WebSpaceInvader

During a recent residency at the Kube Gallery in Poole, Dorset I decided to start work on an idea surrounding the computer mediated, representation of self. This piece was the result of the work completed during that residency. It is influenced by our increasingly digital lifestyles of blogs, tweets, text messages and facebook. As so much of our lives appears as pure data, we can build fairly accurate images of people based purely on this information.

This piece of work explores the theme by using a webcam to capture a live video stream and present it as ASCII text and therefore represent our physical appearance as nothing more than textual data. This is the first phase of this project and I have a couple of ideas for taking this further but both are completely different directions!

Click the image above to view the project. You must have a webcam to view this project.

I have recently been working on creating an ambient art work called ‘Tracier’, which was displayed in the Kube Gallery in Poole, Dorset. The live, interactive piece is built using Flash and takes a live video feed from a web cam. This feed is heavily processed inside Flash so that just ‘ghostly’ movement is displayed on a projected screen. Using motion tracking, Flash then takes ‘tracings’ of the image along with sampled colours, these are eroded and displayed resulting in kinetic visuals. The piece was created to add visual interest to any public space not just an Art gallery setting. Click the thumbnail image to view the video of Tracier in Action.

The image below is just a larger image.

There has been a lot of interest in the educational simulation game for nursing a patient with MRSA so I’ve uploaded a movie of the game in action to demo the experience. This game was produced as an experimental educational game for Bournemouth University but could be used by any training facility working with infection control.

Click the image to view the Demo Movie - 25Mb.

The paper presented at the Serious Games Conference 08 - Serious Games on the move will be published by SpringerWienNewYork. The book will be available in October 2008, here are the details:

Serious Games on the Move

Petrovic, Otto; Brand, Anthony (Eds.)

2009, Approx. 500 p., Softcover

ISBN: 978-3-211-09417-4

You can get more information from the Springer publications website.

Presenting a paper at the Serious Games Conference tomorrow. The papers focus is on the production of a serious game and explores the issues of getting people with diverse backgrounds together to produce a game.

MRSA serious game conference slides

This presentation will last approximately 40 minutes, including questions and a demo of the learning application.

Just heard news that a joint paper written with Andy Pulman for the MRSA Serious Game has been accepted through peer review for the Serious Games Conference ‘08 - Serious Games on the Move. You can check out their website at http://www.inspire.anglia.ac.uk/serious/index.html.