Children performance about a girl that follow her own shadow into the shadow world. Together with the graphical designer Siri Carlslund we created a visual storyboard for the performance and created all the shadow worlds she was entering. It was double-projected from front and back to be able to create a layered shadow play (where the shadow could get behind and in front of video we projected). I also had two kinects to manipulate her real shadow, and delay it. And also to make the worlds react on her position. It all is packed in a van and is able to be put up in 3 hours.

The self operational system is a autonomous boat that can navigate the Copenhagen harbor by itself. It uses two old motors from battery driven drills as propellers for steering and propulsion. The controller is a Xperia play phone with GPS, 3G and compass to navigate.

The system was completed in three days to explore the possibilities of the Xperia phones and work the intuitively wrong concept of the combination of phones and water. On the final day the challenge was to prove that it was possible for the boat to sail from the Teglholmen to the south-harbor without interference or control from our hand. Once the way points was placed the boat was left to navigate on its own, while we were following its position over the internet. Although it came frighteningly close to crashing on the rocks, it managed to make the trip and landed right in the arms of its creator who was waiting at the docking station.

This project was a part of a larger Illutron exploration with Xperia Studio. We want to convey the message to the world that technology should be designed for remixing, hacking and by its users. The process was filmed, and will published as part of a larger promotion about the phones.

Credits: Jonas Jongejan, Benjamin Weber and Nikolaj Møbius.
Source: https://github.com/Illutron/SOS

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

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)

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.

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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.”

]]> http://halfdanj.dk/blog/2009/08/n7331227/feed/ 1 http://halfdanj.dk/blog/2009/07/elektronisk-transcendens/ http://halfdanj.dk/blog/2009/07/elektronisk-transcendens/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:37:03 +0000 Jonas Jongejan http://halfdanj.dk/blog/?p=258 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

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
 

So the next 4 weeks i’m going to control sound and video every night at CampX together with these wonderfull people.