http://www.tomschofieldart.com tomschofieldart Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:43:54 +0000 http://www.tomschofieldart.com en http://www.tomschofieldart.com/mark-inscriber http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/mark-inscriber Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:43:54 +0000 tomschofieldart 3292038 <img src="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/3292038/DSC_0091_400.JPG" width="400" height="267" width_o="1936" height_o="1296" src_o="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/3292038/DSC_0091_o.JPG" data-mid="16883130" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/3292038/mark detail_400.png" width="400" height="319" width_o="1287" height_o="1029" src_o="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/3292038/mark detail_o.png" data-mid="16883307" border="0" align="left"/> mark inscriber is a data sculpture/sonification project. A horizontal bar supports a carriage with a firing chisel blade. The lateral movement is controlled by a stepper motor and chain system. The carriage advances a little at a time while the chisel blade cuts deep incisions into the wall. background vertical mark making is the earliest know form of recorded counting. As systems of counting developed in complexity, new methods of grouping marks were found. mark inscriber explores the relationship between these groupings and modern programming and mathematics by hammering numbers counted in different bases into the wall, performing an act of counting with no object. http://www.tomschofieldart.com/1280-1024 http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/1280-1024 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:30:42 +0000 tomschofieldart 2975884 1280 * 1024 takes advantange of the high definition of modern displays to show very high volumes of information simultaneously. A wikipedia file dump of huge amounts of crowd sourced information forms the basis of this piece. This data begins to take over the monitor pixel by pixel, populating its spaces with single dimensions of information transmitted with flashing light in morse code. The data builds until the full resolution of 1310720 points is achieved. The space of the display can be conceived as just that: space. It has finite dimensions in width and height but also in depth with each pixel being capable of a defined number of individual colours. At this point the relationship between software and hardware becomes blurred as that number of colours is related to the computers ability to control those hues. This demonstrates that our culture and machine systems are inseparable and often confused. To work with one you must engage with the other and it is this relationship, the relationship between culture and machine that is explored with this work. 1280 * 1024 is the winner of the Sunderland Art Prize, jointly with Edwin Li <img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2975884/DSC_0046_400.JPG" width="400" height="597" width_o="2048" height_o="3059" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2975884/DSC_0046_o.JPG" data-mid="15153039" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2975884/DSC_0016_400.JPG" width="400" height="267" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2975884/DSC_0016_o.JPG" data-mid="15152954" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2975884/DSC_0017_400.JPG" width="400" height="267" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2975884/DSC_0017_o.JPG" data-mid="15152965" border="0" align="left"/> 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-Design http://www.tomschofieldart.com/following/tomschofieldart.com/Binary-Furniture-for-Cohda-Design 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" width="400" height="563" width_o="400" height_o="563" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643693/fill_o.jpeg" data-mid="13382529" border="0" 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/P1000572_400.JPG" width="400" height="266" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643653/P1000572_o.JPG" data-mid="16883881" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643653/Header-Image_400.png" width="400" height="225" width_o="800" height_o="451" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643653/Header-Image_o.png" data-mid="13382312" border="0" 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" 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" data-mid="13381697" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643466/twitterbirdWBackground.png" width="319" height="311" width_o="319" height_o="311" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643466/twitterbirdWBackground_o.png" data-mid="13381698" border="0" 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" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643440/DSC_0037_o.JPG" data-mid="13381143" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643440/DSC_0043.JPG" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2643440/DSC_0043_o.JPG" data-mid="13381145" border="0" align="left"/> 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" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629202/reaction2_o.JPG" data-mid="13306577" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629202/reaction1_rot.jpg" width="670" height="1000" width_o="2048" height_o="3059" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/5/190271/2629202/reaction1_rot_o.jpg" data-mid="13306615" border="0" 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.