More info http://www.playairways.com/vrc/

Alex Kurina (Toronto, Canada) is a designer and new media artist who works in the collaborative group Play Airways, producing motion graphics and animation. He has a BFA from Ryerson University. UnRealityVRC is a project for people to manipulate live television through a touch screen and motion sensors that detect hand gestures. Switching from one channel to the next, users will pick from an almost infinite palate of images, color and video loops, resulting in any number of image combinations. Users will be able to sample from any cable signal and reconfigure images to produce original works of art. Contact: alex(at)playairways.com

Collaborators:

brian ballantine: recording functionality, coding and VCR hack - brianballantine(at)gmail.com

marti sanchez: programming, visual software coding - marti(at)iiia.csic.es

maria mendez: physical computing - memend(at)gmail.com

Appropriating television video signal

Remixing image to make original artwork

Television as art making interface

Television signal / recorded television

Sampling/appropriation

The television is the object of interaction

Physical/intuitive

Discovery/fun!

Sourcing / Looping / Collage / Splitting / Drawing

Drawing on the screen with a marker

Manipulating objects on the screen with hand gestures

Turning knobs on the television

Slamming the side of the television

Manipulating the aerials

1. 3 videos that we switch between

2. Use keyboard to switch channels

3. ipac2 + switch

4. c.v. p.o.c. –> simple two layers cutout with blob

5. add infrared

6A. introduce 3rd mode

6B introduce physical setup

7. introduce 4th mode

1. split screen 2. obtaining colour information (average colour data) 3. looping sections of video