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GMU:Space Is The Place/projects/Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars

2010-06-30T18:50:14Z

Spacetoph:

===The idea.===
[[Image:Rockit-logo.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars]]
[[Image:Rockit-fly.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Fly through the space]]
Imagine the universe's infinite emptiness, a place where absolute silence rules. We want to fill this space symbolical and give the innumerably stars a special sound. In interaction between the user and stars and the stars among themselves, different sounds will be created. They will picture a musical portrait of the universe.

===The concept.===
The user flies with a starship through the space. He is able to interact with the stars by shooting at them. An activated star makes a noise and a shockwave arises. It evolves through the space and activates other stars and items on its way. These also make sounds and send new shockwaves. A chain reaction starts and an unique world of sounds evolves.

===The editorially arrangement.===
The tone color and volume of the created sound depend on the size of stars. A large star creates a deep and loud tone.

===Life and death.===
The shockwave which is sent out by a star has a finite lifetime. With growing size it gets weaker. How large a shockwave can become is related to the size of the star.

===The realization.===
The interface for our project is built with Flash. All sounds will be integrated into the Flash file, so the game is very portable and easy to handle. The application is also playable online because no special hard- or software is needed.

===The download.===
You may download "Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars" as Windows or Mac version.

Available here:
[http://www.troelfdesign.com/de/projects/rockit/ www.troelfdesign.com]
[http://www.stefan-bernhardt.de www.stefan-bernhardt.de]

<gallery>
Image:Rockit-intro.jpg|Intro
Image:Rockit-shockwaves.jpg|Stars and shockwaves
Image:Rockit-blackhole.jpg|Black Holes
</gallery>

===Online===
[http://www.troelfdesign.com/data/contents/rockit/CaptainRockIt-Online.swf Online-Version] or embedded in this page:
<flash>file=CaptainRockIt-Online.swf|width=800|height=600|bgcolor=#000000|scale=exactfit|quality=best</flash>

 
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GMU:Space Is The Place/projects/Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars

2010-06-30T18:47:51Z

Spacetoph: /* The Idea. */

===The Idea.===
[[Image:Rockit-logo.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars]]
[[Image:Rockit-fly.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Fly through the space]]
Imagine the universe's infinite emptiness, a place where absolute silence rules. We want to fill this space symbolical and give the innumerably stars a special sound. In interaction between the user and stars and the stars among themselves, different sounds will be created. They will picture a musical portrait of the universe.

===The Concept.===
The user flies with a starship through the space. He is able to interact with the Star by activate them via shooting.
An activated star makes noise and a shockwave arises. It evolves through the space and activates other stars and items on its way which also make sounds and send new shockwaves. An chain reaction starts and an uniquely world of noises is created.

===Constellations and Orbs.===
Some stars are interlinked to signs. From time to time new signs will uprise and old ones will disappear. If one star in a sign is activated by a shockwave, the other stars in the sign will also activate.
Now and again different orbs like comets or planets will appear. If a shockwave hits such an orb, a new sound, which is very different, will be created.

===The editorially Arrangement.===
The tone color and the volume of the created sound are swayed by the size of stars. A large star creates a deeply and loudly tone. Which sound you will hear is random.

===Life and Death.===
The shockwave which is send out by a star has a finitely lifetime. With growing size it becomes weaker. How large an shockwave can be is addicted to the size of a star.

===The Realization.===
The interface for our project is build with Flash. All sounds will be integrated into the Flash-file, so the "instrument" is very portable and easy to handle. The application could be distributed via web because no special hard- or software is needed.

===The Download.===
You may download "Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars" as Windows or Mac version.

Available here:
[http://www.troelfdesign.com/de/projects/rockit/ www.troelfdesign.com]
[http://www.stefan-bernhardt.de www.stefan-bernhardt.de]

<gallery>
Image:Rockit-intro.jpg|Intro
Image:Rockit-shockwaves.jpg|Stars and shockwaves
Image:Rockit-blackhole.jpg|Black Holes
</gallery>

===Online===
[http://www.troelfdesign.com/data/contents/rockit/CaptainRockIt-Online.swf Online-Version] or embedded in this page:
<flash>file=CaptainRockIt-Online.swf|width=800|height=600|bgcolor=#000000|scale=exactfit|quality=best</flash>

 
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GMU:Space Is The Place/Summaery

2010-06-28T22:33:34Z

Spacetoph: /* Friday, 16.7 */

*''Location:'' [[Marienstraße 7b]], Room 002

====Attendance for the exhibition====

==Thursday, 15.7. ==

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==Friday, 16.7 ==

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==Saturday, 17.7 ==

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==Sunday, 18.7 ==

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GMU:Space Is The Place/projects/Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars

2010-06-09T10:09:53Z

Spacetoph: /* The Idea. */ Neue Bilder

===The Idea.===
[[Image:Rockit-logo.jpg|right|thumb|140px|Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars]] [[Image:Rockit-intro.jpg|right|thumb|140px|Intro]] [[Image:Rockit-fly.jpg|right|thumb|140px|Fly through the space]] [[Image:Rockit-shockwaves.jpg|right|thumb|140px|Stars and shockwaves]] [[Image:Rockit-blackhole.jpg|right|thumb|140px|Black Holes]]
Imagine the universe's infinite emptiness, a place where absolute silence rules. We want to fill this space symbolical and to give the innumerably stars a special sound.
In interaction between the user with the stars and the stars among themselves, there will be different sounds create. They will picture a musically portrait of the universe.

===The Concept.===

The user flies with a starship through the space. He is able to interact with the Star by activate them via shooting.
An activated star makes noise and a shockwave arises. It evolves through the space and activates other stars and items on its way which also make sounds and send new shockwaves. An chain reaction starts and an uniquely world of noises is created.

===Constellations and Orbs.===
Some stars are interlinked to signs. From time to time new signs will uprise and old ones will disappear. If one star in a sign is activated by a shockwave, the other stars in the sign will also activate.
Now and again different orbs like comets or planets will appear. If a shockwave hits such an orb, a new sound, which is very different, will be created.

===The editorially Arrangement.===
The tone color and the volume of the created sound are swayed by the size of stars. A large star creates a deeply and loudly tone. Which sound you will hear is random.

===Life and Death.===
The shockwave which is send out by a star has a finitely lifetime. With growing size it becomes weaker. How large an shockwave can be is addicted to the size of a star.

===The Realization.===
The interface for our project is build with Flash. All sounds will be integrated into the Flash-file, so the "instrument" is very portable and easy to handle. The application could be distributed via web because no special hard- or software is needed.

