Place/Dates: Casa Paganini, UNIGE, February 8 – 12, 2010
Description:
EyesWeb Week 2010
The EyesWeb Week was a one-week intensive tutorial aiming at sharing with participants the experience of InfoMus (at Casa Paganini) in scientific research, technological development, and artistic production matured around the EyesWeb project. EyesWeb focuses on the modeling and real-time analysis of non-verbal behavior, full-body multimodal interaction and networked communication, expressive gesture, social behavior, musical gesture. We aim at building systems and multimodal interfaces supporting full-body, non-verbal, affective, expressive, and social behavior. Research is centered around the EyesWeb XMI open platform, for the development of such novel multimedia systems. This tutorial aimed at providing scientists, engineers, musicians, dancers, artists and other professionals with the opportunity to master and explore in detail the EyesWeb project and open software platform. Lectures and experiments are structured in three different tracks. Artistic projects and applications participated and co-designed by InfoMus were analyzed and discussed.
Andrea Cera and Corrado Canepa presented a special session on EyesWeb developments in the CO-ME-DI-A project on network music performance. This included the presentation of the real-time infrastructure for the networked concert at the Hamburg Festival 2009 which included the work “An Invisible Line” by the composer Andrea Cera.
Objective:
The EyesWeb Week was structured in three main Tracks, each characterized by different lectures and experiments. Artistic projects and applications, with particular reference to CO-ME-DI-A “An Invisible Line” artistic project), were included in Track 1 and 2.
Track 1: Tutorial for newcomers to EyesWeb XMI: design and development of simple EyesWeb applications, with a special focus to music, dance, and museum interactive systems.
Track 2: Experienced users and scientists interested to share and improve their skills on EyesWeb XMI will work on the analysis and design of interactive applications, interaction design, design of psychological experiments, design of artistic and industrial interactive applications.
Track 3: Platform kernel, distributed applications (EyesWeb Mobile, SAME Platform including support to Nokia S60), software design, support to scientific experiments on multimodal interfaces and systems.
Results:
• Training of the participating artists and practitioners to the design of interactive distributed real-time systems for network music performance.
• Development of proof-of-concept and prototype software applications implementing candidate novel ideas on the “An Invisible Line” installation by Andrea Cera and Corrado Canepa.
• Dissemination of the “An Invisible Line” artistic project to participants.
• Contribution to the preparation of the second and final version of “An Invisible Line” artistic project for the CO-ME-DI-A final events.
• Creation of prototypes and tutorials for artists wanting to create interactive network performances based on the EyesWeb open software platform.
Web page for the event (see www.infomus.org).
Target group:
Artists and researchers interested in distributed interactive systems and novel approaches to network music performance.
Number of participants/visitors/audience : 60 registered participants