The workshop focused on the development of an interactive mulitmedia artwork linking real gestures to simulated physical models.
 
The experiments arised a discussion on how user’s haptic experience build a mimetic link by which the visitor interpret the piece.
 
Programming relied on Processing and Max/MSP/Jitter, with a particulr focus on my side to the library Mass Spring Damper by Nicolas Montergmont for Max.
 
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Day 1 – Notions of interactivity in art. The specta(c)tor is the center. The meaning of actions.
Day 2 – Analysis of “classic” and contemporary interactive artworks. Frontiers between art and cinema and music.
Day 3 – Glance on the tools: sensors and softwares. Mini projects proposals (video to audio to video) .
Day 4 – Introduction to Max/MSP/Jitter.
Day 5 – Group development of the projects.
Day 6 – Finalization of the prototypes.
 

These 4-days intensive workshops, given at Ars Longa, (Paris) got through the fundamentals of the graphical programming environment Max/MSP and its visual library Jitter. They covered notions from the basic functioning logic to some advanced audiovisual experiments, reasoning around the primary computational paradigm input-computing-output.
 
I’ll upload the course once I’ll have the time to properly comment the patches. Meanwhile if you’re interested in taking a look, drop me a line, so that I’ll prioritize the process..