===The Download.===
There are three versions of "Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars" available:
[http://www.troelfdesign.com/data/contents/rockit/CaptainRockIt-Online.swf Online-Version], Windows-Version, Mac-Version

Available here:
[http://www.troelfdesign.com/de/projects/rockit/ www.troelfdesign.com]
[http://www.stefan-bernhardt.de www.stefan-bernhardt.de]

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File:Rockit-shockwaves.jpg

2010-06-09T10:07:27Z

Spacetoph:

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File:Rockit-intro.jpg

2010-06-09T10:07:05Z

Spacetoph:

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File:Rockit-fly.jpg

2010-06-09T10:06:42Z

Spacetoph:

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GMU:Space Is The Place/projects

2010-06-09T10:06:23Z

Spacetoph: /* Stefan Bernhardt and Christoph Schreiber: Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars */

Documentation of projects from the class [[GMU:Space Is The Place|Space is the Place]] by [[Max Neupert]] in the [[:Category:WS09|winter semester 2009/2010]]:
==[[Hamish John Appleby]]: [[/DREAMS IN INNER SPACE AND THE FRONTIER OF THE VOID|DREAMS IN INNER SPACE AND THE FRONTIER OF THE VOID]]==
[[Image:Wexper.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Hamish John Appleby: ''Mindmap'']]

===DREAMS IN SPACE, BLINDFOLDED AND BOUNDLESS - A workshop by: Hamish John Appleby===

THE PROCESS ''''“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps” Carl Sagan, 1994.''''

WHERE AND WHAT I am currently running a creative workshop with the students from the Waldorf Schüle in Weimar – So far this has been a fantastic opportunity for both myself and the students(I hope) to engage in a workshop or kind of ‘mini project’ that they have probably never encountered before, with the outcome being a possible mini exhibition of drawings – or other creations.

A GREAT QUOTE “I shut my eyes in order to see”.
--Paul Gauguin

LOCATION: Waldorfschule Weimar

[[/DREAMS IN INNER SPACE AND THE FRONTIER OF THE VOID|Project description and more Pictures]]

==[[Andreas Beyer]]: The Radiostar==
Since more than 100 years humankind uses technology for broardcasting content and for some physics reasons nearly 80% of that signals are just "lost" in space. That means the nearby outer space ( 100 ly orbit) is in a way a kind of radioarchive or a cultural documentation of hunmankinds ability to send signals with several technologies. I'm focused on the frequency band of ultra short wave radio signals. To explain this cosmic-international radioarchive, I want to create a navigationplan to "travel" through that archive. the installation will be a (selfmade) telescopebody (no tech inside) that can be moved in different directions to zoom into a model of that "radiohalo". The room, where the telescope will be placed, is prepaired with some small radiotransmitters (selfmade) to symbolize where some particularly broadcasts are “waving” in outer space. Inside that telescopebody will be some, i think maybe three, radioreceivers to get in contact with the transmitters and by moving that telescopebody the recipient can adjust the programm that sounds in the body of the telescope (sorry for my bad english).

==[[Kyd Campbell]]: [[/In the direction of the frontier|in the direction of the frontier]]==
[[Image:Snapshot_2009-11-19_00-31-29.jpg|right|thumb|250px|video maquette (pretend the cow is a pony)]]
keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond

Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.

The goal of this project is to produce a machine for self video recording and capturing alternate states of movement.

The image will include a subject moving into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the subject, as it is pulling the camera, filming itself.

I constructed a specialized camera mount for holding and stabilising the camera on a rope. The subject is instructed to pull on the rope. Currently, the rope is tied to a fixed point.

[[GMU:Space Is The Place/projects/In the direction of the frontier|Read on...]]

==[[Fan Yu]]: [[/Reisen duch Zeit und Raum|Reisen duch Zeit und Raum]]==
[[Image:YuFanSIP2009.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Idea: Zeittunnel - “Space is The Place”]]
''"Ich schlafe in Praha , arbeite in Berlin, esse in Beijing, spiele in Paris.... Welt ist nicht so groß. Ich kann irgendwohin gehe, ob es auf dem Mond ist.” Es ist ein Traum von mir... Aber es kann sein...''''

''Haben Dinosaurier Haar? Warum ist die Maya-Kultur verschwunden? Wer tötete John F. Kennedy? Was ist der öffentlichen verkehr? Sind Zeitreisen und Raumreisen möglich? Oder nur ein Menschheitstraum? Ob können die Fakten direkt vor unseren Augen sein?...” So vielen Fragen sind in meinem Kopf… vielecht stehen die Lösung schon langer Zeit im Internet!! ''

''Ich hoffe, dass Sie mit meine Arbeit irgendwohin gehen können. Nach ein Sekunde Lang sind die Fakten direkt vor Augen... “''

[[/Reisen duch Zeit und Raum|Project description]]
 

==[[Jamie Ferguson]]: [[/Vanessa_Cardui in Space|Vanessa_Cardui in Space]]==
[[Image:Iso_ftpc.jpg|right|thumb|250px|isometric view]]
This project began by following the 'Butterflies In Space' project sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute; Vanessa Cardui larvae that hatched six days earlier flew aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. Children from American elementary schools were encouraged to take part by creating their own butterfly habitats in the class room, to watch the butterflies live and grow and die over the course of 25 days; the greatest variable being gravity. The second was possibly the 'payload', the artificial habitat taken aboard to house the larvae. The difference is not so much in its content but with the container itself. A 'flight certified scientific insert' was developed at BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado. "Our…competency is enabling the conduct of space life sciences research in a highly regulated environment in such a way as to make the complicated process completely transparent to the investigator." This appeared a very different object from the terrariums and disposable plastic food containers the school children were promoted to use, but their aims were comparable.

[[/Vanessa_Cardui in Space|Project description]]
 

==[[André Wünscher]], [[Anica Huck]], [[Hannes Wagner]], [[Michael Schlund]], [[Michaela Honauer]], [[Thomas Fritzsche]]: [[/Voyageo|Voyageo]]==
[[Image:Voyageo.jpg|right|thumb|250px|satellite images on skin]]

VOYAGEO consists of projections of satellite pictures onto the human body. These pictures are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body. Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty showed in today's media. We want to have a look on the everyday reality of body and earth.

[[/Voyageo|Full documentation]]
 

==[[Henrike Schneider]]: '''Waste Circulation''' (Erfurt-Schwerborn) ==

[[Image:DerMüllmann.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Der Müllmann]]
Since the evolution of mankind humans have struggled to grasp the idea of infinity. Leading academics including philosophers, mathematicians, scientists and artists continue to make efforts in a bid to better comprehend infinity as a concept. A particular emphasis has been directed towards debates focusing on explanations regarding the universe and its expansion.

Infinity is the topic of art works and theoretical essays. During the Romantic – Caspar David Friedrich tried to visualize the feeling of infinity in his drawings. Superiority.

