Bertrand Gondouin - Wearable

A truly intersectional creator - The Medici Effect Blog - Kristian Ribberström

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0000

A nice article from Kristian Ribberström who writes for The Medici Effect Blog about my electronic Jacket.

"At this intersection he seems to have a lot of fun and apparently barriers don’t exist to this visionary thinker. Considering what he has achieved it is amazing that he has no background in technology but he certainly brings new perspectives into this field since he is educated in art and has been working with live television. Check this crazy video from his first experiments with the jacket where he controls sound with arm movements"

The Medici Effect Blog Stories about breakthrough insights at the intersection of fields, disciplines and cultures based on Frans Johansson's book The Medici Effect (www.themedicieffect.com).

Elektronisk Textil - Lantz i P1 - Annika Lantz

Bertrand Gondouin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:14:00 +0000

Annika Lantz is talking about my Electronic Jacket on the Swedish Radio channel P1.

Programmet är aktualitetsbaserat, bjuder på ett brett spektra av gäster och en verklighet filtrerad genom programledaren själv. - Vi har ju många kulturmänniskor som gäster men inte endast. Jag har bokat in många själv och bjuder in folk som är aktuella och de kommer för att de tycker att det är ett skönt program.

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!

Grains & Pixels Partner of Post Me_New ID

Bertrand Gondouin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:01:00 +0000

Grains & Pixels is partner of the Post Me_New ID research project!

Post Me_New ID

An action research project with a focus on the future of the body

network, create and share
Post Me_New ID examines the complexity of 21st century European identity through an exploration based on the effect of digital technologies of the body and identity. An active and public Blog is fed by a series of debate led Research Engines with a Forum, Book and DVD as the end products. In addition a series of Creation Processes will result in a public Installation / Performance.

Post Me_New ID is a co-production between body>data>space (London, UK), CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies (Prague, Czech Republic), TMA | Trans-Media-Academy Hellerau (Dresden, Germany) and Kibla (Maribor, Slovenia) supported by the European Union within the Culture 2007 Programme.

Post Me_New ID practically explores the physical and digital social networking of creation processes for interdisciplinary artistic projects and envisions the artistic outputs of generations to come.

This project is a driver for a learning exchange and knowledge transfer in a diverse group of skilled experts. It brings together artists, curators, academics, psychologists, creative technologists and new media producers working in a value chain of shared expertise - from process to product and to the public.

What is the current and future condition of the post-human body?
What is the relationship between identities and digital culture?
How will digital and physical mobility affect and interact with future gender ideologies and multi-cultural scenarios?
How will the creative participation of audience as players (not just spectators) affect and change artistic processes, the tools in use and the culture created?

We are researching and exploring the following key themes:

Wearables / Prosthetics / Robotics
Telematics / Generative / Real Time
Next ID / Multi Selves / Avatars
Monsters /Heroes - human / non-human / the “other”
Engendered bodies - shifts in gender psychologies

The long-term aim of the project is a sustained knowledge network that will foster understanding of individual as well as collective identities rendered by 21st digital culture.

The 14 partners for Post Me_ New ID are:

A4-nulty priestor - Bratislava
Brunel University - London,UK
Charles University - Czech Republic
Grains and Pixels - Sweden
Hellen Sky - Australia
Leeds University - UK
M2F Creations - France
Multiplace - Slovakia
PROJECT DCM Foundation - Romania
Rehearsal.org and Ignite - London,UK
ResCen Middlesex University - London,UK
SKA CULTURE - China
Swap-Project - Portugal
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music - Tokyo, Japan

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.