GML viscosity tests
Posted by ps in Uncategorized on July 24, 2010
A little taste of what we been working on at the lab this past week. Adapting GML format for GPU rendering viscosity effects.
Workshop Multitouch
Posted by tiagoserra in Uncategorized on July 15, 2010

http://www.audienciazero.org/cct/component/cct/?task=view&id=127
Workshop Interfaces Multitoque (Matosinhos)
6ª Edição
Formador: Tiago Serra
Coordenador: Ricardo Lobo
Datas: 24 e 25 de Julho de 2010
Horário: 10h00-13h00 // 14h30-18h30
Local: Audiência Zero – Rua Silva Brinco, 256 (S. Mamede Infesta, Matosinhos)
Preço: 40 euros
Estado: Abertas as Inscrições
AZLabs @ O Espaço do Tempo
Posted by ps in AZresidency on July 13, 2010
After many days of work, stress and fun, we seem to have managed to pull through 10 projects to showcase at O Espaço do Tempo! The exhibition opened yesterday, 12th July at Convento da Saudação and will remain in exhibit until the end of the month.
We also have a mini-site with bios of the authors and descriptions of the works, temporarily hosted here. Not only of the works present at the exhibition but also a few others developed during the residency that couldn’t be exhibited by one reason or another. Check them out!
Big thanks are in order to everyone at O Espaço do Tempo for the opportunity we had, and all the in loco support to our needs, you rock.
Apresentação de Propostas
Posted by tiagoserra in Uncategorized on July 13, 2010
A Audiência Zero convida todos os interessados a submeterem propostas e/ou sugestões de actividades para o último trimestre do ano. Pretende-se, desta forma, alargar o leque de iniciativas desenvolvidas pela associação, integrar novas àreas e colaboradores, assim como aproximar o plano de actividades das necessidades sentidas pelo o público e pelos associados. O período de apresentação de propostas para os meses de Outubro, Novembro e Dezembro encontra-se aberto até dia 31 de Julho.

AZLabs @ O Espaço Do Tempo (0day -2)
Posted by ps in AZresidency on July 10, 2010
2 days to go until the exhibit opening of the Audiencia Zero Labs residency at O Espaço Do Tempo!
A few folks seem to be missing in action. Mauricio is back with some news from Interactivos to lend us a hand on pending projects. Mónica and Pedro are still working on B-wind!. Margarida working on his robot Freddy. Victor Silva rehearsing his The Last Words of Dominico. Victor and Marco working on Discardable Beauty. Guilherme finishing his Róbotica Criativa works. And me finishing up Meta Gen Haiku. Catarina and Joel should also show up tomorow with their Micro Dérive.

