adam široký

interactive installation at the second Prague BYOB (organized by KinocirKus, 18.10. 2014 @Podnik Prague, Signal festival official afterparty)

Authors: Kristyna Balaban, Adam Široký
Tools: electric wire, wooden frame, projector, vvvv, Resolume, Leap Motion

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Somewhere around 53.153257, -118.873418

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Light installation at Wonderland 2014 open-air main stage (Brnište u České Lípy, 15.-17.8. 2014)

Authors: Honza Horký, Adam Široký
Tools: digital LED stripes, alluminium construction, ArtNet LED controller, PixelController software, custom Perl scripts for pixel mapping. The installation was preceded by frenetic soldering, glueing and zip-locking, so that the LED stripes would withstand forecasted rain and that the whole installation would be easily assembled and disassembled for repeated use.

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►►►WONDERLAND 2014◄◄◄
divotvorný open-air festival
areál lesního zátiší, Brniště (u České Lípy)

3xstage / amfiteátr / workshopy / čajovna / prezentace neziskového sektoru

✪ DJ FOOD /UK/ NINJA TUNE, REAL TRANSPORTED MAN, UNITED HEADS, MONOSKOP, SONORITY, DAVID STYPKA&BANDJEEZ, DJ BALTAZAR, LEFTHANDED, JOCK THE LOCK, MECCAVERIUS SOCIETY, JAH ARMY, LOOPSTATION, MARY C, DJ DAIFF COOKER

►◄DJ ŠAPITÓ►◄
breakbeat / funk / hip-hop / worldmusic / tekno / DnB / dubstep / psytrance
✪ MERAK, PARALLEL ACTIVITY + MC DAWE, DJ GOLDSTAR, CL SOUND DJs, SUBJECT LOST, DJ ANS, DJ NDNM, DJ BEDUAN, DJ MIM, KAN-JACCA, DJ FROGEE, YUPISASHI DJs, DJ WOSSA82, DJ DAROOT + CZERVAS, CURFEW, DJ CUKY

►◄FUSION STAGE►◄
deep house/deep-tech/techno stage by Deep Smoke and Seva Records:
✪ Jag Kiranmay, Rob Smile, DJ KAISERSOZE, DJ K.SANDRA, DJ FRANKE, RAIDEM, SYNAPTIK, FILL, RODY, DJ LAMYCZ, DJ SHIMITA, DJ LOGICK, DJ BIKER, CHUCKEBONO B2B DAWE SPYRA feat. PERRY+Hanz, DJ TOBEASS, DJ JAFMAN

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The aim of this project was to create a standalone unit, a LED controller that would be highly portable and configurable, and it would be possible to control it over TCP/IP network using OSC.

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For this purpose, I have used Raspberry Pi, two Adafruit 16 channel PWM controllers, and custom software that translates OSC messages into control signals for the PWM circuits. For quick deployment the controllers are built into boxes and equipped with connectors that enable quick connection to Raspberry Pi, LED stripes and power sources.

Usage of Raspberry Pi gives this solution a lot of flexibility - you can choose programming environment that you like, you can use wired or wireless network for controlling it, or just write the whole "show" as a program/script that will run directly on Raspberry Pi. The PWM controllers can be chained (up to 62), in theory making possible to control 310 independent LED stripes.

There are also some disadvantages to this approach, the biggest one I found is a slight delay between the first and the second (chained) PWM controller. Also the process of building additional controllers is time consuming.. so the whole solution does not scale well, given that one PWM controller can control 5 LED stripes.

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Used on MAY BIO festival 2014, Byob Prague (24.5.2014), PUSH! party @Storm Club Prague, BLEM pary @Basement Bar Prague and probably some more..

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videomapping at Náplavka, in cooperation with Amnesty International ČR. Prague, 10.6. 2014

Authors: Kristyna Balaban, Adam Široký
Tools: original video footage, Adobe AfterEffects; note to self: never put the projector on a boat!

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The conflict in Syria has sparked one of the greatest humanitarian crisis today. At the same time, it has launched the largest refugee wave since the Rwandan genocide. 2.5 million people - one in ten Syrians - has fled the country. Half of them are children, and they need our help. They need to find a safe haven in Europe.

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Jingle for Prague MicroFestival, 11.-14.5. 2014 at Studentský klub Celetná

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Authors: Adam Široký (video), Honza Horký (audio), Michaela Casková (visual material)
Tools: NI Maschine (audio), vvvv (video).
Hand-drawn visual material was digitally edited and cut into required bitmap images. Images were then composed into a scene using single vvvv patch. This patch was directly controlled by MIDI output from Maschine. The resulting audiovisual piece was played and recorded live.