The moebius strip is a visual explanation of infinity and today used as a symbol in our daily life. The moebius strip presents a circuit and also the idea of repetition, with no beginning and no end.

As evident in the picture, including planet Earth, numerous circuits exists exist within our Solar System. The Earth is rotating around the Sun, the Moon around the Earth. A sunset and a sunrise represents the start and end of a 24 hour day. We have 365 days a year, 12 months and four seasons. Those cycles are always present. Additionally such order takes various other forms. Blood, water, economic and recycling circulation is also presented through a moebius strip.

Waste remains an unsolved problem. Circulation is possible, but also goes along with environmental problems. In my work - I am focusing on the the current problem of disposal sites in Germany and its use. Focusing on the topic 'Space is the place', I endeavor to direct much attention towards the Erfurt-Schwerborn disposal site. Since 2005 significant have occurred. Furthermore several other disposal sites in Germany have been shut down due environmental related issues. No longer can one find unhandled rubbish on the landfills.

Circa 6ha of 18ha of the disposal site are renatured by now. Animals and vegetation are creating a natural environment out of a former „dead“ place. In the future there will be a natural park in conjunction with a new recycling center. As this indicates, the area Erfurt-Schwerborn is transforming dramatically.

I aim to both conceptualize and visualize the idea of circulation; the before and after - the idea of infinity. In order to do so I will use the stylistic devices of Caspar David Friedrich and the still changing area of Erfurt-Schwerborn. The protagonist of my work will be a garbage man who plays an important role regarding waste circulation, serving to be the connecting link between the old and the new.

Next to the picture I will put interview pieces. Questions, which are dealing with the problems of waste and its circulation.

==[[Martin Ketelhut]]/[[Sylvia Rohr]]: [[/projects/Alieno|Alieno - Artificial space pictures made by pure photography and montage]]==
[[Image:Alieno_buch.jpg‎|right|thumb|250px|self-bounded book "alieno"]]
The plan was to produce artificial space pictures that are made by pure photography and montage. Different materials, objects, gases and liquid mixtures - directly shot or shot through a microscope with short and long exposure time - built the basis and got later arranged to those space pics.

During the work hundrets of hubble pics and images in books
(e.g. Mackowiak, Bernhard. Planeten, Sterne, Universum. Naumann & Göebel Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln) inspired us. It is impressive how totally different the look of those images can be (real-looking, like drawn, false colored etc.)

*[[/Alieno|Project Documentation]]
 

==[[Bianka Langnickel]]: Bookproject: “space is my place” – aren‘t we all aliens?==
for me space is in general is a very undefined place. as i think it encourage everybody to use their whole imagination and creativity i will use this unknown area to create my own place, figures and spacy environments. i am going to make an illustrated book for children which consists of these imaginary protagonists and will lead them to an abstract way of creating their own playground.
the book will give them the opportunity to reconstruct the creatures by themselfs and learn how to create their own „aliens“.
when the child is interacting with the object playing a part in the story its more easy for them to get a connection between the actual sense of making up something in addition to the creative process. they can use the „aliens“ they build before to make up further stories and play them within their family. so in the end their will be a book which provides a inter-social way of reading, listening, building and a wide range of playing effects on little children as much as on adults. it is „talking“ to different senses and invites everybody to join who loves to see the world and especially the space more open minded and in a creatively way of thinking about „outhere“.

#Stage
#* making experiments with the materials related to space and the figures to construct out of this material
#* finding an ideal story
#Stage
#* creating all of the figures
#* build sets where the figures act in
#Stage
#* testing photographie equipment and lighting, composition etc.
#* final photographie work - taking pictures of the actual sets
#Stage
#* postproduction _ retusche - like making the pictures more detailed, contrasted and fix some shadow areas etc.
#Stage
#* illustrate the be-creative part
#Stage
#* search for a publisher

calculated time for all parts: 1 year

==[[Stefan Bernhardt]] and [[Christoph Schreiber]]: [[/Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars|Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars]]==
[[Image:Rockit-logo.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars]]
Imagine the universe's infinite emptiness, a place where absolute silence rules. We want to fill this space symbolical and to give the innumerably stars a special sound.
In interaction between the user with the stars and the stars among themselves, there will be different sounds create. They will picture a musically portrait of the universe.
[[/Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars|Project Documentation]]
 

==[[Katarina Sengstaken]], [[Timea Tofalvi]], [[Yuxiang Wen]], and [[Shuo Liu]]: [[/afcp|A Faraway Cold Palace (广寒宫)]]==
[[Image:Poster.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Official Exhibit Poster]]
The moon has come into focus again in the great Space race. It has been forty years since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, now after the recent discovery of water on the moon a new interest has been sparked about finally heading back. In this new moon race has new contenders, the US and Russia are no longer in the lead. By 2015 it might be a Chinese man to be the next to step foot on the moon.

We conceptualize our project around dissolving the western ideals and myths about the moon and working with Chinese mythology and symbolism as our focus. Our concept of the moon stems from the three Chinese moon myths the story of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e/ Chang'e] 嫦娥, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Gang/ Wu Gang]吴刚 , and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit/ Jade Rabbit] 玉兔. These three myths revolve around a mystical laurel tree that grows on the moon.

[[/afcp|Read full Project description...]]
 

==[[Jan Frederik Vogt]]: [[/Our stars|OUR STARS]]==
[[Image:Sternebsp.jpg‎|right|thumb|250px|Sterne]]
We took the stars from the sky. They are used by us. You can find them in logos, distinctions, decorations, jewellery, names, pictures and many other uses. Have a look at our own starry sky.

[[/Our_stars|Find out more]] about the project.

 

==[[Luo Yu]]: [[/Virtual Solar System|Virtual Solar System (3D Online-Platform)]]==
[[Image:luoyubild1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Virtual Solar System]]

Virtual Solar System is an innovative 3D online platform. Through this you will not only learn the structure and context of the solar system, but also a fantastic space that can be experienced through simple interactive
body movements. When the user visited this platform, the hand movements of user will recorded by the camera as commands. Once the system has found a projector connection, this platform is switched into the "astronaut mode", in this mode you can move in front of the screen free by own hands and feet in order to feel the spectacular of the spacewalk. Each user can even set up their own celestial bodies and share online.

