Week 3

My Amazing clocks

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Webcam Filters & Interactive Drawing Machines

Webcam filters is one of the interesting features that was released in the computers and devices with webcams. The first webcam was created to monitor a coffee pot at Cambridge University by Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky, and it was called Trojan Room Coffee Pot. I chose webcam filters because I feel it’s really interesting how I can bring cyberpunk elements to the filters. Snapchat is one of the most popular apps that uses face tracking filters that follows the interacts with the user.

“Desmond Paul Henry (1921–2004) was a Manchester University Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy.He was one of the first British artists to experiment with machine-generated visual effects at the time of the emerging global computer art movement of the 1960s. During this period, Henry constructed a succession of three drawing machines from modified bombsight analog computers which were employed in World War II bombers to calculate the accurate release of bombs onto their targets.” Interactive drawing using AI uses a lot of algorithms that can tries to guess what you are trying to draw from the first two lines. One of the amazing websites is ‘https://www.autodraw.com/ ’.

Desmond Paul Henry with his Drawing Machine 1, based on an analogue bombsight computer, 1962

The main players of this field are: -Alan Kaprow -Rirkrit Tiravanija -Ernesto Neto