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kaosswii

2011-01-20T15:23:00.000-08:00

20110119-kaosswii-fullmoon from Honza Svasek on Vimeo.

more january zuidexplorer

2009-02-05T15:24:00.001-08:00

(: click me :)

Open Source CLI Screendump -> Twitter Tool

2009-01-29T07:28:00.000-08:00

#!/bin/bash
# scwit - screendum to twitpic cli util using scrot & curl
#
# creator: HonzaSvasek gmail.com
#
# You Have Copy Right, It's Natural and Promotes Evolution
#
TEXT="$*"
scrot /tmp/screendump.png
curl -F media=@//tmp/screendump.png \
-F username=YOURNAME -F password=PASSWD \
-F message="$TEXT" \
http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost

Men in White at ZuidExplorer

2009-01-27T04:06:00.001-08:00

LowFi Exhibitionistic Webart Perormance

2009-01-16T02:50:00.000-08:00

Playing with DropBox, motion, twitter, twitpic for promotion and curl to update twitpic to create See-Me-In-A-Dropbox, a LowFi Exhibitionistic WebArt Performance of The Artist in front of his laptop.

Script to update twitpic, which is run hourly by the cron:

#!/bin/bash
TEXT=`/usr/games/fortune -s`
curl -F media=@//home/honza/Dropbox/Photos/See-Me-In-A-Dropbox/$(( $RANDOM % 60 )).jpg -F username=**** -F password=***** -F message="$TEXT" http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost
~

Sprookjes Parade 2008

2009-01-15T06:38:00.001-08:00

With John on the Sprookjes Parade 2008

Flyer Exposition LCC Larenkamp

2008-12-17T03:08:00.000-08:00

At the artzilla.org launch party

2008-12-15T14:20:00.001-08:00

see: artzilla.org

Exposition Mosaics with embedded Linux

2008-11-23T03:25:00.000-08:00

These interactive mosaics with embedded computers running Ubuntu Linux (one of them featuring the face of Antony Hall) will go on display at Cultural Center lcc Larenkamp in December. Watch this blog for further information

Pop Art Project - Rotterdam - November 30

2008-11-13T03:00:00.000-08:00

PAP == P op A rt P roject.

13:00 - 15:00 Katendrechtse Lagedijk 461 (a)

Opening Cultural Season Rotterdam Zuid

2008-09-17T01:10:00.000-07:00

At werkplaats LUNA-TIKS we (Honza & Lucka) are building an installation with the name The Art Of Digital Lovin'. 28 September during Zuid Explorer you are welcome at Katendrechtse Lagedijk 461 in Rotterdam-Zuid from 13:00 on.

Projections
Performances
Paintings

With bewegingstheater de Storm and 7stairz.

Automatic Rotoscoping

2008-05-29T03:58:00.000-07:00

#!/bin/bash
# rotoscope - auto rotoscope a video file
# with openSource Software on Linux
#
# needs mplayer, autotrace and ImageMagick
#
# usage: rotoscope videofile
# -- will create videofile.rotoscoped.avi
#
# created by Honza Svasek : HonzaSvasek.nl
#

export TMPDIR=/tmp/rotoscope$$
export FILM=$1
mkdir $TMPDIR
cd $TMPDIR
mplayer $FILM -nosound -vo jpeg
for FILE in *.jpg
do

echo $FILE
autotrace $FILE -output-format svg \
-color-count 10 \
-despeckle-level 20 \
-filter-iterations 10 > ${FILE}.svg
rm $FILE
convert ${FILE}.svg $FILE

done
mencoder 'mf://*jpg' -ovc lavc \
-o $FILM.rotoscoped.avi
cd ..
rm -f $TMPDIR
mplayer $FILM.rotoscoped.avi

seeMe.ath.cx in Prague

2008-05-23T09:44:00.000-07:00

After my talk at the New Media Art Audiences Symposium the 23the of May seeMe.ath.cx is on display in the CIANT GALLERY in Prague until the end of June 2008.

Unfortunately there is no direct on-line connection to the artwork at this time.

In september the artwork will very probably be displayed at CODARTS in Rotterdam.

By that time the artwork will also be on-line again.

Second zuid explorer this Sunday

2008-04-24T10:25:00.000-07:00

Sunday 27 April will be the second zuidexplorer. From one till five you are welcome at werkplaats LUNA-TIKS on the Katendrechtse Lagedijk in Rotterdam Zuid.

There will be a performance by Frank and Luuring, a photo exposition by Pieter-Jan de Vries and a walk-in workshop scanner art.

