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Iamascope
An Interactive, Multimedia Artwork
Iamascope Graphic A Project by
Sidney Fels


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The Iamascope is an interactive multimedia artwork. The Iamascope combines computer video, graphics, vision, and audio technology enabling performers to create striking imagery and sound. The result is an aesthetically uplifting interactive experience. At an installation, the user takes the place of a colourful piece of floating glass inside a computer generated kaleidoscope, and simultaneously views the kaleidoscopic image of themselves on a huge screen in real time. By applying image processing to the kaleidoscopic image, the performer's body movements directly control music in a beautiful dance of symmetry with the image. The image processing uses simple intensity differences over time which are calculated in real-time. The responsive nature of the whole system allows users to have an intimate, engaging, satisfying, multimedia experience.

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Documentation
imagician2.html

Paper describing performance experiments in Venice, Italy and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil using the Iamascope.


Videos
isintro.avi

Introduction to how the Iamascope works. (54M)

isPerf1.avi

Short demonstration performance. (36M)

isSiggraph.avi

People at Siggraph'97 playing with the Iamascope. (111M)

isOpera.avi

Performance by Naomi Takano at Opera Totale 4 (1999). (206M)

isconcl.avi

Fun video mix of Iamascope image and sound. (8.1M)


Related Links
http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/iamascope.e.html

Iamascope page in Japan.

Publications

PDFbibtexSidney S. Fels and Kenji Mase. Iamascope: A Graphical Musical Instrument. Computers and Graphics. Volume 2. No. 23. Pages 277-286. 1999.
PDFbibtexSidney S. Fels and Kenji Mase. Iamascope: A Musical Application for Image Processing. Proceedings of the Third International Conference for Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'98). Pages 610-615. Apr. 1998.
PDFbibtexSidney S. Fels and Dirk Reiners and Kenji Mase. Iamascope: An Interactive Kaleidoscope. Abridged Proceedings of HCI International'97. Pages 35. Aug. 1997.

Contact Information

Sid Fels


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