Short video art.
Visuals: Omer Golan
Sound collage: Itamar Kav Tal
It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
I got interested with assistive technologies a while ago because my good friend Daniil’s work on speech disorders. I think that there’s still a lot more to be discovered on the intersection between ART and Science and Technology. Use our creative minds to deal with a variety of issues and disabilities. I really believe that there is a creative solution for almost everything. All we need to do is collaborate more. Share more. Artists can and should use open-source and DIY resources in their work as much as possible, spread the collaborative spirit and find solutions faster. This project is the perfect example for such productive collaborative research effort of artists, engineers, and more people who cares enough to do. It is amazing what they did for this fellow. Even though that this eye-tracking technology exist for a couple of years and was utilized in a number of art installations, this is by far the best & most important implementation of this combination of technology and art. You will probably have a laugh but watching this clip made me want to go out to a near by hospital and look for problems that I could solve with creative thinking.
Cool installation by Chris Sugrue. Although the visual end result of this video installation is a little disappointing to my view, but the experience itself seems fun and have its own aesthetics, mainly because of those cool sunflowers-like round mirrors which served as an analog interface for the artwork. Visit his website and check out more of his work. I would sure love to collaborate with this guy on an installation sometime.
An interactive installation that explores light, space, and generative systems. The interface for the work is an analog system of mirrors that invites a visitor to manipulate the projected image, moving its broken pieces to create new structures, or explore the original form.
Another max/msp/jitter experiment. Itamar Tal on the flute.
The flute control density and size of text.
From: Faza – real-time video installation.
max/msp/jitter
2010
Omer Golan