Who David Gann
When Sat, Mar 10th 2018 - 14:00 until Sat, Mar 10th 2018 - 17:30
Where LOFFT Verein zur Förderung des Leipziger OFF-Theaters e.V., Lindenauer Markt 21 , 04177, Leipzig, Germany

WORKSHOP: CHAOS - NOISE - MOTION
MIT VORSTELLUNGSBESUCH VON CABOOM
DAVID GANN / 000.GRAPHICS
Dem Körper angepasste Interfaces ermöglichen es Tänzer*innen und Performer*innen, direkt mit Sound und Computergrafik zu interagieren. Die Körperbewegung wird dadurch zum Ausdrucksvektor für audio-visuelle Kompositionen, basierend auf Chaos und Noise.

• - English below --

Der Workshop vermittelt eine Basis, Tanz und Performance mit interaktiver Kunst und Medienkunst zu verbinden. Die Teilnehmenden nähern sich Methoden an, mit denen Körperbewegungen digital erkennbar werden und setzen diese Bewegungsdaten in Echtzeit für die Erzeugung audiovisueller Elemente ein. Dabei wird primär die visuelle Programmiersprache VVVV gezeigt, welche besonders gut für den flexiblen Einsatz auf der Bühne geeignet ist (auch für Anfänger). Es wird speziell auf die Themen Chaos und Noise in der Computergrafik und im Sound Design eingegangen mit dem Ziel, Wege zu finden, durch Bewegungen komplexe und eindrucksvolle Bilder und Klänge zu erzeugen.

David Gann studierte Biologie und Interface Art und arbeitet als Künstler, Entwickler und Designer im Bereich interaktive audio-visuelle Medien, Computergrafik und Sound Art.

English Description
Wearable DIY interfaces enable dancers and performers to directly connect to real-time generated audio and computer graphics. The body movement becomes an expression vector for generating audio-visual productions based on chaos and noise. The participants approach methods of digitally capturing body movements and use the data gathered to create audio-visual elements in real-time. The primary focus is on the coding language VVVV, which is especially applicable for the flexible use on stage (even for beginners).

David Gann studied biology and interface art and is working as a artist, developer and designer in the field of interactive audio-visual media, computer graphics and sound art.

HINWEIS: Die Workshopgebühr beinhaltet ein Ticket für einen Vorstellungsbesuch von CABOOM vom 09. bis 11. März 2018.

Anmeldung unter: workshop@lofft.de

000.graphics

KONZEPT+DURCHFÜHRUNG+FOTO David Gann. Ein Workshop von David Gann/ooo.graphics in Kooperation mit LOFFT – Das Theater. Gefördert von der Stadt Leipzig, Kulturamt. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf der Grundlage des von den Abgeordneten des Sächsischen Landtags beschlossenen Haushaltes.

what goes up...

thanks evvvveryone for tuning in again to this years numbertalk where we talk about the numbers you left with vvvv in 2017. what the numbers? well, in case you're new to this and if you have a minute i'd like to recommend you take a look back at the 2016 numbers before reading on.

webwise

everytime you hit on vvvv.org you leave an invisible trace that shows us where you're coming from. and last year, i have to say, you really changed:

my best guess about what we see here is you've all been on a sabbatical in india to relax a bit but then still couldn't help it and checked the forum every five minutes for whats going on. fair enough.. already in 2016 india was going up 12% compared to the year before and now it got another 40% boost landing it on spot 3 tightly followed by china who got a 21% boost this past year. are we conquering new markets there without knowing it? on the other hand rather sad to see russia dropping out of the ranks for the first time...что случилось?

despite the big shift in accessing countries it seems the number of unique visitors is relatively stable the past three years:

* includes hacker-news incident'

this is also confirmed by the number of daily forum posts as you can see below which even received quite a visible bump at the end of 2016 when we installed the new forum:

downloads

* x86 and x64 combined

significantly more releases but not significantly more downloads than in the year before...whats going on here? lets have a look at the

licenses

oha...this is setting us back to figures of 2013. ahm, lets have a closer look at the numbers that tell us how many different countries and companies licenses have been bought from:

huh...so while obviously vvvv is slowly spreading over the whole world as you can see by the sharp rise in the number of countries, i'm afraid i find it really hard to argue an increase in the number of individual customers over the past three years. how are politicians doing this?

