Category Archives: Digital Media

Osmosis, finally the video documentation

Finally the video documentation for the installation I made with Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas is online. Thanks to Bernhard Garnicnig and Culture Lab onSite for the support. Osmosis, on Culture Lab OnSite Vimeo Channel :: OSMOSIS :: A site-specific installation by Ewelina Aleksandrowicz, Alessandro Altavilla, Andrzej Wojtas. // Osmosis is a response to the [...]

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The flying ear of invisible architectures

I  will  be part of the festival, Invisible Architecture, with the project “The flying ear”. Running in Newcastle from the 9th September to 11th (three days), Invisible Architecture is “a micro-festival exploring the invisible yet influential substrates of urban existence”, and it is organised by the artist Will Schrimshaw. This festival hosts a roster of really [...]

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Osmosis

Culture Lab OnSite last July hosted a site-specific sound installation made by Ewelina Aleksandrowicz, Andrzej Wojtas and myself. osmosis |äzˈmōsis; äs-| (noun) Biology & Chemistry a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of [...]

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Bomb me: a Core Location Tutorial

2011-08-06 21:54:47.027 HelloThere[14495:707] Location: <+54.98113046, -1.59312152> +/- 97.95m (speed -1.00 mps / course -1.00) @ 06/08/11 21:54:47 GMT+01:00 yeah, the gps is working on the iThing. I just followed this simple Core Location Tutorial, not an openFrameworks one, however.  It gives also a basic introduction to interface building with Xcode on iOS.

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The Quiet Walk: Setting up Xcode, openFrameworks and libpd for developing on iPhone

The setup of the programming environment for developing the project is based on really simple steps. Setup XCode on the developing machine (mac os x).  The installation is really simple. Download and install the installer package from Xcode 3.2.6 and iOS SDK 4.3 (Disk Image). Once is installed a new folder is created in the [...]

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The Quiet Walk: designing the iOS application

So, after spending 69 pounds for obtaining the developer certification in order to build working prototype on the iPhone, should then stop posing and start to make everything a bit clear??? As I am more the naive (ok, naive is an overestimation here) with objective C and hardcore programming, i decided to to adopt Pure [...]

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The Quiet walk: How does it work?

I made a provisional diagram of all the steps needed during the process of designing the interaction. This what could generally work for this kind of project. There are still some doubts about the actual feasibility and on an user interaction level, but I am working to find possible alternatives and waiting for the actual [...]

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