Company: Trollbäck + Company

Location: New York, USA
Type: Full-Time
Category: Creative Code

Description

Looking for a Creative Technologist to join the digital team at Trollbäck+Company.

Ideal candidate has a mastery of C++ programming in audiovisual environments for installations, as well as experience developing engaging mobile applications.

Experience in a small, creative studio is desired, but not required; candidate should have a strong understanding of how to collaborate in a creative environment across multiple platforms.

This is a full-time position in our New York office.

Key Responsibilities

● Collaborate with a creative team including designers, animators and producers
● Develop rapid prototypes in a variety of programming languages
● Pitch and develop digital and interactive concepts

Requirements

● Exceptional portfolio of work
● Obsessive attention to coding practices and visual design detail
● 2+ years of experience with C++ design and development
● Knowledge of 2D and 3D computer graphics algorithms for animation, motion and sound
● Project based experience with creative coding frameworks such as openFrameworks, Processing and Cinder
● iOS and Android development

If you’re interested, please send your resume, links to a portfolio and relevant projects and a quick note to: hello@trollback.com.

About Trollbäck + Company

Trollbäck + Company is a creative studio communicating engaging ideas in the simplest, smartest and most visionary ways. Led by executive creative director Jakob Trollbäck, the collaborative group directs television commercials, designs film titles, brands networks and creates experience-based content for global brands.

L Train Notwork is a public art project organised by the WeMakeCoolShit collective. It is also the first ever mobile pirate WiFi Intranet on the NYC Subway created to encourage strangers to talk to each other via live chat room/dating site curated from local authors, poets and visual artists. The content was served “legally” from a portable battery powered webservers that created WiFi hotspots on the subway from Monday 14th Nov to Friday 19th nov.

Continue reading.... L Train Notwork [Events]

We’ve teamed up with Geeky By Nature to bring CAN readers a chance to win free tickets to the event to be held in NYC between March 31st and April 1st. Included are two full days of design, art and code for digital designers and developers. Read on how to win..

What is Geeky by Nature all about? It’s about bringing together the worlds best artists, designers, coders, and creative minds to explore the possibilities that other disciplines can bring. Whether it’s computer based, film, print or inspirational, one thing is for sure, it will be unmissable! GBN will be an amazing two days, exploring the best from art, code & design. Add a list of speakers who are second to none, a whole lot of creative inspiration, the backdrop of New York City and you have the ingredients for a really exciting two days!

The line includes Jared Tarbell,  Branden Hall,  Keith Peters,  Hillman Curtis,  Gmunk,  Grant Skinner, Robert Hodgin,  Joshua Davis,  Ken Perlin, Paula Scher, Lisa Larson-Kelley,  Rob Chiu,  Andre Michelle,  Jer Thorp, Joa Ebert,  Rich Shupe,  Chuck Freedman, Joshua Hirsch and Joel Gethin Lewis.

We have a total of 4 tickets (4 x $299) to giveaway and we’ll find a lucky winner every weak leading up to the event.

All you have to do is tweet this post and you’ll be entered into the random draw.

One lucky winner will be chosen each week starting Wednesday 9th, then 16th, 23rd and 30th March.
Make sure you are following @creativeapps as we will send you a DM if you are a winner.

WINNER #1 - @lionelbui

WINNER #2 - @nselikoff

WINNER #3 - @mariame

WINNER #4 - @AlliArchitect

If you can’t wait and want to save money, see CAN sidebar for special code to get $100 off the price of the ticket.

See you in NYC!

Rules and information

1. The event is being held in New York City: SVA Theatre from March 31st to 1st April 2011. You will need to arrange your own travel and accommodation (not included). If you win the ticket and you can’t make it to the event, we would appreciate you let us know so we can give the ticket to someone else. Tickets once issued are not transferable!

2. Competition is open to everyone and anyone but you must be over 18 years of age. There will be a total of FOUR winners for this competition.

3. Winner will be selected by random.

4. Winner will be contacted first via twitter to provide email address. If they wish to pass on a ticket to another person, we will need their email but this MUST be done before the ticket is issued. If the winner does not respond within 3 days of each giveaway we will pick another winner. You must follow @creativeapps to receive a DM.

5. Only one entry per person.

Childhood Ghosts is an interactive animation created by Eric John Olson using openFrameworks with a series of hand drawn frames of a child. The installation allows visitors to engage digital character via a set of predefined tracked movements, a sort of discovery to make the character react and come alive.

