Art, Film & Music Projects

IR Orchestra

People experience the complexity of individual and collaborative components of a professional orchestra (or musical ensemble).

Create a Mini Film

LOOKING FOR HELP BUILDING IN SL I am looking for help in designing a dark room studio and for someone who knows about setting up video cameras that can link into a simple editing software.

Global Picture

Project for picturing a global state of humanity. Screen screen show a visual composition which is changing constantly. The changes are dependent on certain parameters that together represent the global “feel-good factor.” By looking at the screen, visitors will know the state of the humanity at any given moment.

Obsolete Body - New Body

To what extent has human body today, its physical properties which still resemble that of primates, changed under strong influence of sophisticated medicine and the simulacrum technology of human body? To what extent has the body actually become superfluous and expendable in the world of images proliferated by mass media, for example consequences of war and combat, natural catastrophes and accidents?

Everything to Everyone

An exploration of active and passive listening.

Organic Motion Capture

To enable a visitor to step into a tracking space wearing standard street clothing and the system starts tracking him or her in real time at a high level of 3d precision.

V-SL

Where is the intersection between Real- and Virtual-Life?

3D Modeling

To look at the gadgets that artists used historically to render objects in three dimensions. I am looking for someone to help with creating an interactive about CAD or a 3D modeling system our audience can do fairly easily.

Art of the Guitar

To show how electric guitars produce sound and how you can vary the sound with different settings and materials.

Magnetic Coin Sculpture

LOOKING FOR BUILDING HELP IN SL. Museum visitors build a sculpture by adding coins with different magnetic properties.

Mechanical Wave

A floating mechanical mobile that moves like a wave

Music in Gaming Technology

A visual and interactive timeline of computer game technology and it's music.

Remote Garden

A way of bringing nature indoors. The garden is at the same time a real place, a virtual window, a game.

The Geek Chorus

A mechanical "play" where the action, dance, and music of the "actors"are controlled by the changing relationships of search terms on the Internet.

Flight patterns

4 Remote control helicopters that operate within mapped airspace patterns.

Rhythmic Patterns

Utilizing their knowledge of rhythmic patterns of some commonly known music as keys, our visitors are invited to explore various objects in this exhibit, and have fun in the process.

Religion Bazaar

To create a Studies in Religion island in Second Life on which spaces from many religions are represented.

Cultural Fusion

Co-creating alternatives for better living, including how we do business & market the business we do, where "art as philosophy" is home base.

ASCII Art and Animations

To showcase some creativities made by a very limited resource of a set of 95 printable ASCII characters, and to invite our visitors to create some of their own.

vizClone Me

Real time demonstration of fuzzy logic with a mannequin that clones nearby visitors a computer eye "catches" http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/vizclone-me/wiki/

Flying

Simulate the act of flying in Second Life within the gallery and navigate The Tech from the air.

SwellCell

SwellCell is basically a biologically correct cell with the focus on all its parts; it can be shrunk or swell so that avatars can walk through it like an amusement park.

Animated Body Functions

Create 3D large and small models of various body systems to show their function and how common disease and injury effects the system.

Homunculus

You peer into a box and see a tiny, upright image of yourself inside.

Music Orbits

Playing with music with 3-D Spatial Interaction.

Mood Music

Can music alter your mood? What sounds calm you down or excite you?

Inside counterpART

CounterpART is the combination or singularity of artwork, music, performance, creative or educational event that exists in both RL and SL. Many artists now create art and music for both worlds and "Inside counterpART" delves inside the concept of mixed reality arts by focusing on the interactions of technology, creativity, artist personalities, and creative processes of 6 live events and the people involved with them. This exhibition will be an innovative, interactive, and technological approach to understanding how virtual reality can be used to inspire and promote the creative expression of artists, musicians, and educators.

Artist in Residence - The Painter

To enable the audience to experience the role of the painter - through visual aids, animation and audio stream - to step into the shoes of the painter and 'paint' an existing painting by a real painter.

The Eyes of a Painter

Take modern art works and begin with the subject as a real life image and then progress through several stages of abstraction to arrive at the image the painter created.

Political cartoons for the 21st Century

THE MELIES PROJECT - Move over, Oliphant and other political cartoonists still using finger-staining old newspapers: it's time to go 3D!

Reactive Spaces

An emotional space which reacts to human presence and interaction via light and sound.

Musical Chairs

The idea is simple -- to allow visitors to make music while interacting with the installation and each other through experimentation and play.

Reprojecting Images

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Characters Alive

Interact with pictures, sounds, and abstract ideas behind Chinese characters. Experience how multimedia technology can offer some fascinating solutions to the challenge of learning these ancient language symbols. Virtual interactions can help to awaken logic, reasoning, and intuition.

Interactive Playground

VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF MOVEMENT WITHIN SL

Wikisonic

Engage visitors as active and dynamic participants in an ongoing musical composition, co-created by visitors to both the real, and the virtual museum.

Magic Lantern Slide

draft: view a vintage magic lantern slide and walk inside the view

Connecting Point: Hole in (Virtual) Space

“Connecting Point” is a first life/second life live camera feed system that links a first life physical space to a second life location through two screens, one in second life and one in first life. The live camera feeds are set up to link the participants to complete goals and play games in and across the two areas.

