Digital Media Labs Residency technical advisor, Hull Oct 2010
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08:31:30 am on October 30, 2010 | # |
Technical advisor for the Digital Media Labs Hull touch screen art commissioning residency.
Digital Media Labs offers ten chosen artists a week-long residency as part of a commissioning process for a touch screen art work for the new multi-million pound NHS Hull Wilberforce Health Centre. This commission and Lab will be a key part of their innovative and ambitious arts programme for the new city centre multi-use building. – about
Ran a series of workshops and talks throughout the week demonstrating the potential and limitations of touch screens. Worked with other resident artists to help them produce functional demos of touch-screen pieces. Predominantly used Processing.
A winding journey through technology talk notes.
Most useful Processing code snippets for touch screens are:
noCursor();size(screen.width, screen.height);and remembering that you can run in presentation mode full screen on the second monitor if you change
run.displayin the preferences file linked from the processing preferences page.void mouseMoved() { }was also handy, as touching the screen often triggers a move rather than a click.