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How to Train Your Robot

Justin Love — Sat, 05 May 2012 00:43:59 +0000

Last week the Limbic team designed a system that allows us to record the motions of a robot arm and then save and play the motions back. The robot arm will be used to control traditional chinese shadow puppets in an upcoming installation.

Playing with Robots at Limbic Media

Justin Love — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:20:21 +0000

We’ve decided to do a weekly blog post to document some of the behind the scenes stuff that happens at Limbic Media. Here is a short video of Manj Benning demonstrating an interactive robot arm we are building for our next G++ gallery installation with Yifan Wang.

Limbic Media added to Sunset Labs Community Profiles

Justin Love — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:08:14 +0000

Jason Guille of Sunset Labs recently interviewed Justin Love the VP Operations at Limbic Media. The article is a good starting place if you want to learn more about our company.

The interview can be found at:

http://sunsetlabs.ca/profiles-limbic-media/

Atagamaton

Scott Amos — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:00:30 +0000

G++ Gallery is proud to unveil a new interactive instrument created by Scott Amos and David Parfit with help from the interaction designers and engineers at Limbic Media. Atagamaton lets a user control electro-mechanical devices salvaged from gutted film projectors, old typerwriters, radios and other “obsolete” technologies to produce unique sounds and movements. To play Atagamaton, a user simply moves their hands over top of any of the nine devices. One or two users can simultaneous control up to four parts to create rich and expressive audiovisual compositions.

Ectoplasmic Scream

Doug Jarvis — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:00:51 +0000

Ectoplasmic Scream

Artist: Doug Jarvis

in collaboration with Limbic Media

Installation live from November 10, 2011 to December 31, 2011

Our Interactive Film and Video Series begins with Ectoplasmic Scream in collaboration with media artist Doug Jarvis. The window gallery has been reconfigured as a contemporary cabinet of curiosity. Acting as a spiritual medium, a digital Doug Jarvis will follow foot traffic with his eyes. If you stop to look, he will lock eyes with yours. Using facial tracking technology, the digital Doug will mirror movements made by your mouth opening and closing. Volumes of “ectoplasm” will project onto the screen if you scream, reflecting your face and surroundings inside the streaming substance.

The street level installation is live at 1119 Fort Street, Victoria BC, everyday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. More then one person facing the window can confuse the installation. Doug’s digital head will face directly forward with his eyes open to indicate that he has found a face to track. Tilting your head back slightly can improve the mouth tracking.

Borealis

Manjinder Benning — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:24:04 +0000

Borealis is an interactive lighting installation comprised of 1000 colour LEDs suspended in an intricate network above a park in the community of Belgravia.

Natural language processing is used to parse text from the Community Forum as well as from community member’s Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds. Words with similar semantic meaning are grouped together, assigned similar colours and incorporated into lighting animations above the park.

In essence, Borealis is a visualization of the collective conversations taking place in the community. On site members of the public can interact with the lights which exhibit flocking and swarming behavior based on the movements of people below them.

Dialogue

Manjinder Benning — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:18 +0000

Dialogue is an interactive multimedia installation that utilizes speech recognition to enable participants to interactively create a multimedia poetry show with voice, imagery, sound and lighting animations.

Vectorial Elevation

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:00:12 +0000

Alzado Vectorial / Vectorial Elevation is an interactive public installation that allows the public to log into a website to design light sculptures along with their name, a dedication, location, and comments.

Submissions are then cued for “rendering” in real space by automated searchlights that are visible over a 15 km radius.
After rendering a personalized webpage is produced for every participant with images of their design and the information they provided.

*featured installation of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

River

Justin Love — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:13 +0000

River is a public, interactive, online art project that allows users to upload images and annotate them with poetic commentary to create a persistent, oblique public dialogue about the city, its environment, and its community. In addition to their literary contribution, the poems are also reinterpreted and re-contextualized to create a multi-dimensional “view” of the city through visualization of a stream of websites relevant to the poetic words employed.

Role: Concept, design, implementation.
Materials: Website, computer server.
Dimensions: Screen – variable

Grand Theft Bicycle

Jim Olson — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:16 +0000

In Grand Theft Bicycle (GTB) a user rides a sensor equipped bicycle that allows them control a virtual bicycle in a modified version of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game. In the modified version of the game Las Vegas has been transformed into Baghdad and gang members have been replaced by world leaders from opposing ideological factions.

Role: Concept collaboration, bicycle interface, software modification.
Materials: Computer, sensor-equiped bicycle, bicycle trainer, microcontroller, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (modded).
Dimensions: bicycle interface – 2m x 1m x 0.5m, projection – variable