[Metalab] Dorkbot Vienna #9: Martin Kaltenbrunner (reacTIVision, TUIO, reactable)

[das ende der nahrungskette]

Dorkbot Vienna #9 is being hosted by J 
Grenzfurthner (monochrom). Thanks to the Metalab!
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotvienna

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Sunday, June 28, 2009.
7 PM @ Metalab Vienna (Rathausstrasse 6, 1010 Vienna)

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Martin Kaltenbrunner is a Human Computer 
Interaction Designer, currently finalizing his 
Ph.D. at the Pompeu Fabra University in 
Barcelona, Spain. Recently he has been mainly 
working on the interaction design of the 
reacTable - a tangible modular synthesizer based 
on a multi-touch surface. He is author of the 
open source tangible interaction framework 
reacTIVision and the related TUIO protocol, which 
has been widely adopted for open source 
multi-touch applications. He is co-founder of 
reactable systems SL, dedicated to the 
development of novel HCI concepts and products, 
while he is teaching classes and workshops on 
tangible interaction at the Kunstuniversitt Linz and at the UCP Porto.

http://modin.yuri.at/

reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform 
computer vision tool for the fast and robust 
tracking of fiducial markers attached onto 
physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking.

http://reactivision.sourceforge.net/

TUIO is an open framework that defines a common 
protocol and API for tangible multi-touch 
surfaces. The TUIO protocol allows the 
transmission of an abstract description of 
interactive surfaces, including touch events and 
tangible object states. There exists a growing 
number of TUIO enabled tracker applications and 
TUIO client libraries for various programming 
environments, as well as applications that 
support the protocol. This combination of TUIO 
trackers, protocol and client implementations 
allows the rapid development of table based tangible multitouch interfaces.

http://www.tuio.org/

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music 
instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch 
interface. Several simultaneous performers share 
complete control over the instrument by moving 
and rotating physical objects on a luminous round 
table surface. By moving and relating these 
objects, representing components of a classic 
modular synthesizer, users can create complex and 
dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, 
filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible 
modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

The instrument has been developed by a team of 
digital luthiers, the two Austrian researchers 
Martin Kaltenbrunner and Günter Geiger and their 
Spanish colleagues Marcos Alonso and Sergi Jord, 
working at the Music Technology Group within the 
Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. This 
multidisciplinary team of researchers, musicians 
and designers  has been awarded with various 
international prizes such as the Prix Ars 
Electronica Golden Nica, two D&AD Yellow Pencils 
and the prize if the city of Barcelona.

After its overwhelming success on Youtube and 
since the Icelandic singer Björk has incorporated 
the instrument during her last Volta world tour, 
the reacTable has become widely known to the general public.

http://www.reactable.com/

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Sunday, June 28, 2009.
7 PM @ Metalab Vienna (Rathausstrasse 6, 1010 Vienna)