a reactive projection scenography for a recoil performance group dance performance. developed with choreographer tina tarpgaard + software artists jonas jongejan and ole kristensen.
with graphics and choreography inspired
by the totalitarian collectivism in games like
“lemming's” to the anarchistic individualism
in “gta”, “f**k you buddy” is a performance
for the sake of the game, a game about
winning at any cost and about being born
inherently selfish?..or?
the software is open source and we are very
grateful to the arduino and openframeworks
communities, whose efforts form the basis
of our programming work.
we control the led lighting, ir floods, lasers
and tracking leds with a small xbee network
of arduino's spewing dmx. have a look at the
video linked below, to see the fun we had
hooking our software up with led par lights
and the arduino mega.
the software for f**k you buddy builds on
our move into cocoa and objective-c. we
integrate openframeworks into a cocoa-based
mac os x snow leopard application running
on a mac pro seeing the dancers through
a point grey flea 2 ieee 1394b camera,
showing the opengl graphics using two video
projectors, shooting diagonally onto a white
square of dance floor. the projectors have
0.7 wide angle optics and the software is
cued from qlab using apple's midi networking
capabilities.
phew, that name isn't allways easy for us, though it does strictly refer to a game made by John Forbes Nash, nobel prize winning mathematician and game theory man. fuck is what the forum censors f**k into.
ascii encoding the url's saved my day :
It is amazing how much you could do with lights in a technical way... I wish I had the possibility to do something more with lights than just turning them on and off...
it's surprisingly simple to make dmx with an arduino, you just need a max485 chip. from there on, the inexpensive JB Systems Plano Spot rgb led lights are a good way to get started... you can hook up to 512 channels onto one dmx chain, and they each take 4 (rgba) ...
Hmm very cool project. You call the "JB Systems Plano Spot" cheap, but they are like 100 euro a piece. Your display consists of 15 spots each and I count 4 displays at least.
So that's about (4 x 15 x 100) 6000 euro, maybe that's cheap in the professional theater world but in my opinion that's still a lot of money ;). I don't see myself creating a 15-spot display just for fun soon ;).
true - and though we would love to own them all, we share them with other companies, coordinating our equipment stock.... but, yes, everything is relative, and compared to the bigger brands these are definitely cheap theatre lights.
