(b)AR is an augmented reality game, an interactive music installation designed to be used in pubs, parties or public places.
It is meant to be a social experiment, mixing cutting edge technology with entertainment, involving music and fun. Participating only requires to attach the AR sticker onto the bottom of the drink received. Each sticker is assigned to a certain instrument. The playing area is marked; the tracking camera must recognize and locate the sticker. By this time the music starts playing. The position, the rotation angle and the distance from a reference point ables to manipulate the sound.
Used technologies: Fluxus, ARToolkit, Pure Data
Publicity: (B)ar was exhibited at Alternative Party 2009, Helsinki/Finland and MT 2010 Kickoff event at MŰPA, Budapest.
People involved: Csík-Kovács Zoltán, Ozsvald Eszter, Szalai András, Gergely Krisztián, Kiss László, Papp Gábor, Bujdosó Attila, Fabrizio Boreiro
Kitchen Budapest
Rob.arts is an interactive social game, where players can experience first-hand the challenges and excitement of controlling virtual robots in real time. The game is designed to provide an easy approach to the art of programming; no previous experience is required. Robots behave according to the player’s specifications, but may incur in “mistakes”. A friendly feel to the visuals makes our game also suited for audiences that demand
The paper was presented at ISEARuhr 2010.
Interactive techno-social flock of e-Sheep
diplomawork
Manenmane concept was made by the co-operation of BME Industrial Design faculty and Kitchen Budapest.
Manenmane is an interactive, distributed social installation. The organic form of the sculpture is inspired by the peaceful sight of a lone sheep grazing on green grass. While each individual sculpture resides alone in its own city, hundreds are digitally linked to form an internationally distributed flock. Ultimately the goal of the project is to produce meaningful short-term virtual connections between random people located in different cities and countries. Above all, the installation encourages tolerance, allowing connections between different sexes, ages, races, religions and social status.
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MacsEk! MacsEk! burning bright
In the cities of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful asymmetry?
Travel with the cat, find out his dreams,
don’t sit on your button beans!
See if u can beat the quests
and you can do your best
to make it happen.
Take him to your workplace,
to the bar, to the parties.
Remember, pictures are his memories
as macsEk is a star
on all of these.
When you think she’s seen enough,
has discovered all your life,
say goodbye to your kitty,
pass him to your buddy,
(a responsible one).
MacsEks are never lonely,
they are always on their journey,
don’t make their homesickness bigger,
upload the pictures on flickr!
To make it happen.
Poem was written with Andras Szalai.
Hand made, pass-it-on hitchhiker cat network, go to macsEk’s web site
Smoke-it ‘n kill-the-mosquit! Augmented reality installation
made with András Szalai, Krisztián Gergely and Zoltán Csík-Kovács at KIBU.
Presented at Szörp 2009 (Szentendre/Hungary)
Alternative Party 2009 (Helsinki/Finland)
Animated Dreams Filmfestival 2009 (Tallinn/Estonia)
In the following projects we explored smoking as a topic. This habit has a rich social and cultural context, despite its negative effects on health. We were interested in the space occupied by smokers, designed objects related to smoking and explored the cultural romance attached to it.
While smokers keep ignoring signs like “SMOKING KILLS”, we experiment with an “educational” flower: It coughs silly when it detects smoke! Made with Attila Bujdosó at KIBU presented in Lift 2009, Geneva/Switzerland
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post-modern smoking accessory
More and more European countries decide to ban smoking in public spaces. The ones who would like to light up a cigarette must find the smoking area, which is mostly outside of the building, in the fresh air. Generally speaking the area reserved for smokers is becoming smaller every day and because of this they became isolated.
In the Smooking area project we are reflecting the reducing space for smokers by inventing a little, funny personal smoking area fastened to the arms and separating the hands holding the cigarette from the outside space.
made with Bujdosó Attila and Zoltán Csík-Kovács (KIBU, October 2008)