[[/Virtual Solar System|Project documentation]]
 

[[Category:Projektliste]]
[[Category:Dokumentation]]
[[Category:Max Neupert]]
[[Category:WS09]]

File:Rockit-blackhole.jpg

2010-06-09T10:05:10Z

Spacetoph:

== Beschreibung ==

== Copyright status: ==
Meins
== Source: ==
Ich

File:Rockit-logo.jpg

2010-06-09T10:02:52Z

Spacetoph: Logo von Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars

== Beschreibung ==
Logo von Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars
== Copyright status: ==
Meins
== Source: ==
Ich

GMU:Space Is The Place/projects

2009-11-26T01:07:50Z

Spacetoph: /* Have some fun with Flash and MIDI */ MIDI GUI Picture added

Im Kurs [[GMU:Space_Is_The_Place|Space is the Place]] entstehende Projekte:

==[[Hamish John Appleby]]==
I plan to bring attention to the senseless and disgusting way in which animals have been mistreated through space programs globally. The idea is to create a whole series of propaganda that centres around a certain country that plans to send an elephant into space in February 2012 for scientific purposes.'They' want to find out the results of how fast an elephant can blink its eye in real time zero gravity, as well as balance a ball on its trunk and whether the skin from an elephant can retain moisture... These are just some of the really important tests that will be conducted, in order to make scientific and technological advances in science, that in turn - will help humans... I want to create a Wiklipedia page, as well as have a mock protest in Markt platz, put articles in news papers, do drawings and paintings etc etc... People should not be able to tell if it is real or a joke: After-all, it could be really happening - The end result could be a book or small exhibition? - Is anyone interested in joining my project? I would be happy if anyone was... Or will it be just me and the elephant?

==[[Andreas Beyer]]==
==[[Kyd Campbell]]==

====Dreams : in the direction of the frontier====

keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond

Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.

I will produce a machine for self video recording and then film a short video metaphor.

The image will include a horse walking alone into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the horse, as he is pulling the camera, filming himself.

I will construct a specialized cart for holding and stabilising the camera and a harness for attaching this cart to a horse. The horse will be instructed to walk in a straight line along a road in the countryside. The cart will be made of wood, well oiled.

The music for the video will be an adaptation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Slick Grace Slick's] 1980 solo song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2XFA7MU9jg&feature=related Dreams]. The voice part of the original song will be written into a score for cello and recorded especially for this video.

[[File:Snapshot_2009-11-19_00-31-29.jpg|video maquette (pretend the cow is a pony)]]
[[File:cam_cart1.jpg|wodden cart for camera tied to the horse]]
‎

====STAGES====

# Stage
#* designing the camera cart
#* training the horse
#* testing video equipment and lighting(outdoor conditions)
#* looking for a shooting location (stright country road)
# Stage
#* writing the score for the music (musician)
#* playing and recording the music
# Stage
#* testing the cart for speed and stability, modifying
#* recording the video, editing
#* presentation

====LINKS====

'''dispersion'''
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_relation Dispersion Relation, wikipedia]

'''frontier'''

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier Frontier, wikiperdia]

'''other awesome links'''
* [http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2 Alice Miceli's research and artwork about the Chernobyl Disaster]

==[[Anja Erdmann]]==
==[[Yu Fan]]==

=== Raumreisen & Zeitreisen ===

Sind Zeitreisen und Raumreisen möglich? oder nur ein Menschheitstraum ....

Ich hoffe, dass Sie mit meine Arbeit irgendwohin gehen können.

"Ich schlafe in Praha , arbeite in Berlin, esse in Beijing, spiele in Paris.... Welt ist nicht so groß. Ich kann irgendwohin gehe, ob es auf dem Mond ist.

Haben Dinosaurier Haar? Warum ist die Maya-Kultur verschwunden? Wer tötete John F. Kennedy? Was ist der öffentlichen verkehr? Möchten Sie die Lösung finden? Fakten sind direkt vor Ihren Augen...

Warten Sie bitte ein Second ... “

===Information===

The Shape of Time -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y53hh-LAbLk&NR=1&feature=fvwp

A 5D Space-Time Animated Anaglyph -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEiNsrtuGcc

Zeitreisen -- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitreise

»The Time Machine« -- http://www.sf-fan.de/sf-film/kino/time-machine/foto_und_infos.html

Trailer - Schwarze Löcher - Tunnel durch Raum & Zeit -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkzTW4TY1MI

===Video===

Zeitreisen -- ein Menschheitstraum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-ms5A9wzE

GEGEN TEIL
Leschs Universum - Sind Zeitreisen möglich? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGFI2ZKVOOo&feature=related

===Spaß===

CAMPDJ VIDEO REMIX PRODUCTIONS - TIME TUNNEL PT.3 BY REQUEST. --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtmKQ_3hdk

Ice Age's Scrat - The Time Machine --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIZzpGLb7i4&feature=related

Uncategorized -- http://yeahsnos.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/

Core 5mW Time Tunnel-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eFlgzZxeI

==[[Jamie Ferguson]]==
test

==[[André Wünscher]], [[Anica Huck]], [[Hannes Wagner]], [[Michael Schlund]], [[Michaela Honauer]], [[Thomas Fritzsche]]==

VOYAGEO consists of projections of satellite pictures on to the human body. These pictures are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body. Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty showed in today's media. We want to have a look on the everyday reality of body and earth.
We are going to create a Website that acts as "Advent Calendar", so that every day from the 1st of December until the 24th of December visitors can discover a picture there. We want to take them on a 24-day-long journey in order to get greater attention for this theme.

This is a preview on our online gallery:

[[Image:ENTWURF.jpg]]

Our concept bases upon two topics: The Innovation of Satellite Images & the Construction of the Human Body in the Media.

Our main focus is on the fascination of satellite images. Here are some interesting links to develop:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumfahrt#Meilensteine_der_Raumfahrt

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartographie#Qualit.C3.A4tsmerkmale_kartografischer_Produkte

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellitenfotografie

The satellite pictures offer a special perspective on the earth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8UMbzgIAE

In concern to the photography of Human Bodies we especially dicussed the Individuality of everybody's external appearance. This is related to the individual appearance of the earth on satellite images.
People seem to be physically perfect in the modern media. But we know that is mostly manipulated:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotomanipulation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFPGa0pKyTg

So what is physical individuality?

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualit%C3%A4t

Be curious, in a few days you can find more answers & watch new perspectives on www.voyageo.de!

==[[Henrike Schneider]]==
 
The Feeling of Infinity ∞ 

The world of science means numbers, calculations, effects and explanations.
The universe is a place to explore. Also here you find mathematics and calculations, time and space.
When everything is in order and part of the human knowledge - you get the feeling of "security".
The moon is turning with a certain speed around the Earth, the Earth - which has a certain mass and and an age is turning around the sun, which of course has a certain temperature and so on... .
But what about things you can not explain? To be more precisely - questions which occur to our mind like:
What is behind the universe and where is it all ending? Infinity.

'''''O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space...'''''
Hamlet

'''''If you remove a part from infinity or add a part to infinity, still what remains is infinity.'''''
Isha Upanishad

Exploration of Infinity:

[http://www.mcescher.com/ M.C. Escher - Explorations of Infinity]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACaNnhujFCA Homer Simpson + Infinity]

Concept of Infinity:

Child 1: "I dare you ..."
Child 2: "I double dare you."
Child 1: "I triple dare you."
Child 2: "I dare you times a million."
Child 1: "I dare you times infinity."
Child 2: "I dare you times infinity plus one."

