After we received the LEAP Motion Controller SDK some days ago, we enjoyed to investigate new interaction possibilities. Over the past weeks, we had the chance to develop different kind of applications for free fingertip interaction in mid air. To touch, to navigate and even form objects. Unsurprisingly we found speed, feedback and precision delivered by the leap absolutely convincing. We also developed a processing library which we used to create our application. It runs on processing 1.5 and 2.0 and is pretty easy to setup and handle. However as generative designers we are hoping to see more versatile types of data like depthmaps and pointclouds for abstraction in the future.

Download LeapMotionP5 Processing Library

We are going to speak at Faux Images IX. The quarterly Berlin based animation and motiongraphics meeting Faux Images takes place at the Gallery LEAP, Karl-Liebknechtstrasse 13 and is organized by Mate Steinforth and the WeAreChopChop collective in cooperation with the LEAP gallery. Entry is free.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Starting at 8:00 pm
At LEAP – Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance

Facebook Event
www.fauximages.de

The Bracket magazine featured onformative in the latest issue Vol.5: Hustle

The art of making things happen. That’s hustle.

Foreword by Clifton Burt: »It’s funny how many ways we can use the word hustle in conversation. Its origins as street slang have produced a nuanced word, facetted in meaning, and purposefully a bit vague. It can be used to mean »being energetic«, »coercion,« or »hard work.« It can describe the act of prostitution, drug dealing and even jazz. Linguists could have a field day with it.

There is one meaning, though, that transcends—and includes—all of the above. That meaning goes something like this: do whatever you’ve gotta do to make things happen. (…) Hustling requires that you use verbs, lots and lots of them. Not in your speech, but in your actions. You‹ll need to move, think, iterate, extend, make tough calls and you‹ll need to do all of this rather quickly. You‹ll need to bend things like deadlines and probably even rules. You’ve got to push limits, expectations, boundaries, concepts, and people. It’s a lot of work to be a hustler. …«
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more images of the magazine

We have just documented our latest lab project, an experiment with the perception of heat.

We perceive heat only by using our tactile sense. Thermography, on the other hand, is a camera concept to visualize variations in temperature. Hence, this technology offers the possibility to experience a sensation by sight, which we are only able to recognize by touch. This translation between different types of senses enables a unique way of viewing and perceiving our environment.

lab project Heatmap

For Audi´s award winning technology magazine, designed by the agency Stapelberg & Fritz, we were invited to work on the cover illustration for issue 2/2012.

project documentation Audi Magazine Cover

Our data visualization project »Skype Visualization« was part of »GeoCity Smart City-Information Design Exhibition«, at Beijing Design Week 2012 curated by CMoDA, the China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts.

The exhibition augments and maps information design and application cases for smart cities initiatives around the world, and to use it as input for Smart Beijing case development.
The exhibition makes a new manifesto on Smart City development: It should be led by Big Design (Information Design) powered by Big Data (with social intelligence mined) which better serves Big City, leading to an ultimate lift in social well-being.


our featured project: Skype Visualization
More information about the exhibition

Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) is a a series of one-night events, so far held in over 50 cities across the world. featuring a selection of talented interactive artists, for one evening only, PLATOON KUNSTHALLE Berlin will be transformed into an interactive object. join us for a spectacle of moving images!The first BYOB event was first initiated and created by digital artist Rafaël Rozendaal in 2010 in Berlin.

We are happy to be part of the BYOB exhibition. Don’t miss it:

Friday 26th October 7:00 pm
PLATOON KUNSTHALLE Berlin

BYOB at PLATOON KUNSTHALLE Berlin is organised and curated by Aanisa R. Jama and includes artists like Eno Henze, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Aristides Job Garcia and many more.

More information at www.kunsthalle.com or on Facebook

A few days ago we gave a talk at Campus Party, a 24-hours-a-day technology festival for thousands of hackers, developers, gamers and geeks. In our lecture »generative design« we explain how generative design methods can be used effectively and efficiently and how they can change the design process.

impressions of the talk on flickr