Category: Design

We consider visual music to be too close, so we just sat back and waited. This brilliant phrase was created by David Tristram, and it sums up an important aspect to performing graphics. Music optional is a way to allow us to see a graphic performance that has its own rhythms and structures. It’s not just…

The raccoon was invited to chair a panel about “New Media” a few years back. The speakers were all talented hackers/artists. It was an unexpected honor to chair such a group. To get things started and to incline the panel in the direction I have been obsessed with — performing live visuals — I exclaimed and…

Performance of Space Palette at SteIM in Amsterdam April 2012. Conceptual Overview of how hand movements in the holes control music, graphics * Full disclosure: Original idea and initial sketch by the raccoon for the oval space frame design. This fan page is for fans only. The official Space Palette home page can be found herehttp://spacepalette.com (natch’) Nosuch Media trademarks “Space…

LoopyCam a visual performance instrument for improvisation. The improvisation is an unusual one — it’s improvised context and not content. Loopycam artists take the content from the environment and re-present it on large video screens in front of the audience. The LoopyCam artist modifies that re-presentation in realtime by using both cinematography and video edits. This combination allows for traditional effects such as cut…

World Without Guitars looks just like our world. Guitars and closely related string instruments were not invented. It is a “control reality” that serves to guide those who are involved in the design and construction of new instruments. It is also useful for those who are tackling the social engineering necessary for the cultural acceptance of the same….

What would it feel like to go back and examine visual first principles in a new way? The Viewpoint thesis states that there are a few pixel manipulation primitives that can be made so that they can be bound to keyboard and mouse actions. This allows for the creation of a simple text-graphic editor that can be drawn…

Scott Kim has been in the rain more than anyone else I know. He’s suffered the thunderbolts and slings of outraged groups. He persevered, but he also thrived and earned his interdisciplinarian PhD. He has written a concise summary of the issues with graphic marginalia.  Interdisciplinary work Curiously, interdisciplinarity is only an adjective. There are disciplines but not interdisciplines. It’s as if interdisciplinarity is…