Seascape features a series of gradually unfolding digital seascapes created using imagery captured in real time by webcams installed at five key vantage points along the south coast between Margate and Portsmouth. The cameras are positioned at various seafront locations in Margate, Folkstone, Bexhill, Pagham, and Stokes Bay.

Stokes bay 29/03/09 13:27

Pagham 29/03/09 13:26

Bexhill-on-sea 29/03/09 13:25

Folkstone 29/03/09 13:26

Margate 29/03/09 13:26

Susan Collins’ Seascape, from East to West.

Each reveal in real-time an image being constructed live from the webcams installed at the five locations across the South East coast. Continually collecting this data – from top to bottom and left to right in horizontal bands – these images are constantly generated and renewed pixel by pixel in front of the viewer.

To coincide with the exhibition, a publication on the Seascape project will be produced by Film and Video Umbrella. The book will feature newly commissioned essays by Sean Cubitt and Nicholas Alfrey and include an extensive colour plate section of archive seascape images. To order a copy email books@fvu.co.uk

Seascape is commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and the De La Warr Pavilion and is supported by Arts Council England and the Art and Humanities Research Council. The project would not have been possible without a large number or organisations and individuals:

Leas Cliff Hall (Folkestone), Pebble Beach Café (Stokes Bay), Slade Centre for Electronic Media, Slade Digital Print Studio, Information Systems (University College London), OK-RM (Oliver Knight & Rory McGrath) with Electronest (Jerome Rigaud & Pierre Schmidt), Nicholas Alfrey, Alex Baker, Adrian Barker, Martin John Callanan, Ian Cartwright, Sean Cubitt, Michael Duffy, Luci and Simon Eyers, Tim Head, Matthew Jarvis, James Keith, Stephen Levine, Pat Seggery, Simon Schofield, Fiona Sherriff, Graham and Antje Southern, Jon Thomson, Mike and Jane Windsor.

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I’ve been selected to make a work about what I feel it’s all about.. I’ve attached that video as a separate post, Hack ‘n Shop.

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Graphic by Casper Schipper

Do people work better together or alone?

We have created a puzzle based interactive installation to explore the possibilities of this question. The simple ‘Untangle’ game has been around for years as a small game made by computer scientists which uses various algorithms to search for intersections between nodes. It has a number of nodes connected by lines and the aim of the game is to move the nodes, along with the lines connecting them so that no line crosses over another. As the game goes up in levels the more intersections there are and the more complex the puzzle becomes to solve. We have taken a different approach to interacting with the game, instead of one person moving one node at once, we allow multiple players to move many nodes at the same time.

Method

We created a playing field and used motion recognition system to track ‘blobs’ as people entering the area. On this playing field we project our puzzle of nodes and lines ready to be solved. We created pre-existing set levels, and therefore data of the number of players and time it takes to solve the puzzle can be compared and our results will show us how well people work together, along with exploring some of the latest technological advances in image recognition and interactive pervasive gaming environments. It was important to us that the players didn’t have to do anything special in order to interact with our installation.

Set up

Simply walking on to the playing field is all we want our participants to do, yet provide these protagonists with a rich, immersive and challenging experience as we collect the data for this research. We placed a webcam above our playing field and used blob detection in the c# programming environment which passed information to an Adobe Flash application which is the game engine. Another Flash application was created to display the high scores though a separate projection on the wall.

Download Installation Requirements here

What do people need to do?

People need to solve a puzzle game. Depending on the number of players, this game can be played by one up to eight players simultaneously. The goal of the game is to solve a untangle puzzle as quick as possible; the less time it takes to complete the game, the higher the score will be. The game is collaborative: this means all players will have to team up in order to solve the puzzle.

Image by Casper Schipper

The game is to be played physically. People control the game by moving around in a physical space. The game consists of a number of nodes, each connected to other nodes by at least two lines. Players can move the nodes around freely, aiming to remove all intersections between these lines. The moment no intersecting lines remain, the puzzle is solved and the game is finished.

Check out Casper’s website for other projects here.

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Creativity is king here, and I was lucky enough to work with one of the most creative minds of the world, Martin Sastre. Imagine Lady Diana Spencer, who is still alive and living in Uruguay, going about her business and having a nice normal life while we are all mourning what she stood for.

Make of this what you will, the YouTube discussions continue…

There is a higher quality version here. (Requires Quicktime)

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