Niko and Friends @ LUNA-TIKS during zuid explorer

2008-04-01T03:13:00.000-07:00

Joaquim Victor Pereira

2008-02-28T09:44:00.001-08:00

Cleaning Up the Front Room

2008-02-20T14:13:00.000-08:00

During clean up of the front room, Lucka shot me against the back wall with her paintings.

touchMe nominated for Charlois Cultuurprijs 2008

2008-02-15T08:01:00.000-08:00

touchMe scores number one on the nominations for the Charlois Cultuurprijs 2008. Here you can see all the nominations and before the end of February you can vote by email.

Today I installed the prototype without touch screen, seeMe.ath.cx in the door of our atelier.

Later this week I'll try to get the website of the seeMe.ath.cx, where you can see what the people in front of seeMe.ath.cx see, connected to the outside world. I'll have to set up a router and wifi system first.

seeMe experimental webserver online

2008-02-10T06:47:00.000-08:00

Don't count on it, but if lucky you can acces the internal webserver of seeMe here. The artwork is searching for an open wifi connection and using DynDNS to make itself known to internet.

be free!

2008-02-06T07:38:00.001-08:00

Hardware Hacking

2008-01-30T11:46:00.000-08:00

For the pre-prototype, without touch screen I got my local computer boer to take apart a packard bell notebook and fix the screen on backwards:

The lid still folds back over the keyboard, and with a simple wooden frame from IKEA I managed today to produce the following piece of art:

Tomorrow I will add a passe partout from black rough paper, leaving a pinhole for the camera, a voila, a hang on the wall computer with an eye :)

I also managed to get processing to talk with the isk-daemon through the xml-rpc protocol. Java is an interesting language, but with a steep learning curve, at least for guys like me who first try everything possible before reading the manuals properly.

Dumping Firefox as UI

2008-01-23T01:53:00.000-08:00

After some tests I have decided to use processing as the user interface of my motion / image seek sever / touch screen art.

It feels much more natural writing code than hacking HTML/CSS with embedded php en javascript.

CU - an interactive artwork

2008-01-22T02:10:00.000-08:00

CU, a spinoff of the touchMe pillar consists of a laptop running ubuntu with a build in camera.

On the laptop runs motion to capture images, isk-daemon to index the images and apache/php/firefox to display a set of 80 images looking like the last captured.

Testing hacked motion with action painting by Peter Schallenberg

2008-01-15T04:52:00.000-08:00

At this moment the first public test of my hacked version of motion version 3.2.9 is being performed by my neighbour Peter Schallenberg from quup. In the source file motion.c I made the following changes...

case 'i': // motion width HS -leading zeros
sprintf(tempstr, "%03d", cnt->location.width);
break;

case 'J': // motion height HS -leading zeros
sprintf(tempstr, "%03d", cnt->location.height);
break;

case 'K': // motion center x HS -leading zeros
sprintf(tempstr, "%03d", cnt->location.x);
break;

case 'L': // motion center y HS -leading zeros
sprintf(tempstr, "%03d", cnt->location.y);
break;

...SO that motion can create filenames of the form "1kkkllliiijjj.jpg", where kkk and lll are the center of change and iii and jjj are the width and height of the changed area.

Peter is performing the action painting and my laptop, attached to the wall and covered with a plastic bag is recording it:

After the test we decided to do another test on Wednesday.

touchMe pillar description

2008-01-12T02:19:00.000-08:00

The touchMe pillar will consists of a stone pillar, about 1 meter 50 high, with a 19 inch touch screen and a web cam build in at eye hight.

The screen and cam are connected to a computer running linux inside the pillar. The whole system is connected to internet through ADSL or possibly WIFI.

A modified version of the open source security cam program motion saves snapshots of whatever the web cam sees in front of the pillar, usually this will be people standing in front of the pillar touching the touch screen.

One the touch screen a selection of snapshots is displayed in a 9 x 9 (81 images) matrix.

When touching one of these images, it grows bigger (from 142 x 112 pixels to 462 x 336 pixels) and the system is notified that this image was interesting.

The displayed matrix of snapshots is updated regularly whereby interesting images (images that are touched a lot) and images that are visually similar to the interesting images are favoured.

Thus more and more 'interesting' images are being displayed, attracting public, who are being photographed and thus become part of the system.

painted white

2008-01-09T10:58:00.000-08:00

Y E S !! Started painting the walls. It will be very very nice.

touchMe Parts List

2008-01-07T05:57:00.000-08:00

HARDWARE:

1. One 19 inch touch screen with a hampshire capacative touchscreen controller
2. One DELL 1501 INSPIRON running ubuntu 7.10
3. Logitech webcam.

SOFTWARE

1. motion
2. isk-deamon
3. firefox or opera in kiosk mode.

Spaces

2008-01-05T01:33:00.000-08:00

Creatvity Starts Here

2008-01-03T06:45:00.001-08:00

7413427805908595483

2008-01-02T11:53:00.001-08:00

touchMe is created, born, and getting food.

Katendrechtse Lagedijk 461a, Rotterdam.

touchMe, touchMe now.

2morrow - pics

honza