“The Company” is the latest project by Andrea Cuius and Roland Ellis commissioned by Bring To Light Festival NYC. A suspended surface of 76 tungsten lamps form a catenary arch, playing host to live performances and revisiting the sounds of the 19th century East River industrial icons.

The piece intends to bring back an atmosphere informed by the architectural legacy, a machine being delivered to occupy the space that was once a bustling industrial environment. By either producing sounds or just reactive to the inputs from the environment, The Company is a sound reactive light installation.

Continue reading.... The Company [Cinder]

Once in a while comes a photography app that does something really different. If you’re a fan of action sports or just like to take pictures of moving objects you’re definitely going to like this. Nabit lets you catch the right moment and turn it into an action sequence photo like we’ve seen in skateboard/snowboard/BMX magazines.

Nabit lets you capture action sequence photos with your iPhone. The next time your buddy nails a switch inward heel or your dog snags a Frisbee mid-air, Nabit and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Whether you nail it or bite it, nothing beats capturing it with an awesome sequence shot.

Continue reading.... Nabit [iPhone]

2SLEEP1 is a playlist of audiovisual performances in text mode, designed to make you fall asleep. The idea is to show the music being composed in real-time along with typewriter-style animations.

Both the music interface and the graphics are built up from text symbols. This means that the (graphical) objects can work together with the (musical) instructions, on a visual level. Vank is a first rough test of this and Matsamöt makes a similar thing, without the improvisation. Finally, Echidna is a silent movie with semi-live music.

Continue reading.... 2SLEEP1 [Games]

Inspired by the neo-dadaist collages of Robert Rauschenberg, about a year ago James Alliban decided to write software which would allow him to quickly paint using using a webcam. In March this year, when the iPad 2 was released with both a front and back facing camera, James saw this as an opportunity to make a mobile version.

Composite allows you to remix your surroundings to create compositions. Users can paint pictures using live video stream by simply pointing their iPad towards your subject drawing over it. A variety of control over the brush and video stream is offered to allow for a range of different aesthetics. These include brightness, contrast, colour offset, alpha, blur and thickness.

More images and video below.

Continue reading.... Composite [iPad, openFrameworks]

Pierre Commenge aka Emoc creates knitted like photographs using Processing. The application, with no UI, follows deterministic rules where every pixel of the picture is given pictorial qualities from its components in a color space.Â

Continue reading.... Paysages [Processing]

From the creator of SunVox and a number of other very interesting apps for the iOS platform, Alexander Zolotov, comes an old school pixel experimental synth for both iPhone and iPad. The app includes multitouch arpeggiator and it is possible to draw waveform and play it at the same time. Simple yet beautiful and a lot of fun. See video below.

Platform: iPhone/iPad (Universal)
Version: 1.0
Cost: $0.99
Developer: Alexander Zolotov

/found via prostheticknowledge

Created by Doug Pfeffer, Hairrrr is a Mac application that converts images into fields of hair. A while back Doug posted some sample generated images that sort of looked like body hair on the Cinder forums. Although he still hasn’t found a project to integrate it with, he touched it up a little bit and wrapped it up in an OS X application. You can load your own image (through that button or drag n’ drop) and save the images out. Options include hair length, density and also ability to invert.

Download here (3.3mb).

See also activecellmedia.com

Doug Pfeffer is a developer at the Barbarian Group.

Created by Jeremy Awon and based on his processing sketch from about three years ago, rgb petri allows you to grow colors like bacteria in a petri dish and explore the spectrum of your iPhone & iPad display.

Each perimeter pixel copies itself outwards, with slightly mutated color. Tap anywhere to start growth, tapping once in a screen corner to bring up the menu, pan and zoom by pinching is included, tap twice and hold over colour to sample a new starting colour. Tap the sampling circle to restart with this colour. You can also create a circle which blocks the growth by tapping twice over empty space.

Whilst details of port are limited, I took the liberty to assume it was made using openFrameworks.
Made with cocos2d.

You can also try the java applet version here: jeremyawon.info/​rgbp/​

Platform: iPhone/iPad – Universal
Version: 1.0
Cost: $0.99
Developer: Jeremy Awon

The long awaited “21st century interpretation of the archetypical old school videogame adventure, designed exclusively for Apple’s touchtronic machinery” and one of the most anticipated games for the platform, aka Sword & Sworcery EP by Superbrothers, is now available in the AppStore.

In a nutshell, Sword & Sworcery EP is an exploratory action adventure with an emphasis on audio-video style, exploring musical mysteries and use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery. You can co-operate with friends via Twitter, explore the amazing pixel environment Superbrothers have created and absorb the unforgettable soundtrack by Jim Guthrie.

Music by Jim Guthrie exclusively for Sword & Sworcery.
Programming by Capy
Artwork by superbrothers aka Craig Adams

Available only for the iPad. iPhone-specific version of the game will arrive sometime next month.

Read the full preview on TouchArcade: Exclusive ‘Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP’ for iPad Hands-On Preview, Review on IGN: Sword & Sworcery EP iPad Review - Almost pixel-perfect and IndieCade 2010: Superbrothers’ Sword and Sworcery EP preview on TUAW.

If this is not enough, also check out Craig Adams’ profile piece on Kill Screen

Platform: iPad
Version: 1.0
Cost: $4.99
Developer: Capybara Games Inc.

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Six-Forty by Four-Eighty is an interactive lighting installation designed to reveal the materiality of computation by recontextualizing the common pixel. Composed of two hundred and twenty magnetic pixel-tiles in a darkened room, Zigelbaum + Coelho have created each pixel able to be touched, moved, and modified.

At the start of the day the pixel-tiles are packed together as a display and by the end of the day they will have migrated across the walls in the room. By transposing the pixel from the confines of the screen and into the physical world, focus is drawn to the materiality of computation itself and new forms for design emerge.

The team have developed a new technology that makes the glass in the pixel-tile sense touch as well as send information through your body when you are touching it. They had to create our own composite glass and case for that. In general, each tile can also receive incoming IR data so you can control it with a remote. They are battery powered and can last for up to two weeks on a single charge if they are constantly on. Holding down on the tile will make it pulse. Touching another tile will let you copy the colour of first tile onto the second one. The pixels can only talk to each other through your body, ie combining for example colours to create new colours or touching two tiles at the same time will copy third colour onto the new tile. They also work with a remote allowing you to cycle through colours from distance.

Materials: Injection Molded ABS/Polycarbonate, Glass, Light Emitting Diodes, Custom Electronics, Microcontroller, Embedded Software, Stainless Steel.

The team are publishing a paper with more detailed technical information at the end of the month so do keep an eye on the project’s website.

Designed by Marcelo Coelho and Jamie Zigelbaum, with the assistance of Joshua Kopin. Made in collaboration with the Fluid Interfaces Group, MIT Media Lab.

(Thanks Emilio)