I am pleased to announce the release of Supakitch’s website. Check out the gorgeous work of this Brooklyn-based artist and don’t forget to stop by @ MetroPlastique for some wearable goodies he designed with Koralie.

As part of the Siana festival, Gravity was exposed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and in Nanchang, China.
The application was reworked @2Roqs to accept the management of unicode characters and better filtering of incoming sms messages, through a web application interface.

I was invited to give a two days workshop on Processing and a conference about free and open source code-related software in the city of Beirut in Lebanon. This was part of the Crea Numerica event, which gathered several francophone artists during one week.
As usual, such events are appropriate to meet interesting people, and I had good times with Fred & Jean-Marie of SlidersLab. Also, I discovered “Le Temple des Montagnes”, a simple and yet beautiful installation by swiss artist Camille Scherrer.

Photo shot in the Bacchus temple in Baalbek.

I am pleased to announce the release of ofxJavascript, an addon developped for openframeworks allowing to use javascript in c++ applications. More to come soon !

Old friend @eko and I painted this wall on a saturday afternoon. It’s been almost ten years that I hadn’t hold a spraycan, and was pleased to rediscover the feeling (and the smell) of it.

More eurogeometry pieces here.

I made the visuals for a cool catz & tuff wheelz gig @ 4sans in Bordeaux. Animations were controlled remotely from an iphone thanks to the beloved Mrmr.
Vimeo video here.

I had the opportunity to teach several workshops, give a talk and show Gravity during the month of March.

• La Chose Programmée, a workshop held @ BBB in Toulouse (February 23th to 26th), where code together with Bluetooth technologies on mobile phones were explored with Etienne Cliquet and some students of the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Toulouse.
  Read a more detailed article on 2Roqs website.
• Openframeworks workshop, held @ Craslab in Paris (February 28th to March 1st). By the way, version 006 was just released a few days ago and has now support for iPhone development. Check a tutorial on Memo’s website (more to come).
  Slides about Openframeworks (pdf, french)
• Code as a creative tool, a talk followed by a short Processing workshop given for the festival Siana in Evry (March 23rd). Yay, it was very cool to talk about the early Atari & Amiga demoscene in the end of the 80’s.
  Scroll some more text about this on 2Roqs website.
• Gravity was exhibited twice in Bordeaux (March 17th to 20th) . The first installation was shown for “la semaine de la langue française”, and it was set up in an old nunnery that is part of the Drac Aquitaine, a french government organization responsible for promoting cultural events.
  The other one was set up as part of the E.motion electronic festival in Bordeaux. The animation was projected on the Utopia movie theater’s facade. This event was a huge success as the application received more than 1000 sms messages in roughly 3 hours!
  Videos, photos on 2Roqs website.

A quickie application was developed with Vision Factory allowing words to be only projected on bodies surface, with infrared blob detection. Many thanks to our italian dancers M. and A. from the bubbling Pscht Pshit. The whole video was shot @ 2Roqs and assembled by Michaël. Music by Splank Studio.

>>>E.Motion website <<<

From the 27th of February to the 28th of March, french collective Neurosystem will organize concerts, performances, talks and installations across the city of Bordeaux around the electronic and multimedia cultures.

>>>E.Motion website <<<

Among other, Gravity will be shown and projected on the outside wall of the Utopia cinema the 17th of March, while a concert and projections will be held inside. It will also be featured during one week into the DRAC abbey.

We@2Roqs were commissioned to develop an interactive application for the re-opening of Aquarium de La Rochelle at the end of January 2009. The installation uses Vision Factory as the core engine for the rendering.

A more detailed article can be found there, with screenshots of the tool that was used to model the fishes.