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(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau >
»PICO_SCAN«, 2000 - 2000
Co-Workers & Funding:
Developed for"Sieben Hügel, Bilder und Zeichen des 21. Jahrhunderts - Images and Signs of the 21st century"
at the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Supported by ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Lab, Kyoto, Japan
Interface design support: Stephen Jones
http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/FRAMES/FrameSet.html
Technology
Hardware
5 self build scanning devices5 3D magnetic field position sensors
5 mini cameras
5 flat monitor screens
1 computer with 5 video outputs (2 3D video cards)
Interface
5 self build scanning devices5 3D magnetic field position sensors
5 mini cameras
5 flat monitor screens
Patent
Laurent Mignonneau, Christa Sommerer & Stephen Jones, all at ATR MIC Labs, KyotoSoftware
Image generator algorithm
Descriptions & Essays
PICO_SCAN is an interactive installation that allows users to measure and capture their users various body data and links them to the creation and evolution of artificial life creatures. The PICO_SCAN system consists of 5 PICO_SCANNER interface device and 5 plasma video screens. When the user picks up the PICO_SCANNER and scans along her body she generates various input data that are specific to her own body characteristics. The collected data information is then used to generate artificial life creatures that can feed on these color values provided by the users video image.
Literature
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »PICO_SCAN - Interactive Computer Installation.« In 7 Hills: Images and Signs of the 21st Century, edited by Berliner Festspiele, 52-53. Berlin: Henschel Verlag and Berliner Festspiele, 2000.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »PICO_SCAN: Using Body Data to Create Artificial Life Forms.« In AROB 5th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics Conference Proceedings, edited by , 124-127. Oita: Oita University, 2000.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »Art as a Living System.« In Art @ Science, edited by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, 148-161. New York, Wien: Springer Verlag, 1998.
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