I just got back from presenting Spatial Sketch at the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) conference at the MIT Media Lab. There were a number of interesting projects, which you can check on the site itself, the TEI blog, and Core77 also has a good article.
A new version of 12Pixels has been released in Japan in association with Sony Style. This version features a whole range of new features including drawing with colour, saving ‘emoji’ for use with Japanese email, and ranking/commenting drawings.
Above is a short clip of Ivan and myself promoting 12Pixels on the TV show of Japanese talent and super-model Marie. Also a guest on the show is Sony Music Artist ‘Neeko’, who is helping us out with a bunch of cool promotions.
12Pixels is available free to download for Japanese phones (AU/SOFTBANK/DOCOMO).
12Pixels has just been featured in a two-page article in Japan’s ‘Dime Magazine‘. The article also features a write up on 12Pixels co-creator Ivan Poupyrev and his various talents and escapades.
I just received a copy of Art World China in the post today, they have a small write up on BoxBeat – check it out.
I am pleased to announce that 12Pixels has been released in Japan in association with Sony Style. Visit the official Sony Style site to download 12Pixels for Docomo, AU, or Softbank phones.
12Pixels has also been covered in the March 7, 2009 issue of New Scientist magazine. Visit the New Scientist website to check out the article.
TwelvePixels is currently exhibiting as part of the ‘Open Science‘ exhibition at the Sony ExploraScience Centre here in Tokyo. Last summer Light Tracer was a big hit at the RoboKuma exhibition, so it is nice to be back there again.
It has been fun browsing through the drawings people post, and checking out the wide range of pixel-style drawing styles. Above are a few picks of mine, but be sure to check it out and try it yourself if you are in Tokyo. Open Science runs untill September 23rd.
An edited version of my Open Interactions paper has been included in the ‘Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader’. The reader shows a ’screen grab of digital arts practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand’, and will certainly be a milestone publication.
The book itself is put together really well in terms of design, printing, and content – so I a super happy to be a part of it. Definitely worth checking out, more information and ordering details can be found on the publishers website or via Amazon.
Today I received in the mail the latest Tokyo Type Directors Club Annual – Volume 18. Included are the 2007 awards winners, with a spread of Light Tracer, amongst a lot (and I mean A LOT) of other great work.
I will be travelling to Dublin to exhibit and do several workshops for the ‘Lightwave’ festival at the brand new Science Gallery in Dublin. At the first workshop I will give a short talk about ‘low-tech interactivity’, followed by a hands on session with TwelvePixels – the mobile phone drawing system I have been working on with Dr Ivan Poupyrev at Sony CSL. The second workshop is for teenagers and involves a new project I have been working on with Jacob Hina called ‘Alchemy’ – more about that later. Lightwave runs from February 2 – 8, more information on the workshops can be found on the Science Gallery website.
Light Tracer has been invited by Siete Media to participant in the Unesco Universal Forum of Cultures in Monterrey, Mexico, from the 20th of September to the 8th of December 2007. It is a huge event with 1.5 million people expected to attend so it will no doubt be an amazing experience.