LAMPO

Catodo
2012
Jukebox  piloted  using  Twitter

TweetJukeBox is a jukebox piloted using Twitter. A traditional jukebox is a device of public installation that plays music in automatic after the introduction of a coin and the selection of a song to listen.
In the TweetJukebox you don’t have to insert a coin to listen the music, you need only to send a message (a tweet) with the name of song on Twitter, using a special hashtag (#): #lampojukebox
The song will be searched in the video database of Youtube and played from the jukebox.
Everyone can choose the song sending a tweet but only the people near the jukebox will listen the song.
That means the choose of the song is delocalized, in the cyberspace, instead the listen is located near the juxebox, in the real life.
Moreover, considering the dimension of the Youtube’s database, the TweetJukebox become a “celestial jukebox”, a jukebox that can play basically all the songs available on Internet.

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Luca Lo Coco
2012
intervento su sito internet già esistente
 

I'M A NET ART WRITER...

For the “Lampo” exhibition i’ve proposed an intervention on the website www.lampo.info. A similar action can be counted in the Graffiti Net Art movement.
The Graffiti Net Art are a free collective reasoning. They are a choral reflection. They are an invitation to conceptual. They are free art in the Net. They are volatile. You can draw on a home as you would draw on a wall.
The Graffiti Net Art upsets the idea to have “your own untouchable website”: one day someone will get up and with amazement he will find his own index coloured, decorated, full of art. He will find its Index conceptualized. What was a grey website, fruit of a payment done to a graphic studio of serial projects, now is a unique creation. Everybody should pray every evening so that their website becomes object of a net art action.
Internet was born in the age of seriality. Serial goods is grey goods. The IT graffitismo intends to make unique (even only for short instants), thus make “coloured”, a serial instance.

Catodo
2012
generative art project based on the architecture of the Aurum building
Result: 3 prints on forex 70×100 cm

The work of Catodo is a generative art project based on the architecture of the Aurum building in Pescara, the structure that will accomodate the Lampo exhibition on new frontiers of digital art.
The architecture of Aurum in Pescara has almost a circular shape that remember the structure of an amphitheater (Figure 1).

Figure 1 – Planimetry of the Aurum

Inspired by this shape, i built a computer algorithm that:
1. generates a variable number of points on a circle;
2. moves these points by a random value along the x and y axes;
3. joins these points using a spline based on the algorithm of Catmull-Rom.
A schema of this algorithm is reported in figure 2.

Figure 2 – Random points joined by a spline

The result of this algorithm has been used as pattern for the generation of the images. I used a random approach in the choise of the position, of the dimension of the radius, of the size of the lines, and for the value of the alpha color that has determined the opacity of the images.
The management of the opacity has created an interesting effect of blurring that has produced a visual result similar to a complex system.
I experimented with three different predominant colors (green, red, and blue) and with a neutral color, white, generating three images in high resolution (100×70 cm) that represent the interconnection of two complex networks.
The generated images are represented by the Iteration #5132, #2149, #6534.

Technical Appendix
In this Appendix, I reported the source code of the algorithms that I used to generate the previous images.

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Iteration