October 11, 2018

Creative Technology Weekly #1

Creative Technology Weekly

Hello there!

This is the first issue of Creative Technology Weekly!! 🎉

This week was really interesting with a variety of stuff from XR experiments to making music with DNA data, to code poetry! Hope you enjoy!

Charlie

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Projects

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Coral cities
Coral cities is a design concept by Craig Taylor from Ito Design Lab. Fascinated by making city networks look like living corals, his project aims to map, analyse and animate 40 of the most liveable cities to show transport data in a new way, revealing beautiful, organic forms.

Active Theory XR experiments
The creative studio Active Theory developed a series of experiments using WebGL and WebXR to explore the intersection of augmented and virtual reality.

Dance x Machine Learning: First steps
Kyle McDonald explains how he is exploring machine learning algorithms in the context of the dance performance "discrete figures".

MirrorWorlds
Leap Motion share their Mirrorworlds concept of alternative dimensions of reality, layered over the physical world.

Prelude in ACGT - Sonification of personal (DNA) data
Prélude in ACGT is a collection of tools that explore the relationship between music and biology. The project uses Pierry Jaquillard’s own DNA (chromosome 1 to 22 and XY) and converts it into music.

Tools

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Scribbletune
Node.js module that helps you construct musical ideas with JavaScript String & Array functions and export them as MIDI files. You can also use Scribbletune in the browser.

3D Machine Learning
Resource repository for 3D Machine Learning including courses, datasets and papers.

JSAmbisonics
A JavaScript library that implements a set of objects for real-time spatial audio processing in the browser, using the Web Audio API.

Meyda
JavaScript audio feature extraction library.

Videos

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Archifon II. - Interactive installation
Using projection mapping, this interactive virtual musical instrument can be controlled with laser pointers.

Is code poetry the new avant-garde? - Laura Caccia - TEDxLondon
Short but awesome TEDx talk by Laura Caccia on creating poetry using source code.

L.E.A.P.Conference keynote
MagicLeap put on their 1st conference and you can watch the recording.

Upcoming events

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GROW conference - Paris - November 12 & 13
GROW is a creative coding conference happening in Paris on November 12 & 13. 
Part of the event will also be accessible for free from the 14th to the 16th so if you can, you should check it out!

Bonus (science)

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Time-travelling illusion tricks the brain
Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other -- in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions.
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