ALMMOLSITN (and let my message of love shine into the night) Is an interactive art work proposed for public media facades. Participants claim single pixels from the display as their own private, colourful, morse code, message board. Shown here is a mock up of the proposed installation for the facade at Medialab Prado

ALMMOLSITN invites participants to send their messages of undying love to the display along with the coordinates of their chosen pixel. That pixel then transmits their message in morse code in a loop until the end of the festival. Active pixels are selected at random and translated on the top panel of the facade. At the beginning of the festival, the entire screen will be black and over the course of days the screen will be taken over, pixel by pixel, by messages strobing in morse in rainbow colours.

background concept
media facades are used as carriers of messages, often commercial sometimes artistic but almost always explicit. ALMMOLSITN exploits the structure of the screen by breaking down the illusion of wholeness and celebrating in the liberation of tiny agents. Pixels which were previously in service to the whole now, with the help of lovers, find their voice.

Trigger shift is an ongoing project with Modular and Memo Atken

The workshop/performance is working with a group of young people 13-21 using hacked X-box Kinect as a performance tool. I am working as an interaction designer / developer for this exciting project.

http://www.triggershift.org/

I'm lucky enough to be coding for Jamie Allen's project refractive index along with Jamie and David Gaultier. refractive index is an art project exploring the capabilities of large public displays to affect the architecture of their surroundings.

More from Jamie about this and other projects on his site here.

Burj Babil from tom schofield on Vimeo.

Burj Babil is video installation showing the destruction of a fictionalised Tower of Babel. It was made in processing and 3D Studio Max.

The direct indexical relationship between text and material is not only structurally embedded in the computer systems which manage, facilitate and entertain us, but rests in a history of science, belief, law and magic. While text is compiled in machine code, enacting the processes which turn on our street lights, render our videos and send data packets to the server, older societies performed other enactments of text, containing their own syntax and lexis. Religion, sorcerers, alchemists, writers of constitutions brought forth, with hubristic self-certainty, the world as we know it; spells, gold and human rights in that order. Burj Babil (Tower of Babel) is a video installation work. To create the tower, the source code file has been subjected to a number of transformation processes which corrupt and destroy the tower in different phases. The processes transform the vertex and face coordinates from the source code file into ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange 2) characters. The results are then fed into the google translate api. Most of the file is ignored since the sequence of characters do not correspond to real words. However when chance causes the ASCII sequence to form a recognizable word this will cause a corresponding physical translation of that vertex point. The resultant corrupted code is then used to re-make the model causing its eventual collapse. The final result of this process is a number of video sequences showing the destruction of the tower as its source code file is translated into different languages.

null by morse from tom schofield on Vimeo.

Overview
A series of messages are send using an antique morse signalling lamp. The messages refer to the inter-related histories of morse code, disaster and war and include the final transmissions of the titanic and the first ever message publicly sent via morse' "what hath God wrought?". The messages can be decoded via an android app and are also displayed on a projection in the exhibition space. After the performance the signal lamp is left in place and participants are able to send their own messages.