Catty CPU Cliques
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Descripción del proyecto
Catty CPU Cliques es la predicción de una futura conspiración de los ordenadores para la enagenación de los trabajadores humanos a través del humor y de la risa. La instalación la conformarán dos ordenadores posicionados bajo escritorios en una construcción de un entorno similar al de una oficina. Cuando los humanos dejen el área de los escritorios, los monitores se pondrán en blanco y los ordenadores se acercarán el uno al otro para reirse juntos y contarse chistes tomados de internet (o generados con algoritmos).
Tecnologías
Thursday, August 7
- Adding sounds/jokes into the animation
- Finishing animation of the mock up of the installation to preview the user interaction/ user scenario
- the user/audience leave the room - computers starts joking - the user/audience return and interrupt the jokes of the computers - the user/audience stay still in the room - no action - computers think they are alone - the computers start laughing even if the user/audience stays in the room too much time
- Deciding which platform we should use for the final installation since we were experimenting different softwares and programs. We decided to work with processing since we were using Firmata.
- Installing software and libraries in Windows platform. Testing if the programs for the text-to-speech works.
- We've also decided to leave out real screens, making them from cardboard so that the focus remains on the moving CPU boxes
- Eduardo joined our team and will help with the construction of the final set up of the installation in cardboard.
- It's pouring today and we've had several blackout. Katya and Alejandro went out to buy us cardboard, pens and glue and i hope they've found some shelter.
- Hector went to the dentist and ate some sushi
- Many participants of interactivos are suffering from hangovers after a party in condessa last night
- Zach made some headway making firmata work with openframworks
Wednesday, August 6
- Writing the jokes
- Creating the stop-motion animation for the mock up.
- Using Arduino to make the circuit that translates sound to light in order to simulate the computers speaking.
- Jenny went to portales with Katya, Laura, and Marcos to find electronic components, cookies, fruit and milk
Tuesday, August 5
- Building the mock up for previewing the user scenarios.
- Starting to create in Processing a sketch to make video sensing in order to measure the position of the user/audience.Using the processing.video library
- Ultrasonic range sensors were set up and configured, but after speaking with Zach, we've decided to use video sensing.
Monday August 4
- Writing a program that loads the jokes as a text file into Processing and stores them into a 2-dimensional array
- Working with Arduino - using |Firmata to program the ATMEL chip directly from processing
Sunday, August 3
- We got the day off, we went to the market and saw some crazy things
Saturday, August 2
Today we worked on:
- no one remembers
Friday, August 1
- Starting to work on the text-to-speech technology. Seeing different possibilities since we are not using a mac and we need to have the computers speaking in Spanish:
- Using Rita Library that contains an object |RiSpeech that allows to do text-to-speech - Trying to install | Mbrola to use together with Rita library since we want to use 2 different voices, one for each computer - Since Mbrola doesn't allow us to load into Processing Spanish voices we had to go by using other different programs as festival to load different 2 spanish voices
Fotografías
Autor del proyecto
Jenny Chowdhury (Nueva York, EEUU)
Colaboradores
Emilio Zamudio - An artist good at drawing the Virign Guadalupe
Petra Farina - Originally from Portugal, Petra is master's student from NYU's ITP, she's a jack of all trades. Good at everything. She laughs when Jenny speaks spanish
Adrián Santuario - Physics dude with cool haircut
John Schimmel - Helping remotely from NYU's ITP
Héctor Zárate - A very quick and programmer who also likes making things in cardboard
Eduardo Acardcon - Architecture student recently returning to Mexico after 10 months in spain
