Flick Flock News
We’re pleased to share some news about Flick Flock, an installation developed by Wendy Ann Mansilla and Jordi Puig as part of a collaboration between Baltan Laboratories and Piksel in Bergen, Norway in 2009. Many thanks to Wendy and Jordi!
Flick Flock can be experienced at this year’s STRP Festival
STRP Festival is one of the largest art & technology (e-culture) festivals in Europe, fusing music, art and technology. Flick Flock is part of this year’s STRP Festival exhibition, where works by Lawrence Malstaf, Jean-Michel Bruyere, Christoph de Boeck, Marnix de Nijs and others are also featured.
Thanks to the Centre for Quantifiable Quality in Communication Systems, Centre of Excellence, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
New interactive installation based on Flick Flock
Chroma Space uses software technologies that are based on technologies used in Flick Flock. However the artists are now using a totally new method of communicating with Blender 3D via PureData instead of previously using a 3rd party library. These enhancements will also be implemented in the upcoming presentation of Flick Flock in the STRP Festival exhibition in Eindhoven, from November 18-28, 2010.
Chroma Space, an interactive installation developed at Q2S by Wendy Ann Mansilla and Jordi Puig that demonstrates how colours can be used to change our perception and affect in an interactive digital artwork, is currently on exhibition at Palazzo Medici Riccardi from October 26 to November 6, 2010. The exhibition is titled “Colorito: An Interactive Renaissance of Colour”, and features several internationally reknowned artists and is also part of this year’s ACM Multimedia.
Watch the project’s video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl4dvcDtXho
The concept behind Flick Flock will be presented at Siggraph Asia in December 2010
Abstract: The presentation elaborates on the phenomenon of distance and distinctiveness behind an installation called Flick Flock (2009). The installation uses embodied interaction to explore the human perceptual processes in experiencing a world stylized by form, color, and sound. Using various technologies (i.e. stereoscopy, 3D surround, and computer vision), Flick Flock breaks the distance by involving the participant’s physical body in the interaction and in the content. The installation accommodates distinctiveness by introducing spatiotemporal ambiguities in its visual presentation. An ambiguous presentation of the interconnection of collective bodies, individuals and objects above the earth’s surface, ever changing the behavior and composition of one tiny space and the universe it holds. Flick Flock experiments on the effective representation of such complex condition to contemplate on the relationship between humans, natural and human-made entities as something essential and influential to human experience.
