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Jonas Jongejan — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:50:36 +0000

- THE ONE WITH THE ASYLUMSEEKERS AND SOME REJECTED ONES

Spring 2010, NYAVENY
A live theatre performance and sit-com recording in front of a live studio audience.

For 10 seasons the all time favourite sit com Friends aired all over the world. A show about ordinary people with ordinary problems, trying make it work in New York. Trying to get a job, a place to live, maybe get a girlfriend, or try to get rid of one.

This theatre performance casted some other ordinary people who just wants to make their lives work. A group of asylum seekers living in the asylum camps around Copenhagen starred in the roles as the six friends.

For 13 episodes they where hanging out in Central Perk instead of the camps in a serial performance. It was just like real friends, just like real life. Just a little bit funnier.

For the performance i created a simple minimalistic live editing station where i could mix different cameras, add chroma key and subtitles live to the audience. Both in the studio and live on the internet. The performance was directed by Tue Bierring and Jeppe Kristensen, the same people doing Pretty Woman A/S

Fuck You Buddy

Jonas Jongejan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:03:28 +0000

Spring 2010, Recoil Performance Group, Dansescenen
Together with Recoil Performance Group (choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Ole Kristensen), we created this danceperformance at Dansescenen. Like Frost we developed our own software that was tracking the 4 dancers live on stage, and generating various outputs on 2 projectors.

The show premiered at Dansescenen in Copenhagen, and has been shown in Firenze 2010 and Stockholm 2010.

You can read much more about the performance here: Recoils

Photos by Søren Knud Kristensen and Søren Meisner

Frost

Jonas Jongejan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:19:22 +0000

Fall 2009, Danish Dance Theatre, Hippodromen
Dance performance made together with Danish Dance Theatre, Tina Tarpgaard (choreographer), and Ole Kristensen. All the software that generated the scenographics with one projector, was created by me and Ole in approx. 1 month in OpenFrameworks.

The show won in 2010 a Reumert for best dance performance, has been shown several times in Copenhagen, and has been on tour to Amman (Jordan) and Århus (Denmark)

Blind Theatre

Jonas Jongejan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:22:06 +0000

Summer 2009, Ståle Stenslie, National Theatre, Oslo

Art project by Ståle Stenslie on the National Theatre in Oslo as midnight performance where the audience where suited up in custom made suits with 64 vibrators, blind-folded and heard music/texts composed for the performance. I produced in collaboration with Ståle the suits in Oslo during the summer where we had to create a custom software to design the timelines for vibrations that could be played back on a small computer on the audiences back.

Official site
Arduino Blog

N7331227

Jonas Jongejan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:18:40 +0000

Summer 2009, Illutron, Kunsthallen Brandts

The industrial robot N7331227 has been used to grind toilet seats – repetitively, monotone and precise. Each of them perfect, each of the similar.

Now that its working days are over, Illutron equipped the Robot with new attributes, which spot light on the robots limitations as a machine and the humans need of emotional attachment to things.

N7331227 is superior, when it comes to accuracy and endurance, despite of his fascination of us unintelligible and fragile creatures. In an effort to understand us it tries to copy our movements and actions.
In the interactive dimension of the installation, the spectator is asked to express his or her own creativity in paper drawings. N7331227 then attempts to copy the drawings via a panel which controls 96 light bulbs in a matrix

“Kunsthallen Brands Kladefabrik describes the installation as following:
The Danish artist collective Illutron participate with the work “N7331227” which imbues an old industrial robot with new life. Via computer vision the robot has been equipped with the ability to see and has been programmed to read and reproduce the audience’s drawings on a large wall comprising 96 light bulbs.”

Elektronisk Transcendens

Jonas Jongejan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:37:03 +0000

Spring 2009, Holmen Event, Copenhagen

This is a project i developed in two weeks together with two friends from the royal school of architecture in copenhagen for a big event that a group of schools held called Holmen Event. We wanted to make a big interactive wall that the audience could play with. It ended up being a photowall, where a empty canvas (beutifully cut out with a lasercutter), could take photos that the audience choosed, and afterwards used to hang the photo on the wall next to all the others.

