I’m having a depressing time for “things I wish I had made” right now. Karl just sent me the link to the Khronos Projector, which is a flexible screen that laser-tracks your movements and flexing of the screen. It then calculates the surround pixels’ positions in “time” from a piece of video.
By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie.
It’s great to see computer scientists coming up with such interesting interactive devices. It would be even better to see some interesting content in there though…
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Well, may I point you in the direction of Impossible Geographies, by Petra Gemeinboeck (part 1 coded by yours truly and Alastair Weakley)?
IG01 records video memories of “interesting events” over the course of two weeks. When interesting events happen (i.e. laser-tracked movement), traces of those movements disturb the video space onscreen, eventually causing stored memories to ‘break through’ into the present.
Um… from the videos on the linked site, it’s not clear that it’s using Kronos-style video manipulation. It is, honest (I made a Jitter object for that very thing), but over longer periods!
Very nice too – though I couldn’t quite work out where the video was on the very new-media-deconstructionist site!