Projects

TattooAR
Ongoing project fusing body augmentation with Augmented Reality. Brief video can be seen here

@Arch_OS
Arch-OS is an open system that provides data for artists, engineers and scientists to create new work. To make use of social networking systems, I created a Twitter stream which is updated every 15 minutes.
@Arch_OS

free:dyne
free:dyne is an operating system developed to provide anyone with a complete set of tools for productivity, realtime audio/video processing and development. It is a live distribution that doesn’t need installing, you simply plug it in, boot up, work, shutdown, unplug and walk away with your tools and data on the same USB drive. The added benefit of this is the user is no longer dependant on the ‘cloud’ to use and store their data. The steps to create the live distribution has been reduced to 4 to try and make the system more accessible to the masses. The supporting website for the distribution can be found here.

Furby Wireless Network
The project is an experiment in changing the use of electronic toys into data communications nodes by connecting two Furbys to a computer each and then pass data between them. It looks at adaptivity from two different viewpoints. Firstly, the obvious change in the use of the toy from a play thing into a DCE and secondly, the users having to adapt their use of language when using chat software with a Furby acting as an intermediary. A short video of the project in action can be watched here.

Greenwood 2.0
Mark Greenwood is a poet who has a particular method of writing. Taking this method as the starting point, a virtual version of Mark was created to write generative poetry using PHP. Some more details about the project can be viewed here.

sosHappis
The project is an investigation into measuring the immeasurable. Everyone says that they’re happy or very happy or even sad but what is the criteria that they use to measure it. sosHappi is a mobile phone app that measures your level of happiness. Based on Opta stats used to measure a footballer’s performance within a match, you simply pick the indicators that have happened to you on the day and your personal happindex is generated. If none apply to you, then you can upload your own. As part of the S-OS exhibition, your figure could then be loaded up onto the main server and an overall figure for the city was calculated. The app can be downloaded from here.

Noogy
Noogy was a building-size Tamagotchi-style virtual pet that combined ‘smart’ buildings and mobile phone technologies. The AI and SMS system that provided the basis of his personality was based on an intelligent mobile phone marketing tool that I developed with digital creative Jamie Taylor called Stanley. It was nominated for and won the mobile category Media Innovation Award and was described by the judges as “an innovative way in which it used artificial intelligence to receive text information and respond to it”. To watch a short video of Noogy in action, click here.

drumThing
drumThing is an experiment in extending a traditional drum kit. Using a custom built MAX/MSP patch, the percussionist learns to play it as they would any other part of their kit and enables them to mix different fills previously impossible due to physical limitations. Project documentation is available here.

The patch is released under the Creative Commons licence as at the bottom of the page and can be downloaded here.

Watch a video performance of drumThing here – the file is 23.2MB.