Comments by Max:
You should check this Exhibition out: [http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/exhibition/110/James_Turrell._The_Wolfsburg_Project_ James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project]

==[[Martin Ketelhut]] and [[Sylvia Rohr]]==

The plan is to produce artificial space pictures, photographs and an animated space to explore by using different materials and methods.
360°, telescope and long exposure time photos could melt with photos of surfaces, mist (artificial nebula) a.s.o

http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/construction.swf

http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/set1.jpg

http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/muschel.jpg

http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/surface.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg

==[[Bianka Langnickel]]==

===bookproject – „space is my place“ - aren‘t we all aliens?===

for me space is in general is a very undefined place. as i think it encourage everybody to use their whole imagination and creativity
i will use this unknown area to create my own place, figures and spacy environments. i am going to make an illustrated book for
children which consists of these imaginary protagonists and will lead them to an abstract way of creating their own playground.
the book will give them the opportunity to reconstruct the creatures by themselfs and learn how to create their own „alians“.
when the child is interacting with the object playing a part in the story its more easy for them to get a connection between
the actual sense of making up something in addition to the creative process. they can use the „alians“ they build before to make
up further stories and play them within their family. so in the end their will be a book which provides a intersocial way of reading, listening, building and a wide range of playing effects on little children as much as on adults. it is „talking“ to different
senses and invites everybody to join who loves to see the world and espacially the space more open minded and in a creativly way
of thinking about „outhere“.

#Stage
#* making experiments with the materials related to space and the figures to construct out of this material
#* finding an ideal story
#Stage
#* creating all of the figures
#* build sets where the figures act in
#Stage
#* testing photographie equipment and lighting, composition etc.
#* final photographie work - taking pictures of the actual sets
#Stage
#* postproduction _ retusche - like making the pictures more detailed, contrasted and fix some shadow areas etc.
#Stage
#* illustrate the be-creative part
#Stage
#* search for a publisher

calculated time for all parts: 1 year

==[[Stefan Bernhardt]] and [[Christoph Schreiber]]==
===Creating a self-playing instrument===
We want to create a self-playing instrument that uses a map of stars for creating soundscapes. The user should be able to change the snippet of the map, draw and edit zodiac signs and start and stop sounds.

When a star is clicked, it makes a noise and a shockwave comes up. It evolves through the space and activates other stars and items on its way which also make sounds and send new shockwaves. So the application doesn't need any user input to go on but the user can take influence on the continuity.

If a zodiac sign gets activated all linked stars will start making tones at the same time.

====Two methods: Samples or MIDI====
At the moment there are two techniques for realizing this idea:

# We render samples of the instruments and embed them in our application. It's easier to develop but very limited in functionality. The application could be distributed via web because no special hard- or software is needed.
# We send MIDI events to an external software synthesizer which will create the sounds. This requires a powerful machine and much research but is more powerful in the aspect of flexibility and creativity. The application needs some additional software to be running in the background so it won't be capable to be distributed as out-of-the-box experience.

====Have some fun with Flash and MIDI====
Finally we finished our research in sending MIDI signals from Flash to other apps. To do so, we developed a little proxy app which sends MIDI signals. At first, Flash sends commands via a networking interface to the proxy app which acts as a server. Afterwards, the proxy app converts this data to MIDI signals which will be passes to a virtual MIDI interface. This interface is connected to our synthesizer. This allows us to control any MIDI-enabled app just as good as you would do it with controller hardware.

For testing purposes we coded a little framework which consists of some small classes and some GUI elements like buttons, sliders and a two-axis-panning field.

[[File:StarSynth-MIDI-GUI.gif]]

=====Current problems=====
# The whole synthesizer stuff is very very CPU intensive. So we have to optimize it or use a better machine (which is also difficult because of the software licenses).
# Sometimes there are big latencies when transfering the controller data from Flash to the synthesizer. Maybe it is also related to the CPU usage of the softsynths. We have to investigate this issue.

=====New possibility=====
# Because of the networking interface, it is also possible to use multiple computers to control the synths. So the interface can be run through another machine which is also better for performance reasons.

==[[Alex Schumann]]==
==[[Katarina Sengstaken]], [[Timea Tofalvi]], [[Yuxiang Wen]], and [[Shuo Liu]]: A Faraway Cold Palace (广寒宫)==
===Installation Concept===
A faraway Cold Palace is a room installation featuring sound, lights, leaves, and dust to abstractly simulate the feeling of being on the moon. Our concept of the moon stems from the three Chinese moon myths the story of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e/ Chang'e] 嫦娥, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Gang/ Wu Gang]吴刚 , and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit/ Jade Rabbit] 玉兔. These three myths revolve around a mystical laurel tree that grows on the moon.
We will use sound to represent the myths, the sound of an axe chopping at the tree to illustrate the story of Wu Gang, a fan flapping for the story of Chang’e, and the sound of a mortar grinding as representation of the Jade rabbit story. As for the tree it’s represented by white bay leaves tied to translucent string attached to mechanical pulleys in the ceiling that will slowly raise and drop the leaves.
The room is lit by black lights that run along the base of the walls. The floor is covered with gray dust spotted with craters with constructed dust free walkways, to give the impression of the moons surface.

Our project comes from the recent discovery and search for water on the moon. That raised the question for us, on what life on the moon would be like, and what alien lifeforms would be like. Which brought us to discussing mythology, especially Chinese myths about the moon, and so is our pieces inspiration.

[[Image:Moonleaves1.jpg]]
[[Image:Moondust1.jpg]]
[[Image:Afarawaycoldpalaceconcept1.jpg]]

=====Links to some Artist Websites whose work reflects similar ideas of what our space is going to be like=====
* [http://flavin.pulitzerarts.org/#/home/ Flavin],
* [http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/main/100#c1240/ Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster],
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/424993462/douglas-wheeler.html/ Douglas Wheeler],
* [http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=Oslo&page=&f=Title&object=2003.62 Koo Jeong-a],

=====Links to some Artist Websites who have worked with similar themes=====
*[http://www.crookedbrains.net/2009/02/design.html Private Moon]
*[http://www.shearts.org/index.php/?p=767 Artificial Moon Installation]
*[http://www.oneroom.org/sculptors/horn.html Rivers of the Moon]
*[http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/10/29/31493.html Moon Window]
*[http://mobile.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/223 Moon Flight]

==[[Daniela Stade]]: To Fetch The Stars From Heaven==

===The Idea===
We know constellations in heaven, for example the zodiac. The International Atronomical Union(IAU) published a list of 88 constellations. I want to find similar constellations on earth, which are formed by cities.

