Andrew Quitmeyer

EgoCentric Tortoise Tracking Test 2 GoPro 1FPS 3 Hours

blorgggg — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:07:48 +0000

Tortoise POV timelapse GoPro Test 1

blorgggg — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:29:03 +0000

GoPro Low Lighting Slow motion test

blorgggg — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:09 +0000

GoPro Low Lighting Slow motion test

blorgggg — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:09 +0000

So Many Systems – Human Body Systems Rap

blorgggg — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:36:03 +0000

My sister made this wonderful music video explaining the different systems of the body. She’s the best science teacher!

Ant Tracking Hunting Model Paper

blorgggg — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:12:04 +0000

Accepted to FLAIRS 2012

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Antmongous

blorgggg — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:35:21 +0000

—I am currently pitching the Antmongous project to Flux 2012. Hopefully it gets picked up!—

Antmongous is an embodied, interactive exhibit that will be distributed throughout the Castleberry Hill area and will encourage participant exploration by emergently provoking individuals or groups to follow ant-designated pathways in real time.

CASTLEBERRY HILL FOR ANTS

First, we shall replicate the networked layout of the Flux festival location as a 1/175 (ant-scale) abstracted model from inexpensive laser cut acrylic (see image). Since the core area of the Flux festival takes place in a roughly 300m X 400m geographical area, the ant-sized model will be approximately 1.7m x 2.3m, or the size of a large table.

The colony will be recursively loaded into the miniature model with the Queen and brood placed in the region of the model corresponding to the model’s location in the real world.Pathways such as roads, alleys, and building interiors will be featured in the model as areas accessible to the ants. The model’s restricted areas (like rooftops or sides of buildings) will be elevated and coated in Teflon paint (Fluon) to make sure that the ants only have analogous access to the same places the human audience.

TRACK ANTS

I create open-source software for visually analyzing the positions and movements of ants within our laboratory environment. This same software can be adapted for real-time tracking of the ants in the model.

PROJECT ANTS

Using ants’ positions within the model, we will make their presence felt in the corresponding locations in the actual world.

Positional data will transmit wirelessly to a mesh network of inexpensive, battery-powered XBee microcontrollers. The XBees, in turn, will turn lights lining the sidewalks on-and-off corresponding to the presence or absence of an ant in the analogous location. Thus, an ant walking through the model’s virtual intersection of Bradbury and Fair Street illuminates lamps in the actual location.

In this way, the ants can be felt crawling throughout the village. An advantage of mesh networks is that, unlike a string of Christmas lights, if a problem at one node will not affect the others.

AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE

The dual audience (humans+ants) will symbiotically interact throughout the night.

Food sources (agar paste) will be placed in various locations within the ants’ model. In the corresponding real-world locations, we will also hide prize packages. The humans and ants will collectively discover rewards.

During searching and foraging stages, humans will “feel” the passages of ants wandering about the city as pulsing trails of light. Arrivals to the festival who know nothing of the underlying mechanics, may feel the urge to follow along with these light movement patterns and explore the exhibitsat the festival in tandem with the ants.

Antmongous Concept Video

blorgggg — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000

Action Film Festival

blorgggg — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:26:35 +0000

I am going to host a little fun film festival here in town in April, and it is now open for entries!

Setup:

This will be held on an April evening in a tennis court next to my apartment. I will supply power to the area, hang bed sheets over each end of the tennis court, and project your submitted films onto them. The audience will watch from the interior of the cage. The flat barren tennis court is not very conducive to lounging and watching all night though… THAT”S WHERE THE ACTION COMES IN.

Action:

When you submit a film, you must also submit a(n) (set of) action(s) for the audience. Your action(s) can lie anywhere on the spectrum of simple, directly-commanded one-off action to an incredibly sophisticated interactive work (basically the spectrum of really lazy action submission to really complex action submission). So you can just yell at the people at the beginning of your film what they should be doing, you could whip up some sort of filmic Rauschenberg ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Sps62Sxafbs#t=31s) event if you want to, or you could design the most amazing, seamlessly integrated installation piece in which all humanity has already been performing!

Bonus points for clever uses of the environment!

Submit:

Send me (andrew.quitmeyer||at||gmail.com) the following items to be entered into the fest.

A film – created by you or just appropriated by you, max 5 minutes, for use on one or two screens, preferably has some temporal component.
A description of the Action – simple or complex, direct or emergent, action or interaction
How the audience will be informed of their action tasks.

View this PDF—> Action Film for less wordy details and more actiony details!

Stay tuned to this page: http://andy.dorkfort.com/andy/2012/02/action_film/ for more information (like the actual date when this will happen)

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