The Geocities of Things

Already a month ago I visited the conference day of the STRP Festival in Eindhoven. There was one lecture I enjoyed a lot. Russel Davies, a team-member of the RIG, presented his playfull crititque about The Internet of Things, which he called the Geocities of Things. Check his blog for an article about this! Some examples he showed were the hilarious Halloween Light Shows. And this one because its Christmas :-)

Nou&Herkauw MicroGarden VJ-Set

A couple of weeks ago Nou&Herkauw did a new VJ experiment. For a special party in the Blokhuis Poort, a former prison in Leeuwarden, we created a small garden, extracted all kinds of organic colour liquids, collected some finger cams and usb microscopes, bought very old books about nature, developed some loop and buffer software, created 2 stop-motion sets, and used all this as source for a bio-vj-set. Here are some pics. :) Many thanks to Marin de Boer for growing the garden, and Erwin Zantinga for his great animating efforts!

Catastrophe nominated for the STRP Talent Pit Award!

UPDATE! Reconstruction of a Catastrophe wins the STRP Talent Pit Jury Award! Check this link for more information! - - - It's official!! I am very happy to announce that my graduation project 'Recontruction of a Catastrophe' is nominated for the STRP Talent Pit, Peoples choice Award! If you like my project and you think it deserves an award, you can give your vote on the STRP website...I will be very grateful :)

Recontruction of a Catastrophe from Snow on Vimeo.

Hot100@Picnic

Thursday September 15 Virtueel Platform Hot100 day at Picnic in Amsterdam. We are happy to be part of it.

Me TV at MoPA

Some new photo's of the restyled Me TV at the opening of MoPA at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, last friday the 26th of August.

GiantMiniMediaLab

We developed a new workshop for kids. The GiantMiniMediaLab is a studio set-up where kids (also parents) can create and edit 3 spectaculair short movies. The theme is gigantic and mini. Like giant robots, mini people, and big insects.

With scale models, miniature puppets and cars, cardboard, costumes, a greenscreen, finger-camera's, and the kids as actors and actresses, we create on the spot and live movie scenes with wonderfull environments and special effects. After the workshop we add a soundtrack and sound effects. It was hilarious!

Exhibition FMI International Masters

Hack Pro Art!

Sometimes I wish I was a hacker, but unfortunately I'm not...

A call for help to all the hackers around the globe to join the battle for art, by artistically modifying all online services directly relating to Halbe Zijlstra and his ministry.

I agree that sometimes measures have to be taken to controll government expenses by cutting down funding in almost(not the weak, unprotected and the ill) every layer of society. But the measures taken by our State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science Halbe Zijlstra to cut down funding in Culture, lack any possible vision and knowledge of the relevant developments in art and new media of the past decade. He really has no idea about the valuable and leading international position of Dutch New Media Art in the world. By cutting down all structural government funding to all renowned New Media Labs in the Netherlands, he helps destroying a young scene essential for innovation and research in the field of art, society and digital culture. Why is he choosing for this destructive strategy??? Does he really has no clue what he is doing??? What about an extensive research to the consequences of this style of cutting???

The Mother of Google Maps

The first known aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by French photographer and balloonist, Gaspar Felix Tournachon, known as "Nadar". This photo no longer exists. The first surviving aerial photo was taken by James Wallace Black in 1860. A photo of the city of Boston.

Corpse-Close

Playing around with my digital remains...

Corpse

My first digital corpse. Or digital remains....

Nou&Herkauw @ Clash2011

Photo's by Mieke Lindeman.

Musique Non Stop, 1986, Rebecca Allen

Rebecca Allen produced all the visuals for Kraftwerk's album Electronic Café, including this award-winning video. The video starred virtual mannequins that Allen brought to life with cutting-edge software developed to emulate facial features and expressions. Musique Non Stop reflects Allen's interest in movement and the incorporation of human elements into computers. It also engenders thoughts about how computers and technology interact with humans and mesh with society in general.

Text snippet taken from, Art and Electronic Media

Scan

Yesterday I put two Kinects in an opposite position of each other with a couple of meters in between. I connected them to my laptop, and managed to draw two pointclouds. It is a very rough sketch. I'am in the middle of it, filming with my Iphone.
Next time I will get some screen-capture software.

Tilt-Shift Videos

The world is just a miniature.

Small Worlds - Preview. by Keith Loutit .

The Sandpit by Sam O'Hare .

gottardo nord by fb1 visuals .

For more go here.

Indexhibit

Yesterday I registered a domain name adrischokker.nu. For my Thesis I like to gather all my research on one website.

For this website I wanted to use Indexhibit, but I discovered to late that my web host only uses Windows servers and that Indexhibit only works on an Apache/Linux server.

After contacting the helpdesk, they offered me some very helpful suggestions to make Indexhibit work on a Windows server.
So here it is, for everybody who likes to use Indexhibit on a Windows server.

First:

in the file /ndxz-studio/defaults.php, change this code:


to this code:

Replace yourdomain.com with your website adress, and make sure the Indexhibit files are installed in your www-root.

Second:

In the file ndxz-studio/lib/front.php

replace:

.BASEURL.BASENAME.

with:

.BASEURL.'/'.BASENAME.


Third:

It is suggested to use PHP4 instead of 5, because of the CRT warnings. Normally you can change this in the settings panel of your web host. Otherwise contact your web host.

This should the job. Screenshot website.

Google's never erasing Memory

And still my photo:

http://www.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_geOa6MEknT8/Sr_dr_7bICI/AAAAAAAAABg/K1kwCSkmpkk/S220/428711446_5_UkcT.jpg&imgrefurl=http://besneeuwd.blogspot.com/&usg=__8cSudcwlJj05AzP2a7kvoQuw2TA=&h=165&w=220&sz=6&hl=nl&start=46&zoom=0&tbnid=xFimwVBU9ATHyM:&tbnh=80&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAdri%2BSchokker%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dnl%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D897%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C839&um=1&itbs=1&ei=rL-fTMPfBsf-OYus7JgD&iact=rc&dur=534&oei=p7-fTNWBIofMswaP7rnmDg&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=44&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:46&tx=56&ty=9&biw=1680&bih=897

Does it ever get erased?...

Tangible-Digital-Tangible

Scanning spectators, and make a scale model of them.