The making of Vihreä Pilvi / Nuage Vert (a project by HeHe )
Nuage Vert uses the chimney emissions of the Salmisaari power plant in Helsinki as a canvas for illumination. The installation consists of tracking, drawing and projecting a laser image onto the contour of vapour, adjusting its shape and size to the current levels of electricity consumption by the residents in Ruoholahti and neighbouring Lauttasaari.The chimney and emission are an environmental sculpture and a community measuring tape, but there is an irony here: Nuage Vert aestheticises an icon of industrial pollution while seeking to draw the viewer’s critical attention to it. By becoming a sign of wonder, a spectacle, a terrible beauty, a space is opened up for the viewer.

Nuage Vert project took place in Helsinki 22-29 February 2008, Pixelache Lounge Exhibition will present a documentation video of Nuage Vert.

Statistical Objects by Alejandro Tamayo (CO)
This work has been an attempt to make visible and audible the human rhythms of birth and death. Using the U.S. Census Bureau as a source of statistical information, every time a new human being is born in the planet a light bulb turns on, consequently every time a new death arises a hair dryer turns on. Presently the human birth rate is calculated in 4.2 births per second, while the death rate is only 1.8.

Also exhibited in Pixelache 2008: Happy birhday machine. The machine activates every time a new child is born in the city of Medellín.This work was the result of an open workshop that took place in Medellín in October 2007. The code used is available at this address: www.thepopshop.org/tallermedellin

Voici en exclusivite
le numero de Dieu
597-20-24
Beepez-le!

[Here it is
God's private number
597-20-24
Beep him!]

Beepez-le by Daniel Peltz (US)  

I blogg therefore I am by Christer Chytraéus

"I measure small electrical signals from a flower. Passing through a software the signals are translated into different words, depending on the frequency of the signal.
The words are then put in to a blogg on the internet. The flower is trapped in an artificial eco-system whish climate is depended by the number of persons visiting the blogg.

We can spend our whole life in our apartment. Thanks to the internet we can work, ordering food, and even meet our lovers, we can check the weather outside our window without looking out from it.
Even if we know we should be careful and questioning the sources on the internet, it is allot of information that is taken for granted, like in real life. More and more we are starting thrust our computer screens just as we trust our senses. How does this effect our vision of the world, Are we stepping deeper into the cave of Plato, communicating not only with shadows, but with the computer screen?
What if the poem that made you burst into tears was not written by anyone made of flesh and bones. What if the nice person you meet on the internet is a killer. What if he didn’t exist?
What we believe is the truth, IS the truth for whom ho believe it.
 
The flower is a person sitting in an apartment in front of a computer, for those who believe the flower is a person. When the flower is typing on its blogg it exist on the same level as a person in front of its computer."

Christer Chytraéus is currently studying at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden.
 

Kitchen Budapest - The AniMobil is an animation software which uses the camera of mobile phones to make stop-motion animation. The result can be saved as an animated gif and uploaded as an avatar or as a simple video and than uploaded to any youtube-like sites.

Kitchen Budapest - Autocut: sound-based video recontextualizer.

There are many short videos shot by mobile devices. They usually stay on the hard disk, or be uploaded to a video-sharing portal without any editing. On one hand, this program selects and edits the videos according to a certain music. On the other hand, autoCut can handle the videos in real time, based on the rhythm of live audio input

Kitchen Budapest - Animata: real-time puppeteering software

http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/node/244

Animata is a real-time animation software for live performance, with the aid of which we can easily create scenes with virtual puppets. This software is designed to create an interactive background for theatre, music and dance performances, and it can also be used for the visual design of promotional screenings. The software can be run on multiple operating systems, like Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and Windows. It can be easily connected to other applications (Max/MSP, Processing, VVVV, etc.) receiving live input from various physical sensors, microphones and cameras for presentations, performances and improvisational events.

Kitchen Budapest - Arbour Light: modular web-connected lighting system

http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/node/302

Arbour Light, an intelligent lighting system can reproduce the visual atmosphere of natural phenomena. It recreates the ambient atmosphere rather than a photographic image, hence it extends communication into non intrusive modalities. We are currently working on the Arbour Light website, what we imagine like a sort of web-community. Among others the site will give opportunity to reach an ambient database. It is based on the videos of Arbour Light owners and “phenomena-collectors”. It is also of importance that the pixel are very low cost and prepared for a DIY distribution; folded paper, flatcable, etc.

Kitchen Budapest - Mllamp: robotically enhanced desklamps
Mllamp project is an experiment for simulating emotions with putting minimal intelligence into everyday things. If it has some anropomorph character, the viewer can easily go into with recognizing human gestures. The interaction between the pair of Mllamps associated with human behavior can be recognised as emotions in lamps.