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The Prague MicroFestival (PMF) came about in an effort to resuscitate the Prague International Poetry Festival, which took place in 2004, a major undertaking on the scale of the Prague Writers’ Festival, with over 40 writers participating from over 20 countries.

The purpose of the PMF is to provide a forum for poetic exchange, an alternative to the existing Festival circuit which caters to primarily establishment writers with the inclusion of token Czech authors, and is commercially orientated. The PMF is run by artists, volunteers and students; all events are fully bilingual (English/Czech). The focus of PMF is threefold: to present writing that is innovative/experimental; writing that moves across genres and media (visual culture, music, film) and writing that could be broadly defined as “translocal”, that is, writing outside the confines of nationalism, pursuing a broadly cosmopolitan agenda. It aims to introduce new innovative approaches into the Czech milieu, as well as put Prague on the map of experimental world literature, show Prague as a re-ememerging genuinely cosmopolitan centre, whose citizens from all backgrounds and nationalities are contributing to a vital and unique literary culture.

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Besides two installations - "Recycled Videomapping" and "Hexagon Lego" - we also did a basic Resolume and videomapping workshop at the Nürnberg FabLab. Great event, great opportunity to meet fellow VJs.. and a real collaborative effort on both installations by the KinocirKus crew!

7.-9.2. 2014, at FabLab and Künstlerhaus & Zentralcafé Nürnberg
Authors: KinocirKus: Nicola Pavone, Július Štefan, Katarína Štefanová, Kryštof Koenigsmark, Alexandra Benická, Honza Horký, Simona Noera, Kristýna Balaban, Adam Široký

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@short movies @installations @surveillance @flesh tracking @experience @blackout
one night installation at Grid Prague, 16.1. 2014

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Authors: Dusting Breitling, Honza Horký, Adam Široký
Tools: Raspberry Pi, LED stripes, vvvv, projectors and old monitors

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  If images can be shared and circulated, why can’t everything else be too? If data moves across screens, so can its material incarnations move across shop windows and other enclosures. If copyright can be dodged and called into question, why can’t private property? If one can share a restaurant dish JPEG on Facebook, why not the real meal? Why not apply fair use to space, parks, and swimming pools? Why only claim open access to JSTOR and not MIT—or any school, hospital, or university for that matter? Why shouldn’t data clouds discharge as storming supermarkets? Why not open-source water, energy, and Dom Pérignon champagne? [Hito Steyerl]

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Interactive installation at Signal Festival Prague 2013, 19.-20.10. 2013, Piazzetta at New Stage of National Theatre

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Authors: Adam Široký (programming, mapping, performance control), Tomáš Nadymáček (graphics)

Tools: Flash (games), HTML on WebSockets (player front-end, on smartphones), Perl+OSC (back-end, providing game to front-end communication), custom WiFi network

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"Raised pulse rate, tightened stomach muscles, strange dreams, and the squares... ohhh, the falling squares. I saw them everywhere, and when I didn't see them in skylines or grocery aisles, I had only to close my eyes and there they were behind my eyelids, falling faster and faster as I furiously rotated them mentally."
"Many people, after playing Tetris for more than an hour straight, report being plagued by after-images of the game for up to days afterwards, an ability to play the game in their head, and a tendency to identify everything in the world as being made of four squares and attempt to determine 'where it fits in."

[Annette Earling: The Tetris Effect, 1996]

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The 8bit Syndrome introduces computer games that have become a legend into the public space. Tetris, Snake, Pong... the principles proven by years stay on, although their design has been thoroughly innovated. Keyboard is replaced by a touch-screen and all passers-by with a smartphone or tablet can join the game. They just have to log into to the prepared WiFi network. And spectators will also come into their own – instead of the greenish display there is a projection on the building of the New Scene of the National Theatre. Large glass pixels of the building’s front remind of the low resolution of the 8bit games. Can the “Green Team” beat the “Blue Team”? Whose score will be the highest? Who is going to have their dream images filled with squares?

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Freeze fest (aneb Kultura jinak), 13.-15.9.2013, Důl Libušín

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sound-reactive installation

Tools: old oil barrels, dimmers, coloured lightbulbs, DMX pipe, 20m of DMX cable, 200m of electric cable..

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BigLoveEqualsMagic ❤ Kokpit cafe, 18.5. 2013

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"TV" interactive installation - visuals controlled by a number of TV remote controls

Tools: Raspberry Pi with infrared sensor, TV remote controls, custom software in Perl to translate infrared signals from the remotes to OSC and send them to Resolume; projector, paper boxes

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