1. TOM HEENE (Bru, Bel)
audio visual artist (researcher ?)
> cinema
> digital arts / new media
> visual art projects
> member of iMAL

4. DIGITAL ARTS, CINEMA &
IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT
> immersive environment in film & arts
> reality – virtual reality – fiction
> new technologies for the immersive
experience (D cinema, digit arts, …)
> communicate & exchange ideas
> open the 'frame' of classical cinema
> film making & digital arts = collaboration

7. SUBJECTS & ISSUES
> we consume & work with media
> my story : TV slave & net addict ?
> continuous change of ICT
> growth of accessible data
> human < > new media & data
> media overkill < > media desolation
> sensory / physical experience
> immersion

8. SALT LAKE

9. SALT LAKE
> made with Yacine Sebti
> immersive 'sensible' environment
> dark room / one-on--one installation
> image & light as only reference
> you influence the machine ?
> an A/V data harvest from the net
> media overkill and it's opposite
> shows in Ghent, Brussels, Santiago, ...

10. SALT LAKE

11. SALT LAKE

12. DARK MATR

13. DARK MATR
> an installation
> “Where do we, human beings, position
ourselves in relation to all the data on the
internet ?”
> ”Dark matter, this void between words,
audio, video, definitions, graphics, pictures,
...”
> create your own AV environment
> data mining becomes cinematic adventure

14. DARK MATR – who & how
> one of the four Art&D programs
> CUO, Dries De Roeck & Dirk Bollen
> Nodebox, Wica & Lahaag
> core developpers: Pieter Heremans, Lievn
Menschaert, Lionel Maes & Olivier Meunier
> open source: Proce55ing, Pure Data, Python
> open data bases: wordnet, flickr, freesound
> 4 residencies @ iMAL & r
r-omh
> work in progress @ Vooruit, iMAL & V2_

15. DARK MATR

16. DARK MATR - research - HBI
> CUO issue
> Human Body Interface
> silhouette as interface
> stronger immersion
> “... user is part of the system...”

17. DARK MATR – research – TECH
> human size screen
> limit set up space
> High Definition image projection
> look through the screen (!)
> IR camera (thermal imaging) by Xenics
> thin PE or Biofilm screen (Jemaco)

18. DARK MATR – research – DATA
> the net = unlimited stock of AV material
> retrieving & stocking data (WICA)
> scenario: semantic relations between
words, images & sounds (through tags)
> wordnet.princeton.edu
> flickr.com & freesound.org

19. DARK MATR

20. DARK MATR – experience
> 1 human < > 1 machine
> tunnel & wide screen of 4m
> silhouette = interface with letters & words
> hand & body trigger action (new words)
> word history becomes word cloud
> word cloud becomes sound & image
> the cloud grows and becomes an organic
sensible environment
> stay or run away!

21. DARK MATR – recent images

22. DARK MATR @ iMAL 16 > 19 Dec 09
> darkmatr.be
> imal.org
> theoumek@gmail.com
> (theoumek.wordpress.org)