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rooooo006: line forms here & cubist life

July 20th, 2006 at 12:02 pm (Art)

LINE FORMS HERE

photos of our interactive art installation on a 50’ x 50’ plot of land in a cow field in Tennessee. Playing on the idea of an indoor gallery space, hundreds of balls of yarn were tied, tossed, and hung to create individual pieces occupying area between poles, suggesting walls and barriers. Thousands of festival-goers contributed to the constantly changing, never static form. (its mentioned on a knitting blog) Six artists served as curators (armed with scissors) throughout the festival as the piece evolved. Designed John Crowell, Abby Goldfarb, Brandon Kaplan, Sofie Scheerlinck, Ian Trask, and Evan Wheeler, with guidance from John Bisbee and Wade Kavanaugh, at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. much better than last year’s installation.

Check out the Projects page to the right for the very same description you just read, as well as links to Cubist Life, a 3D video mapping application i demonstrated at Bonnaroo. Its a live-video processing application that maps the video feed into a 3D space based on the brightness of the feed. The video’s pixels are displayed as colored boxes, whose depth is determined by the pixel’s brightness. Moving the mouse along the y-axis pulls the brighter boxes away from the duller ones. The viewing perspective rotates about the displayed feed to highlight the relief of the moving image. Made using Processing with about eighty lines of code.
i also heard the following acts perform: dios (malos), devotchka, devendra banhart, bright eyes, oysterhead, death cab for cutie, cat power and the memphis rhythm band, tom petty and the heartbreakers, my morning jacket, common, neville brothers, magic numbers, dungen, clap your hands say yeah, elvis costello and the imposters feat allen toussaint, beck, cypress hill, radiohead, dr. john, dresden dolls, refugee allstars of sierra leone, matisyahu, the streets, stephen malkmus and the jicks, sun volt, sonic youth, and a little phil lesh and friends. Brooklynvegan took pictures of some of them and reviewed some performances.