The canvas was tracked by a camera in the roof when holding it in the light, and when my program saw that it was stable in the frame, a photo was taken inside the square that the canvas formed. At the same time a sound was triggered, and the whole sound universe (designed by my friend Rasmus Kreiner, a theater sound designer) changed.
Afterwards the audience could hold the canvas against the 4x8m big backprojected wall, where a infrared camera behind could track where it was, and how it was rotated. And again, when my program saw it was not moving, it attached the photo to the wall, where it moved in a physics simulator (pushing to other photos) and slowly moving upwards before it was deleted again.

The software is developed in OpenFrameworks, using alot of OpenCV code. The tracking of the canvas on the wall was done with tBeta.

The installation ran for 7 hours during the party, and there was taken more then 500 pictures, and the audience really liked it. People understood the concenpt (even drunk) right away, and told it to each other when passing by. Many came back later and took some more photos

Timemap#3

Jonas Jongejan — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:37:46 +0000

Spring 2009, Recoil Performance Group, Copenhagen

Ole Kristensen and i developed the interactive scenography for this dance performance, choreographed by Tina Tarpgaard. I was on the project in the early programming states for a couple of weeks, helping Ole with programming all the ideas there where, and developing the visual style that Ole then would work further on until the premiere.

You can read alot more at Ole’s blog

Multitouchtable prototype

Jonas Jongejan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:48:52 +0000

For the last couple of months i have been working on a multitouch table together with Ole Kristensen for Vision4. It has been a project i have worked on on very part time, but it has been funny to investigate all the techniques and materials i needed to do it. And now we have made a presentationvideo of the table. It is very much a technical preview, so the demos are more to demostrate what is possible. I have builded the table myself (in my garden), and the code is primary done by me, with some help from Ole Kristensen.

The hardware
The surface is a thin glass plate with a Lee filter 400 underneath to project on. In the bottom of the box there is an ordinary surveillance camera with a IR filter in (so it only sees infrared light, and not visible light), and a BenQ short-throw projector and a lightbulb wrapped in some color filters. it does give some visible red light, but its not very much. This technique is called DI (Diffused Illumination).

The software
The tracking of the fingers with the camera is done by the opensource application tBeta, and send with OSC to my own openframeworks application that does all the graphical work. I might release the code at some point.

If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to ask me!

Stop Motion @ New Media Meeting

Jonas Jongejan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:16:46 +0000

Ole and I where invited to New Media Meeting 03, a annual media and art festival held in Norrköping in Sweden, with our installation Stop Motion that we originally made for a big LED screen in Copenhagen. This time we projected it on a big wall outside the main stage of the festival. We decides to rewrite our code, this time in OpenFrameworks, since we had seen a major performance boost in C++. And we decided to try remote trigger a DSLR camera when we took pictures, but this gave us some pretty big problems, since the standards aren’t very well incorporated in the cameras we used. But we got it to work in the end.

Stop Motion @ RE:NEW

Jonas Jongejan — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:13:57 +0000

RE:NEW Festival, Copenhagen central square, summer 2008
With extremely short warning I was invited to make something on a huge LED screen that was put up by a electronic music conference in Copenhagen. They had in the last minute got money to built this 8m tall LED video monolith on the central square in Copenhagen for 2 days, and they needed people to make something on it. So Ole Kristensen and I developed in one week an art work called Stop Motion that was developed for this screen. The concept of the art work is a interactive non timeline based stop motion “movie” that is developed over time. On the screen you see a person stand with an ordinary lightbulb in his hand, and from the air there is hanging a lightbulb down. When you take up the lightbulb yourself and move it around in the air, you see a marker move around on the screen in the same way as the bulb, and at the same time images of other people holding the bulb at the same spot as you do are loading on the screen. When you hit a spot where there has not been taken any photos, a countdown begins, and a camera takes a photo of you, and add you to the grid of images of people holding the lighting bulb.

People really enjoyed playing with the piece, and see them self projected on a big big screen on a spot where many people walks by, and come by later and see them self again.

Because it was made in so little time, it was suffering many technical problems in the begin. We made it in Processing, and the first major major problem with processing is the limit of RAM. We had to save the images in the computers ram, but when we used more then 2 gigabytes of ram it crashed. And loading from harddrive was way to slow. In a later version of this application we ported it to OpenFrameworks witch solved our problems.