The music sampled in this video is by Kim Hiorthøy.

Originally from Tacoma, Washington, Eric John Olson is an artist and engineer. After graduating Seattle University in Computer Science and attending Columbia University for Human Computer Interaction, he worked on a number of large interactive art installations in New York City. His personal work often mirrors his life-long relationship with technology and science and its conflict with art and nature. It is this tension between the logical and emotional and between literal and figurative that animates his art.

For more projects by Eric Olson, see ericdidit.com

See also Boo! [Processing]

Creators Project interviews Paola Antonelli about the forthcoming “Talk To Me” exhibition at MoMA including core themes driving this exhibition and a sneak preview of a few of the objects to be included in the show.

We may not think about it consciously on a day to day basis, but objects around us are always talking to us in both explicit and implicit ways. There’s the obvious directive of a stop sign or a traffic cone, but there’s also the unspoken messaging conveyed via the ATM machine, the alarm clock, and that shiny new iPad. Objects have always been designed with the idea of communicating their use and meaning in mind, and it’s this relationship that MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, Paola Antonelli, seeks to explore in her upcoming exhibition.

Talk to Me is slated for summer of 2011.

/via our good friends at Creators Project: Julia Kaganskiy

MOMA

If you recall soundrop as well as the original version Balldroppings (circa 2003) made for the Android/Desktop by Joshua T. Nimoy, also worth mentioning Squiggle for iPad, Alexander Chen has created this new piece titled Conductor, which recreates the New York subway system as a musical instrument. It’s currently built in HTML5 + Javascript. Alex notes SVG was very useful, as he could easily create the design in Illustrator, then import the coordinates into Javascript.

The interactivity shown here, where each pluck makes new subway lines appear, is for video demo purposes only. I plan to import an actual subway schedule from the MTA’s subway API and have subway trains triggering the performance. After that, I hope to start on an iPad version that would function more as a user-driven instrument.

Project Page + more on his vimeo.

This video shows work in progress. We’ll update the post once the web version is online, no link just yet.

Project is now live. You can see it at mta.me and read more about it here.

If you live in NYC, here is something coming this friday definitely worth checking out:

Devotion Gallery Presents:
The Root Of The Root : Generative Art By Marius Watz, Paul Prudence and Aaron Meyers
Opening 6Pm On Friday, October 22nd.
On View Until Sunday November 21St 2010.

This exhibition showcases three artists working with generative code to create abstract and reactive works. Marius Watz and Paul Prudence have been contributing to the dialogue for computational art since 2005 with seminal essays, some of the foremost blogs and ground-breaking software. As a seminal member of the processing community, Marius Watz has, in many ways, defined part of the aesthetic associated with code-based art. Paul Prudence works with VVVV and with visual feedback systems to create audio-visual performances. Aaron Meyers is an artist and programmer using generative strategies in the creation of software and moving image. He is currently a fellow at the Eyebeam Art & Technology center where he recently led the Visual Music Collaborative workshop in collaboration with Ghostly International. Marius Watz will be teaching a special workshop on Processing at Devotion Mon Oct 18th – Tues Oct 26th. More details.

Devotion Gallery
54 Maujer St
Brooklyn, NY 11206
718-576-1107

We have written about Paul, Aaron and Marius a number of times in the past. It should be an interesting mix of work, hosted by Phoenix Perry in his Devotion Gallery.

Previously:
Node10 [Events, vvvv], Hydro Acoustic Study [vvvv], Visual Music Collaborative, Cosmogramma Fieldlines [openFrameworks] and more..

Video of the recent Visual Music Collaborative workshop has just been added by Aaron Meyers to our group on Vimeo. We wrote about it few days ago with examples of work produced but the video below discusses ideas behind some of the projects including guest speakers such as Zach Lieberman (oF) and Peter Kirn (CDM). The event was hosted by Eyebeam this July in NYC and led by Aaron Meyers, in collaboration with Re:Group artist, Aaron Koblin and in creative partnership with Ghostly International.

For more information on this and future workshops see visualmusic.tumblr.com + Eyebeam + Wiki

This is a collection of work produced at the recent Visual Music Collaborative workshop hosted by Eyebeam this July in NYC. The event was led by Aaron Meyers, in collaboration with Re:Group artist, Aaron Koblin and in creative partnership with Ghostly International. Invited participants were asked to explore the relationship between music, sound, and dynamically generated imagery and motion. Topics included sound-analysis techniques, advanced OpenGL programming, and interfacing with mobile control devices.