I am going to find these constellations by pictures of a satellite.
Here you can see the Ursa Major (der große Wagen/the big dipper):

[[Image:Der_große_Wagen1.jpg]]

And here you can see the same constellation built by cities on earth:

[[Image:Der_große_Wagen.jpg]]

Maybe I am going to create a new type of starmap, but up to now i am not sure.

==[[Jan Frederik Vogt]]==

===Bring Them Back===

We took the stars from the sky

– Stars are used by us. You can find them in logos, distinctions, decorations, jewellery, names, pictures and many other uses. –

I want to collect them and bring them back to where they belong to.

– This will show the different meanings and usages of stars in our society.

At the end of the semester I want to exhibit all the pieces I have found by then. I will build a star-spattered sky out of my collection at the ceiling. So the visitors of the exhibition have to climb on a ladder or a chair to have a closer look at it.

==[[Xiaomei Wang]]==
'''Gedanken meiner Idee'''

*Vor ein paar Jahren hat man schon begonnen, die Spiele über das Thema des Weltraums zu designen. Z.B. das sehr bekannte Abendteuer-Spiel ''Samorost''. Es zeigte uns eine interessante Geschichte, die der Weltraum als Hintergrund gestaltet wird.

[http://www.amanita-design.net/samorost-1 Samorost]

*Rund 2008 haben Pyramide(USA-Firma) mit Spaceweb(China-Firma) ein 3D Spiel designt, in dem die Spieler das Shenzhou Raumschiff virtuell kontrollieren könnten. Beispielweise kann man durch ''mission editor'', ''vehicle editor'', ''control panel editor'' und ''AI'' den Raumschiff spielen, damit man es im Weltraum zu senden.

*Wenn ein Spiel immer in einer Form durchführt, bzw. nur von puzzle oder nur von Technik, würde es schneller trocken sein. Dann könnten wir in einem kleinen Spiel mit die beiden Formen mischen und realisieren.
Obwohl es schon ähnliche SpaceSpiele gibt, möchte ich noch ein kleines '''''flashspiel''''' machen, über diese sehr begeisterte Richtung. Weil der Weltraum so viele Überaschung und Fantasie hätte, könnte man natürlich schöne Geschichte vorstellen und interessante Inhalte für mein Projekt finden.

'''Konzepte'''
*Spieldesign'' das ganze Leben des Raumschiffs''
Dieses Spiel wird in verschiedenen Nivea gestalten.

==[[Luo Yu]]: The Virtual Solar System (3D Online-Platform)==

====The Idea====

We live in the solar system and it is our nearest galaxy. I would like to make a simulation for the solar system, the initial idea is to use flash platform with ActionScript programming, I want to design a virtual mini-universe and will make this space into a virtual online exhibition, people will be able to access this place through the network.

I will design a virtual space with the solar system's nine planets, nebulae and all kinds of meteorites analog out. The Visitors can make use of the mouse and keyboard keys such as "up", "down", "left" and "right" in the whole space random wandering. To make the simulation more realistic, I will collect the texture first. Of course I can design a variety of sound effects too, for example: when I click a planet, it will send an interesting sound. Although that is a simulation of the solar system, but I will give this space a particular style, and the website will receive a seemly interfaces-design.

[[Image:Solar_sys.jpg|600px|caption]]

Planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System. Sizes are to scale, but relative distances from the Sun are not.

[[Image:Planets2008.jpg|600px|caption]]

File:StarSynth-MIDI-GUI.gif

2009-11-26T01:06:01Z

Spacetoph: Experimental MIDI GUI in Flash

Experimental MIDI GUI in Flash

GMU:Space Is The Place/projects

2009-11-26T01:00:30Z

Spacetoph: /* Creating a self-playing instrument */ Added some information

Im Kurs [[GMU:Space_Is_The_Place|Space is the Place]] entstehende Projekte:

==[[Hamish John Appleby]]==
I plan to bring attention to the senseless and disgusting way in which animals have been mistreated through space programs globally. The idea is to create a whole series of propaganda that centres around a certain country that plans to send an elephant into space in February 2012 for scientific purposes.'They' want to find out the results of how fast an elephant can blink its eye in real time zero gravity, as well as balance a ball on its trunk and whether the skin from an elephant can retain moisture... These are just some of the really important tests that will be conducted, in order to make scientific and technological advances in science, that in turn - will help humans... I want to create a Wiklipedia page, as well as have a mock protest in Markt platz, put articles in news papers, do drawings and paintings etc etc... People should not be able to tell if it is real or a joke: After-all, it could be really happening - The end result could be a book or small exhibition? - Is anyone interested in joining my project? I would be happy if anyone was... Or will it be just me and the elephant?

==[[Andreas Beyer]]==
==[[Kyd Campbell]]==

====Dreams : in the direction of the frontier====

keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond

Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.

I will produce a machine for self video recording and then film a short video metaphor.

The image will include a horse walking alone into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the horse, as he is pulling the camera, filming himself.

I will construct a specialized cart for holding and stabilising the camera and a harness for attaching this cart to a horse. The horse will be instructed to walk in a straight line along a road in the countryside. The cart will be made of wood, well oiled.

The music for the video will be an adaptation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Slick Grace Slick's] 1980 solo song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2XFA7MU9jg&feature=related Dreams]. The voice part of the original song will be written into a score for cello and recorded especially for this video.

[[File:Snapshot_2009-11-19_00-31-29.jpg|video maquette (pretend the cow is a pony)]]
[[File:cam_cart1.jpg|wodden cart for camera tied to the horse]]
‎

====STAGES====

# Stage
#* designing the camera cart
#* training the horse
#* testing video equipment and lighting(outdoor conditions)
#* looking for a shooting location (stright country road)
# Stage
#* writing the score for the music (musician)
#* playing and recording the music
# Stage
#* testing the cart for speed and stability, modifying
#* recording the video, editing
#* presentation

====LINKS====

'''dispersion'''
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_relation Dispersion Relation, wikipedia]

'''frontier'''

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier Frontier, wikiperdia]

'''other awesome links'''
* [http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2 Alice Miceli's research and artwork about the Chernobyl Disaster]

==[[Anja Erdmann]]==
==[[Yu Fan]]==

=== Raumreisen & Zeitreisen ===

Sind Zeitreisen und Raumreisen möglich? oder nur ein Menschheitstraum ....

Ich hoffe, dass Sie mit meine Arbeit irgendwohin gehen können.

"Ich schlafe in Praha , arbeite in Berlin, esse in Beijing, spiele in Paris.... Welt ist nicht so groß. Ich kann irgendwohin gehe, ob es auf dem Mond ist.

