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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 piece is going to be setup again next fall at dansehallerne in copenhagen, and afterwards on a tour.

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

TimeMap update

Jonas Jongejan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:31:44 +0000

I visited my friend Ole Kristensen some days ago to see how far he was with the technical setup for TimeMap. And i got some video recorded of his presentation of all the elements. I havent been working on the project the last month since i was doing Hush Little Baby theatre play, so i looked forward to see what he had accomplished. This week we then moved all the stuff the rehearsal room, and the next couple of weeks he will be trying it with dancers, before we go to the right location. And i will have some more time the next couple of weeks to help him a bit with getting the last programming done.

Read some more at ole’s own blog

Stop Motion @ New Media Meeting

Jonas Jongejan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:16:46 +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Meeting 03, a annual media and art festival held in Norrköping in Sweden, with our installation Stop Motion that we originally made for a big LED screen in Copenhagen.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 22:13:57 +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.