Limbo presents and delivers live digital drawings by the artist Simon Faithfull. Wandering the world over the last 10 years, Faithfull has made hundreds of digital drawings using a Palm Pilot or iPhone that record his presence in a particular place, at a particular moment, somewhere on the surface of the planet. To date, over 500 observational sketches record what he saw in each of these places, from the streets of east London to the remote landscape of Antarctica and back again.

Limbo gives you access to all of these images, and sends you new drawings the moment that they are made and in addition you can find out how close you are to the latest one made, it’s exact locations. When the new drawing is available you will receive push notification.

Limbo is part of an ongoing series of web-based artworks commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella. The project is supported by Arts Council England, Cuttlefish, and ArtSway, where Simon Faithfull is an Associate artist.

Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: Free
Developer: Cuttlefish Multimedia

/found via thecreatorsproject

Publishing house McSweeney’s (wiki) has just released the new version of their iPhone/iPad app bringing you even closer to the diverse selection of stories, short films, interviews, comics and readings available daily, exclusively for the iOS platform. Artists and writers include Spike Jonze, Chris Ware, Judd Apatow, Jonathan Ames, Maurice Sendak, Miranda July, James Franco, Nicholson Baker, Wells Tower, Catherine Keener, Weird Al Yankovic and in the latest release, ‘Dynamic installation’ by Rafaël Rozendaal which was adapted especially for the McSweeney’s app.

In our continuing efforts to extend a tentacle into every cranny of human experience, we proudly present the Small Chair, a weekly selection from all branches of the McSweeney’s family. One week you might receive a story from the upcoming Quarterly, the next week an interview from the Believer, the next a short film from a future Wholphin. Occasionally, it might be a song, an art portfolio, who knows. None of this material will be available online and it’s all pretty sure to be good stuff.

We are more committed than ever to books, paper, and exploring the possibilities and challenges of our physical objects….At the same time, we’re always looking for new ways to communicate with our readers.McSweeneys.net has been an important part of our operation from our very beginning, and this project is the next logical step. It’s fun to try things like this, and the iOS format provides opportunities for working with different types of media, especially in small chunks and with fast delivery. We expect it to evolve in interesting and unpredictable ways, and hopefully you’ll follow along with us.

Version 2 now available features all-new iPad interface, Retina Display support, exclusive e-books, Twitter and Facebook integration, interactive explosions and handcrafted Push Notification jingles exclusively created by Nick Thorburn of Islands and Mister Heavenly.

Platform: iPad/iPhone (Universal)
Version: 2.0
Cost: $4.99
Developer: McSweeneys.net

In the multifaceted world of iOS apps for iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch, artists are beginning to carve a niche in the crowded landscape of Apple’s Appstore. One trend amongst software artists is to repurpose work that was originally written for desktop computers into small, compact versions that run smoothly on these mobile devices. Although some of these artist-designed apps utilize the location-aware and networked capabilities that these devices offer, several artists are revisiting the interactive and non-connected aspects of their art. One such piece is “Yellowtail” by Pittsburgh-based media artist, Golan Levin. Reexaming his project “Yellowtail”, originally released in 1998 as part of his “Audio-Visual Suite” of applications for the desktop computer, Levin has recreated the piece specifically for the iPhone. From his description: “Yellowtail repeats a user’s strokes end-over-end, enabling simultaneous specification of a line’s shape and quality of movement. Each line repeats according to its own period, producing an ever-changing and responsive display of lively, worm-like textures.” The experience of using Yellowtail is a fluid reminder of what made software-based art such an immersive experience back in the day. Also revisiting his old screen-based work from the 1990s was Scottt Snibbe‘s who has released several apps for the store that have even made it to Apple’s top download list. Maybe as Golan has said in the past, it’s about time for Apple to introduce an “Art” category to the store. Current artist apps are automatically put into the “Entertainment” category of the store which is true to some degree, but hardly does most of these apps justice as a designation.

At its core, Yellowtail it is an interactive software system for the gestural creation and performance of real-time abstract animation. Using a playful animated transformation of the user’s gesture, the software produces an ever-changing and responsive display of lively, worm-like textures. More general information about Yellowtail is available here, and a whole heap of really technical and historical context is here.

