[fluxus] soft-ware: Realtime Animation

[nik gaffney]

soft-ware: Realtime Animation
with {invisible chainsaws[1]}

Workshop: 13-17 December 2005, lead by Dave Griffiths and Nik Gaffney


Animation has a long and convoluted tradition, often being associated with
both the magical and mechanical arts. Nowadays, we can experiment with this
magic in real-time, using computers as highly dynamic, reconfigurable
animation machines. Real-time animation is able to converse with the world
outside its boundaries, by visually responding to changes in sound, motion,
electro-magnetic resonance or even sweat and blood. A world of forms
continuously generated, animated and rendered, where the unexpected sprouts
into existence under the fingers of skilled coders-animators-performers.
Images that can take a life of their own, moving from static to dynamic,
form becoming growth.

This workshop will introduce 'fluxus'[2] as a programming and performing
environment for real-time animation. We will cover a range of animation
techniques, from basic geometry, motion, texturing and compositing to more
advanced topics including simulations of physical systems [real or
imagined], interfacing with sensors and actuators, along with using audio
and network data. The participants will learn how to make inanimate bits
become animated and potentially life-like, able to mutate and grow through
continuous successions of change...

[1] "Live coding is not about tools. Algorithms are thoughts. Chainsaws are
tools. That's why algorithms are sometimes harder to notice than chainsaws."
TOPLAP Manifesto

[2] http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fluxus/

The workshop will take place at the FoAM lab > Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des
Charbonnages, 1080 Brussels, Belgium

If you would like to participate, please reply to this mail before the 21st
of November, along with a brief bio and a short statement outlining your
interest in realtime animation.



Soft-ware: Realtime Animation is a part of the .x-med-k. series of
workshops, organised by Nadine, 0kn0 and FoAM.

http://fo.am/xmedk/

Supported by: het Vlaams audiovisueel fonds (VAF) and de Vlaamse regering
(Ministerie van Cultuur)