{"id":2477,"date":"2014-07-21T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T08:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=2477"},"modified":"2014-07-21T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T08:58:42","slug":"luke-hespanhol-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/luke-hespanhol-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Hespanhol 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/files\/2014\/07\/Hespanhol_Luke-300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2479\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/files\/2014\/07\/Hespanhol_Luke-300.png\" alt=\"Luke Hespanhol\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Visualising Traces of the Urban Fl\u00e2neur with Computer Vision and Generative Digital Media<\/h1>\n<p>This paper describes a digital media artwork  utilising computer vision and real-time generative digital effects to  capture the immaterial character of crowd dynamics in public spaces at  different times of the day. The process allows the emergence of a double  layered audio-visual impression of population flow through the city:  (1) a series of short videos, shot at various urban spaces and digitally  manipulated in real-time to register the flow of pedestrians; and (2)  an exhibition in a gallery space of the collective footage, collated as a  movie strip. Gallery visitors can explore the videos by sliding the  strip sideways via interaction with a depth-image sensor.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of an art and science residency,  the artwork investigates the intangible aesthetics of urban life. It  refashions CCTV surveillance media, video art and painting by offering,  from a passive observer viewpoint, traces of daily walking activities in  various different public spaces, re-rendering them artistically in  real-time. By doing so, it proposes a new idiom for visualisation of  patterns of human flow in the digitally augmented city. In isolation,  each movie offers a high level of transparent immediacy, positioning the  audience in the centre of the space albeit hidden behind the window  frame of the camera. When placed and played side by side at the  exhibition gallery, however, the collective footage attains a high  degree of hypermediacy, simultaneously highlighting the hedonic  character of the interactive medium itself while offering an ironic  critique of private and public driven surveillance practices  increasingly commonplace in contemporary society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke Hespanhol <\/strong>is an interaction designer, media  artist and researcher based in Sydney, Australia. His works explore the  potential for digital media and interactive technologies to support  human-centred, participatory interventions in public urban environments.  He has exhibited in various galleries and public art festivals,  presented in academic conferences and industry events, and published in  international peer-reviewed journals. Luke holds Master degrees in  Interaction Design and Electronic Arts (University of Sydney), and  Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design (COFA-UNSW). He has more than 16 years  experience in large software development projects both in Australia and  overseas and is currently a PhD Candidate at the Design Lab, University  of Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>www.nanoluke.com<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @nanoluke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Visualising Traces of the Urban Fl\u00e2neur with Computer Vision and Generative Digital Media This paper describes a digital media artwork utilising computer vision and real-time generative digital effects to capture the immaterial character of crowd dynamics in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43221,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2477","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2477\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}