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Feed aggregatorPatchingzone Intervention @ Museum GoudA
The Patchingzone's May 1st intervention at the ceramics days in Gouda. The Museum GoudA organised ceramics examinations, our inspectors also checked the nearby ceramics market.
Here you can find some pictures of the intervention.  http://flickr.com/photos/25102225@N03/?saved=1 Short report of first meeting/brainstorm 22 April, Concordia
Museum's plans for 1 May and the longer term
Julia Zwijnenburg briefly presented the long-term plans that the museum has -- developing an online tool for determination of plateel (based on stamps and signatures at the back of the ceramics) and discussion / stories around it. At the plateelkeuring, flyers will be handed out where people are asked for feedback about such a potential tool: what do they expect from it, what are they interested in? Handing out these flyers will run in parallel with the actual "taxation" and determination of the ceramics that people bring. The Patchingzone intervention/action will also run in parallel. Patchingzone intervention Patchingzone wants to work with strong artistic focus. Ideas that have been discussed: - emotions - family / history of a piece - value in various aspects: financial, artistic ("beauty") - alternative perspectives, aspects to draw information from ceramics: sound (record player analogy, tapping ceramics to determine if broken or not) - final idea from brainstorm: generate sound from visual input, camera registers moving image from patterns on ceramics and this is converted to audio.  Approximation of the layout of the square in front of the museum:  <span style="font-weight:bold;">Summary
Summary from prep-meeting re market:
a market of live feeds: Nancy likes the idea of a 'side show Moderne`' The signals of the microphone on the wires, is set up in order to pick up the voices and the ceramics. Vibration, human activity feeds through this network of software wires and microphones, creating changing sound states from transformed energy. Vincent described tones from plates as vincent described people can have little places to visit. Booths. Segment of skype: vivian: 12:20:52 our role is to facilitate sound, borrwing plate, putting microphone, doing the sound, sound in space, live mixing sistero: 12:21:11 and they all mix together in a kind of thing sistero: 12:23:12 basically we could make a live set up vivian: 12:23:19 marc: stethoscopes with little reflex hammer sistero: 12:23:21 a live composition recording voices and ceramics ounds sistero: 12:23:33 and we have our 'stations' kind a thing vivian: 12:23:38 k: labcoats and glasses additional links: ALLAN LAMB Im very inspired by his "infinite music machines" and use of pulsating magnetic fields to vibrate hair-fine tantalum wires carrying electric currents where he records amplified upper harmonics of metal wires activated by wind. PHROQ Uses a strange technique of contact microphones, metal wires and beer cans, explores a new sound universe, a serious work (by the form and will) but also a funny way (by technique) of the experimental electro-acoustic and noise music. On 22 Apr 2008, at 00:21, vivian wenli lin wrote: hey pz-ers - i was consulting with taku (our local turntablist) and he recommended creating a video needle to read the ceramic plates. so use a video camera to capture colors/patterns/etc from the rotating plate and create a jitter/max/etc patch of some sort to link those patterns to sounds. i.e. blue line = constant tone flowers = scattered bleeps i could probably refresh my jitter memory somewhere - or maybe nancy you may know of a better program. and marc/vince - any max sound patches? also it would look fantastic if we projected or on a monitor this close up of the pattern scrolling by. just a midnight thought... good night, viv (with turntable taku)\ The movies are finally online
The main site now has some flash movies online. The 'vergeten eten' page has 7 movies on it and the 'favoriete boek hoek' has a short movie of all the photos.
RFID applications are hot!
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http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-33888-en.html Ethernet controlled power socket
This morning I hacked together a single board microcontroller with ethernet interface, a solid-state relay, and a wall socket to form a ethernet controlled power socket. We will use this to switch on the lights of the photobooth when a photo is to be taken.
The microcontroller board implements DHCP and NETBIOS, has a build-in webserver and its I/O ports can be controlled by simple HTTP GET requests. The opto-relay is connected to port F7, and a red LED is connected to port B6. By switching both the LED and the power socket on and off simulaneously, you have a visual indication if the socket is powered on or not. On: http://mxboard/?f7=1&b6=1 Off: http://mxboard/?f7=0&b6=0    steps for the Library Opening
the main discussion today was about the format of the web application for the library opening. It was decided to make a system that can provide many choices to experiment with the different ideas we had about how to facilitate social networks having a book as the meeting point: photo booth, avatars, comment wall, book club...
   8th of aprilMeeting with Library/Archive team It seems connecting the two-person-book-club to the Concerto library system isn't as easy as we hoped for. Also, we would need Coby and Ruud to help us set up and they're extremely busy with setting up the selfservice stations at Bloemendaal. We discussed some options to do a more low-tech version.
ISBN barcode scanning and webservices To still get the metadata of a book we could use the ISBN number and a webservice to request the metadata. To get the ISBN number of a book we could scan the barcode (not the library barcode). Webservices that we could use:
Barcode scanners apparently aren't that expensive. At posdata.nl there is a USB scanner available for 50 euros. It's a HID device that inputs the data as if it were a keyboard.
Clientside & Serverside Marc and I thought it would be best to set the system up as a web application. The server-side logic and the database would run on Marc's server and the client application would be website built with action-/java-script. The client website/app uses the barcode scanner and a webcam. This way the system could be easily tweaker and maintained by us. Todo
Mirella and I will meet at Concordia tomorrow at 10.30. Martijn can't be there and gave me the keys. :) OZCHI 2008: Designing for Habitat & Habitus
===== OZCHI SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS =====
OZCHI 2008: Designing for Habitat & Habitus 8 - 12 December 2008 Cairns (Tropical North Queensland) Australia OZCHI 2008: more info. IMPORTANT DATES 27th June 2008: Long Papers/Tutorials/Workshops 1st September 2008: Short Papers/Demos/Doc Consortium OZCHI is Australia's leading forum for work in all areas of Human- Computer Interaction and CHISIG's (www.chisig.org) annual non-profit conference. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. documentation of collaborative chatting
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can we be as open and transparent as possible and keep the names of who said what in the skype chat with the shared chat documentation. in the emails, as among other things as people also then post this to blogs, -otherwise its already an edit and a perspective Thanks sorry to be finicky but its best practice models! cheers Nancy April Fools' Day
Today we met with library and archive team
Carolyt told us about the what the schedule is for the library opening.Lyndsey has typed up the schedule. (add LINK) Picture of the short brainstorm with lib/arch team. Pen pals We came up with this idea during a chat with Kristina, Lyndsey, Nancy and me. Read the 'transcript'. (add LINK) Other ideas The following is more an archiving of random ideas we had. We're moving more into the direction of the pen-pal idea.There are 500 balloons at the library. Have the balloons in an interactive installation. Pulling the strings from the helium balloons floating against ceiling triggers a part of a story. You can choose to go down a certain path in the nonlinear story structure or add another path if you don't like where the story is going. This could also be a collaborative instrument. Place of the balloon could determine pitch and timbre, very simple and transparent controls that allow a group of children to have a collaborative experience. RFID, book- title/theme/popularity, geographical placement in the library, mashup. http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html 
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