Eyebeam Labs

Shadow Project

addie — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:54:32 -0400

shadow project utilizes motion tracking and kinetic robotics. The system of strings generates abstract forms of a user or mimics chaos in nature.

touchkit

addie — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:58 -0400

TouchKit is a modular version of the CUBIT multitouch system.

Minivans and other signs of the Apocalypse

addie — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:02:41 -0400

signs the world just might be ending.

updated constantly.

See Something, Say Something.

addie — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:05:21 -0400

Bombs (from 2d mat board) were be placed in iconic locations of bomb threats in hopes of opening a discussion of what is terrorism vs. fear and how interchangeable are the words. Where is the line between rational and unrational occur? How does a society begin to learn to cope with the unknown by being logical?

what we lost in the fire.

addie — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:14:28 -0400

The text is currently being pulled from xml into openframworks dynamically displaying in real time peoples answers to the question ‘what would you take if you could only take one object out of a fire?’

the interface is then being projected onto a wooden board where I have laser cut a floorplan of the typical american house. The answers shift around depending on activity on the blog and gender specific answers (boys are black, girls pink)

Black Hawk Paint

addie — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:22:52 -0400

Using computer vision tracking coordinate systems, helicopters paint abstract forms on a canvas laid horizontially.

Project will be shown in July.

Bright Idea Shade

mandiberg — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:42:40 -0400

Bare CFL bulbs give off harsh light. Soften it with the Bright Idea Shade.

Camerautomata

taeyoon — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:24:57 -0400

www.camerautomata.org

the nesting house

addie — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:57:15 -0400

what if we learned to live with ‘rodents’,
harmoniously.
they did us no harm, and we did them no harm?

we save millions a year, and stop killing them off
and we plant trees and flowers around our avenues instead of poison and traps?

the Marionettes

fiezi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:10:56 -0400

"the marionettes" is a networked puppet installation created with the new standalone (and soon opensourced) version of moviesandbox and displayed for the eyebeam reception for the shanghai media art fair symposium in new york

Two networked puppets can be controlled by hardware marionette controllers. Participants can interact with each other through their puppets without seeing each other in person.