Small Eniarof at the “maison Folie Wazemmes” in Lille, France. CUICUI will be performing is pumping show and I will be playing with a special guest, Anna Chocola. Small Eniarof but big installations with Hyperolympic, Eggregor8, Brouette tuning, RR and a suprised!

Cuicui will be performing for Monsieur Moo at ART-O-RAMA, Marseille, la friche on the 10 of September at 21h30. Monsieur re-create a hotel room where Cuicui will be playing its gorilla-core sound on “Gateau-Blaster” (Cake Ghetto-Blaster). Part of Monsieur Moo work is to do customization of everyday life objects or tools in super loud Ghetto-Blaster (wheelbarrow, fridge, etc…).

I created this video for AVERT  to promote AVERT’s online AIDS challenge game, which I created using processing. 

The animation was also mainly created with processing, using the OPENGL and physics library. Then their was some “montage” in After Effects to put all those animations together. The sound was put together using Live.

The AVERT AIDS Challenge is a educational puzzle-quiz type game where you are a red smooth snake. You have to collect letters in the right order to answer some AIDS question while escaping baddies. You can collect bonuses to make yourself invisible, freeze  the baddies, multiply your points and few more. While going through the levels, there will be more baddies that will get more aggressive, the questions will get more specific and the snake longer. The controls are simple, the snake follows your mouse. No clicks, no keyboard and a cool smooth movement.

You can play this game on AVERT’s website in the game section. Even if I wish I could have had more time to develop this game, it’s still a pretty good game for a game coded and designed by one person. The game was entirely created using processing with the traer.physics, minim library and a home-made collision function ( + a bit of maths’ magic ) from Rob Noble. All graphics were designed in Illustrator and Photoshop and the music in Ableton Live.

The game uses a back-end interface so AVERT can change the questions/answers and in-game phrases. This interface displays Stats and Hi-scores table. All php, database and interface was done by Karl Rixon.

Play the AVERT AIDS Challenge

Anna Chocola and I will be performing for the second time the “Charcuterie Brilliante” at the Eniarof Experimental Fun Fair in France, Aix-en-Provence School of Art, the 27 and 28 of March.

All in one Gallery is my first plugin for wordpress and my first program in php. I wanted to have all the pictures that have been uploaded on my website to be displayed and browsable in one place. I didn’t want to use another system then the default new gallery system of wordpress, because I wanted full compatibility and prefer to be pluged to the core of wordpress instead to depend on another gallery system. So the plugin is simply looking at all the categories, then check if there are images in all the category’s posts and, if there are, use the [ gallery ] shortcode. I use it with lightbox-2 plugin and cleaner-gallery plugin.

All-in-One-Gallery plugin work with the new [ gallery ] shortcode and therefor only work with recent version of wordpress ( 2.6, maybe 2.5 and probally future released ). Also, I created this plugin for Anna Chocola and myself, so I can’t garanty that it will work properly. But the plugin is so simple that it should work for everyone. You can try it on my website by clicking Image Gallery in the sidebar or on Anna Chocola’s website by also clicking on Image Gallery in the sidebar.

For up to date infos, latest and older versions, please go to the plugin page on wordpress.org

The plugin is pretty simple, there are only 3 options that you can find under Settings/All in One Gallery:

Style and Place the Gallery :

1. Select the page where you want the gallery to be displayed. Note that you have to create a page to be use for the gallery.
2. Select your color style for the menu, default is blue.
3. Select how many columns in gallery (Just changing the attribute of the [ gallery ] shortcode.), default is 4

Exclude categories or Pages:

1. In case you have some texts only categories or what ever is the reason why you don’t want some categories to be in the gallery.

Welcome message:

1. Switch welcome message ON and OFF
2. If ON, the gallery will display a default message that you can alter.
3. If OFF, select the category’s gallery to be displayed

All in one gallery Settings

It’s also simple to install, like most wordpress plugin:

1. Download all-in-one-gallery.zip
2. Unzip and Upload the folder to  wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate in the plugins tab in your dashboard
4. Create a page for the gallery
5. Set your settings under Settings/All in One Gallery

There might be other plugins that do that sort of things but I only seemed to find plugin that replace the default gallery system. I don’t want to change the core of my wordpress and also wanted to try something in php.

No ball game is a participative performance where the artist and the public are playing a interactive and musical football game. The piece is not really about interactivity but about the relation between the gallery, the artist and the public trough art. Performance generally is about having the public focusing on the artist and his actions. I wanted to merge the performer, the public and the prop.

Mainly, I wanted to bring back the joy of playing/experimenting in the gallery.

It was not about creating a proper musical tool but a catalyst or extrapolation of the action, energy and gallery’s atmosphere.

I kept the interactive and sound layers simple. There were 3 steps accessed by how hard you kick the ball. As for the sounds I wanted to created a ruff, blunt, dramatic, romantic and emotional soundscape. I wanted it to be proper piece of music as well as sound poetry.

What kind of software/hardware have you been using for this piece?

I programmed a wiimote in a soft ball to trigger musical elements and structures. I used processing with two libraries, proMidi and the wrj4P5 from Classiclll. Processing was triggering midi notes and controllers by using the wiimote movement and accelerations. The program was really basic and not that accurate because my point was more on working on the “ménage à trois” that are the public, the gallery and the artist.

As I couldn’t be there and people didn’t manage to run the softwares, Jankenpopp kindly redid a version using director. I like the idea that NO BALL GAME is more than a piece of code, and that the “how it’s made” is not the main goal.

Does Computer Arts mean to you, or do you consider yourself has a computer artist?

I don’t consider myself as a computer artist. I am interested in how technologies can influence or be used for social purposes. I am more a telematic artist, I am interested in how the human can project itself in various spaces and time at the same time. I am interested in that strange mix of collective consciousnes, culture and personnal experience. I also think that artists working in interactivity often take it for granded that interactive art makes explicite what is implicite in art: the need of a third party, the viewer, to make the piece exist. We need more focus on the user’s experience and the space then on the actual interactive object, and stop to treat people as triggers only for an interactive piece.

For now, my main focus is in the prescence of the person in an interactive piece. How to make analogies of this presence and make a real exchange between actions and feedback.

The Sonic Body will be presented at the Move Festival ( ExpoCoruna ), in A Coruna ( Spain ) from the 13th to the 16th of November 2008.

19th of September 2008

Nadege Derderian invited me to present No Ball Game at the GreenLand Street Gallery ( A-Foundation ) for the opening of 2008 Liverpool Biennial. I will be performing for the private view on the 19th of September 2008. ]]> http://www.fuck-dance-lets-art.com/green-street-liverpool-biennial-2/feed 0