Light pool

Nigel Johnson

Light pool

Nigel Johnson

Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

Water
Art

Access to Document

Cite this

@misc{a0f872bf365346caa10e71cdce5ab93c,

title = "Light pool",

keywords = "Water, Art",

author = "Nigel Johnson",

note = "Based on water, one of the four classical elements, this real-time, interactive installation exhibits the strange characteristics of this essential and ubiquitous substance that constantly holds our attention. Casting a pebble into a pond and the hypnotic fascination of watching ripples spread out across the surface of still water becomes the starting point for this meditative installation, where the participants become the pebbles and the disturbances ripples of light. The work was selected for Glasgow{\textquoteright}s major Festival of Light, 'Radiance' curated by the streetlevel photoworks. This installation amongst others was initially created to demonstrate the capabilities of a set of interactive software tools called G-Vision, developed by the artist. This particular work demonstrated G-Vision{\textquoteright}s ability to simultaneously track several independently moving objects or people, filter out extraneous background noise and translate this information for use within this installation. The results of fifteen months of interdisciplinary research, G-Vision provides a novel solution through a vision-based gesture and motion recognition software and built upon the established MAX/MSP/Jitter global software platform, extensively used by artists and performers. This new software {\textquoteleft}plug-in{\textquoteright} provides functionality such as gesture recognition, object tracking and characterisation of patterns of motion using live or pre-recorded video input material, providing a unique and powerful set of software tools previously unavailable. Its potential and significance was recognised initially through winning a £30,000 competitive Scottish Enterprise Digital Media Commercialisation Award and conference paper on the successful interim research findings was presented at (re)Actor: The First International Conference on Digital Live Art, September 2006, Queen Mary College, University of London. Extensive user trials have also taken place at the Royal College of Art, London and the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, London and distribution of the software is planned for 2008. coverage.spatial: Radiance 2007, Streetlevel photoworks, Glasgow, 23rd-25th November 2007 dc.isbasedon: Actor: the International Conferences on Digital Live Art, London, 11th September, 2006 dc.type: Artwork Artwork ",

year = "2007",

language = "English",

}

TY - ADVS

T1 - Light pool

AU - Johnson, Nigel

N1 - Based on water, one of the four classical elements, this real-time, interactive installation exhibits the strange characteristics of this essential and ubiquitous substance that constantly holds our attention. Casting a pebble into a pond and the hypnotic fascination of watching ripples spread out across the surface of still water becomes the starting point for this meditative installation, where the participants become the pebbles and the disturbances ripples of light. The work was selected for Glasgow’s major Festival of Light, 'Radiance' curated by the streetlevel photoworks. This installation amongst others was initially created to demonstrate the capabilities of a set of interactive software tools called G-Vision, developed by the artist. This particular work demonstrated G-Vision’s ability to simultaneously track several independently moving objects or people, filter out extraneous background noise and translate this information for use within this installation. The results of fifteen months of interdisciplinary research, G-Vision provides a novel solution through a vision-based gesture and motion recognition software and built upon the established MAX/MSP/Jitter global software platform, extensively used by artists and performers. This new software ‘plug-in’ provides functionality such as gesture recognition, object tracking and characterisation of patterns of motion using live or pre-recorded video input material, providing a unique and powerful set of software tools previously unavailable. Its potential and significance was recognised initially through winning a £30,000 competitive Scottish Enterprise Digital Media Commercialisation Award and conference paper on the successful interim research findings was presented at (re)Actor: The First International Conference on Digital Live Art, September 2006, Queen Mary College, University of London. Extensive user trials have also taken place at the Royal College of Art, London and the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, London and distribution of the software is planned for 2008. coverage.spatial: Radiance 2007, Streetlevel photoworks, Glasgow, 23rd-25th November 2007 dc.isbasedon: Actor: the International Conferences on Digital Live Art, London, 11th September, 2006 dc.type: Artwork Artwork

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

KW - Water

KW - Art

M3 - Digital or Visual Products

ER -