Shopping in 1 minute is an artgame that is playfully criticizing the increasing desire of society for consumption. Our inspiration for creating the artgame came from the craziness of people during the sales period: long lines in front of supermarkets, stone-age-style behavior, lots of useless products, etc.

Thus, we are inviting audience to train for the next sales period. A player has to scan as many products as possible during a minute. As a reward each player will receive a ticket with bonus points according to his score.

Project done with Varvara Guljajeva.

Video is done with the piece install in Tabakfabrik at Ars Electronica 2010 in the Interface Culture exhibition.

Another aspect of the project was the selection of media, our aim was to replace a computer screen and integrate various devices for making the installation more rich. Thus, we came up with arcade-like screen that we built on our own. In the box are a LED-display, 7sigment LEDs, Arduino, light and an imagine (many thanx to Sabina Dallu!) of special light-sensitive paper.

Credits:

Idea and concept: Mar canet sola
Technical development: Dietmar suoch, Mar canet sola
Artistic direction: Mar Canet Sola, Dietmar Suoch
3d artist: Jayme Cochrane, Timm Wilks and Marcin Wodzyński
Exhibition design: Marc Atanes

My name is 192.168.159.16 – is a metaphorical visualization of nowadays-human beings.  In my point of view we are not bounded to one body anymore. We are extended through networks to infinity. The location does not matter, what matters is connection. Thus, at this point I totally agree with Mitchell “disconnection would be amputation. I link therefore, I am.” We are becoming gradually fully equipped and totally dependent on technology cyberorgs.

The installation consists of 4 dolls in each a speaker inside, 4 relays, arduino, a computer, and a modem. We are using Processing, TTS (text to speech), and Arduino. The independent and at the same time isolated network is created. IP addresses are continuously renewed and sent to a random doll. Thus only one doll is speaking at a time (4 speakers are controlled by 4 relays through arduino).

Project developed in collaboration with Varvara Guljajeva.
Exhibited at Fantasmarama group exhibition in Linz, Austria (September 09)
23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter 20.-30.01.2010 (Stuttgart, Germany)
received a jury prize for media art installation at 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter!

Installation consists of two parts, one is a web in which tags are displayed with stories of lost loves that is the depositing for the public and the second is located inside the exhibition hall where a printer will print the stories and deposited in a container that these will

http://impossiblelove.org

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The three games combine a minigame with questions referring to the crisis that is talking about, becoming a way to learn about and remember the past bubbles.

80’s crisis
In the mini-game about 80’s crisis the enemy is the increasing price of petrol and comodities (raw materials like iron, coal, etc…). Moreover a player needs to destroy the high prices by shooting, otherwise the prices go even higher. The game design reminds the classical game called Space Invaders.

90’s Crisis
At that time the high interest rates set the piece of world into dangerous. A player has to fight against the high interest rates and answer questions related to this crisis in the game Arkanoid Style.

Dotcom Crisis
Dotcom bubbles exploded around 2000 and put the whole world economy at risk. A player has to stop the dotcom bubble by hunting meteors in Asteroids. A palyer needs to answer all questions in order to increase the score.

DIY technology and open source

In order to release this new games for GameBoy(TM) platform, we developed our own DIY cadbridge and used some open software tools like GBDK, GBTD, GBMB, ATC and Lemon player. We have now technology that allow us to produce small series of cadbridges (designed by David Pello) that run in original gameboys and gameboy advance. Thus are able to become an indie game develpment studio for gameboy.

GameBroker ha sido desarrollado para su presentación en el festival Innmotion en junio 2009 @ CCCB, Barcelona.

Multi-timeline is a syncronitch timeline system designed to visualize networks over time. This project is done in collaboration Dietmar Offenhuber working for Ludwig Boltzmann Institute. An example of the timeline displaying a historic data from artist collective The thing can be see at website of LBI.

The timelines is coded in A3 and flex3. All code will be available in my google code.

This game was shown at facade festival during Ars Electronica 2009.

The game is played by two teams of four, each team with a unique color. Each player is one pixel in the building and uses a wireless gamepad to move and shoot pixels around the building trying to score points or kill members of the other team. Players can block shots from the other team to prevent them from losing pixels and losing the game. The game uses a unique screen of more than 1000 pixels and a huge size that will entertain all players.

The facade of the AEC building is an interactive screen and an open platform for creativity than more than thousand pixels. Each pixel in a normal AEC windows are 3m width by 2 height and It can show any RGB color done with a 4 LED system (RGB+ white). The game was first time presented at Saturday 9th September 2009.

>> Other video played in february 2010

Credits:

Concept and development: Mar Canet

Sound: Enrique Tomas

Special thanks for help to Futurelab members: Andreas Pramboeck and Christopher Lindinger.

Thanks to Javi Lloret to record the video.

In the field of interactive installation artwork, GameArt interfaces have been extremely popular means of expression. In most cases GameArt pieces take single concepts, standarized and popularized throughout the history of computer gaming, and expand on them through new forms of interface design, computational design, or enhanced graphic environments.

PunchOut is an artistic installation that remediates the classic Nintendo game of the same title. It achieves its classification through the design of a custom interface that forces participants into a full-bodied experience. The major components of this interface are a padded interactive screen, and a robust floor controller. These two interface components map directly to the controls of the game’s original interface: the classic square controller (buttons: up, down, left, right, select, start, a, b). Additionally, the installation “fights back” with a player… When the character on-screen is hit during a boxing match, the installation briefly flashes bright light in attempt to create a sense of disorientation for the player. The physicality of punching the soft screen, hopping back and forth in all directions, and the consequences of being “hit” amount to a physically embodied experience of a game that was originally playable only with one’s fingertips. The artistic purpose behind the design of this installation is to explore the possibilities of expanding old games and old technologies to create new experiences using low-level technical approaches to new media interaction.

This project was originally conceived for the Interfaces For Games workshop conducted by Phd candidate Mika Satomi at the Interface Culture department, University of Art and Design Linz. The entire project uses publicly available materials, and is constructed using Max/MSP, opensource hardware (Arduino), studio flashes and DIY sensors designed and constructed by the artists. All of these components come together in a full-body experience of a classic game, that is, they augment rather than recreating the original playability.

A soft screen is mounted inside a wooden frame that houses the entire installation, including the computer. Lights are hidden to the sides of the soft screen and flash whenever the player’s digital character is hit, in attempt to cause persistence of vision and some visual disorientation. The sensors used in the soft screen, as well as within the padded floor controls, are an original design conceived and developed by the artist.

The construction is simple, using basic components such as wires, foam and metallic tape. The concept behind the sensors was to create a simple, cheap, robust solution which can be easily fabricated. The artists have provided open access to the design, through the form of a tutorial, made available on the internet. These sensors are wired to a game controller so that the play is kept in identical fashion to the original style.

The original game is untouched, custom software tracks the computer screen and registers when a player is hit by his opponent. When the software registers a hit, the system triggers lights to the sides of the screen (peripheral vision) to flash in order to create a sense of disorientation.

This piece was exhibit first time in “Over Games” exhibition in Sevilla curated by Zemos98 and Flavio Escribano. The piece is explain the DIY done in: http://www.instructables.com/id/PunchOut-The-Real-Installation/

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