Z/Z/Z/ – Archiving film, animation and videogame image analysis

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S.T.U.N. Runner – Z-Projection of Maximum Value for Each Pixel

Z/Z/Z/ is a project hatched by Daniel Rehn and Sarah Caluag dedicated to "describing the dimension of cultural artifacts that are difficult to explain using natural language". This endeavour deploys a custom visualization workflow to break down footage from film, animation and games and reconstitute this source material into stills and animated GIFs using a range of image analysis techniques. This playful and technically-minded approach to remixing media has yielded an ever-growing database of case studies which includes many important precedents (John Whitney's "Catalog", Stanley Kubrick's "2001, A Spacey Odyssey", "Astroids" etc.). Daniel and Sarah recently chatted with CAN about their work and they've provided us with the following overview of their research.

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Kinograph – Affordable and scaleable film digitisation

Kinograph is an open source project that makes film digitisation affordable and scaleable. It uses components available on the internet, a few 3D printed parts, and a consumer level camera and it produces high quality video with sound.

Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM) by YCAM – Download

C++ creative coding toolkit to create realtime feedback environments for dancers is now available for download. Available both as open source download and applications for Mac and Windows to choreograph or rehearse previously programmed scenes.

Cycles – 17 laser projectors visualise audio inside a sphere

Created by COCOLAB from Mexico and commissioned by ARCA, Cycles is an audio visual installation that uses a series of laser projectors to visualise short cycle audio compositions by a collection of A/V artists.

The Abyss – Graphics, animation and interaction with Processing [Tutorial]

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