w/ everyone. The piece runs approximately a half hour. After the performance there will be a brief break followed by time for the creators and the audience to ask questions/give feedback. We'd love to hear as much feedback as possible so if you have the time - it would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the info:
January 18th, 19th, 20th at 8pm and January 20th at 2pm
Tickets $5
Linhart Theater 440 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor
Conceived by Morgan Murphey Created by Albert Hwang & Morgan Murphey
Designed & Assisted by Andrew Scoville, Reshmi Hazra, Corey Michener
Stage Managed by Victoria Flores Assistant Stage Managed by Sanaz Ghajarrahimi
Produced by Justin Ball
To make a reservation / let us know you're coming, please email the producer, Justin Ball at justin[ at ]phtschool[ dot ]org letting us know what performance you would like to attend and how many of you there are. We will only email you back if there is a problem with your reservation.
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