Understanding Shakespeare
Understanding Shakespeare is the B.A. thesis project of Stephan Thiel at the Interfacedesign program of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Its goal is to introduce a new form of reading drama to help understand Shakespeare’s works in new and insightful ways and to address our changed habits of consuming narrative works and knowledge through the capabilities of information visualization.
As a result, and based on data from the WordHoard project of the Northwestern University, an application of computational tools was explored in order to extract and visualize the information found within the text and to reveal its underlying narrative algorithm. The five approaches presented here are the first step towards a dicussion of this potentionally new form of reading in an attempt to regain interest in the literary and cultural heritage of Shakespeare’s works among a general audience.
The visualizations were designed as large scale prints (90cm x ~220cm) for an exhibition scenario that would enable a broad audience to re-understand Shakespeare. They were created using mainly Processing and toxiclibs (for geometry and color calculations) as well as several other Natural Language Processing libraries (i.e. Classifier4J). Please be aware that the experience of these works might differ substantially between the web and the original printed version.
The full project documentation is available at www.understanding-shakespeare.com
VENICE UNFOLDING
VENICE UNFOLDING is a single to multi-user application about architectural projects and their contextual relations in the greater region of Venice, Italy. It combines the use of custom shaped, sensual objects with an interactive table top map to provide access to it‘s underlying data.
CTF tangible
Umsetzung eines Capture the Flag Multiplayer-Spiels auf eine Multitouchanwendung für 2 bis 6 Spieler. Fokus der Bearbeitung lag auf der Entwicklung von spezifischen Gesten und Animationen für elementare Spielaktionen, sowie der grafischen Ausarbeitung der Spielumgebung.
This is Interactive
This is Interactive ist eine visuelle, interaktive Installation mobiler Kommunikation.
This is Interactive beobachtet jeden Bluetooth-Benutzer, identifiziert ihn und projiziert seine mobile Identität für alle sichtbar in den Raum.
callMe
Eine interaktive Installation zum Theaterstück ªMobil´
Fox In The Box
Fox in the Box ist ein modularer midi/osc Controller, der den Fokus auf die Liveperformance sowie den kollaborativen Aspekt des Musizierens setzt. Jede der vier Boxen repräsentiert einen Audioloop, der durch drehen der Box gestartet bzw. gestoppt werden kann. Durch das Auflegen der verschieden Pads, kann der Klang moduliert und verändert werden.