Who Workshop lead by Boris Vitázek//Stix
When Thu, Apr 19th 2012 - 16:30 until Sat, Apr 21st 2012 - 19:30
Where CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Kubelíkova 1548/27, 12800, Prague, Czech Republic

CIANT invites you for intensive workshop of BORIS VITÁZEK in VVVV usage for interacitve video design. Three afternoons, in perfect space of CIANT lab, with enthusisastic lector and the people creative and flaming for design just as you are... (The series is of course free of charge.)

Zveme všechny zájemce o interaktivní design na intenzivní workshop zaměřený na základy užívání populárního programovacího prostředí VVVV. Třídenní školení pod vedením Borise Vitázka poběží přímo v labu mezinárodního centra CIANT. Během tří dnů se seznámíte se základy VVVV, abyste na konci byli

check in: vvvvorkshop@ciant.cz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZcbYPTz-Cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbmNb3D4eXQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMaOZrJthfI

Who Omniversity, MadLab, Elliot Woods
When Sat, Mar 24th 2012 - 10:00 until Sun, Mar 25th 2012 - 17:30
Where Manchester Digital Laboratories, 36-38 Edge street, Manchester, United Kingdom

Around 10 years ago Processing was released (2001), marking the acceleration of international interest into merging design/art, with powerful computational graphics and hardware. In this time VVVV, openFrameworks, Processing, Cinder, Jitter, and the many other tools have been employed and crafted to satisfy this desire to rapidly create prototype and deploy ideas in the fields of Visual Arts, Architecture, Informational Design, Visual Music, Interactive Performance, Physical Computing and Advertising Media.
VVVV (first released 1998) is a unique tool initially created by MESO, Frankfurt to create ‘Digitial Interiors’. It is now publicly available and free to use for non commercial purposes.

VVVV is powerful toolkit of media technologies, boasting a glut of built in functionality, tools and examples. You can safely presume that you can get it to interface with almost anything you want, it can generate almost anything you want. There aren’t any other media toolkits that can perform so much ‘out of the box’, having you projecting kinect tracked video onto buildings or controlling robot arms from twitter in days rather than weeks. The true power of the tool lies within the elegance within which it makes its features available. In the opinion of this author, it can usurp all other platforms in terms of development speed, power and flexibility.

VVVV has been used for :

Long term installations (>3 years runtime)
Quick installations (<10mins to develop) Vast installations (>50 projectors)
Deployed installations (>50 units)
TV shows (The X Factor)
Hosting websites
Making my mobile phone ring when the postman arrives if I’m at the cafe downstairs (1 hour development)
Almost anything
Learning Outcomes

This is a 2 day course, run on Saturday and Sunday.

You will learn:

A hands on ‘by the seat of your pants’ tour of VVVV’s features and how to get started with each bit. Create a mental map of the VVVV landscape through experience, so every bit of new learning can be hooked onto an explained element of the system.
Be able to work with VVVV and a projector
Be able to map content from inside your computer onto real world objects using a projector
Understanding of VVVV fundamentals

What you need to be familiar with

You should be proficient with computers (know how to operate, setup, fix your mums).
Any experience with coding or visual based development environements will come in super useful (Flash/ActionScript, Javascript, C/++, C#, Visual Basic, Objective-C, Python, Arduino, Max/MSP, etc).

Software and costs

All software is freely available for learning/non-commercial purposes, and copies will be distributed with the course materials on the day.
We will be using the latest version of VVVV at the time of the workshops (currently 26, which can be downloaded from downloads)

Equipment you’ll need

You will need to bring a PC Computer (ideally a laptop) with:

Windows XP/Vista/7 installed.
Latest Windows Service Packs / latest updates to DirectX 9/10/11
A GPU within the top 200 of this list (or better/equivalent) http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html (e.g. Geforce 8600 or better, ATI Radeon HD 5450 or better). If your GPU isn’t up here, then please get in touch on elliot@kimchiandchips.com, and I’ll let you know if your graphics chipset is really good enough to get cracking.
WIFI or wired ethernet
A VGA or DVI port (or adapters to get to one of these, ideally VGA)
A mouse with at least 2 buttons (left and right mouse buttons).
Intel Apple Macs are fine, but you must use Bootcamp. You CAN NOT use virtualisation e.g. Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox.

Tutor Biography

Elliot Woods is ½ of international interaction design studio Kimchi and Chips, with works featured in Wired, Engadget and the BBC. He is a European and international protagonist of the projection mapping scene, creating tools and techniques that have been employed in multi-million dollar marketing campaigns and niche art projects alike. Elliot taught a full time projection mapping course at NODE 10 (VVVV’s own forum of the digial arts) and has taught primary school pupils, university students and full time proffessionals the art and techniques of projection mapping.

Book a course here: http://s.madlab.org.uk/vvvv2

Who Patrick Jost (elektromeier) Alex Miao (liquid, rexgo interactive)
When Sun, Feb 19th 2012 - 10:30 until Sun, Feb 19th 2012 - 18:00
Where Xin Che Jian http://xinchejian.com, Anhua Road No.76 suite 301 (near Jiangsu Road), Changning District, Shanghai, CHINA 200050 , China

The second part of the workshop focusing on doing things in 3D space and explains some basics for that we had no time in the first part:

basics & a bit more:

• Subpatches: Organise your patches in subpatches. modularity, reuse your patches later.
• More spreadoperations: select, getslice, setslice, spectralnodes & binsizes etc.
• Multiple renderers and transform them to create large multiscreen projections. (example: projections on large buildings)
• Using the output of the renderer as a texture. Create an animationpatch convert it to a texture and use cool PostFX filters on it.
• Nodes for creating and manipulating textures.
• Filternodes, smoothly filter between changing values for creating nice and smooth animations.

exploring 3d-space

• Terminolgy (Mesh, Vertices, Texturecoords, UV Mapping, Indices, Normals etc).
• Using cameratransformations (perspective, position, orientation) on the renderer and animating the camera.
• Transformations in 3D Space
• About shaders and how to use them
• Mesh Import from 3d software (.Xfile, Collada)
• Having Fun with spreading in 3d Space
• A simple 3d mapping example on one or more cubes.

If theres time&energy left:

• Using Kinect to create interactive graphics
• Connecting vvvv to an iphone or android phone to control patches via OSC
• Connecting arduino to vvvv to use sensors, control Motors etc...

Who io
When Wed, Feb 8th 2012 - 20:00 until Wed, Feb 8th 2012 - 20:00
Where La trilladora, tacoronte, Spain

Unbelievably this is the sixth workshop I ll be giving in 2 years in Tenerife (a little island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean), it seems to me that an higher percent of unemployment is a good terrain for growing new interests... sadly enough.
Anyway, we ll start with a free and open talk/workshop the 8th of February trying to gather some momentum and get a few people to join a 50€/2days workshop scheduled the following week.
Where: that is in Tacoronte which is a small town in the north coast famous for its wine and black sanded beaches, in a cultural association "La Trilladora" run by one the vvvvorum member Carlos aka vkmonitor.
S.

more info: http://latrilladora.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/la-magia-de-los-numeros/