> Some of you might remember talk of this art interface device in
> earlier discussions on CRUMB...
>
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: 25 May 2004 19:38:56 BST
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: AID Public Launch Announcement (r)
>>
>> Calling all artists, educators, engineers and copyleft
>> interventionists:
>>
>> The Art Interface Device (AID) is a Free and Open tool for building
>> electronic artworks. It is a two way interface between the physical
>> world
>> and the digital world. It is used to create interactive installation
>> and
>> performance works.
>>
>> Please visit http://aid.interaccess.org/drupal/?q=node/view/141
>> Wednesday, May 26 2004 at 8 PM, EST.to hear an audio stream of the AID
>> Public Launch being broadcast from Funhaus night club, 526 Queen St.
>> W.
>> Toronto, Canada.
>>
>> This information session and celebration will present the AID
>> hardware and
>> software components and demonstrate their use in interactive
>> applications
>> incorporating sound, vision and touch. AID artists and engineers will
>> be on
>> hand to answer questions. Music, drinks and snacks will be available
>> as the
>> AID launch becomes party and blends into the asciipr0n.com IRQ11 club
>> night.
>>
>> DJ Lewis Kaye, audio hacker Rob Cruikshank and coder Mel Wilson will
>> collaborate to create interactive soundscapes on the fly using the AID
>> audio switcher. PD meister Ben Bogart will be installing Step
>> and Repeat - an interactive video projection piece controlled by the
>> AID
>> ultrasonic sensor and you. Mike Steventon will be showing a little
>> ditty
>> that uses the AID bend sensor and other strange things as they
>> materialise.
>> Esteemed AID developers Ian Garmaise, John Southern, and Stefan
>> Wiechula
>> will be on hand to answer tech-art questions from the dance floor.
>>
>> Visit the AID web site http://aid.interaccess.org where AID users are
>> building a library of "worked solutions" to common electronic sensing,
>> control and interfacing requirements. You can download and contribute
>> instructions, parts lists, circuit diagrams and other information
>> relevant
>> to the creation of electronic art.
>>
>> Contact: Mike Steventon mike_steventon(AT)acc.ocad.on.ca
>>
>> AID is a project of InterAccess - electronic media arts centre, and is
>> funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
>>
>> _________-_________-_________-_________-_________-_________-__________
>> ___________________________ A microcontroller platform that will
>> / \ A I D \ allow artworks to interact with people
>> ( /\/ ) Art Interface Device ) and the physical environment. GPL'ed
>> \___/_______________________/ http://aid.interaccess.org
>> _________-_________-_________-_________-_________-_________-__________
>>
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