Haben Dinosaurier Haar? Warum ist die Maya-Kultur verschwunden? Wer tötete John F. Kennedy? Was ist der öffentlichen verkehr? Möchten Sie die Lösung finden? Fakten sind direkt vor Ihren Augen...

Warten Sie bitte ein Second ... “

===Information===

The Shape of Time -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y53hh-LAbLk&NR=1&feature=fvwp

A 5D Space-Time Animated Anaglyph -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEiNsrtuGcc

Zeitreisen -- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitreise

»The Time Machine« -- http://www.sf-fan.de/sf-film/kino/time-machine/foto_und_infos.html

Trailer - Schwarze Löcher - Tunnel durch Raum & Zeit -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkzTW4TY1MI

===Video===

Zeitreisen -- ein Menschheitstraum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-ms5A9wzE

GEGEN TEIL
Leschs Universum - Sind Zeitreisen möglich? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGFI2ZKVOOo&feature=related

===Spaß===

CAMPDJ VIDEO REMIX PRODUCTIONS - TIME TUNNEL PT.3 BY REQUEST. --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtmKQ_3hdk

Ice Age's Scrat - The Time Machine --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIZzpGLb7i4&feature=related

Uncategorized -- http://yeahsnos.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/

Core 5mW Time Tunnel-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eFlgzZxeI

==[[Jamie Ferguson]]==
test

==[[André Wünscher]], [[Anica Huck]], [[Hannes Wagner]], [[Michael Schlund]], [[Michaela Honauer]], [[Thomas Fritzsche]]==

VOYAGEO consists of projections of satellite pictures on to the human body. These pictures are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body. Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty showed in today's media. We want to have a look on the everyday reality of body and earth.
We are going to create a Website that acts as "Advent Calendar", so that every day from the 1st of December until the 24th of December visitors can discover a picture there. We want to take them on a 24-day-long journey in order to get greater attention for this theme.

This is a preview on our online gallery:

[[Image:ENTWURF.jpg]]

Our concept bases upon two topics: The Innovation of Satellite Images & the Construction of the Human Body in the Media.

Our main focus is on the fascination of satellite images. Here are some interesting links to develop:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumfahrt#Meilensteine_der_Raumfahrt

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartographie#Qualit.C3.A4tsmerkmale_kartografischer_Produkte

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellitenfotografie

The satellite pictures offer a special perspective on the earth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8UMbzgIAE

In concern to the photography of Human Bodies we especially dicussed the Individuality of everybody's external appearance. This is related to the individual appearance of the earth on satellite images.
People seem to be physically perfect in the modern media. But we know that is mostly manipulated:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotomanipulation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFPGa0pKyTg

So what is physical individuality?

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualit%C3%A4t

Be curious, in a few days you can find more answers & watch new perspectives on www.voyageo.de!

==[[Henrike Schneider]]==
 
The Feeling of Infinity ∞ 

The world of science means numbers, calculations, effects and explanations.
The universe is a place to explore. Also here you find mathematics and calculations, time and space.
When everything is in order and part of the human knowledge - you get the feeling of "security".
The moon is turning with a certain speed around the Earth, the Earth - which has a certain mass and and an age is turning around the sun, which of course has a certain temperature and so on... .
But what about things you can not explain? To be more precisely - questions which occur to our mind like:
What is behind the universe and where is it all ending? Infinity.

'''''O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space...'''''
Hamlet

'''''If you remove a part from infinity or add a part to infinity, still what remains is infinity.'''''
Isha Upanishad

Exploration of Infinity:

[http://www.mcescher.com/ M.C. Escher - Explorations of Infinity]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACaNnhujFCA Homer Simpson + Infinity]

Concept of Infinity:

Child 1: "I dare you ..."
Child 2: "I double dare you."
Child 1: "I triple dare you."
Child 2: "I dare you times a million."
Child 1: "I dare you times infinity."
Child 2: "I dare you times infinity plus one."

Comments by Max:
You should check this Exhibition out: [http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/exhibition/110/James_Turrell._The_Wolfsburg_Project_ James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project]

==[[Martin Ketelhut]] and [[Sylvia Rohr]]==

The plan is to produce artificial space pictures, photographs and an animated space to explore by using different materials and methods.
360°, telescope and long exposure time photos could melt with photos of surfaces, mist (artificial nebula) a.s.o

http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/construction.swf

http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/set1.jpg

http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/muschel.jpg

http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/surface.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg

==[[Bianka Langnickel]]==

===bookproject – „space is my place“ - aren‘t we all aliens?===

for me space is in general is a very undefined place. as i think it encourage everybody to use their whole imagination and creativity
i will use this unknown area to create my own place, figures and spacy environments. i am going to make an illustrated book for
children which consists of these imaginary protagonists and will lead them to an abstract way of creating their own playground.
the book will give them the opportunity to reconstruct the creatures by themselfs and learn how to create their own „alians“.
when the child is interacting with the object playing a part in the story its more easy for them to get a connection between
the actual sense of making up something in addition to the creative process. they can use the „alians“ they build before to make
up further stories and play them within their family. so in the end their will be a book which provides a intersocial way of reading, listening, building and a wide range of playing effects on little children as much as on adults. it is „talking“ to different
senses and invites everybody to join who loves to see the world and espacially the space more open minded and in a creativly way
of thinking about „outhere“.

#Stage
#* making experiments with the materials related to space and the figures to construct out of this material
#* finding an ideal story
#Stage
#* creating all of the figures
#* build sets where the figures act in
#Stage
#* testing photographie equipment and lighting, composition etc.
#* final photographie work - taking pictures of the actual sets
#Stage
#* postproduction _ retusche - like making the pictures more detailed, contrasted and fix some shadow areas etc.
#Stage
#* illustrate the be-creative part
#Stage
#* search for a publisher

calculated time for all parts: 1 year

==[[Stefan Bernhardt]] and [[Christoph Schreiber]]==
===Creating a self-playing instrument===
We want to create a self-playing instrument that uses a map of stars for creating soundscapes. The user should be able to change the snippet of the map, draw and edit zodiac signs and start and stop sounds.

When a star is clicked, it makes a noise and a shockwave comes up. It evolves through the space and activates other stars and items on its way which also make sounds and send new shockwaves. So the application doesn't need any user input to go on but the user can take influence on the continuity.

If a zodiac sign gets activated all linked stars will start making tones at the same time.

====Two methods: Samples or MIDI====
At the moment there are two techniques for realizing this idea:

# We render samples of the instruments and embed them in our application. It's easier to develop but very limited in functionality. The application could be distributed via web because no special hard- or software is needed.
# We send MIDI events to an external software synthesizer which will create the sounds. This requires a powerful machine and much research but is more powerful in the aspect of flexibility and creativity. The application needs some additional software to be running in the background so it won't be capable to be distributed as out-of-the-box experience.

