A large beach ball with wireless cams set inside looking out that would be tossed into a live audience at a concert, club or anywhere else a large crowd can be. The visuals from the live cams would be projected onto a screen as one channel and the vj's own visuals would be displayed layered ontop. The VJ will have the option to swtich between channels and mix the live video coming from the wireless cams.
Why
This would be the first time I have heard about or seen the audience interact with the vj and help control the visuals. It would be a great new way to get VJ visuals and as well get the audience interacting with the music and visuals. It would be exciting to see yourself controlling the screen in-front of the crowd.
Where?
Vjing is usually done inside a club scene to a live dj with dancing. I would need a large crowd of people to keep the ball alive so it would be installed inside a large dance club or at a concert venue. It would also be interesting to test a small version of this at a house party a local park or even maybe a shopping mall. Anywhere where there is alot of people and space. The umaine memorial union here on campus could even be ideal.
What?
There would be 1 or more balls with wireless cameras built inside looking out. The live video feed from the cameras inside the ball(s) would send the video to my computer which I would run through a vj patch and then projected onto a screen. I would be able to switch between cameras and balls and treat each as there own channel. The video from the ball(s) would act as a channel of video for the vj performance. As people danced and cheered they would hit the ball around in the air throughout the audience and it would be exciting for users to see themselves controlling the visuals on "the big screen".
Who?
I know that professors Raphael DiLuzio and Jefferson Goolsby both have extensive experience, knowledge, and connections within the vj culture. I would turn to them for advice as too where the Vj scene is taking place around here. I am guessing Portland would be the best place to contact large dance clubs. Also a friend of mine who djs in this area (greater bangor) named Les Rhods has gigs several times a week. I would look to contact him about vjing with him and using my interactive ball during one of his dj gigs.
How?
To build this project I would need to purchase a minimum of 4 wireless cams. The cams would be placed inside a beach ball and secured by super glue and tape. The beach ball I would build my self and would be a meter to a meter and a half in dynamiter and build out of heavy trash bags and tape. Instead of just air filling the ball it would be filled with Helium to help keep the large heavy ball afloat. The ball would be decorated with art created by myself and some paint.
I already have a vj patch build in isadora that I could use with live cam capabilities. I would need to research for large clubs and concert venues in the area and contact there management about test driving my project. I feel I have plenty of connections to find a few places to test this out.
When?
Bibliography
http://www.vimeo.com/270719
Crowd interactive illuminated ball. When you touch it it changes color. This shows a good way to make a large beach ball.
Zygote Interactive Ball at BIP, Italy from Alex Beim on Vimeo.
http://www.vimeo.com/4296634
A wireless camera mounted onto a skateboard. Explores the idea of viewing in a different perspective.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/jul/14/crowdedoutcanyoukeepupwi
Some words on crowd interaction. "It can be hard work going to gigs - particularly when you have to do the singing"
http://www.servethesong.net/crowd-interaction/
A tutorial on how to speak to your audience when you are playing in a band to have them interact with you.
http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/GiveawaySensors/index.html
Inexpensive "Giveaway" Sensors for Large-Crowd Interaction. A circuit that measures movement and can be read into a midi device.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1570456
Smart environments (e.g., airports, hospitals, stadiums, and other physical spaces using ubiquitous computing to empower many mobile people) provide novel challenges for usability engineers. Firstly, interaction can be implicit and therefore unintentional on the part of its users. Secondly, the impact of a smart environment can influence the collective or crowd behavior of those immersed within it. These challenges lead to requirements for complementary analyses which must be combined with the more typical focus on the interaction between user and device. The paper explores a family of stochastic models aimed at analyzing these features with a particular focus on crowd interaction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBzgN2o-oN0
Crowd trys to sing along with singers on stage.
http://www.gesturetek.com/gesturefx/introduction.php
"GestureFX is a stunning interactive visual display system for show-stopping interactive advertising and entertainment in public spaces. It's one of the world’s most advanced gesture recognition solutions for motion-control interactive displays, signs and surfaces. GestureTek’s patented body tracking technology responds to body movement to project dynamic interactive multimedia content, special effects, interactive advertising or games onto any surface, of any size."
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