Students of HTBLVA Ortweinschule (AT) // Zoe Borzi, Johannes Fischer, Alina Fromm, Nicolas Glockner, Antonia Gutschelhofer, Nikolaus Heckel, Lena Landschützer, Lena Mannert, Kathrin Mayerl, Timo Neubauer, Natalie Pinter, Alexandra Rieser, Mona Ziringer, Martha Schnuderl, Andreas Schweighart, Jonathan Steininger, Maximilian Thaler, Raphael Wohlgemuth
u19 winner: Award of Distinction
//movingshapes; is a media installation that transforms body movements into digital art and thus offers an interactive, generative design possibility.
//movingshapes; is a media installation that constitutes a mode of interactive design. Eighteen students developed an algorithm which enables transforming body movements into digital art. When a person moves about in a zone in which a Kinect can register their motions, the average body mass is calculated and abstracted into a single point. In the program, each point is then run as the decisive object, which makes it possible to influence the programmed sequences with movements and to “draw” with them. Each participant developed their own algorithm on the basis of various fundamental methods of generative design. Processing was used to create different geometric objects that move in coordination with the user’s movements within the Kinect zone and are re-rendered frame by frame. As soon as the user exits the Kinect zone, the finished work of art is stored to memory as an image and the system moves on to the next algorithm. Thus, the next user interacts with a new algorithm configuring a different object by another maker. The result is a wide variety of colorful, multifaceted animation sequences that invite users to experiment with various moves and have lots of physical/digital fun.
Eighteen students of the HTBLVA Ortweinschule have decided to expand a school project and turn it into a digital work of art. The multi-phase project entailed a long journey from learning basic programming rules to their independent application and first-time use of creative coding and processing as an individual design method.
credits: SchülerInnen der HTBLVA Ortweinschule
