New wireless system tested at Eurocultured
We have developed a new sensor data collection system using the wireless Bluetooth Arduino microcontroller boards. Three 3-axis (XYZ) accelerometers (ADXL3 from Spark Fun) were connected to the analogue input pins on the Arduino (X and Y axes only per accelerometer). The accelerometers were positioned near each of the three…
Empty Stomach – Portraits
Portraits of some of the many people who enjoyed “...Empty Stomach!” during the Eurocultured Festival in Manchester, UK. Thank you to you all & see you again!
Empty Stomach premieres at Eurocultured 2009, Manchester!
Andy and Merja’s latest interactive bouncy sculpture “...Empty Stomach!” premiered at Manchester’s Eurocultured Festival over the May Bank Holiday weekend. Beautiful weather on the Sunday ensured the crowds a great day, and “...Empty Stomach!” enjoyed great success on its first public appearance. Young and old alike were fascinated by the…
…empty stomach! to premiere at Eurocultured 2009
Andy and Merja's newest interactive bouncy sculpture "...empty stomach!" will be premiered at Manchester's Eurocultured festival over the bank holiday weekend 24th - 25th May. See the Eurocultured MySpace site for more details! http://www.myspace.com/eurocultured
Passionately in LOVE with Interactive Art
10am-5pm, 12 February 2009 Lecture hall, the Finnish Academy for Fine Arts, Kaikukatu 4, 00530 Helsinki, Finland What is interactivity, and how to define various elements of interactivity in media art? How to integrate fashion, art and intelligent design? What is the role of the institutional art world? Does the…
Students & Staff from Beaumont College visit Lanternhouse
Students and staff from Beaumont College visited Lanternhouse on 18th December to experience our bouncy "Too Much of a Mouthful". Great fun was had by all as you can see! A special project to develop musical instruments within physical interactive environments is under development by Andy and Alan "Fitz" Fitzgeral,…
BBC interview Andy over Nude Art Scandal
Alison Wood from the BBC travelled to Lanternhouse today to interview Andy about the growing "Nude Art Scandal". The news piece will be shown on BBC News North West Today programme later this week. Link to the BBC news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7754990.stm
Shock! Horror! Nude Art Scandal hits Ulverston!
The quiet Cumbrian market town of Ulverston was hit today by an art scandal! Local resident Les Preston had made a complaint to the police about the "obscene" art works. "They are neither funny, artistic, or in any way suitable for a public building, being nothing short of obscene and…
Too Much of a Mouthful premiered at PPP
Andy & Merja officially premiered their newly commisioned work "Too Much of a Mouthful" at the Portable Pixel Playground event hosted by Lanternhouse International, Ulverston, Cumbria, Uk. The piece is an interactive bouncy castle, with flex sensors sending movement data via a Basic Stamp to Max/MSP patches generating sounds -…