Website with more info on the presented projects should go online soon. In the meantime if you should show up on Monday the 12th July in Montemor-O-Novo for the exhibit. We will have 7 projects installed under exhibition until the 31st July, and 2 liveacts presented on the exhibition day 12th July.
In the meantime we’ll leave you with some important t-shirt quote material we have recently acquired:
“48 horas são 6 dias de trabalho, em turnos de 8 horas”
“Eu só faço projection mapping quando estou bêbado”
“Não tens pincel para isso. Vai antes de rolo.”
“Queres falar ao telefone? Fala aí! *slap*”
AZ Labs Exhibition @ O Espaço do Tempo
Posted by tiagoserra in Uncategorized on July 8, 2010
LCD + AltLab + xDA
12 – 31 July 2010
Convento da Saudação | Montemor-o-Novo | Portugal
Exhibition: Monday to Friday – 6pm / 11pm | Saturday and Sunday – 4pm /11pm
Opening: 12th of July, 18h00
Artists : Catarina Mota | Filipe Cruz | Francesco Cerutti | Guilherme Martins | João Maia e Silva | Joël Belouet | Jorge Ribeiro | Margarida Faria | Maurício Martins | Mónica Mendes | Marco Moura | Mariana Ferreira | Mécia Sá | Ricardo Webbens | Sérgio Ferreira | Pedro Ângelo | Tiago Serra | Vitor Lago Silva | Victor Martins
This exhibition presents the results of a unique experiment. For 17 days, 30 members of the Audiencia Zero Labs from all over the country and also abroad lived and worked together on collective projects. New teams were formed, infinite ideas proposed, new tools and technologies experimented with, incredible adventures lived and new friends made. The projects at this exhibit are just the tip of the veil, the true impact of this experience is yet to come.
More info @ O Espaço do Tempo
xDA @ SITU’ARTE
Posted by ps in Uncategorized on July 5, 2010
This Saturday we were present at SITU’ARTE, organized by Galeria Ícone, showing some of our work to the masses:
Starting with a 30 minute projection of the following works of xDA members:
Outside demo by Ill
fr-045: life after demo by Farbrausch
Taxesss demo by Nothing
dp demo by Nothing
Harmony intro by UVA
Sunflower demo by VS*
Float demo by V*
Allemagne slideshow by S*
Function2Form slideshow by V*
V* also took some time to help out IN ANIMA with some projection for their dance performance.
Tiago showcased Graffiti Spines on a huge façade.
And ps gave away some Enough Records flyers, free music for free people!
Pictures should follow soon.
AZ Residency – Computer Vision awesomeness
Posted by tiagoserra in Uncategorized on June 23, 2010
This weekend was wild on computer vision related stuff. Did some 3D scanning with Mónica Mendes using a well known vision technique called structured light. Pretty impressive results
“Structured light is the process of projecting a known pattern of pixels (often grids or horizontal bars) on to a scene. The way that these deform when striking surfaces allows vision systems to calculate the depth and surface information of the objects in the scene, as used in structured light 3D scanners.” — Wikipedia
code.google.com/p/structured-light/



Pedro Ângelo and Mónica Mendes have been working hard on their B-Wind installation and it’s practicaly finished. They’ll be making a post about it but in the meantime check this preliminary photos:

http://monicamendes.wordpress.com/category/b-wind/
Also, me, Catarina Mota and Joel Belouet worked on a pan-tilt mount for the PS3Eye camera on OpenScad. We’ll get the design out once we get it really polished, and post it to Thingiverse too. Once we do that you’ll be able to print it (on a 3D printed like our Makerbot) and have your own pan and tilt mount for your awesome computer vision app
AZ Residency Day 13 – We were never gone
Posted by ps in AZresidency on June 19, 2010
You thought we we’re dead. But the nerds in black were never gone.

AZ Residency at Espaço Tempo has resumed it’s course on the 14th June 2010, and we’ve been kicking it real with some hardcore project dev for a whole week now! Our main aim is to get all of these projects kicking and screaming on the 12th July for the big opening of the exhibition.
Catarina and Joel have spent their week fidling with some heavy duty MakerBot 3d printing trial and error. In between random python re-learning fast courses. They managed to pull out some awesome hacks, such as a makerbot microscope to observe bacteria and printing a nutella jesus on a toast.


Random project quotes include:
“if you believe, it will work”
“how big should we make jesus?”
“there is a bug in your LED”
“we have scientifically proven that yoghurt is not printable”
“only two jesus toasts and already out of nutella”
“what kind of jesus do you want?”
“there is a guy coming by on monday to get a jesus on a toast”
Meanwhile Francesco and Mariana been hard at work on their ant tracking project. Marco drawing some more Suicide Girls for his secret projection art installation project. Ricardo working on his thesis. Pedro and Mónica working some more on the RTiVISS (Real-Time Video Interactive Systems for Sustainability) project. Vitor upgrading his version of Attic Tesla / Last Words of Domenico performance. Margarida working on her arduino based reactive robot.

Myself and Tiago arrived yesterday night and been hard at work in our own projects aswell. Me preparing a release version of Gen Haiku, helping out with the webdev side of things on the iCookie fast-hack project and conjuring some evil plans for world domination preparing a liveact for the opening day of the exhibition. And Tiago working on his bus GPS tracking system app.
iCookie
Posted by ps in AZresidency, project on June 19, 2010
Ever wanted to cook a cookie in a seamless stainless mould and couldn’t quite manage it? Well, we have the perfect solution for you, developed at our AZresidency, for only $499.99 per cookie. (plus postage and tax)
Now presenting, the iCookie.




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