The selection below shows only a small selection of the work done at the workshop. As more appear on line, we’ll add to the list although I am sure, as I write this, the organisers are working on collecting them all. For full list of participants see here.

For more information on this and future workshops see visualmusic.tumblr.com + Eyebeam + Wiki

(photo above – eyebeam’s flickr stream)

the Illusionist from Lars Berg on Vimeo.

music: Shigeto, “the illusionist”

made with openframeworks

BETA: Visuals (x) CWCIII – Telefon Tel Aviv / Richard Devine from /// *** this.riley *** \\\ on Vimeo.

OpenFrameworks live audio analysis / visual generation, OSC in/out (to be controlled or control other devices) 2D Geometry + GL shaders /// semi auto control via analysis or manually from performers input

Special track CWCIII – Telefon Tel Aviv / Richard Devine for Charlie Cooper on Ghostly International

Look at all the Smiling Faces — Shigeto from jonobr1 on Vimeo.

This video is a recording of my visual performance to Shigeto’s new track, Look at all the Smiling Faces, on July 23, 2010. This is the culmination of the 5 day long Master Class Workshop at Eyebeam (http://eyebeam.org/events/summer-school-masterclass-visual-music-collaborative) in New York.

While listening to the track — in total 299 times this week — I imagined some kind of microscopic underwater scene. I wanted to merge this idea with my desire and passion to perform. With the guidance of the instructors, Aaron Meyers and Aaron Koblin, I decided to interface the application with my XBox 360 Controller.

Built with Processing

Visual Music Collaborative – Sieve test w/ Dabrye + Dog Eating Ice Cream from Will Calcutt on Vimeo.

School of Seven Bells – Windstorm (Improv) from blair neal on Vimeo.

This is a visual improv I recorded to the SVIIB song “Windstorm” off of their new album Disconnect from Desire. Unfortunately, my 4 year old computer is not able to chew through video and do screen grabs at a very high framerate so it’s incredibly choppy, so please don’t take it as anything polished.

Built in Max/msp and jitter.

Eyebeam & Ghostly International – Visual Music Workshop from George Michael Brower on Vimeo.

Christopher Willits: Colours Shifting
Ghostly International

Performed live for this recording, using data gathered from the Echo Nest API.

Made in Processing.

The Old Man and the Sea from Evan Boehm on Vimeo.

My week’s output for the Visualist Master Class at Eyebeam NY, July 19th-23rd. This piece was written in C++ and is fully interactive.

The basis of the course was to create a visual accompaniment to a song off the Ghostly International label. Choosing The Sight Below’s ‘Simmer’ I decided to recreate Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea as a serious of 3D dioramas.

In the novella, the protagonist has lost his pride and respect within the community because he has not caught a fish for 86 days. On the 87th day, a giant Marlin appears who he battles to catch. After a long struggle where he refers to the Marlin as ‘brother,’ he finally subdues the fish and brings him aboard. On the way back to land, the fisherman has to fight off numerous sharks who are attracted by the trail of blood in the water. Eventually, the fisherman returns to land with just the massive bones left. The ordeal can be read as the man’s fight for his sense of self and purpose with the Marlin the physical representation.

My interest lay in the use of polygon reduction as a storytelling tool. 3D graphics models are made up of a series of points (vertices) that are ‘skinned’ to create models. The more points, the smoother and more detailed the model. Could reducing/increasing the number of points on a model be used to drive a story forward or create a emotional response? Throughout the piece the character’s emotional state is represented by both the polygon count and distortion of the water.

Hopefully a first experiment of many.

Led by Aaron Meyers, in collaboration with Re:Group artist, Aaron Koblin and in creative partnership with Ghostly International, Visual Music Collaborative is a summer school masterclass hosted by Eyebeam this July in NYC.

Invited participants will explore the relationship between music, sound, and dynamically generated imagery and motion. Topics will include sound-analysis techniques, advanced OpenGL programming, and interfacing with mobile control devices. Guest speakers and musicians provide additional insight. The master class culminates in an event where participants perform using work created during the week.

Participation in this program is via competitive application process only. Applicants should be at least at the graduate level of study, or have an emerging creative practice, and have established experience using OpenFrameworks, Processing, or an equivalent programming tool. Content created during this workshop will be released under Creative Commons licensing and may be promoted by Ghostly International.

Qualified applicants can apply here.
Applications are due May 21, and participants will be notified by May 28.

More info on the event here.