Bertrand Gondouin - Software

Article in Metro Stockholm

Bertrand Gondouin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0000

I was interviewed by Aron Andersson from Metro Teknik during the Hej Världen Conference in Stockholm and an extract was published in Metro Stockholm.

Bertrand Gondouin is controlling the computer with a costume...
http://www.metro.se/se/article/2008/06/03/08/4249-48/index.xml

Han styr datorn och musiken med kavajen

Kavajen är den nya musen. Fransmannen Bertrand Gondouin vill styra musik och modeshower med kläderna.

Genom att svänga med armarna navigerar han igenom en 3 D-miljö som projektorn målar upp på en vit duk framför honom. Där-efter byter han till ett mixerbord och börjar kontrollera en synt med samma armrörelser, till åskådarnas förtjusning.

Exakt hur kavajen fungerar vill Bertrand Gondouin inte avslöja men elektronisk textil ligger bakom.
– Den är helt tvättbar, så länge du kommer ihåg att ta ur batterierna, säger han.

Kavajen, som han själv har modifierat med tekniken, är bara en första prototyp. Han ser framför sig hur musiker och catwalk-modeller kan ha plaggen i framtiden.
– Jag tycker inte att mus och skärm duger längre, jag vill uppfinna nya gränssnitt och för mig finns det ett experimentellt och konstnärligt syfte bakom, säger han.

Bertrand Gondouin kommer från Normandie och har gått konstskola i Frankrike. Han har ingen teknisk bakgrund men har jobbat mycket med live-tv i hemlandet. Det tröttnade han dock snart på när experimentlustan tog över.
– Jag ville göra något mer kreativt och interaktivt.
Eftersom han har flera kompisar som arbetar som dj:s har han demonstrerat för dem hur hans kavaj kan användas för att kontrollera musiken. Med kavajens hjälp blir det möjligt att ”scratcha” utan att fysiskt vidröra skivorna.

•• Är nästa steg en overall?
– Nej, det ska vara väldigt enkelt, tvättbart och billigt. Inte ett stort militärt ställ du måste ta på dig, utan ett system du kan ta med dig lätt, svarar Bertrand Gondouin och fortsätter att vifta för att imponera på några som nyfiket ser på.

Hej Världen!

Bertrand Gondouin — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:30:00 +0000

I'm presenting the Scramble Software, Wiimote interaction, and a brand new wireless electronic Jacket to interact with networked virtual worlds at Hej Världen!

Hej Världen! is a technology cum entrepreneurial conference revolving around virtual reality (VR) and virtual worlds. This interactive event aims to expose current and future innovations in VR, examine the revolution of contemporary technologies with VR, and explore business opportunities within virtual worlds.

Hej Världen! seeks to be an interactive information sharing platform for successful start-ups, companies and experienced individuals from the industry with tertiary students and aspiring entrepreneurs.

23rd May 2008 1230 - 1800 (GMT + 2) Sing-Sing, Lindstedtsvägen 30 Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Stockholm

Växthusprojektet - Greenhouse Project - Dramatiska Institutet

Bertrand Gondouin — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:30:00 +0000

I'm invited by the scenographer Johan Rödström to create an interactive video for his "Greenhouse project" at Dramatiska institutet. I'm going to work with wireless accelerometers, thanks to the Lilypad Arduino!

Multimedia as a helping device in dance teaching and choreographic process

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0000

I'm giving a workshop and lectures at the Choreography Department of Tallinn University,Estonia.24-26th april 2008.

What happen when the body becomes the only interface ? How can the body learn, play and compose an audio-visual artifact ? How does it affect creativity and emotion. Can the body function as a visual instrument ?

Topics:

Presentation of the Laeterna Machine Digital Dance Collective
Overview of electronic devices, sensors and their usage
Overview of mainstream electronic devices and their usage
Live video mixing history and interactive visuals software
The virtual space: Social Networks and VR
Drawing in space: from gesture to artificial intelligence

Workshops:

Live Video Editing, Motion Tracking, Video Publishing on the internet, 3D drawing with the Wii Controller. and my Tag Cloud!

FRINGE

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:00:00 +0000

I'm performing at the Fringe!

with Nils Claesson, Johan Mattsson, and the nano
technology students from Konstfack.

For more information about Fringe gatherings please visit http://www.fringe.nu

The idea of fringe is to provide a meeting point for participants of the local new media art scene in Stockholm.

Fringe events always contain a number of presentations - by the fringe people, to the fringe people. Sometimes these are just regular presentations, but sometimes installations, performances, happenings, dance, screenings or other formats. There's always something to drink and usually something to eat. Additionally, fringe organizes workshops and other events.

For more than four years fringe has brought together people, many of them from the Interactive Institute Play Studio and the Art and Technology department at Chalmers in Gothenburg. Many of their members have now moved to Stockholm and decided to bring the fringe with them and connect it to the already existing local media scene.

The Stockholm Fringe is supported by the Interactive Institute and will also attempt to function as a platform to distribute knowledge in the form of workshops and the like.

fLiM - Nordic Light Hotel - Stockholm

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:00:00 +0000

I'm in charge of the live visuals for the first fLiM!

fLiM will be a once-a-week hang out place for lovers of ambient, electronica and visuals at Nordic Light Hotel in Stockholm, starting January 9th 2008.

Guest DJ: Ola Bergman (New Speak)
Guest VJ: Bertrand Gondouin

Onsdagar | 20-01 | Nordic Light Hotel
Gratis inträde | 18 år

Wii remote + Bluetooth + Max-MSP + aka.wiimote + HTTP request + Apache + PHP + XML-RPC + SLS Second Life = 16 seconds delays

Bertrand Gondouin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:27:00 +0000

Proud of first experiments with the Wii remote (wiimote) and Max/msp (Videos), I´m experimenting now interactions between the wiimote and Second Life!

But 16 seconds delay is a bit too much for real time interaction. I need to find a better way.

Interdisciplinary Studies Course, Konstfack, Stockholm

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:00:00 +0000

I'm guest lecturer at Konstfack for an Interdisciplinary Studies Course organized by Nadia El-Imam (more info below). I will present a short history of live visuals production tools and software + projects I'm involved in. Students will be invited to mis/use my "Sramble" software using their own digital materials. Scramble will be used in an semi-immersive environment / fake Second Life using the Wii remote control as the main control interface.

Course Background:

As we spend more and more of our time socialising and conducting the business of our everyday lives Online, we see the rise of economies of the virtual; over the past eight years alone, Real-money trade of virtual property ('RMT') has burgeoned into a 2 Bn USD market. With the emerging visibility of new relationships and communities we see the emergence of new forms of ownership related to the accumulation of meta-data; these can be seen as attempts to obtain outwardly extending, all- encompassing ownership of information as opposed ownership of content, or enclosures of information. In order to identify and meet the challenges these developments pose to our lives in general and work in particular, we need to understand human experience in these environments. Exploring relationships between embodiment and enclosure as related to ownership is a central concern, obliging us to revisit what we know about how and what it is that distinguishes between how we function in bodied and disembodied contexts.

Course Description:

We are de-constructing idea of ownership as related to embodiment and the boundaries of integrity or ìthe state of being wholeî. This obliges us to revisit what we know about how and what it is that distinguishes between how we function in bodied and disembodied environments. With its central concern with the implications of ìpost humanî experience and embodiment, the course finds its natural home and setting in Second Life (SL), the Linden Labs online platform, and students are expected to participate in related seminars and lectures. Students are also expected to make presentations that explore and relate the different aspects of implementation using the Second Life platform with ones they make in a designated physical space.