Foundlings

Some results of my explorations in the 3D jungle of 123D Catch. Aside processing photo's to 3D models, 123D Catch is also a platform where users can share their created 3D models. The platform seems to stimulate remixing each other work or improve it. Apparently babies are rather popular under the users. So here is a first attempt to remix them. 

PRICCAPractice

My recent work in progress 'Data Sets' is part of the group exhibition 'Photo's that research photo's. The exhibition is the first project of the new expertise centre about photography PRICCAPractice. PRICCAPractice stands for Photographic Research in Cross-disciplinary and Cross-cultural Artistic Practices. 

Data Sets is are 3D portraits of my grandmother and father. The portraits are created with photogrammetry algorithms that extract spatial data from a series of photo's of the same object. Today the technology becomes increasingly popular because of new cloud services such as 123D Catch and Recap. I am interested in the expressive and aesthetic properties of the these technologies, and to which extend they represent reality.

Data Sets

Data Sets from Snow on Vimeo.

3D Print Survival Kit @ IWEEK

Last week I hosted a 3D printing workshop during the IWEEK at Art&Research Lab (MPLab) in Liepaja Latvia. The design challenge was to develop a survival kit that can be used within an environment or context, specified by the participants. The results where: The Ultimate Survival Kit, The Last Hope Survival Kit, and the Knuckle Tagger Survival Kit.

Participants: Lauris Galsons, Eltons Kūns, Tatiana Veselova, Kristine Kina, Santa France, Dana Rasnača, Niklavs Sekacs, Roelina Banga, Jeanine Leguit, Maaike Boonstra

Photo's (c) Lauris Galsons 

Portrait of my grandmother

A 3D scan portrait of my grandmother. An experiment to use 3D scanning as a medium for expression.

#SELFIE

A selfie made out of selfies. Image search #selfie on Instagram.

Found Footage

An attempt to extract a 3D body based on found footage.

Packtrain

Testing the train, packed with an Arduino and a Dreamplug, connected to Unity 3D.

Tearing down a Kinect

Color by Numbers update

Three weeks after the opening of the exhibition. Three more weeks to go.

Bacteria Batteries

Building a battery out of mud during the Art+Communication festival, 5 and 6 October in Riga.

Color by Numbers

Yesterday the exhibition MOBIBOM opend in the NP3.tmp project space. All the artist from the MOBI studio's presented recent or new works. During the opening my new 'work in progress' installation 'Color by Numbers' kicked off. The installation is inspired by the world famous 'Paint by Numbers' hobby paint products. The photoprint is an enlarged photo originally taken by Turkia Mahmud, during the Libyan civil war, after Gaddafi got killed. The visitor is invited to participate in the creation of a new colorful Playmais painting. Below some pictures.

3D Sketch

Sketching the head of a blond Dutch politician.

The Tower, Reconnecting People

Last December 2011 we exposed the Tower in an empty store close to the new Zaailand. A new shopping area im the centre of Leeuwarden in Fryslan. Interested passants were invited to register themselves in this Tower store. Based on the answers of 8 questions, the installation calculates your postition on the square of the virtual Zaailand. The groups of people that are formed by the system are invited to come back during the opening of the actual new Zaailand in September 2012. Every group will be photographed at the new square. The Tower, Reconnecting People was part of the temporary exhibition Copy:Paste

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 :-)