I’ve written a chapter in the following book: “Experiments in Digital Puppetry. Video Hybrids in Quartz Composer”. It involves the material on this site and elsewhere that describes real-time video processing and the use of Quartz Composer in performance. I feel quite proud to be in such interesting and diverse company. The chapters on digital puppetry are really welcome. The subject deserves a book all of it’s own!

I have a chapter on Digital Puppetry and real-time performance systems (including Quartz Composer) in the following book:

Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen
Digital Art Weeks and Interactive Futures 2006/2007, Zurich, Switzerland and Victoria, BC, Canada. Selected Papers
978-3-540-79486-8_1
Editors: Randy Adams, Steve Gibson and Stefan Müller Arisona

I’ll post more details and some excerpts asap.

If you are in a position to, please order the book for your college or local library!

I’ll post some further details of the work here soon. But for now:

I completed ‘Texturisr’ in 2005 as a nod to the then booming obsession with ‘Web 2.0′ and took advantage of the Flickr API. Flickr was then not owned by Yahoo. I was also interested in the public display of personal images. I have added a few other aspects to the project for this exhibition included a small element of natural language processing – my take on the ‘sense detecting’ of the exhibition title.
Sense Detectives is Watermans’ latest collaboration with Thames Valley University’s Digital Arts department to explore sensor and search technologies through an innovative and participative working practice. Sense Detectives combines four different exhibits that will be on show at Watermans in late 2006 and early 2007.

Charlie Gere, author, historian of digital art and academic, has written the catalogue introduction for the Sense Detectives Exhibition: http://mercury.tvu.ac.uk/~richardc/kwomodo/sensedetectives3.php

Paul B Davis, of the BEIGE ensemble/collective, says of ‘Texturisr’:

“While Web 2.0 is a bit of a technical buzzword, as it’s underlying delivery technologies are no different than whatever you’d want to call what existed before, to me it represents a conceptual shift in thinking about network-based information. As pieces like texturisr demonstrate, the semantic web really takes shape when we stop thinking about the network as a broadcast medium and instead think of it as a medium for user-guided information interchange. Collaboration, communication, remixability…these are the operative words which describe our Web 2.0 interactions. These interactions are a sort of meta-level complement to current information infrastructure, and they have the potential to be equally comfortable at home, in public space or a gallery.”

Sense Detectives is Watermans’ latest collaboration with Thames Valley University’s Digital Arts department to explore sensor and search technologies through an innovative and participative working practice. Sense Detectives combines four different exhibits that will be on show at Watermans in late 2006 and early 2007.