http://www.tomschofieldart.com tomschofieldart Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:35:21 +0000 http://www.tomschofieldart.com en http://www.tomschofieldart.com/refractive-index-Jamie-Allen http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/refractive-index-Jamie-Allen Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:35:21 +0000 tomschofieldart 2693782 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. http://www.tomschofieldart.com/Binary-Furniture-for-Cohda-Desing http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/Binary-Furniture-for-Cohda-Desing Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:32:22 +0000 tomschofieldart 2643693 With John Shearer (Culture Lab) and Cohda design, I developed a generative, rapid prototyped table. Users draw spirograph designs which are extruded in 3D, given a wave and a .stl file is produced. The file can be taken to any 3D printing lab and produced as a full size table. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643693/fill.jpeg" border="0" width="400" height="563" width_o="400" height_o="563" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643693/fill_o.jpeg" align="left" /> http://www.tomschofieldart.com/Trigger-Shift http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/Trigger-Shift Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:25:01 +0000 tomschofieldart 2643653 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/ <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643653/Header-Image_400.png" border="0" width="400" height="225" width_o="800" height_o="451" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643653/Header-Image_o.png" align="left" /> http://www.tomschofieldart.com/Stupid-Tw-t http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/Stupid-Tw-t Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:42:22 +0000 tomschofieldart 2643466 Stupid Tw**t is an interactive installation projected publically in Durham, UK. The installation takes the form of a twitter client projected on an outdoor projection surface. Participants tweet celebrity names to be included in the projection however rather than simply displaying tweets about that person, Stupid tw**t swaps the names of the 'tweeter' and 'tweetee' so the tweet 'Barack Obama is not an American' by @averageJoePlumber would appear in the feed as 'averageJoePlumber is not an American' By confusing the identities of subject and object, the piece plays with the nature of twitter celebrity. Stupid Tw**t was commissioned by Empty Shop, Durham emptyshop.org/ as part of Design Event design-event.co.uk/ <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643466/Screen shot 2012-01-20 at 14.00.59_400.png" border="0" width="400" height="299" width_o="697" height_o="522" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643466/Screen shot 2012-01-20 at 14.00.59_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643466/twitterbirdWBackground.png" border="0" width="319" height="311" width_o="319" height_o="311" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643466/twitterbirdWBackground_o.png" align="left" /> http://www.tomschofieldart.com/traceNorth http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/traceNorth Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:38:51 +0000 tomschofieldart 2643440 traceNorth is a public art work displayed on King's Gate via projection. The project is commissioned by the Northern Stage in collaboration with Culture Lab as part of their 40th Birthday celebration of Northern Stage's project. traceNorth is a data visualisation project which reinterprets traffic flow of the city of Newcastle into visual representations of constantly transforming organic shapes. This representation re-imagines the city as a living organism of movement and human presence rather than simply showing the activity of traffic cycles. Traffic congestion data drives the shape and size of the individual arms of each organic shape that are linked to a particular location of the city represented by the map structure of each object. The data was collected by the school of Civil Engineering and Geosciences' Transport Operations Research Group at Newcastle University in collaboration with Newcastle City Council and represents one single day of traffic information of the city. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643440/DSC_0037.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643440/DSC_0037_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643440/DSC_0043.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643440/DSC_0043_o.JPG" align="left" /> http://www.tomschofieldart.com/ALMMOLSITN-and-let-my-message-of-love-shine-into-the-night http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/ALMMOLSITN-and-let-my-message-of-love-shine-into-the-night Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:01:36 +0000 tomschofieldart 2643062 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. http://www.tomschofieldart.com/wiki-visualisation http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/wiki-visualisation Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:47:18 +0000 tomschofieldart 2629223 Patina.ac.uk project wiki visualisation from tom schofield on Vimeo. A visualisation of collaborative editing on the project wiki for Patina (Personal Architectonics Through Interactions with Artifacts) patina.ac.uk. The visualisation was created using processing.org and the mediawiki api using wikitools code.google.com/p/python-wikitools for python. The visualisation was created as a java applet and posted back to the wiki itself giving users feedback about current wiki activity. source code is available here: github.com/tomschofield/patina-wiki-visualisation http://www.tomschofieldart.com/re-action http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/re-action Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:45:11 +0000 tomschofieldart 2629202 Re-action is an interactive video installation. Viewers control the video playhead by moving their body. The video shows a street shooting from the vietnam war, a movie around a famous photo but one which is largely unknown to younger generations. <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629202/reaction2.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629202/reaction2_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629202/reaction1_rot.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1000" width_o="2048" height_o="3059" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629202/reaction1_rot_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.tomschofieldart.com/newsGlobe http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/newsGlobe Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:37:18 +0000 tomschofieldart 2629176 newsGlobe from tom schofield on Vimeo. newsGlobe is a live visualisation of the geographical spread of news stories in the top five UK online new sources. References to cities or countries are marked on a large (2m) globe. The coverage of news sources can be compared to countries with which Britain has or has had a colonial relationship. newsGlobe was created to investigate to what extent our new focus correlates with our colonial past. http://www.tomschofieldart.com/interactive-document-visualisation http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/interactive-document-visualisation Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:29:17 +0000 tomschofieldart 2629137 The Meat License proposal is an ongoing project by artist John O'Shea For his 2012 exhibition at Stroom Den Haag, we collaborated on an interactive document visualisation. Audio interviews about the Meat License Proposal, played from an iPod touch control a lighting system. The projector highlights relevant documents as the interview progresses. More about the show here. <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629137/IMG_0938.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="447" width_o="1280" height_o="854" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629137/IMG_0938_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629137/IMG_0941.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="447" width_o="1280" height_o="854" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629137/IMG_0941_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629137/IMG_0945.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="447" width_o="1280" height_o="854" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629137/IMG_0945_o.jpg" align="left" />