Yellowtail was originally developed as a skunkwork project at Interval Research Corporation (1998) with support from Michael Naimark, and later at the MIT Media Laboratory (1999-2000) with support from John Maeda’s Aesthetics and Computation Group (ACG). The iOS ports were developed in openFrameworks and were created with the assistance of Max Hawkins, Lee Byron, Jonathan Brodsky, and enabling support from the OF iPhone crew (Memo Akten, Zach Gage, Theo Watson, Zachary Lieberman, and many others).

Yellowtail can be experienced (with source code) in this interactive Java applet.

or

Download Yellowtail (Full-screen PC .exe, 2000)
This is the full-screen, sonified version of Yellowtail, the first instrument in the Audiovisual Environment Suite (AVES). [196k zip file, for Windows2000/XP. Requires 700Mhz+ CPU; an nVidia geForce or other OpenGL graphics card; and a Soundblaster-compatible sound card.]

Platform: iPhone/iPad (Universal)
Version: 1.0
Cost: $0.99
Developer: Golan Levin

Created in collaboration with more than 70 media artists and developers from across the world, Written Images is the first of its kind, a ‘programmed book’, continuously regenerated for the digital printing process, offering each reader a unique experience.

The team, including Martin Fuchs and Peter Bichsel first announced their project in February 2010. Since then, more than 70 image generating software programs were submitted. A jury, including myself, singled out the 42 most creative and successful submissions to be included in the book.

Now, with your support the team hopes to produce the first edition of this unique book and also introduce the “Written Images” print-on-demand service. Please support the project by donating as little as $15 giving you in return one-of-a-kind single postcard (select the artist of your choice). $60 will get you one-of-a-kind set of 42 postcards, and with $200 you will receive the one-of-a-kind Written Images book, surely to be a collectors item. In any case, whichever donation you choose, you are above all supporting this fantastic project!

Support on Kickstarter!

Artists: 386dx25, Antoni Kaniowski, Ariel Malka, Carl-Johan Rosén, Casey Reas,clone, David Bollinger, David Bouchard, e m o c, flight404, Golan Levin,Jonathan McCabe, Jörg Piringer, Julien Deswaef, Kim Asendorf, kraftner,Leonardo Solaas, Lia, Luke Sturgeon, Marcin Ignac, Marius Watz, Michael Zick Doherty, Mitchell Whitelaw, Moka, Nervous System, Oliver Smith, paolon,Perceptor, rhymeandreason, Ricard Marxer, Roberto Christen, Rui Madeira,Ryan Alexander, Ryland Wharton, Sansumbrella, sojamo, Stefano Maccarelli,Szymon Kaliski, Victor Martins, W:Blut, William Lindmeier, zenbullets.

About:

Digital technologies are successful tools in contemporary design. No matter whether the material is processed by handicraft or digitally altered, the artist always creates out of his very own inspiration. He or she develops the rules of aesthetics which will be valid for their work. These rules will be played with and altered until the pre-defined final product comes into being. Within this work process the computer is not so much seen as a medium, but rather as a programmed simulator consisting of various materials and means to allow analogue steps. This is the point at which generative art starts and helps generating products with the help of self-programmed, digital tools. A single impulse leads to a chain reaction of processes which are defined through mathematical relations. Read more..

UPDATE 01/03/2011: Video of the image rendering queue program added below, 100xfaster. Made with openFrameworks.

Very small selection of images:

Written Images Website:

Real-time audio reactive app made with Processing by Stefano Maccarelli, made for Suspect Device’s new release “Beastie Noize EP” (itunes link) by T-Psy. The EP cover was created using the image taken from this Processing app.

Apparently the original app is running at 60fps, movie just 24, so lots of “flashes” are missed in the video recording. Audio is Escaping the System by T-Psy, part od Beastie Noize EP, label Suspect Device Records.

via U.T.E. + Escaping The System – CreativeApplications.Net on Vimeo.

see also onedotzero.app [Processing] + more Processing projects