so where exactly are we loosing it? let's have a look at the number of licenses sold per country. germany and uk: booh. but then who would have thought? is america really great again? and what is going on in the state of denmark?

so..where were we? ah..numbers?! all pointing down, bohoo...but really, all of them? well there is at least one i know of that has been going up continuously since vvvvs inception. i'm afraid i don't have a graph for it, so you'll have to trust me on this one: it is our spirits.

we're sitting here, day in, day out and have the privilege to invent the future of programming for you. and the sheer amout of work we put into this uncertain endeavor over the past years is finally starting to pay off. not financially (see above) but...functionally. we're using vl on a daily basis with a joy that only compares to the very early years of vvvv. after which we found all it's problems and started to tinker about how a new system would look and feel like that doesn't have all of vvvvs limitations. and it is here now. at your finger-tips. embedded into your favorite multipurpose toolkit, making it an unrivvvvaled tool (citation needed!) at your disposal. today.

switch to an alternate universe where for the past ~five years we struggled with the horrors of cross-compiling vvvv to mac and linux and started implementing a new render engine in opengl only to learn of that new thing called vulkan halfway through, where we are still fighting with random crashes due to quantum threading effects with our attempt to multi-thread the existing vvvv core and where that dump guy is still POTUS...
i don't get a clear reception of our spirits and the license-numbers from over there but what i do see is a rather conservative visual programming environment with more problems at hand but not standing out so much compared to similar products.

... say what? enough with the sermon, where is the bling!? ok. so at the same time that others set the industry standards in realtime 3d rendering, we chose to work on the standards for visual programming: object-oriented, multi-threaded, with one-click library import, generics, delegates, interfaces and so much more.

and now, obviously, we have to do the ketchup with the rest of the best. 2d- and 3d-rendering and asset management, audio-video playback, computer-vision, 2d- and 3d-physics, editing and ui-framework, timeliner, automata,... are still missing. so you see we're not going to get bored anytime soon. but since most of the hard parts are now done, we're really looking forward to those!

what an exciting cliffhanger concluding the season of 2017...make sure not to miss any episodes in the coming season, you can subscribe here.

we wish an exceptionally great 2018 to all of you who've been with us over the years, to those who are new and even to those who didn't buy a license last year, you'll come to reason...

yours,
vvvvl.

Newsflash!

Here are two new little features we want to make sure you're aware of. Not completely finished but already helpful:

StepByStep

Note how the Quad (topleft) indicates run/pause. Tremendous you say? Indeed, but beware the following caveats for now:

• this works only for vl, so if you have parts of your patch in vvvv, those will still continue to run as usual!
• tooltips don't work in this mode yet, so you'll need IOBoxes wherever you want to inspect values
• no stepping through slices of loops

Still you'll see that in cases where you're looking for a logical problem in your patch it is already useful to be able to step through its execution one frame at a time to better understand how it is evolving.

JumpToError

This can be useful when you're on a debugging spree and expect an error to happen at some point. Activate this option to be brought to the point where the error occurred, the moment it happened. Saves you some navigation and highlights the nodes involved leading up to the error. Again press F6 to step or try F5 to get the patch running again after you solved the problem.

Caveat: Look closely, the error message in the tooltip actually belongs to the Add of the Dictionary. The reason for that is code-optimization which sometimes leads to the error-indicator being one node off. A setting to disable code-optimization is pending..

As mentioned, both features are not finished but are a first step into the direction of better debugging support. Still more to come..

NEWS!

If you're writing your own dynamic plugins in C#, we got something for you! If not, still read on, so yo know, just in case..

The C# language is evolving all the time with nifty features. In order to be able to use those, you need a suitable compiler that understands those. So far, the C# compiler included with vvvv only supported language features of C# versions lower than 6. But no more:

Caveats:

• You need to have either Visual Studio 2015 or MSBuild Tools 2015 installed
• You have to enable the new compiler by using the commandline parameter /cs6 when starting vvvv

So get yourself a fresh alpha now and do yourself a favor by using those new language features.