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Submitted by richard on Tue, 2007-11-13 22:28.

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Submitted by moniquenw on Tue, 2007-11-13 04:55.

Learning Activity: Research the Laurie Grove Baths
Media Use and Communication Flow

Student Name: Monique Natalia Wiradisastra

My objectives:
• Think of a project to represent the use of official and unofficial media in the building
• Find a way to map the official and unofficial media usage of the building
• Find out what official and unofficial media are used
• Find a way to measure the flow of communication through official and unofficial media in the building
• To learn a data base program to organize all the data

The resources and strategies I will use are:

Submitted by Tomas Arenas on Tue, 2007-11-13 04:32.

MA Interactive Media
Activity: Research the Laurie Grove Baths:

Student Name: Tomas Arenas Date: 12-10-07

My objectives:

I’m looking for a meaning, for a feeling, for that something that could bring personality to the building.

I want to study the spatial attributes of the building and their functional, emotional and symbolical meanings (currents and formers).

I want to know how this building could trigger a feeling, a thought or a sensation for us as students, for the average people who just pass by, or for the ones who used to come when it was working as a bath.

Submitted by novazembla on Mon, 2007-11-12 21:31.

Vincent's Perl Code

#place linux perl header here

print "TEST DATA\n";
print "#################################################\n";
 
#first get actual time converted into the number of seconds from 00:00
my $timeInSeconds = getTimeInSeconds();
print "TIME IN SECONDS:" . $timeInSeconds . "\n";

print "\n#################################################\n";

# test urinal function. the function returns true if urinal flushes.
print "urinal: ";

if (urinal($timeInSeconds)) {
	# it's true (1) so it flushes
	print "flushes!\n";
} else {
	# it's false (0) so no action
	print "inactive!\n";
}

print "\n#################################################\n";

# test the power consumption function.
print "Power Consumption: " . powerUsage($timeInSeconds) . "\n";

print "\n#################################################\n";

# test the movement detector functions.
print "Movement detector indicates: ";

if (movementDetector()) {
	# it's true (1) so it flushes
	print "activity!\n";
} else {
	# it's false (0) so no action
	print "no activity!\n";
}

print "\n#################################################\n";


# this method returns the number of seconds passed already today and is just 
# a helper function.
sub getTimeInSeconds {
	# retrieve time information
	my ($sec,$min,$hour) = localtime(time);
	# calculate and return number of seconds. 
	return ($hour * 60 * 60) + ($min * 60) + $sec;
}

# this method simulates the flushing interval of the urinal 
sub urinal {
	# get the first argument it's the actual timestamp
	my $timestamp = shift;

	# the urinal flushes every x minutes in seconds
	my $interval = 900;
	# flush lenght in second;
	my $flushLength = 60; 
	
	# check if urinal flushes
	# % is a modulo operator and returns the remainder of a devision (e.g.: 24/5 = 4) --> 24 % 5 = 4
	if ($timestamp % $interval >= 0 && $timestamp % $interval <= $flushLength) {
		# apperantly the urinal flushes right now. 
		return 1;
	} else {
		#no flushing
		return 0;
	}
}

# this function returns an estimation of the actual level of power consumption of the LGB
sub powerUsage() {
	# get the first argument it's the actual timestamp
	my $timestamp = shift;

	# this is a representation of the power usage of the LGB in form of a mathematical function
	# based on an estimated sample and estimated with a polynominal regression analysis. 
	# calculate and return the current power usage
	return 	8.5303654e-93*($timestamp**20)
			+1.0676401e-86*($timestamp**19)
			-4.6480158e-81*($timestamp**18)
			+4.4422658e-76*($timestamp**17)
			+5.0305359e-71*($timestamp**16)
			-1.2326941e-65*($timestamp**15)
			+5.9061408e-61*($timestamp**14)
			+4.1528408e-56*($timestamp**13)
			-5.285163e-51*($timestamp**12)
			+1.6155833e-46*($timestamp**11)
			-5.8320484e-42*($timestamp**10)
			+1.4573385e-36*($timestamp**9)
			-1.4989895e-31*($timestamp**8)
			+7.8930969e-27*($timestamp**7)
			-2.474806e-22*($timestamp**6)
			+4.8413829e-18*($timestamp**5)
			-5.8897369e-14*($timestamp**4)
			+4.2691101e-10*($timestamp**3)
			-1.6333479e-06*($timestamp**2)
			+0.0021441309*$timestamp
			+5.9974494;
}

# this method simulates one of the movement detector 
sub movementDetector {
	# the sensor detects activity in x percent
	my $activity = 5; 
	
	# get random value and compare it with activity percentage 
	if (rand() <= $activity/100) {
		# apperantly someone walks in front of the activity sensor
		return 1;
	} else {
		# no activity
		return 0;
	}
}

back

Submitted by delboy on Fri, 2007-09-14 14:06.

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Submitted by stuart on Fri, 2007-08-17 15:38.

AWSoM v0.0.4 > Interactive Screen 0.7 @ BNMI, Banff, Canada > 11-17th August 2007

We were very privileged to be invited to Interactive Screen 0.7, at the Banff New Media Institute, in Alberta, Canada. It was a week long conference of new ideas and active minds in a lot of varying fields.

Over the course of the week we managed to collect enough found sounds to make version 0.0.4 of AWSoM, which was displayed on the 2nd floor balcony of the JPL building at the BNMI.

We'd like to thanks very much everyone who attended, and all those who made it happen, including Susan Kennard, Ele Carpenter (for the teenie tiny Vaio), Lindsay MacDonald, Emily Paige and Angela Libby, to mention but a few. Also HUGE thanks to Tony Shaper for his continued and neverending help and technical wizardry.

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 2007-07-10 17:54.

AWSoM @ Leigh Arts Trail 9-16 June

 

 

Submitted by richard on Tue, 2007-07-10 13:37.

Antarctica Map

The Antarctic Data Jams were the first events where we experimented with Data Jamming as a new model for participatory arts events. We found that the process of interacting with a remote location, situation or historical incident by means of recording various data was an efficient way of referencing a wide number of themes from an arts project in a very concrete way. Global phenomena, such as environmental change or an international conflict zone, can be folded back into the local context and explored through the many ways of re-situating and visualising its data.

Submitted by stuart on Mon, 2007-07-09 16:41.

AWSoM v0.0.3 > Sutton with Shopland Music Festival > 7th July 2007

Version 0.0.3, a unique new mix, was created for the Sutton with Shopland Festival. The original Two Tree Island mix made way for the sounds of Shopland. Samples of John Deere tractors, irrigation systems, wildlife, people, cars and steam trains (woo!!) created our usual ambient sound and music responding to changing environmental patterns with a festival twist. As we predicted (well we do have a weather machine) the sun came out and the space by AWSoM in the Marmalade Arena proved the perfect picnic spot and chill-out zone.

Submitted by stuart on Tue, 2007-06-05 13:08.

Programming :

AWSoM uses to different software programmes, OWW to gather the data from the weather sensors. More info on this will follow...
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