[dorkbotsea-blabber] Call for Human Communication Tribe

[Joseph Gray]

Hi All,

This message is about not just this project but also a restructuring  
of Open Lab at 911 Media.

I've been running an Open Lab over at 911 for a couple years now.   
It's been on a Sunday evening once a month in the theater there.   
Attendance has been pretty low, partially from lack of promotion and  
partially because Sunday night is Sunday night.

Just talked to Steven Vroom of 911 and arranged to change Open Lab to  
be every Saturday afternoon from 2-5 PM, on Saturdays when the  
workshop room at 911 isn't being used, which is almost all Saturdays  
at that time.  I think this will make it more accessible to more  
people.  The workshop room is big and open with tables, and the  
equipment room is right next to it, so easy to pull out projectors and  
such for experiments.

The first of these new Open Lab times will be this coming Saturday.   
Which brings us back to the Touch Tribe project, if anyone wants to  
hack some on this before the next dorkbot meeting.  Open Lab can also  
be used to develop this project over time.

Any and all feedback is much appreciated, or ideas of how Open Lab  
could/should work, and if it seems like a good idea to use it to  
develop the Touch Tribe project.


Cheers,
Joseph Gray




On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:44 PM, James Buchanan wrote:

> Count me in!
>
> -JAmes
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>
> It seems there is a group here who is interested in this project, so,
> given the short amount of time before proposals are due if we are
> seriously going to attempt this there should maybe be a real-life  
> meet-
> up some time in the next week.  911 Media Arts Center would donate
> space for such a meeting, plus that's where the exhibit will be at, so
> it might be useful just to be there and see what resources are
> available.
>
> a good way to do this is to set up a server in the exhibition space
> that receives inputs from various devices (camera, microphone, text
> messages) and then outputs an xml stream, or OSC possibly, via one of
> it's ports over the network (wireless, got some latency, but no
> wires).  Then a huge variety of computer based pieces could receive
> that data and react to it.
>
> The question then becomes what software would allow this to happen?
> The only programming language I'm familiar enough with that could do
> this is Processing ( http://processing.org ) - I know that it can send
> and receive network data, and can take camera, microphone etc. input.
> If anyone else reading here has another idea of how to go about it
> (maybe Pure Data?) then speak up!
>
>
>
> anyhoo, that's my two cents.
>
> Cheers,
> -Joe
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Jon Grant wrote:
>
>> I would like to create a group for Human Communication as a tribe
>> (or subgroup of a tribe). This tribe will build peice of art that
>> are meant to communicate or invite direct manipulation from the
>> exhibtion guests.  Peice could use: text, speech, touch, facial
>> cues, hand signs, etc.
>>
>> I did not know to do the wiki so if some one wants to add this that
>> would be great.
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