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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).

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

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!

Hubbub07 Conference: Onelinr and Podesk

Bertrand Gondouin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:18:00 +0000

I will attend the Hubbub07 Conference to continue my experiments within Video and Micro blogging using this time Podesk with the nifty Onlinr app.

Onelinr is developed by Eric Wahlforss , and I'm trying to publish directly from Podesk to it and it works!

http://onelinr.com/channels/hubbub07#oneliner-5850

At the Hej2007, Eric Wahlforss and Alexander Ljung were discussing Jaiku+Onelinr+Podesk as a kind of ConferenceWar Pack. I will try to experiment this for the Hubbub Conference.

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.

Interview for Charbax Blog during Reboot 9

Bertrand Gondouin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:00:00 +0000

Well, a bit more like an informal discussion during the Reboot 9 conferences, We discuss about Podesk! http://charbax.com/2007/06/01/reboot-90-interview-12/

Charbax Blog is a blog about technology, films, sports and video

Laeterna Machina & the VJ Bertranol Podcasts featured on the Channel Channel

Bertrand Gondouin — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:46:00 +0000

The Channel Channel shows previews of internet TV channels. If you see a channel that looks interesting, subscribe to it with a program like Democracy Player. When you subscribe, you'll automatically get new videos from that channel as soon as they are published.