Wiki Mural

A collaborative mural

The seduction by film, art and music

Hidden Persuasion

Art Of Graffiti[COMPLETE]

Art of Graffiti being shown in a exhibit.

NASA exhibit

all things nasa

There Are No Strangers, Only Friends I Have Met

How is creative collaboration influenced by knowledge of the other person? To what extent do we collaborate with an individual, rather than a 'creative other'?

ART IN MOTION

Technology invites and links every museum guest to create a fluid, interactive, collaborative artistic expression

Can You See the Music?

In this exhibit you could simulate color synesthesia

The Art and Music of Technology

I want to connect both music and art to computers.

Projections

Projector shows holograms and explains how it works.

Laser Lab

This will show how lasers reflect, refract, and diffuse off of liquids, mirrors, and solids.

Desensitize The Masses

The idea is to make people realize that no matter how much they hate one thing, they can't get rid of it.

Chemical Technology

This exhibit will show people how chemistry and technology are similar, while also offering informative and interesting information, experiments, and interactive projects.

Virtual Ecosystems

Explore and interact with Ecosystems all over the world!

Rolling Ground of Color

Rolling Ground of Color is a combination of a floor & the color wheel.

Kepler's Music of the Spheres

Johannes Kepler's concept of planetary harmony was hard to experience and recent advances in digital music have made these revolutionary ideas much more accessible. Take the two minute tour and be treated to the music of the spheres as heard from around the solar system, comparing those sounds to the speakers placed in the room around you.

Drums that Paint: Digital Art Interfaces

Using a midi controller to produce sound and light to create a new form of digital art

Where would we be without _____ ?

This exhibit will allow people to experience what it would be like to not have certain technologies that we use to create Art, Music, and Film.

Very Abstract Art

I am going to create an area that has several prims that when all moved in the right way, create multiple images.

digital poetics and playthings

translating ideas of poetics into the virtual

Personality Bot

A robotic personality with AI that allows it to interact with passerby in various ways depending on its adjustable personality knobs and sliders.

The Dance of Light

This project uses live video projection of the viewer to create a full color image from additive colors (red, green, and blue mix to create the yellow, cyan, and magenta).

The Knit

From grandma's sweater to nanometallic dresses, and from supermodels to mathematical models, we will showcase an amazing 5,000 year old invention that keeps reinventing itself.

Paper Cuts

Death is the other side of the coin of life. Artist often use humor to pay homage to love ones who passed by creating paper cut outs (papel picado) to help relatives and friends deal with the pain of loss. The use of negative and positive space to create an illusion also reinforces the notion that our views and life and death are two also negative and positive space that work together to create the illusion of self.

MIDI – The Golden Age

Showcase a representative variety of today's MIDI controllers, each mapped to a unique and innovative collection of controls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be6f6x-JpK8

If I Could Fly Away...

coming... 8cD

Walk A Mile

Taking the adage that you should not judge another person until you have walked a mile in that person’s shoes, this exhibit invites visitors to do just that.

Your avatar, yourself.

Use a digital camera and machine vision software to make an avatar that looks like oneself.

This Sounds Fun!

This exhibit explores how sound plays an integral part in film-making, in a fun and interactive way.

Reprojecting San Jose

We can take a group of pictures and by "stretching" and "warping" them in just the right way, we can make them fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle to make pictures that show us our world in a different way.

Machinima for the June Exhibition!

When we open the RL exhibition in June, we want to acknowledge EVERYONE'S work and participation by rolling some silent machinima (SL video) loops large on the walls of the gallery. Join this project to get involved in creating footage for the exhibition!

Au Musee de cire

Le Musee de cire present les personage ideal des 7ieme annee

the patafone

. a collective sound instrument stimulating the players/visitors to stretch the limited sound possibilities of second life in a playful and improvising way. ideal would be to have the exhibit connected with a real life version of the patafone where people from both worlds meet through collective sound making

Virtual Studio

Customizing film athmosphere with technology and music.

Soundscape and Spirit

Soundscapes are central to our experience of the world, and by learning to listen more effectively, we can achieve greater appreciation of nature and music, and create enjoyment for others by using sounds and silence to inspire, inform, and entertain.

Walk-A-Thon

This exhibit will show visitors how digital compositing, or green screening works by putting them into position to star in a movie that they can watch at the same time.

Inner Space Mood Enhancer

A Inner Space Mood Enhancing Machine that allows the user to intensify, alter, experiment, and discover how colors, images, and movement affect his or her own feelings.

In a village at Karnataka India

A photo from a village at Karnrtaka India

A Thousand Words

This project highlights the inner workings of the camera and its influence on art practices.

Uncommon Senses

Plants and animals have some amazing ways of sensing their environment... and humans rely on technology to mimic these "uncommon" senses.

Eldercare Smarthouse

The Eldercare Smarthouse provides unobtrusive, highly accurate health and status monitoring services that enable senior citizens to live independent lives while they remain in the comfort of their own home.

SL5B

Project to organize The Tech Virtual's participation in Second Life's fifth birthday celebration (SL5B)

Oppose Dualism

Collect reactions to the concept "Oppose Dualism".