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Artcodes at Art.CHI

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Artcodes have worked and contributed to Art.CHI at this years CHI 2016 conference. Art.CHI are running a workshop on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th May in San Jose, California.

As part of this, Art.CHI have produced a catalogue to accompany the Art exhibition at the SIGCHI Conference, CHI2016. This catalogue documents the work shown in the exhibition “Inter/Action: digital art that responds” along with some important historical interactive art.

We have produced an Artcode for the cover on the Art.CHI 2016 catalogue which showcases the ability to add digital media into an aesthetic piece without disregard to the design. The catalogues Artcode once scanned using the Artcodes app will take participants directly to the exhibitions website for further information.

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Artcodes @ Central St. Martins Research fortnight

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csm1Artcodes have contributed a variety of activities to Central Saint Martins Research Fortnight, which took place in the Central Saint Martins building in Kings Cross.

From 14th to 16th March, we exhibited interactive artefacts in the main hall, and taught passers-by to draw on their own Artcodes. The primary audience was staff, students and visitors; CSM teaches a wide range of creative courses in which Artcodes might be used, including Ceramic design, Communication design, Graphics, Photography, Performance and Fashion.

In teaching attendees how to use our technology, we hope that some might choose to use it in future projects and explore a variety of further media and material.

csm2To illustrate the broad range of possibilities that exist with a flexible topological marker technology such as Artcodes, we brought along artefacts produced in a variety of media, all of which embedded scannable patterns with a broad range of aesthetics and purposes.

These included coasters, ceramic bowls, a hand-crafted guitar, some large public illustrations and a display composed of individual ceramic tiles. Some of these embedded into individual artcodes, others embedded multiple codes; all had been produced for a specific purpose during prior work by the project.

csm3As part of the research fortnight, members of the Artcodes team also gave talks and lead discussions. Professor Steve Benford talked about the Internet of Things, illustrated by the Carolan Guitar, whilst Professor Tony Quinn talked about designs role in the internet of things. These were attended by those involved in research across University of the Arts and leading practitioners and designers in the internet of things.

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Carolan Guitar

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Every guitar tells a story, from the tonewoods that form it, to the craft of its making, to the players that own it, to the places it visits, and to the many songs that it sings.

This is the story of a unique guitar; one that has been created with the express purpose of capturing and telling its own life history.

Our guitar is called Carolan in honour of the legendary composer Turlough O’Carolan, the last of the great blind Irish harpers, and an itinerant musician who roamed Ireland at the turn of the 18thcentury, composing and playing beautiful celtic tunes. Like it’s namesake, Carolan is a roving bard; a performer that passes from place to place, learning tunes, songs and stories as it goes and sharing them with the people it encounters along the way. Continue reading →