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Databrella Project

Databrella Project. Real-time traffic, weather and twitter topics are mapped on the underside of a large umbrella. Mobile users interact, select topics, a message board, compose music or create collaborative compositions. A proposal for wireless public art in Portland. Objectives.

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Databrella Project

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  1. Databrella Project Real-time traffic, weather and twitter topics are mapped on the underside of a large umbrella. Mobile users interact, select topics, a message board, compose music or create collaborative compositions. A proposal for wireless public art in Portland

  2. Objectives • Provide useful information • Bring joy and amusement • Cellular and Position info • Inspire collaboration • Empowering

  3. Databrella Concept • An umbrella on Waterfront Park visualizes the “city cloud” • Shows traffic, weather, twitter topics, • Collaborative, driven by cell phone app • El Wire outlines streets, LEDs show status

  4. DatabrellaConcept • The umbrella would be about 25 feet in diameter and composed of elwire and 2,000 LEDs, changing colors depending on activity selected. • The umbrella handle could resemble a small tree trunk, created from 1,000 recycled cell phones. They randomly ring with bird and animal songs.

  5. Realtime VJ Concept • Video projects on underside of roof. • Gesture controlled by Kinect • Visual performance, mixes city themes with viewer gesture • MIDI (or MIDI over WiFi), controls VDMX 5 output • Multiple themes

  6. Interactive Technologies • TouchOSC Open Sound Control App • Vernier sensors • Arduino sensors • Raspberry Pi • Kinect and LeapMotion • Modul8: Real-time video mixer • VDMX: run video effects wirelessly from an iPad or MIDI controller.

  7. Action Items • An interactive sculpture that fits on a bike trailer • An public artwork for 100 ft of sidewalk • Interactive sculpture for a large umbrella • All weather video interactive sculpture • The $147 million Streetcar Project designated 2% for Public Art!

  8. InterestingProjects thebaylights.org

  9. A few links • interactivearchitecture.org • www.eyebeam.org • lighttroupe.com • www.dorkbotpdx.org • scrappdx.org • http://c2.com/~ward/ • mmmlabs.com/w/ • wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_art • burningman.com/installations

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