Have spent a very nice afternoon time for sharing works with the Alliance of Design, Japan (Party, Nosigner and Artless), C3yoyodesign and hour 25.

We have selected some previous interactive works for sharing as well revealing the upcoming new media concert with Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. The design forum is quite meaningful as we could see how the cultural different from Japan and Hong Kong in the design industry. The selected projects are interesting. More info: http://www.aodj.org/

The ambassador of design was also putting an exhibition and DIY design marts there, saw a lots good works there.

There were some architectural work outside the venue and they are quite impressed me! More info here: http://www.detour.hk/

We created an interactive installation for Nike named ”Flyknit multiply” which is inspired from the new knitting technoly of Nike Flyknit shoes.

The project created an interactive Nike Flyknit shoe trialing and interactive experience for the 185,000 sports enthusiasts who visited the grounds.

NBA stars like Le Bon James, Amare Stoudemire and Rudy Gay did their jump on the installation.

Chinese beach volleyball players Zhang Xi and Xue Chen was doing their jump.

Above is the captured gif. generated by their body movement.

The installation is networked to the internet and every jump will create those knit-style generative pattern. It will then upload to the Nike game one world website, and available for sharing in social media platform like Weibo and Facebook.

This is my jump and you can see the .gif here.

This is an interview we did with Nike Stadium:
http://news.nikestadiums.com/2012/08/21/nike-flyknit-collective-shanghai-introducing-xex-group/

Full view of the Nike Flyknit Multiply installation. Room-length trampoline is installed in the interaction area.

The pavilion is designed by Arthur Huang from MINIWIZ who specialised in the sustainable architecture.

The project is collaborating with multi-disciplinary architecture studio ESKYIU who curated the whole flyknit collective. 4 days workshops were collaborating different artists and we joined the last day workshop. More details here.

Image Courtesy of Nike, Inc.

More write-up about the installation by Nike Stadium:

Flyknit Multiply is an inaugural interactive installation for the Nike Festival of Sport (FOS) in Shanghai. It brought together visual arts, new technology and community expression and took this confluence to a new level. Inspired by the Nike Flyknit shoe, the real-time installation utilized bespoke digital computer codes, elegant analog descriptors and architecture spatial design to inspire unique real time portraits.

We created the installation with a room-length trampoline, a real-time playback screen and a 10 meters 15′ curved LED wall and Nike Flyknit shoes for trial. Making use of Microsoft Kinect camera for body movement tracking, all these elements combined to shape a visionary digital interactive installation design.

Installation is networked to the Internet and every jump will generate a unique knit-style portrait video. The algorithm of the generative design is inspired by the technology of the Nike Flyknit shoes. It will then render in .gif format and then upload to the Nike game-on-world website. Finally, it will be available for sharing in social media platform like Weibo and Facebook.

At the Nike FOS, the installation creates an interactive shoe trialing and interactive experience for the 185,000 sports enthusiasts who visited the grounds. Global superstars Lebron James, Rudy Gay, Amar’e Stoudemire, Eric Koston, Zhang Xi and Xue Chen, and entertainers Blackie Chen and Godfrey Gao were among the throngs who experienced the installation.

Shang Da Ren is an interactive performance project combining technology, dance and Chinese calligraphy. The performance is created for the opening of the TaiChung Calligraphy Greenway where it is right outside the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

In the project, we are trying to combine the tension of the dancer’s movement as a writing medium and to present the spirit of the Chinese Calligraphy.

We use the flexible stretch sensor and lilypad in the wearable device part. It is good for capturing data from the dancer.

Another part of the performance would be combing the robotic writing and dancer’s gesture. Thanks for the piccolo team for this opensource CNC drawbots hardware. Mr. Tiago Rorke in the piccolo team send us the laser cut files and lead us the way to build this little drawing machine. More about their projects please refer to their diatom studio website: http://diatom.cc/ They do a lots interesting projects!

And then, we developed our software part for writing Chinese Character. If you know this Chinese words, you know what we are saying

Our approach is to write as human as the robot can and we did it.

We collaborated with a Taiwan’s choreographer Kao Yung-Yu for the performance.

Some snaps for the work and here is a short excerpt:

Interactive installation works “No Longer Right” and “Systole” are selected in Applied Typography 2012!

Thanks Japan Typography Association for the selection. All others works are very impressive. Thanks Javin Mo@milkxhake told me this, Joel Kwong for the curator, supporting form the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Microwave and RTHK…

很高興作品“封筆”和“Systole”能入選了日木applied typography 2012年鑑，其他作品的水平非常高。多謝Japan Typography Association! 多謝毛灼然Javin 在開設展覧時的推介。

Anadelta in Milano, Italy.

Anadelta setup for Kernel Festival 2012 at Villa Tittoni Traversi from 29th June to 1st July. The venue is truly a historical architecture. It reserved the 17th century neo-gothic style decoration. The combination of the work is super retro-futuristic.

We did 2 nights performance there.

The work this time was exhibited as installation. It draws a lots audience.

Before the opening…

After the performance, demonstration time…

Italian girls love it

Thanks for the snap by Kernel Festival!

We met another NY artist Gabriel Pulecio on the train and his installation work with inflatable object and visual mapping.

The festival was giving out 2 nights big projection mapping show, both front and the back side of the venue was projected with motion graphics during different artist section. The front door looks like a TRON building…

After the festival, we started our journey. Duomo di Milano is a place can’t be missed. It is the fourth largest cathedral in the world. I was embraced by the peaceful ambience. The stillness make me hold my breath. I was thinking how great if I can perform the work in this church…

Milan was great for shopping then and we didn’t travel much. We went to Venice and had a great time. It was the time we arrived our hostel, heavy luggage…and the hostel looks really old. And, we realised that the first floor is empty out to prevent flooding in raining season.

Venice is a beautiful place, we visited 2 contemporary museum there.

The next stop is Florence and we only have 1 day here. As suggested by friend in Venice, we must have to visit here. The Florence Baptistery is just amazing and I haven’t seen a church design like this.

And, the beautiful sunset at Ponte Vecchio, Florence.

Final stop was Rome. The quickest way to view the city is…

Biking! We travelled most famous place and we found a special cave outside the downtown area, there are a lots stages for performance and the area full of interesting graffiti. We had to miss out the weekend band show as it was time to go back HK…It was a very nice experience to tour in Italy. We will come again