====Have some fun with Flash and MIDI====
Finally we finished our research in sending MIDI signals from Flash to other apps. To do so, we developed a little proxy app which sends MIDI signals. At first, Flash sends commands via a networking interface to the proxy app which acts as a server. Afterwards, the proxy app converts this data to MIDI signals which will be passes to a virtual MIDI interface. This interface is connected to our synthesizer. This allows us to control any MIDI-enabled app just as good as you would do it with controller hardware.

For testing purposes we coded a little framework which consists of some small classes and some GUI elements like buttons, sliders and a two-axis-panning field.

=====Current problems=====
# The whole synthesizer stuff is very very CPU intensive. So we have to optimize it or use a better machine (which is also difficult because of the software licenses).
# Sometimes there are big latencies when transfering the controller data from Flash to the synthesizer. Maybe it is also related to the CPU usage of the softsynths. We have to investigate this issue.

=====New possibility=====
# Because of the networking interface, it is also possible to use multiple computers to control the synths. So the interface can be run through another machine which is also better for performance reasons.

==[[Alex Schumann]]==
==[[Katarina Sengstaken]], [[Timea Tofalvi]], [[Yuxiang Wen]], and [[Shuo Liu]]: A Faraway Cold Palace (广寒宫)==
===Installation Concept===
A faraway Cold Palace is a room installation featuring sound, lights, leaves, and dust to abstractly simulate the feeling of being on the moon. Our concept of the moon stems from the three Chinese moon myths the story of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e/ Chang'e] 嫦娥, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Gang/ Wu Gang]吴刚 , and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit/ Jade Rabbit] 玉兔. These three myths revolve around a mystical laurel tree that grows on the moon.
We will use sound to represent the myths, the sound of an axe chopping at the tree to illustrate the story of Wu Gang, a fan flapping for the story of Chang’e, and the sound of a mortar grinding as representation of the Jade rabbit story. As for the tree it’s represented by white bay leaves tied to translucent string attached to mechanical pulleys in the ceiling that will slowly raise and drop the leaves.
The room is lit by black lights that run along the base of the walls. The floor is covered with gray dust spotted with craters with constructed dust free walkways, to give the impression of the moons surface.

Our project comes from the recent discovery and search for water on the moon. That raised the question for us, on what life on the moon would be like, and what alien lifeforms would be like. Which brought us to discussing mythology, especially Chinese myths about the moon, and so is our pieces inspiration.

[[Image:Moonleaves1.jpg]]
[[Image:Moondust1.jpg]]
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=====Links to some Artist Websites whose work reflects similar ideas of what our space is going to be like=====
* [http://flavin.pulitzerarts.org/#/home/ Flavin],
* [http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/main/100#c1240/ Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster],
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/424993462/douglas-wheeler.html/ Douglas Wheeler],
* [http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=Oslo&page=&f=Title&object=2003.62 Koo Jeong-a],

=====Links to some Artist Websites who have worked with similar themes=====
*[http://www.crookedbrains.net/2009/02/design.html Private Moon]
*[http://www.shearts.org/index.php/?p=767 Artificial Moon Installation]
*[http://www.oneroom.org/sculptors/horn.html Rivers of the Moon]
*[http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/10/29/31493.html Moon Window]
*[http://mobile.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/223 Moon Flight]

==[[Daniela Stade]]: To Fetch The Stars From Heaven==

===The Idea===
We know constellations in heaven, for example the zodiac. The International Atronomical Union(IAU) published a list of 88 constellations. I want to find similar constellations on earth, which are formed by cities.

I am going to find these constellations by pictures of a satellite.
Here you can see the Ursa Major (der große Wagen/the big dipper):

[[Image:Der_große_Wagen1.jpg]]

And here you can see the same constellation built by cities on earth:

[[Image:Der_große_Wagen.jpg]]

Maybe I am going to create a new type of starmap, but up to now i am not sure.

==[[Jan Frederik Vogt]]==

===Bring Them Back===

We took the stars from the sky

– Stars are used by us. You can find them in logos, distinctions, decorations, jewellery, names, pictures and many other uses. –

I want to collect them and bring them back to where they belong to.

– This will show the different meanings and usages of stars in our society.

At the end of the semester I want to exhibit all the pieces I have found by then. I will build a star-spattered sky out of my collection at the ceiling. So the visitors of the exhibition have to climb on a ladder or a chair to have a closer look at it.

==[[Xiaomei Wang]]==
'''Gedanken meiner Idee'''

*Vor ein paar Jahren hat man schon begonnen, die Spiele über das Thema des Weltraums zu designen. Z.B. das sehr bekannte Abendteuer-Spiel ''Samorost''. Es zeigte uns eine interessante Geschichte, die der Weltraum als Hintergrund gestaltet wird.

[http://www.amanita-design.net/samorost-1 Samorost]

*Rund 2008 haben Pyramide(USA-Firma) mit Spaceweb(China-Firma) ein 3D Spiel designt, in dem die Spieler das Shenzhou Raumschiff virtuell kontrollieren könnten. Beispielweise kann man durch ''mission editor'', ''vehicle editor'', ''control panel editor'' und ''AI'' den Raumschiff spielen, damit man es im Weltraum zu senden.

*Wenn ein Spiel immer in einer Form durchführt, bzw. nur von puzzle oder nur von Technik, würde es schneller trocken sein. Dann könnten wir in einem kleinen Spiel mit die beiden Formen mischen und realisieren.
Obwohl es schon ähnliche SpaceSpiele gibt, möchte ich noch ein kleines '''''flashspiel''''' machen, über diese sehr begeisterte Richtung. Weil der Weltraum so viele Überaschung und Fantasie hätte, könnte man natürlich schöne Geschichte vorstellen und interessante Inhalte für mein Projekt finden.

'''Konzepte'''
*Spieldesign'' das ganze Leben des Raumschiffs''
Dieses Spiel wird in verschiedenen Nivea gestalten.

==[[Luo Yu]]: The Virtual Solar System (3D Online-Platform)==

====The Idea====

We live in the solar system and it is our nearest galaxy. I would like to make a simulation for the solar system, the initial idea is to use flash platform with ActionScript programming, I want to design a virtual mini-universe and will make this space into a virtual online exhibition, people will be able to access this place through the network.

I will design a virtual space with the solar system's nine planets, nebulae and all kinds of meteorites analog out. The Visitors can make use of the mouse and keyboard keys such as "up", "down", "left" and "right" in the whole space random wandering. To make the simulation more realistic, I will collect the texture first. Of course I can design a variety of sound effects too, for example: when I click a planet, it will send an interesting sound. Although that is a simulation of the solar system, but I will give this space a particular style, and the website will receive a seemly interfaces-design.

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Planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System. Sizes are to scale, but relative distances from the Sun are not.

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